Stephen L. Walston, PhD, has worked as both a professor and a healthcare administrator. He currently serves as Director of the University of Utah’s Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) program. Previously, he served as Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Utah Asia Campus (UAC), located at the Incheon Global Campus in Songdo, Korea. He has also been Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Oklahoma’s College of Public Health, MHA Program Director at Indiana University, and faculty member at Cornell University. Before his academic career, he was an executive for 14 years in hospitals in the western United States. During this time, he was a CEO for ten years. He became a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives in 1993. He holds a PhD in healthcare systems and management from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
Dr. Walston has been active internationally and has worked in many Middle Eastern and Central American countries helping organizations to improve their strategic direction and leadership capabilities. He served on the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health’s International Advisory Board for five years. He currently serves on the Gardner Policy Institute Health Care Advisory Board. He has published in many prestigious journals in the United States and Europe, in addition to authoring five books. He is fluent in Spanish. In his free time, he enjoys woodworking, beekeeping, reading, bicycling, gardening, and spending time with his children and grandchildren.
Ken Johnson, PhD, FACHE, serves as associate dean and professor in the Dumke College of Health Professions at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. He holds a doctorate in health education and has primarily taught in the areas of healthcare administration and population health. He is a past chair of the Association of University Programs in Healthcare Administration (AUPHA) and past president of the National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH). He is a fellow of both the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions. He represents the latter as a member of the Healthy People Curriculum Task Force. Prior to his appointment at Weber State, Ken worked for 15 years in healthcare, holding positions in hospital administration and medical group management.