William L. Kissick Faculty Profile

William L. Kissick
George Seckel Pepper Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine; Professor of Health Care Systems; Professor of Health Policy and Administration, School of Nursing of Pennsylvania

DrPH, Yale University, 1961; MPH, Yale University, 1959; MD, Yale University, 1957; BA, Yale University, 1953

Research Areas
Health policy development; health systems planning; policy analysis; resource allocation; strategic planning

Recent Consulting
Health systems planning and management: Pennsylvania Blue Shield, 1992; Independence Blue Cross, 1992; New Jersey Legislature, 1992; American Group Practice Association, 1991; Estes Park Institute, 1986-present; C.W. Benedum Foundation, 1975-present

Current Projects
Advanced management education in health care; national health policy formulation; curriculum reform in medicine and health care management.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1970-present. University of Pennsylvania: 1969-present (named George Seckel Pepper Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 1969; Chairperson, Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, 1968-71)

Other Positions
Chair, Faculty Senate, 1995-96; Chairman, Governing Board, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, 1990-97; Commissioner, Accrediting Commission on Education for Health Services Administration, 1981-1987; Yale University Trustee, 1987-1993; Co-Founder, Graduate Program in Health Care Management, 1968; Executive Director, National Advisory Commission on Health Facilities, The White House, 1968-69; Director, Office of Program Planning and Evaluation, Office of the Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service, Washington, D.C., 1967-68; Chief, Division of Public Health Methods, U.S. Public Health Service, Washington, D.C., 1966; Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary, Health and Scientific Affairs, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, DC., 1964-65

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Graduate Division Excellence in Teaching Award, 1996

Professional Leadership 2005-2009
Editorial Board, Hospital and Health Services Administration, 1990-present; Senior Adviser, Clinical Performance and Quality Health Care, 1992-present

Corporate and Public Sector Leadership 2005-2009
Director, Nuveen Select Portfolios, 1991-present

Representative Publications
Medicine's Dilemma Infinite Needs versus Finite Resources. Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, 1994.

"An Image to Take Us Into the 21st Century." The Internist (January 1994).

"Equity of Access to Health Care: Unalienable Right or Societal Entitlement." The Legal Intellingencer PA Law Weekly Health Care Reform Supplement.

"To Manage or To Be Managed: That is the Question." Health Care Management: State of the Arts Review (October 1995).

"Medicine and Mangment: Bridging the Cultural Gaps." Physician Executive 21.1 (February 1995).

"A Most Ingenious Paradox." Penn Medicine (1995).