Fleming Center for Healthcare Management

Mission

  • To collaborate with other prominent University of Texas schools to provide innovative healthcare research and education on healthcare management, finance, and organization.
  • To bring together leading healthcare executives, researchers, and students to enable change in health delivery and organizational effectiveness. 

Academic Mission

  • Raise the visibility and importance of management concepts in healthcare
  • Provide state of the art research on issues of health organization, strategy, marketing, management, and finance
  • Develop and improve the educational degree programs currently available at the graduate level for healthcare management (e.g., an MPH in Healthcare Management is currently being planned for Fall 2009 enrollment)
  • Offer opportunities for both post-graduate fellowships and “executives in residence” to integrate theory and practice

Service Mission

  • Provide a forum for healthcare executives in the Texas Medical Center and beyond to dialogue industry and organizational challenges and strategies
  • Provide consulting and research to local and national healthcare organizations
  • Integrate theory into practice in our research areas through fellowships, residencies, internships, and other projects
  • Leverage University of Texas brand name in industry-sponsored research

Strategic Advantage

  • Greater resources focused on healthcare management than most other university programs
  • Geographic location in the heart of the world-renowned Texas Medical Center, surrounded by 15 hospitals, 4000 physicians, and 30 million square feet of patient care facilities
  • Broad, multi-disciplinary focus of management—nestled with policy, economics, epidemiology, health promotion, and others—to truly understand how organizational and community health are unified
  • Close collaboration with other top-ranked UT schools, including the University of Texas School of Law, McCombs School of Business, and the LBJ School of Public Policy, in addition to the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Dental, Biomedical Sciences and Health Informatics that comprise the UT Health Science Center Houston.

Center Leadership and Staff

The Fleming Center for Healthcare Management at the University of Texas School of Public Health is lead and staffed by a number of faculty.

Director: Osama Mikhail, Ph.D., Professor of Management and Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning UTHSC-H(713) 500-3047 or Osama.I.Mikhail@uth.tmc.edu

Associate Director: Dr. Jim Langabeer, MBA(713) 500-9190 or James.R.Langabeer@uth.tmc.edu

For further information, contact FlemingCenter@uth.tmc.edu