Thomas T.H. Wan, Ph.D.

Thomas T.H. Wan, Ph.D.,is Associate Dean for Research, Director of the Public Affairs Doctoral Program, and Professor of Public Affairs, Health Services Administration, and Nursing at the College of Health and Public Affairs, University of Central Florida (UCF). Before joining UCF, he was Professor of the Department of health Administration, Medical College of Virginia Campus, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. He held the Arthur Graham Glasgow Chair (1991-1999) at the University. Professor Wan received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Tunghai University, Taiwan; a Master of Arts and a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Georgia, and a Master of health Sciences from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, where he was also a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow. His over 25 years in academia encompass faculty positions at Cornell University; the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; and the Virginia Commonwealth University.

Professor Wan has served in many capacities, including Department Chair, Founding Director of the Doctoral Program in Health Services Organization and Research, Director of the Williamson Institute for Health Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University; as the Associate Editor of the journal Research on Aging, as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Gerontology; as a member of the Executive Committee for the Association for Social Scientists in Health; as a member of the Governing Council, Medical Care Section, American Public Health Association; as a Senior Research Fellow of the National Center for Health Services Research; as a member of the Study Section on Aging and Human Development II, National Institute on Aging; and as a member of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Currently, he serves on the advisory board of the Veterans Integrated Service Network VI and is a member of the Study Section on Nursing Research, NIH. He is also a member of the National Health Research Institute's Scientific Review Committee in Taiwan. He has established collaborative research and educational programs in countries such as Taiwan, China, Korea, Czech Republic, South Africa, Kazakhstan, etc.

His research interests are centered in managerial epidemiology, health services evaluation, health informatics, and clinical outcome studies. His published work includes:

1) Promoting the Well-being of the Elderly: A Community Diagnosis (Haworth Press, 1982);

2) Stressful Life Events and Gerontological Health (Lexington Books, 1982);

3) Well-being of the Elderly: Preventive Strategies (Lexington Books, 1985);

4) Analysis and Evaluation of Health Care Systems: An Integrated Managerial Decision Making Approach (Health Professions Press, 1995);

5) Evidence-Based Health Care Management: Multivariate Modeling Approaches (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002);

6) Monitoring the Quality of Health Care: Issues and Scientific Approaches (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003);

7) Creating Values for Health Care Organizations: A Guide to Successful Integrated Care (Yeh Yeh Publishing Company, 2004).

He has published more than 100 scientific articles in major journals. His current project in collaboration with Dr. Lynn Unruh, entitled “Nurse Staffing & Nursing Home Quality,” is funded by NINR/NIH (2003-2007).