The AUPHA Board of Directors is pleased to announce the selection of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Stephen S. Mick, PhD, FACHE, as the recipient of the 2013 Gary L. Filerman Prize for Educational Leadership. The Prize will be awarded to Dr. Mick on Thursday, June 20th, at the 2013 Annual Meeting in Monterey, California.
The Filerman Prize was established to honor AUPHA’s first president, Gary L. Filerman, PhD, for his many years of service to the Association and to healthcare management education. Filerman Prize recipients are from AUPHA member programs and are individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of healthcare management education, have exhibited leadership in the field, and have enriched their institutions, their students, and healthcare management education through their work.
Dr. Mick was nominated by Carolyn A. Watts, PhD, Professor and Chair of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Health Administration, and Dean Smith, PhD, Professor at the University of Michigan. In his letter of nomination, Dr. Smith stated, “He is among the few leaders in our field who have earned the designation Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE). Talking the talk and walking the walk.” Dr. Watts noted that “With great admiration, I witnessed the enormous respect in which he (Mick) is held by his peers around the country; department faculty and alumni, VCU administration, and in particular the students (who revere him). His retirement in mid-2014 will leave very, very large shoes to fill at VCU and in the profession.”
Stephen Smith Mick earned his M.Phil. and PhD in sociology at Yale University. He has held faculty appointments at Middlebury College, Yale University, Oklahoma University, the University of Washington, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Michigan, and has been at Virginia Commonwealth University since 1999. Dr. Mick was a U.S. delegate to several International Workforce Conferences held in the United States and abroad during the 1990s. After receiving a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, he spent the 1993-94 academic year in France studying the country’s healthcare system. He served as the Arthur Graham Glasgow Professor and Chair of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Health Administration from 1999 through 2009, and then as Director of the Doctoral Program in Health Services Organization and Research until 2011. During the Spring Term of 2008, he was Visiting Professor of the Universite Jean-Moulin Lyon 3, in Lyon, France. Dr. Mick has served as a consultant to the Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) and is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE). He has also reserved as the Chair of the Research Committee of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
In addition to teaching in each of the Department’s programs, Dr. Mick is editing a third book for Jossey-Bass, which will be available in 2013, on the application of healthcare organization theory to healthcare settings. He has served on AUPHA’s Board of Directors, the Board of the David A. Winston Health Policy Fellowship, and the Board of the Coalition for Health Services Research. He is on the Advisory Council of the RUPRI Center for Health Policy Analysis and is an Affiliate Professor of the health management group “IFROSS” at the Universite Jean-Moulin Lyon 3, Lyon France.
Dr. Mick’s interests include healthcare organization and management and comparative national systems. His research interests encompass the sociology of organizations, markets and organizations, and the healthcare workforce.
"Being awarded the Filerman Prize is the culmination of my career as an educator, and I can think of no greater honor than to be the 2013 recipient,” said Dr. Mick, when notified that he had won the Prize.
Mick was selected as the 2013 Filerman Prize winner by a selection committee chaired by G. Ross Baker, PhD, University of Toronto. The Prize is administered by AUPHA with the generous support of the University of Minnesota’s Healthcare Alumni Association/Foundation and the many friends of Dr. Filerman. Nominations for the Prize are made each year by individuals from AUPHA member or affiliate programs, or by individual members of the Association. For additional information on the nomination or selection process, please visit the AUPHA Website at www.aupha.org.