From Backpack to Briefcase: Professional Development in Health Care Administration

About Michael MeachamMichael R. Meacham

Michael R. Meacham JD MPH is associate professor in the Department of Health Leadership and Management at the Medical University of South Carolina where he teaches Health Policy Strategic Management and Change Leadership. He also is director of the Office of International and Special Programs coaches case competition teams and counsels students individually and in informal groups regarding professional development. Meacham has an extensive background in development enactment and implementation of public policy as well as in leadership and management of health care organizations. In 1998 he was named director of Health System Development for Connecticut's Office of Health Care Access and led administrative improvements in its Certificate of Need Law and other regulatory reforms affecting hospitals. In 2001 he was named vice president for Integrated Health Services at Eastern Connecticut Health Network and was responsible for multiple health care units including administrative and clinical personnel. Named an associate professor at Pennsylvania State University in 2003 he led dramatic improvement in the MHA Program. In addition Meacham served in the Kansas House of Representatives for eight years. He received his J.D. from the University of Kansas and his M.P.H. from the University of Kansas School of Medicine and Wichita State University.