David Dobrzykowski, an affiliate professor within the J.B. Hunt Transport Department of Supply Chain Management within the Sam M. Walton College of Business of the University of Arkansas, has been named the director of Walton College Healthcare Initiatives.

“Healthcare transformation is becoming a major focus throughout the world, and it is essential that Walton College engage in these advancements,” stated Matt Waller, dean of the Walton College. “David has tremendous expertise and engagement in the healthcare industry. I am thrilled he has agreed to lead our healthcare initiatives.”

In this position, Dobrzykowski will function the tutorial chief inside Walton College to advertise healthcare-related educational programming, analysis and thought management, and outreach and engagement, together with:

• Lead initiatives to determine the Walton College because the companion of alternative for creating and disseminating thought management that basically transforms the enterprise of healthcare supply and improves the well-being of individuals all over the world. 
  
   
• Collaborate internally inside the University of Arkansas, Walton College and provide chain administration division.
  
   
• Foster partnerships with conventional and non-traditional healthcare organizations, educational researchers and establishments, and funding businesses that share a ardour and curiosity in creating and disseminating cutting-edge, transformative approaches that make unprecedented enhancements within the well-being of individuals all over the world.

“Healthcare transformation was a hot topic prior to the pandemic that has taken on real meaning since,” stated Dobrzykowski. “Reimbursement model changes, technology enablement, and new entrants are disrupting and recreating the structure of the healthcare industry. There has never been a better time for business schools to contribute to the reimagination of healthcare!”

Within the availability chain administration division, Dobrzykowski has solid relationships or engagements with many native healthcare organizations resembling University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Walmart Health, Mercy Health, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, in addition to client packaged items firms with health-related divisions such because the Unilever Health and Wellbeing initiative. 

Dobrzykowski is commonly quoted in nationwide media retailers resembling NPR’s Marketplace and Bloomberg Businessweek, and healthcare business publications together with Modern Healthcare, Becker’s Hospital Review and Hospital & Health Networks. He hosts workshops, keynotes and displays for business teams such because the American College of Healthcare Executives, Health Industry Distributors Association and Strategic Marketplace Initiatives.

As the director of the Master of Science program in provide chain administration at Walton College, Dobrzykowski led the launch and recruitment for the graduate program. He then created an internet format for the diploma. He performed a vital position within the provide chain administration graduate program being ranked because the second-best in North America by the analysis and consulting agency Gartner. Dobrzykowski will proceed to show in this system.

Prior to working at Walton College, he served as an affiliate professor within the Department of Supply Chain Management at Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University, the place he was the founding director of the Master of Science program in healthcare providers administration. Before his educational profession, Dobrzykowski served in senior government roles within the healthcare sector resembling BIDON Companies, Corporate One Benefits, Mercy Health and UnitedHealthcare.

Dobrzykowski is the president of the Decision Sciences Institute, the previous president of POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management, and an instructional scholar at Cornell’s Institute for Healthy Futures.

Dobrzykowski earned a Ph.D. in manufacturing and know-how administration, an M.B.A. in government administration and a B.B.A. in advertising and marketing from the University of Toledo. He additionally holds a graduate certificates in public well being epidemiology from the University of Toledo. His analysis focuses on info processing and the coordination of labor in provide chains, primarily in healthcare and different regulated industries.

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