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Abraham, Jean Marie
 (PhD)
Begun, James
 (PhD)
Blewett, Lynn
 (PhD)
Call, Kathleen Thiede
 (PhD)
Christianson, Jon
 (PhD)
Davern, Michael
 (PhD)
Dowd, Bryan
 (PhD)
Feldman, Roger
 (PhD)
Foote, Susan Bartlett
 (JD MA)
Garrard, Judith
 (PhD)
Grant, Leslie
 (PhD)
Kane, Robert
 (MD)
Kane, Rosalie
 (PhD)
Karaca-Mandic, Pinar
 (PhD)
Kuntz, Karen
 (ScD)
McAlpine, Donna
 (PhD)
McBean, A. Marshall
 (MD MSc)
McCullough, Jeffrey
 (PhD)
Moscovice, Ira
 (PhD)
Mosser, Gordon
 (MD)
Nyman, John
 (PhD)
Potthoff, Sandra
 (PhD)
Riley, William
 (PhD)
Rockwood, Todd
 (PhD)
Sainfort, François
 (PhD)
Town, Robert
 (PhD)
Turner, Leigh
 (PhD)
Virnig, Beth
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Weckwerth, Vernon
 (PhD)
Wholey, Douglas
 (PhD)
Zismer, Daniel
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William J. Riley.

William J. Riley, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Associate Division Head

Ph.D., Hospital and Health Care Administration, University of Minnesota, 1982

M.A., Sociology, Western Michigan University, 1976

B.S., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, 1973

riley001@umn.edu

Office Phone: 612-625-0615

William Riley has held the position of president and CEO of several health care organizations, including Pacific Medical Center, Seattle; an integrated health care delivery system; a large multi-specialty medical group in Minnesota; and a health plan joint venture. He has extensive experience leading health care organizations and working with medical groups, managed care, quality improvement, and outcomes assessment. He has also implemented numerous process improvement projects and financing mechanisms.

Teaches

Management, Quality Improvement, and Health Care Finance

Selected Publications

Riley, William, Brian A. Liang, William Hamman, and William Rutherford, “The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005: Developing an Error Reporting System to Promote Patient Safety.” Journal of Patient Safety. Forthcoming.

Liang, Brian A., William Riley, William Hamman, and William Rutherford, “The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005: Provisions and Potential.” The American Journal of Medical Quality. Forthcoming.

Levy, Robert, Mary Gabay, John Nyman, Roger Feldman, and William Riley, “The Cost of Medicaid Annuities.” Health Affairs. March/April, 2006.

Riley, William, and Paige Anderson, “Randomized Study on the Impact of Cooperative Learning: Distance Education in Public Health.” Quarterly Review of Distance Education. Winter, 2006.

Kane, Robert L, Boris Bershadsky, Craig Weinert, Sally Huntington, William Riley, Julie Bershadsky and Jonathan Ravdin, “Estimating the Patient-Care Costs of Teaching in a Teaching Hospital,” American Journal of Medicine. July 1, 2005.

Tzy-Chyi Yu, M.H.A., Angie Smith Lillehei, MPH, Bryan E.
Dowd, Ph.D., Michael D. Finch, Ph.D. , William Riley, Ph.D. , and
Michael Grover, "Forecasting Changes in Physician Services per Capita in Minnesota Through 2030", Minnesota Medicine August, 2004.

Connor, Robert, Douglas Wholey, Roger Feldman and William Riley, “The Check is in the Mail: Determinants of Claims Payable Timing among Health Maintenance Organizations” Inquiry, 41:70-82 (Spring 2004).

Riley, William, and David Yauch, “Physicians Autonomy and Provider Accountability,” in The Capitation Sourcebook. Berkeley: Boland Healthcare, 1996.

Professional Experience

Associate Professor and Associate Division Head, Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 2001 to present

President and Chief Executive Officer, Pacific Medical Center (DBA PacMed Clinics), Seattle, WA, 1998 - 2001

Chief Executive Officer, Aspen Medical Group, St. Paul, MN (July 1986-September 1998)

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN (August 1993-August 1998)

Senior Associate Director and Chief Strategic Officer, St. Paul Ramsey Medical Center and Ramsey Clinic, St. Paul, MN, 1985 - 1986

Associate Director, St. Paul Ramsey Medical Center and Ramsey Clinic, St. Paul, MN, 1984 - 1985

Assistant Director, St. Paul Ramsey Medical Center and Ramsey Clinic, St. Paul, MN, 1982 - 1984

Consultant to Ministry of Health, Visiting Professor, High Institute of Public Health, University of Alexandria, Egypt, 1982 - 1982

Project Director, Minnesota Nurses Association, 1979 - 1982

Honors

Selected for the University of Minnesota Next Generation of the Professorate Program, 2003

Charles N. Hewitt Creative Teaching Award, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 2003

AcademicKeys Who's Who in Health Sciences Education, 2003

 
 
 
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