My "next chapter"

In case you are wondering why I seem so happy these days, allow me to explain.

I am pleased to announce that I have been offered an appointment on the faculty in the Department of Health Systems, Leadership and Policy at Loyola’s Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing.  I will be teaching in the undergraduate program in Health Systems Management (US healthcare, management, law and policy, ethics) as well as working with other faculty on a variety of projects.  I will also maintain an appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences of the Stritch School of Medicine, where I will teach health policy in the MPH program, help develop the JD/MPH program and a 4+1 MPH degree, and work on curriculum development and community engagement.  You can contact me at dswartzman@luc.edu, which I am now using as my main email.

I couldn’t be more excited about this new phase in my career.  I will be part of terrific faculties focused on health policy, quality of healthcare, and social justice.  It will be an opportunity to continue my teaching and writing (on ethics and policy through my blog at danswartzman.blogspot.com and on management of health organizations through preparation of a textbook in that area).  And it will provide an excellent “home base” for the project many of us are working on to investigate the impact of the Affordable Care Act in the Chicago area.

I will, however, have to figure out how what it will be like to teach undergraduates.  Suggestions are welcome!

Plus, this Fall, I will become the Chair of the Ethics Section of APHA.  We are working on four ambitious projects: revising the Ethics Code for APHA, assuring the teaching of public health ethics in all accredited institutions, working with journal editors to increase the quality of scholarship in the field, and becoming an important part of APHA’s policy development processes.

And my thanks to all of you who have given me so much support over the last few years, as I begin this “next chapter” in my work.