6/3/2011

Professor Al-Amin To Join Suffolk Healthcare Programs July 1, 2011

 

The Healthcare Department is pleased to announce that Mona Al-Amin, Ph.D., is joining the faculty on July 1st as an Assistant Professor of Healthcare Administration.

Mona Al-Amin

Professor Al-Amin was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon. She earned her Ph.D. in Business Administration (with a focus on Risk, Insurance and Health Care Management) at the Fox School of Business, Temple University, in Philadelphia, PA. She earned her M.P.H. degree at the College of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, in Beirut, Lebanon, and her B.S. degree in Medical Laboratory Technology at the College of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, in Beirut, Lebanon.

Professor Al-Amin’s dissertation is entitled “Organizational Ecology and the Proliferation of Specialty Hospitals.” In her dissertation, she examines the proliferation of specialty hospitals in the United States from an ecological theory perspective. She specifically uses resource partitioning, density dependence and niche formation theories to explain variations in specialty hospitals founding rates between different states.

For the past two years, Professor Al-Amin has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Services Research, Management, and Policy, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida in Gainesville. She has taught in the Master of Public Health Program, the Master of Health Administration Program, the Master of Public Health Online Program, and the Ph.D. Program of Health Services Research, Management and Policy. Previously, she taught at Temple University.

Professor Al-Amin has co-authored several manuscripts, including:

“Specialty hospital market proliferation: Strategic implications for general hospitals” (pdf)

“The Proliferation of Specialty Hospitals: An Organizational Theory Approach”

“The Proliferation of Specialty Hospitals: An Organizational Theory Approach”

“The General Not-For-Profit Hospital Model”

“Changes in Per Member Per Month Expenditures After Implementation of Florida’s Medicaid Reform Pilot Demonstration”

“Strategies for Attracting International Patients”

Her conference presentations include:

“The Proliferation of Small Specialty Hospitals: An Organizational Ecology Approach”

“The General Not-For-Profit Hospital Model: A Path Dependence Analysis

“Structural Inertia, Health Plans, and Medicaid Reform in Florida”
“Resource Partitioning and the Proliferation of Specialty Hospitals”

“Geocoding Intracranial Hemorrhage Patients in an Academic Hospital”

In the fall semester, Professor Al-Amin will teach HLTH 701: Health Systems I, HLTH 808: Organizational Behavior, and HLTH 812: Applied Research Methods, with Professor Peter Rivard.

“Professor Al-Amin has considerable breadth and depth of knowledge about important aspects of the U.S. healthcare system,” observed Rick Gregg, Operating Director of Suffolk’s Healthcare Programs. “Our faculty is very excited that she’s joining us and our students will be, too.”

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