News Release

Dean Ken Warner announces new administrative appointments.

July 1, 2005 press release from the University of Michigan School of Public Health

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--University of Michigan School of Public Health Dean Ken Warner has announced changes in the dean's office, effective July 1 2005:

Dean Smith will serve as Senior Associate Dean for Administration, a new position created to enhance handling of financial and administrative affairs.
Edith Parker will serve as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, focusing on academic programming and student affairs.

Below, please find descriptions of these administrators and their experience.

Dean Smith is a professor in the UM SPH Department of Health Management & Policy whose research focuses on the financial aspects of working with and working in health care delivery and financing organizations. He has served as a director on the boards of managed care organizations and was the founding President/CEO of Good Health Michigan, Inc., a Michigan Medicaid qualified health plan. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Texas A&M University and an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Michigan. Until his appointment as UM SPH Senior Associate Dean for Administration, he was chairman of the Department of Health Management & Policy.

Edith Parker is an associate professor in the UM SPH Department of Health Behavior & Health Education whose research focuses on the development, implementation, and evaluation of community-based participatory interventions to improve health status. In Detroit, Michigan, she is involved in community-based participatory research projects focusing on women's and children's health, and on childhood asthma and issues of environmental justice. Professor Parker has Dr.P.H. and M.P.H. degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. from Davidson College.

Contact: Terri Mellow, director of communications
Phone: (734) 764-8094
E-mail: twm@umich.edu