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William Aaronson
William
Aaronson is the Director of the Cochran Research Center and Associate
Professor Department of Risk,
Insurance and Healthcare Management at the Fox School of
Business and Management, Temple University. Dr. Aaronson directs
the Healthcare Management Programs and serves as Chair of the Collegial
Assembly of the Fox School of Business and Management.
He has been the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Faculty Fellowship and two Gerontological Society of America Technical Assistance Program research awards. He has worked in long-term care management as a licensed nursing home administrator, been a consultant to hospitals and long-term care organizations, and has done extensive research on the relationships among policy, managerial behavior and performance in the long-term care industry.
Dr. Aaronson’s research has appeared in top-tier research journals as Medical Care Research and Review, Medical Care, Health Services Research, The Gerontologist, and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. He is presently a member of the editorial board of the journal, Medical Care Research and Review, and provides peer review for several other journals.
Dr. Aaronson was awarded a J. William Fulbright Senior Teaching Scholarship at the University of Matej Bel, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia during the Fall, 1999 term. The title of this project was: Health Management Education in Central and Eastern Europe.
Active in his profession, Dr. Aaronson serves on the advisory boards of St. Martha Manor, Downingtown, an Archdiocese of Philadelphia retirement and nursing facility and board of directors of Delaware Valley Community Health, Inc., a community health center organization.
Dr. Aaronson has been a past fellow of the Accrediting Commission on Education in Health Services Administration and has participated in numerous accreditation site visits. At present, he is the chair of the International Health Faculty Forum of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration. He has worked actively with the American International Health Alliance in providing support for hospital and healthy community partnerships. He coordinated a management development effort for AIHA from 1995 to 1998, conducting executive workshops in 5 NIS and 7 CEE countries.
Dr. Aaronson's current interests the effects on healthcare financing, organization and delivery in Central and Eastern Europe, and New Independent States of the former Soviet Union. His most recent efforts include a study of hospital efficiency in Ukraine. He is involved in building health management capacity through healthcare management education in the region. Dr. Aaronson has published extensively on global healthcare management education. He has co-edited two special issues of the Journal of Health Administration Education, which focused on the development of health management education in the CEE region
Recently, Dr. Aaronson completed a 5-year, $1.4 million USAID funded and AIHA managed partnership between a coalition of Philadelphia-based healthcare providers and the City Health Administration, Kyiv, Ukraine. The purpose of the Kyiv-Philadelphia Partnership is to develop a system of community-based primary healthcare and the infrastructure to support it in the Darnitsky District (Rayon) of Kyiv City. Efforts have resulted in the development of a health professions training model and integration of primary mental health services into primary care.