Bios - Full Time Faculty
Andreas Muller, Ph.D., Department Chair and Professor of Health Services Administration, at UALR since 1987. Education: Ph.D in Sociology, SUNY-Binghamton, 1977. Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Johns-Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1978-79. Teaching: Health Care System, Decision Analysis, Health Planning and Marketing, Health Statistics, Health Economics. Research: social and behavioral determinants of health, time series analysis and forecasting, evaluation research, social health insurance programs. Publications: Medical Care, Health Care Financing Review, American Journal of Public Health and other journals.
John B. Wayne, Ph.D., Professor of Health Services Administration, has been a member of the UALR faculty since 1988. He teaches in the areas of health economics and health care finance.
Dr. Wayne's current research focuses on the evaluation of health services delivery, cost containment, and the prevention of unhealthy behaviors. Previous research was centered on the economic impact of specific illnesses.
His public service activities include contributions to numerous professional and community organizations. These include the American Public Health Association, the Association of University Programs in Health Services Administration and Arkansans for Drug Free Youth.
Prior to joining the UALR faculty, he was a faculty member for eleven years in the Department of Health Care Organization and Policy, in the College of Public Health, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His academic preparation includes an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA degree from the University of Florida, and a doctoral degree in administration of health services from UAB.
John Baker, Ph.D., Professor of Health Services Administration has been a member of the UALR faculty since 1980. He was the founding faculty member and Chairman of the Graduate Program in Health Services Administration at UALR for sixteen years. The Program is one of seventy nationally accredited graduate programs in health services administration.
He teaches in the areas of health management, managed care, health care quality management and health policy and decision making. His research focus is on the management of health institutions, managed care and cost containment. He consults with hospitals, medical groups, long-term care facilities and managed care organizations on a variety of strategic and operational issues.
He has served on numerous state and national committees dealing with health issues. Among his public service activities are service as Executive Director of the Arkansas Commission on Health Care Cost Containment, chairman of the Arkansas Department of Human Services committee on Reimbursement Reform for Long-Term Care Facilities and Board member of the Partnership for Healthy Communities.
Prior to joining the UALR faculty, he was a health administration faculty member at the University of Mississippi, the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Ohio State University. His undergraduate and MBA degrees are from the University of Rhode Island and a doctoral degree in health administration from The Ohio State University.
Ruth Raines-Eudy, Ph.D., Associate Professor, has been a member of the faculty in the Graduate Program in Health Services Administration since 1999.
She teaches Statistics for Health Administrators, Managerial Epidemiology, the Health Care System and Human Resource Management in Health Service Organizations. She has a PhD from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. She has taught at the University of Tennessee in Memphis and at the Tulane School of Social Work and Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans. She also serves on the faculty of the University of Arkansas College of Public Health where she teaches the Introduction to Public Health course. Her research interests are in the area of rural health, the Critical Access Hospital program, health policy, maternal and child health, particularly in the Lower Mississippi Delta Region, and community building for public health.
Bios - Part Time Faculty
Mick Tilford, PhD - is an associate professor in the
Department of Pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for
Medical Sciences with a part-time position in Health Services
Administration for the past year. He received a doctoral
degree in health economics from Wayne State University in
1993. His current research studies the impact of illness or
injury on children and their caregivers using methods from
economic evaluations.
Dr. Tilford has served as a
principal investigator on research sponsored by the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality and currently is the principal
investigator on a grant to examine the cost and benefits of
pediatric traumatic brain injury from the Maternal and Child
Health Bureau. He has published on the application of
guidelines for economic evaluation as they relate to pediatric
populations and the impact of technology on pediatric outcomes
over time. His work has appeared in periodicals such as Health
Services Research, Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics, the
Southern Economics Journal, and Medical Care Research and
Review.
Harold H. Simpson is a practicing attorney with The Health Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas. He limits his practice to representing hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care providers and professionals.
He teaches health law at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the U.A.L.R. Graduate School of Health Services Administration and has taught health law at the U.A.L.R. School of Law.
He is co-founder of the Health Law Institute which, since 1977, has presented over 250 programs throughout the United States which focus on health laws, regulations and judicial decisions of virtually every state. He is the co-author of Practices (1984) and Nurse's Legal Handbook (1985).
He is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the Committee on Health and Human Services of the American Bar Association Section on Administrative Law. He is a charter member of the Forum Committee on Health Law of the American Bar Association and past Chairman of the Health Law Committee of the Arkansas Bar Association. He has been selected for inclusion in the Health Law Section of The Best Lawyers in America for 1991-present.
Stephen Foti, M.S.,FACHE, serves as the Coordinator for External Programs for the Department of Health Services Administration at UALR. Steve has served more than thirty years in healthcare administration. Most of his career has been in Arkansas.
He has served as CEO of multiple health care agencies including ambulatory mental health agencies, inpatient mental health and physical health facilities, as Director of Health Planning for the State of Arkansas and was the Project Director and final author for the managed care system, Arkansas Behavioral Care.
He a graduate of the University of Arkansas at Monticello. He earned a B.B.A in Business Administration with a major in economics. He received his M.S. degree in Healthcare Administration from the University of Cincinnati with an emphasis in Health Planning. Steve is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Alan J. Finley, MHSA, FACHE, is Vice President of General and Diversified Services at Conway Regional Health System in Conway, Arkansas. He has been working in the Hospital Administration field since 1993, having served as Administrator of Van Buren County Medical Center and his current role at Conway Regional. Mr. Finley received his Bachelor’s degree from Stephen F. Austin State University and his Master’s degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Mr. Finley has been heavily involved in all aspects of hospital management, working closely with the Executive Leadership Team on a daily basis. His daily responsibilities involve administration of the support services and campus services of the medical center, a Home Health Agency, Medical Fitness Center, Institutional Laundry and Occupational Health. He has also done extensive work in new program and facility development.
Lee Frazier, MPH, MHA, was born in Washington, D.C., and attended primary schools in New Orleans and Washington. He achieved excellence in academics as well as athletics. He graduated from Loyola University (Bachelors of Business Administration) and Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (Masters of Public Health and Masters of Hospital Administration)
Lee has served the community in three major areas:
Healthcare: Lee has provided leadership for some of the largest medical centers in the country. Lee has been the President of Charity Hospital, New Orleans, Harlem Medical Center, New York, New Orleans General Hospital, New Orleans, Provident Medical Center, Chicago, Executive Vive President, St. Vincent Medical Center, Little Rock, Vice President, Jefferson Regional Medical Center, Pine Bluff, and Vice President, Arkansas Heart Hospital, Little Rock.
Public Service: Lee was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives; Director, Arkansas Department of Human Services; Vice Chairman, Pulaski County Facilities Board (Alltel Arena); Commissioner, Arkansas Economic Development; President, Little Rock Heart Association; Treasurer, Little Rock Port Authority; Chairman, Credential Committee, Arkansas Medical Board; Member, Federal Reserve Bank of Little Rock; Member, Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, and Member, Union Rescue Mission Board.
Education: Lee serves on the faculties of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Public Health; University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Health Services Administration; University of Arkansas, Graduate Business; Roosevelt University, Department of Health Services; Cornell University Department of Health and Policy Management; Louisiana State University, School of Medicine; and Tulane University, School of Tropical Medicine and Public Health.
Lee is a member of several civic, social and religious organizations, including: Knights of Columbus; Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary International; Pi Boulé; American College of Healthcare Executives; Alumni, Leadership Little Rock.
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