Phone: 913.588.0354
Fax: 913.588.8236
E-mail: mgrasso@kumc.edu
Dr. Grasso has been a member of the faculty in the Department of Health Policy and Management since 2002. Grasso received his PhD in Health Services Organization and Research from Virginia Commonwealth University’s Medical College of Virginia. He also holds a master’s degree in healthcare administration from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, as well as bachelor’s degrees in Public Accounting and Psychology from Syracuse University.
He has spent many years in healthcare management, including positions as chief financial officer and chief executive officer at community hospitals in Virginia. While working on his doctorate, he also started the consulting firm Health Strategies, where he successfully complete a number of engagements with such clients as the Medical College of Virginia – Massey Cancer Center, the DuPont Foundation, The Virginia Cost Review Council, the Virginia Healthcare Foundation, the Virginia Office of Rural Health, and The Rehabilitation Institute of Kansas City.
Dr. Grasso’s teaching and research interests are in medical informatics and health care finance. He teaches courses in Management Information Systems, Financial Concepts in the Health Services Accounting and Applied Concepts in Healthcare Financial Management.
Another area of interest for Dr. Grasso has been the identification and development of key information regularly needed by health executives and clinicians to make timely and accurate decisions. In 2001, Dr. Grasso accepted an executive position with Cerner Corporation (an international health care computing company) with the mandate to develop an Executive and Clinical Information System that would provide customized, critical information on a timely basis to health care leaders through a “dashboard” computer display. PowerInsight was successfully developed and deployed in December 2002.
Dr. Grasso is a Fellow in the Healthcare Financial Management Association and a Diplomat (CHE) in the American College of Healthcare Executives.
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