Dr. Stebbins teaches in the area of marketing, management, and leadership. She supports content on a variety of leadership topics to members of the university and college community; specifically, in the areas of interpersonal communication and relationship building, change management, team building, etc.
Before joining RIT in 2016, Dr. Stebbins worked in various staff, faculty and administrative roles for over twenty years at Des Moines University. Most recently, Carla served as the program director of DMUs Master of Health Care Administration (MHA) program. She led the program to achieve specialized accreditation with the Commission on Accreditation Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) in 2015. Later that year, Dr. Stebbins was named a CAHME Fellow.
While at RIT, Carla lead the program through a curriculum review/revision that supported the achievement of CAHME accreditation in 2022. She assumed a half-time Associate Dean of the College of Health Sciences and Technology in the summer of 2022.
Dr. Stebbins accepted the Program Directors role at Texas Woman's University in the fall of 2023. She and her family relocated to the Houston area. She currently oversees the MHA program on the Houston and Dallas campus.
Dr. Stebbins is a qualified administrator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(R) and an experienced facilitator of FLEX Care: Health care communication skills using personality type (TM). She facilitates training to both clinical and non-clinical students and serves as a faculty for the Iowa Chronic Care Consortium’s Clinical Health Coach program providing Flex Care (TM) and leadership training to practicing health care professionals around the country. Carla earned the Master Practitioner credential through the Association of Psychological Type-International (APTi) along with Ethical Standards for the Practical Use of Type certification in 2016.
Carla serves on several committees for national associations serving health care administration education. In addition, she has actively served on a number college and university committees regarding accreditation; learning and outcomes assessment; and, program development. Her research interests surround empathy and the physician—patient relationship, student engagement/satisfaction, program evaluation and learning assessment.
Dr. Stebbins has been an active volunteer for the Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) since 2017. She achieved Certified Fellow status in the spring of 2024.