CHSR Faculty
Director
Associate Professor, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia
State University
Director, Institute of Health Administration
Sc.D., Johns Hopkins University
M.S.I.E., Georgia Institute of Technology
B.I.E., Georgia Institute of Technology
asumner@gsu.edu
· Medical care organization
· Operations management
· Health information systems
· Strategic planning
:
Dr. Sumner has extensive experience in health administration and
health services, including strategic planning, operations management,
simulation, quality improvement, health information systems, medical
care organization, and managed care. Dr. Sumner has served as Chair,
Administration Advisory Committee, Department of Medical Assistance
(Medicaid), State of Georgia; Board of Directors and former Chair
of Promina Health Plan, Inc.; and the Advisory Council of the CARE
quality improvement program of the Georgia Hospital Association.
Dr. Sumner has directed several major studies of health care organizations
and information systems, including program evaluations of the statewide
Medicaid managed care program in Georgia. He has over 20 years of
experience in hospitals and public health. Dr. Sumner has published
in leading health care publications such as the New England Journal
of Medicine, Medical Care, Health Services Research, Health Care
Management Review, and Hospitals.
Dr. Sumner is Director and Associate Professor, Institute of Health
Administration, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State
University, Atlanta, Georgia. Previously, Dr. Sumner was affiliated
with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As Special
Assistant to the CDC Director, he coordinated CDC's strategic public
health information systems and developed the first nationwide dissemination
of the electronic Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report.
He also coordinated CDC's evaluation activities including extramural
funded evaluations and development of a CDC-wide strategic planning
and budgeting data system. He also coordinated health services research
activities for the U.S. Public Health Services Division of Hospitals
and Clinics in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Sumner also served as health
systems engineer with the Medical College of Georgia and Georgia
Tech where he participated in innovative applications of systems
engineering techniques to health facilities planning. He was also
an industrial and systems engineer with DuPont and Tennessee Eastman
Company.
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