Jack A. Gilbert has been named director of the Master of Healthcare Innovation (MHI) Program at the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University, associate dean for Academic Affairs David Hrabe announced.

A noted expert in organizational ethics and integrity, an award-winning author, presenter, entrepreneur and consultant, Gilbert joins ASU from New Page Consulting, Inc., for which he served as president since 2002. His career has focused on issues of leadership, organizational and personal integrity, and large-scale change for clients in healthcare and other industries. The new director also was responsible for management engineering at a 600 bed hospital in Canada earlier in his career.

MHI offers a futuristic, multidisciplinary, educational approach to the development of healthcare leaders who base decisions upon the best evidence available. The graduate program provides students new processes to develop innovative, immediate solutions to existing or potential healthcare problems in both traditional and non-traditional healthcare organizations.

"It is an honor and challenge to be named director of this entrepreneurial program," Gilbert says. "My goal is to provide our students with the best educational experience they have ever had."

Gilbert’s latest book Strengthening Ethical Wisdom: Tools for Transforming Your Health Care Organization was published in 2007 by the American Hospital Association Press. His first book, Productivity Management: A Step-By-Step Guide for Health Care Professionals, was named Book of the Year by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. He is currently working on a book to be published in 2010 that will profile transformational leaders in healthcare.

Gilbert has an EdD degree from George Washington University in Washington, DC, where his dissertation focused on the role of ethics in decision-making for senior executives. He is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and a recipient of its Service Award. He also is a member of the National Speakers Association.

Terry.Olbrysh@asu.edu
ASU College of Nursing and Health Innovation
Downtown Phoenix campus
(602) 496-0877