Managing a Health Care Alliance: Improving Community Cancer Care

Managing a Health Care Alliance describes the formation of new organizational alliances dedicated to ensuring state-of-the-art health care within local communities. The book is based on the results of the Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP) - a groundbreaking study that linked fifty-two communities with major research centers.

Dr. Kaluzny is Professor of Health Policy and Administration in the UNC School of Public Health and a Senior Fellow in the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the NCI Year 2000 Award, the Edward G. McGavran Award for Excellence in Teaching and Bernard G. Greenberg Alumni Endowment Award. Dr. Kaluzny is a nationally recognized expert in cancer prevention and control, health services research and evaluation, and organizational theory and behavior. He has served on numerous national committees including Chairman of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the NCI Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, was a member of the NCI Special Review Group on Cancer Control, and presently serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. He is the author of numerous articles and has co-authored several books, including Managing a Health Care Alliance: Improving Community Cancer Care, with Richard Warnecke, and Partners for the Dance: Forming Strategic Alliances in Health Care, with Howard Zuckerman and Thomas Ricketts.

Other Beard Books by Arnold Kaluzny:
The White Labyrinth: Guide to the Health Care System (with David Barton Smith)
Partners: Forming Strategic Alliances in Health Care (with Howard S. Zuckerman and Thomas C. Ricketts III)

Dr. Warnecke is a Professor of Sociology and of Epidemiology and Biometry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Currently, he serves as the Director for both the Health Policy Center and the Center for Health Services Research at the UIC Health Research and Policy Centers. He also served as Director of UIC/SRL from 1981 to 1996. Dr. Warnecke served as: (1) Co-Principal Investigator of the second evaluation of the CCOP evaluation project. He has been actively involved as a cancer control researcher for 25 years and has a long-standing relationship with the National Cancer Institute, both as a principal investigator and a grant reviewer. He received one of the first Cancer Control Science Program Grants ever warded by NCI, and has published more than 40 paper and two books concerned with cancer control topics. Photo from the Health Research and Policy Centers website.