Responding to The Grand Challenges In Healthcare Via Organizational Innovation

Stephen M. Shortell is Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management and Dean Emeritus at Berkeley School of Public Health, University of California, USA. Stephen's expertise is in policies and practices to reform health care delivery and improve the value of care provided to patients.

Lawton Robert Burns is Chair of the Health Care Management Department, the James Joo-Jin Kim Professor and Professor of Health Care Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Lawton has worked to analyze physician-hospital integration over the past 25 years, and teaches courses on healthcare strategy change and implementation, managed care, and integrated delivery networks.

Jennifer L. Hefner is an Associate Professor in the Division of Health Management and Policy, The Ohio State University, USA. Her research focuses on applying management and organizational theories to the study of health care transformation.