Dr. Steven G. Ullmann is Director of Programs in Health Management and Policy at the University of Miami, School of Business. He is a Professor in the Departments of Management and Economics in the School of Business Administration, and a Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology & Public Health and Family Medicine & Community Health, in the Miller School of Medicine, specializing in the areas of health care management and health care economics. Dr. Ullmann served from 1992-2007 as Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and University Administration and also held the position of Dean of the Graduate School from 1999-2007. Dr. Ullmann served as Director of Academic Programs in Health Administration from 1986 to 1995. Dr. Ullmann has been on the faculty at the University of Miami since 1979. Prior to the University of Miami, Dr. Ullmann served as a research associate with two consulting firms, Health Manpower Policy Studies Group and Policy Analysis, Incorporated. Born and raised in San Francisco, Dr. Ullmann holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics with Distinction from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has received training and certification in Bioethics and Advanced Bioethics from the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. He is the author of over thirty-five monographs, book chapters, refereed journal articles, commentaries, invited articles and abstracts in such journals as Inquiry, Applied Economics, The Gerontologist, Health Services Research, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, Non Profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Medical Care Research and Review, and the New England Journal of Medicine. He has presented numerous papers at universities and professional conferences around the world, and has been principal investigator on a number of funded research grants. Dr. Ullmann has been the recipient of twenty-five awards for excellence in teaching since coming to the University of Miami. He has served on governing boards and ethics boards of a number of health care providers and has served as a consultant to the health care industry.