Dear Health Administration Colleagues:
We are Professors in the Health Administration program at California State University, Northridge. Both of us have been health care executives prior to a change in careers in academia. Even though we teach full time we both serve our community as members of hospital governing boards and on various national and local advisory committees.
We have been frustrated in finding a book geared towards the undergraduate student in health administration which focuses on leadership in today’s changing healthcare environment. We believe this book will be unique since each chapter will be written jointly by an academic and a practitioner. With this plan in mind, we hope to provide the content needed for a useful tool in teaching as well at to capture the current essence of the healthcare administrator’s world.
We are seeking authors for certain chapters. It is our hope that anyone interested in this would team up with a person who represents the other partner needed (whether you are identified as an academic or a practitioner) and pitch what you are interested in writing. There is no compensation except for the recognition you will receive as an author and hopefully some of you will be able to use your scholarly addition to help you in your own personal tenure and promotion process. We hope to have the work completed by the end of Summer 2011.
If you have an interest in writing one of the chapters, please contact me at Lrubino@earthlink.net before February 28, 2011. We will also be looking to the co-authors of each chapter to prepare supplementary teaching resources for each chapter. If you have any questions please feel free to call or write either one of us. Thank you.
Louis Rubino, Ph.D., FACHE Sal Esparza, DHA, FACHE
(818) 677-7257 (818) 677-7927
Lrubino@earthlink.net salvador.esparza@csun.edu