Eric W. Ford (Ph.D. – UAB; MPH – South Carolina; BS – Cornell School of Hotel Administration) is a Professor and the MHA Program Director in the Health Policy and Management Department in the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to this position, he was the Forsyth Medical Center Distinguished Professor of Healthcare at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Strategic management, health information technologies, innovation, and their combined effects on performance (both financial and population health related) are Eric’s primary areas of research. In particular, he has focused on making the link between Personal Health Record (PHR) use from the consumers’ perspectives.\n\nEric has published in Medical Care Research and Review, the Journal of Management Education, Health Care Management Review, and The Journal of Health Care Management. In addition, he has contributed to textbooks and reviewed for Advances in Healthcare Administration. With his research colleagues, Eric has won numerous publication awards including two Best Theory to Practice Paper recognitions. In addition, he won the 2014 Health Care Management Division’s Teaching Award as part of the Academy of Management.\n\nBeyond his healthcare-focused research, Eric is currently working on the Mobius Social Learning Information Platform (Mobius SLIP) to promote peer-to-peer (P2P) engagement online (www.ctasit.com). In this domain, his research interests include information systems, machine learning, natural language processing and how they are used to improve students’ social interactions. Eric and researchers from five other universities were awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to advance this line of work in August 2014.\n\nLastly, with respect to service, Eric is a member of the Southern and National Academies of Management, The Association of University Programs in Health Administration (where he served on the Board of Directors) and the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society. In 2014 he served as Chair of the Academy of Management’s Health Care Management Division.\r\n
