Lawton Burns

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Lawton Robert Burns
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
Institution The Wharton School (1994-present)
University of Arizona (1985–1994)
Field Healthcare management
Management science
Sociology
Alma mater University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1981), MBA, 1984)
Influences James Samuel Coleman, Charles Bidwell, Edward Laumann
ContributionsWork on hospital-physician relationships, physician networks, and strategic change

Lawton R. Burns (born 1951) is an American business theorist, Professor of Management and the Chairperson of the Health Care Management Department of The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania, [1] and a Faculty Co-director for the Roy and Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management. [2]

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Career

Burns received a BA in sociology and anthropology in 1971 from Haverford College. Following this, he received his MA in sociology in 1976, his PhD in sociology in 1981 and his MBA in Health Administration in 1984, all three from the University of Chicago. [3]

Burns started his academic career at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago, and moved to the College of Business Administration of the University of Arizona. From 1998 to 2002, he was a Visiting scholar in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. [4] Since 1994, he has been the chairman of the Health Care Systems Department of Wharton, and since 2008 the James Joo-Jin Kim Professor of Health Care Management. Since 1999 he is also director of the Wharton Center for Health Management and Economics. [3]

In 1999, he received an Investigator Award in Health Research Policy from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. [5]

In 2013, Burns joined the Roy and Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management as a Faculty Co-director. [6] Outside of his duties as professor, he performs consulting and speaking engagements. [7]

Contributions

Burns is known for having analyzed the bankruptcy of the Allegheny Health Education & Research Foundation, which owned the first medical school ever to go bankrupt. [8] He has testified to the Federal Trade Commission about clinical integration [9] and served as an expert witness for the Federal Trade Commission in its case against Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Medical Group.

Burns has analyzed physician-organization integration over the past twenty-five years. The last 13 years he spent studying the healthcare supply chain. He completed a book on supply chain management in the healthcare industry, The Health Care Value Chain (Jossey-Bass, 2002), and a recent analysis of alliances between imaging equipment makers and hospital systems. These studies focus on the strategic alliances and partnerships developing between pharmaceutical firms/distributors, disposable manufacturers, medical device manufacturers, group purchasing organizations, and organized delivery systems. He has also edited The Business of Healthcare Innovation (Cambridge University Press, 2012) which analyzes the healthcare technology sectors globally: pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and information technology. He has served as lead editor of the 6th Edition of the major text, Healthcare Management: Organization Design & Behavior (Delmar, 2011). India’s Healthcare Industry, was published in 2014 (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Publications

Publications, a selection:

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References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-08. Retrieved 2009-10-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ↑ "Dr. Lawton R. Burns | Penn LSM". lsm.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-05.
  3. 1 2 LAWTON R. BURNS James Joo-Jin Kim Professor of Health Care Management at wharton.upenn.edu. Accessed September 6, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Dr. Lawton R. Burns | Penn LSM". lsm.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  5. ↑ "Investigator Awards » Investigators And Their Projects » Investigator Details". www.investigatorawards.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24.
  6. ↑ "Lawton R. Burns - Health Care Management". Health Care Management. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  7. ↑ "totalaccessspeakers Resources and Information". www.totalaccessspeakers.com. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  8. ↑ http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/19/1/7
  9. ↑ "Clinical Integration in Health Care: A Check-Up". Archived from the original on 2009-08-31. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
  10. ↑ Rea, Philip A.; Pauly, Mark V.; Burns, Lawton R. (2018). Managing Discovery in the Life Sciences: Harnessing Creativity to Drive Biomedical Innovation. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1107577305.
  11. ↑ China's healthcare system and reform. Burns, Lawton R.,, Liu, Gordon G. Cambridge, United Kingdom. 2017-01-26. ISBN   978-1316616468. OCLC   953601713.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  12. ↑ India's healthcare industry : innovation in delivery, financing, and manufacturing. Burns, Lawton R. Delhi. India. 2014-01-13. ISBN   978-1107044371. OCLC   854907590.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  13. ↑ The business of healthcare innovation. Burns, Lawton R. (2nd ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2012. ISBN   978-1107607774. OCLC   785706372.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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