Monday, January 10, 2011
German guest lecturer is expert on healthcare system
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Betty Vawter Senior Editor, News & Information Services 812/480-1873 The USI College of Nursing and Health Professions will host Johannes Grundmann, lecturer and student in the PhD program at the university in Evansville's sister city, from January 8-24. His teaching and research focus on healthcare management and health administration. In addition to making presentations in undergraduate classes, Grundmann will address students in the college's Master of Health Administration program. The MHA program is delivered online with two-day intensive sessions held on campus twice a year, August and January. Grundmann will visit classes throughout the University to interest students in study abroad and exchange programs between USI and the University of Applied Sciences. The two universities established an exchange partnership in 1990. Several academic programs at USI, including the College of Nursing and Health Professions, are exploring new opportunities for faculty and student collaboration between the universities. USI will host a luncheon January 11 to highlight the Evansville-Osnabruck sister-city relationship. Grundmann will speak about Osnabruck to representatives of Evansville Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel's office, members of the Friends of Osnabruck, USI faculty and administrators, and representatives of other area organizations interested in exchanges between the two cities. Dr. Brandon M. Eggleston, USI assistant professor of health services/administration, taught a three-week course in international public health last summer at the University of Applied Sciences' first International Summer University. Grundmann lectured in that program, which attracts students from USI as well as other universities in the United States and throughout the world. Eggleston returned to Osnabruck in December as guest lecturer on healthcare management and to pursue the development of additional exchange opportunities for the health professions program. Eggleston will teach again this summer at the International Summer University. Dr. Kevin Valadares, program director for USI health services and health administration programs, was guest lecturer in November for a week-long block program at the University of Applied Sciences. He taught students about the healthcare system in the United States. Grundmann holds an undergraduate degree in business management in the health sector from the University of Applied Sciences. The topic of research for his doctoral study is "Influence of power within the relationship between managerial accounting and nursing." He has served as a scientific assistant in the university's Department of Business Management and Social Sciences. He presented a lecture last year on the German healthcare system at the University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia. |
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