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Larry Gamm

Larry D. Gamm, Ph.D.

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Mailing Address: School of Rural Public Health, Health Policy & Management 1266 TAMU

College Station, TX 77843-1266

Email :  Gamm@srph.tamhsc.edu

Phone: 979.458.2246

Fax: 979.458.0656

Assistant: Sharli Nucker

Assistant Phone: 979.458.2246

Assistant Email: SRNucker@srph.tamhsc.edu



 

Larry Gamm is Professor and Head of the Department of Health Policy and Management.  He has served as MHA Program Director and, from 2004-2007, as Director of the Southwest Rural Health Research Center at the Texas A&M HSC’s School of Rural Public Health.  He serves on the Board of the Texas Rural Health Association.  He also serves on the Board of Directors of the ACHE-Greater Houston Chapter, Chair of its Academic-Practice Interface Committee, and President of the Chapter’s Local Program Council serving Bryan/College Station and surrounding 8 counties.  He teaches, principally, the MHA capstone course on Health System Leadership and doctoral courses on interorganizational research and health system change.  

He is currently engaged in funded research or evaluation projects focused on health organization transformation, organizational change and disease management, the use of community health workers in disease management, development of smart card applications and a RHIO in a rural hospital network, rural health policy, development of community health partnerships, and an interdisciplinary project on biological and health behavior outcomes associated with the use of community health workers in environmental health education in colonias.  He has also done recent research and publications on mental health and substance abuse, including a paper to the IOM Committee on the Future of Rural Health Care, a national study of shortages of nurses and ancillary personnel among rural hospitals, and continues some work on electronic medical records and telehealth adoption.  He continues as lead investigator and editor for the “Rural Healthy People 2010:  A Companion Document to Healthy People 2010.”

He has served on the editorial board of the American College of Health Care Executives’ Journal of Healthcare Management and other journals.  He has published in that journal and also in Healthcare Management Review, Journal of Ambulatory Practice Management, Journal of American Public Health, Journal of Rural Health, and in Health Politics, Policy and Law, and other journals. Awards:  He was awarded the 1993-94 Crosby Fellowship by the American Hospital Association and a 1997 Kellogg-funded Community Care Network Faculty Fellowship from Hospital Research and Education Trust to conduct work on community health partnerships.  In 2006, he received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Education and Mentoring from the Texas A&M Health Science Center. In 2007, he received the ACHE Regents Award.  He received his PhD from the University of Iowa and served on the faculty at Penn State University for over 25 years.  He joined the School of Rural Public Health at the Texas A&M University System in 1999.
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