Pink awarded distinguished professorship in health policy and management
| January 11, 2010 | |
Dr. George Pink
George Pink, PhD, has been appointed the Humana Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Established in 2001 through a $333,000 grant from the Humana Foundation, the professorship is awarded to faculty members in the school’s health policy and management department who exhibit a national or international reputation for scholarship in health informatics, including a strong record of publications and extramural funding. “Professor Pink is a thoughtful and independent-minded researcher whose groundbreaking work in health informatics points the way toward increased efficiency and productivity for hospitals, especially in underserved rural areas,” said Michael B. McCallister, president and chief executive officer of Humana Inc. and chair of the foundation. “He combines academic excellence with real world experience in a way that makes him ideally suited for the Humana Foundation chair at UNC.”Pink’s current projects include a comprehensive study of the profitability and financial performance of rural hospitals. Another explores the importance of surgical services to rural hospitals’ financial condition.
A favorite among students, Pink has received the health policy and management department’s second-year master’s students faculty award four times. He is a fellow at the UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and a lead investigator in the center’s N.C. rural health research and policy analysis center.
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UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu. |
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