Center Staff

The Center Staff

David M. Mirvis, M.D., is Director of the Center and is responsible for all Center functions and activities. He is a Professor in the Departments of Preventive Medicine and Internal Medicine at the University of Tennessee. He serves on the graduate faculty of the program in health sciences administration and epidemiology.

He received his MD degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and trained in internal medicine and cardiology at the University of Tennessee. From 1987 to 1997 he served as Chief of Staff of the Memphis VA Medical Center and as an Associate Dean of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine.

His research interests include health care delivery processes and health policy as well as theoretical and applied electrocardiology, organizational design and behavior.

Teresa Meyer Waters, Ph.D., is Associate Director for Research at the Center and Associate Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine. She coordinates the research efforts of the Center. Her primary interests include health care financing and health policy. Dr. Waters earned her B.A. in Accounting from Dordt College (Sioux Center, IA) in 1987 and her Ph.D. in Economics from Vanderbilt University in 1992.

She was previously associate research professor and assistant director at the Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies at Northwestern University. Her research has been published in a number of well-known journals, including Journal of the American Medical Association, Medical Care, Archives of Family Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology, and Journal of Applied Economics.

Michal Tamuz, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and serves on the graduate faculty of the Health Sciences Administration program. She received a Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford University and a M.Sc. in organizational behavior from Tel Aviv University. Before joining the Center, Dr. Tamuz was a faculty member at the University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health.

Dr. Tamuz is an organizational sociologist with research interests in improving patient safety, risk management, organizational learning, and decision making. She is currently studying how hospitals and their pharmacies learn from medication errors. Her previous research focused on how organizations collect information about and learn from near accidents in an array of high hazard industries, from aviation, to chemical manufacturing plants, and blood banks.

Eleanor Lewis, M.S., Ph.D., is a research scientist working on the Organizational Learning from Error project with Dr. Tamuz. She has a Ph.D. and M.S. in Organization Science and Sociology from Carnegie Mellon University and a BA in Sociology and Linguistics from Stanford University. Before joining the Center she held a post-doctoral fellowship at Dartmouth College in the Sociology Department and Rockefeller Center for Public Policy.

Dr. Lewis is an organizational sociologist whose research focus is language and communication in groups and organizations. Her previous research projects have been in diverse areas, for example, the role that communication networks can play in encouraging learning and preventing cyberterrorism, how pressures for organizational identity and conformity are displayed in formal organizational documents, how the discourse of university sexual harassment policies responds to changes in the legal environment, and the intersection between institutional theory in sociology and research on higher education.

Natalie P. Smith, M.S., is Assistant to the Director and is responsible for overall administrative coordination of The Center’s activities.

Aleshia Hall-Campbell, M.P.H., is the Program Coordinator for the Public Health Workforce Development Consortium (www.utmem.edu/TNConsortium).

Rashonda Lewis, MHA, J.D., is the Program Coordinator for the Tennessee State Forums Partnership Program (www.utmem.edu/TNForumsPartnership).

Catina Bradley, M.H.S.A., is part of the Research Staff for the study on how hospitals and their pharmacies learn from medication

errors.

Leslie Ingram, M.S., is the Computer Programmer/Analyst who supports the computer functions of The Center and provides

assistance to Associates in performing computer-related operations.





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