| Name: | Dr. Lawrence Acker | ||||||||||||
| Position: | Associate Professor of Health Care Management | ||||||||||||
| Department: | Business Administration | ||||||||||||
| E-mail: | ackerl@hssu.edu | ||||||||||||
| Phone: | 314/256-8165 | ||||||||||||
| Office: | C-04 ABSBA | ||||||||||||
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| Bio: | Dr. Acker is an associate professor in the Anheuser-Busch School of Business at Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Acker's background includes more than twenty-five years in the health care management and education fields, including fourteen years as an independent health care business consultant. While most of that time has been spent in St. Louis, Dr. Acker has worked in Maine and Tennessee. In addition to health care management, Dr. Acker is interested in international education and the effects of culture on education. To this end, Dr. Acker has spent three semesters teaching in the People's Republic of China (Shanghai), two semesters in Bangladesh (Dhaka), and one semester in Thailand (Cha'Am). Dr. Acker spent the summer of 2008 teaching in Istanbul, Turkey. |
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| Courses: | BSAD 0315 -- Business Statistics BSAD 0340 -- Business Ethics BSAD 0457 -- Corporate Communication BSAD 0470 -- International Business HCM 0300 -- The Health Care System HCM 0310 -- Epidemiology HCM 0320 -- Health Care Economics HCM 0330 -- Administration of Health Care Organizations HCM 0400 -- Health Care Law and Ethics HCM 0420 -- Health Care Human Resource Management HCM 0440 -- Health Care Planning and Marketing HCM 0450 -- Financial Management of Health Care Institutions HCM 0460 -- Long-Term Health Care Administration HCM 0491 -- Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations
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"Black Entrepreneurism and Family Memory" Co-Author Committee on Family Research Oslo University College Oslo, Norway June 15, 2009
"Recruitment and Retention of Undergraduate Health Care Management Students" Association of University Programs in Health Administration Nashville, Tennessee October 8, 2008
"Infusing Substance Abuse Material in a Business Curriculum" Dr. Lonnie E. Mitchell Substance Abuse and Mental Health Conference. HBCU National Resource Center Atlanta, Georgia April 4, 2008
"Andragogy Education Techniques in the Asian Classroom" "Society for Cross-Cultural Research" New Orleans, LA February 22, 2008
"Slavery's Effects on African-American Entrepreneurism" Great Lakes History Conference Grand Rapids, MI October 27, 2007
"Prevention of Sexual Harrassment" Co-Presenter U.S. Army Corps of Engineers -- St. Louis District January 17 and 24, 2007 "Abraham Flexner and American Medical Education" Economic and Business historical Society Pitsburgh, PA April 27 - April 29, 2006
"The Use of TrueOutcomes at Harris-Stowe State University" Co-Presenter ACBSB National Conference -- Chicago, IL June, 2006
"Business Ethics" Co-Presenter Dhaka Junior Chamber of Commerce Dhaka, Bangladesh June, 2004
"Andragogy in the Chinese MBA Classroom" Qualitative Research Conference University of missouri -- St. Louis March, 2004 |
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