David D Dobrzykowski Author

Mark A. Vonderembse, PhD, is Professor Emeritus from the University of Toledo (UT) where he spent 38 years as a faculty member. He earned a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Michigan in 1979, an MBA from the Wharton Graduate Division of the University of Pennsylvania in 1973, and a BS in Civil Engineering from UT in 1971. Mark has sixty refereed journal publications including thirteen in the Journal of Operations Management, which is widely regarded as the best journal in the field. He has also published in Management Science, Decision Sciences, International Journal of Production Research, European Journal of Operational Research, among others. He has more than 100 proceeding publications and has published three books and an annotated bibliography. He has nearly two dozen awards for research including Outstanding Researcher at UT. He has more than 40 research grant from various sources including the U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Department of Defense, and the National Science Foundation. He has garnered more than $4 million in grants as principal investigator and another $10 million as co-investigator. He has taught a wide variety of courses at the undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. levels. He has taught in Germany, India, and China, and he has traveled internationally making presentations in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, India, Morocco, South Africa, Spain, England, Germany, Greece, and Canada. He has a strong track record in leadership. While at UT, he was the founding Director of the School for Healthcare Business Innovation and Excellence. He was Vice President, and ultimately President, of the Production Operations Management Society’s College of Healthcare Operations Management. He was also the founding director of UT’s Intermodal Transportation Institute. He was responsible for designing and building an institute that combined resources from four colleges within UT to address regional and national needs for research, education, and planning and technical assistance in the areas of transportation, supply chains, and logistics. He organized an Advisory Board of more the 40 members. He built coalitions with other universities in the region and received two designations as U.S. DOT University Transportation Centers. He was Director of UT’s Ph.D. program in Manufacturing and Technology Management for nine years, a program that he co-founded. He also served as Department Chair of Information Operations and Technology Management and of Finance for nine years. David D. Dobrzykowski served in a variety of management and leadership roles in the healthcare sector during a 12 year career with companies including Mercy Health (formerly Catholic Health Partners) and UnitedHealthcare. He has worked in hospital tertiary care, physician-hospital, diagnostic imaging, emergency department contract management, managed care, and employee benefits organizations. In the provider vertical, Dr. Dobrzykowski served as Regional CEO of BIDON Companies, a national diagnostic imaging provider, where he managed all aspects of operations including physician contracting, managed care contracting, medical billing, capital equipment purchasing, day-to-day operations (staff management), and physician marketing. He led the turnaround of a distressed facility and launched three start-ups; securing more than $3 million in funding. In the insurance vertical, he served as VP of Strategy for Corporate One Benefits, an employee benefits firm, consulting with fully insured and self-funded employer groups to develop and implement healthcare cost management and patient/employee engagement strategies. Dr. Dobrzykowski earned four degrees and certificates from the University of Toledo; a PhD in Manufacturing and Technology Management from the College of Business, a Graduate Certificate in Public Health Epidemiology from the College of Medicine, an Executive MBA, and a BBA in Marketing. He is an Associate Professor with Tenure in the Department of Supply Chain Management in Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He teaches MBA courses in Healthcare Services Management, Operations Analysis, and Project Management and serves as Founding Co-Director of the Masters of Healthcare Services Management degree program, and the Founding Director of the Rutgers Healthcare Empirics and Analytics Lab (R-HEAL). His research has been presented in six countries on three continents and is a frequent presenter at the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Leadership Congress. He has published over 20 refereed articles in top journals such as Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Journal of Supply Chain Management, among others. As an academic, he has worked with a variety of industry partners including the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (Veterans Health Administration), New Jersey Department of Health, Henry Ford Health System, Barnabus Health System, McLaren Health System, Sisters of St. Francis Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC), Wesleyan Senior Living CCRC, Seneca Medical, and the healthcare vertical of UPS. Learn more at dobrzykowski.wordpress.com