Michael A. Grasso, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

5014 Student Center
KU Medical Center
3901 Rainbow Boulevard
Kansas City, Kansas, 66160

Phone (913) 588-0354
Fax (913) 588-8236
E-mail: mgrasso@kumc.edu

Dr. Grasso received his Ph.D. in Health Policy and Research from Virginia Commonwealth University’s Medical College of Virginia in 2000. He also holds a master’s degree in health care administration from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, as well as bachelor degrees in Public Accounting and Psychology from Syracuse University.

In addition to his academic background, Dr. Grasso has spent many years in health care 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 completed 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.

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’s teaching and research interests are in medical informatics and health care finance. He teaches courses in Management Information Systems (HP&M 826), Health Care Finance (HP&M 824), Managerial Accounting (HP&M 825), as well as Health Care Statistics (HP&M 817). He has been a member of the adjunct faculty in the Department of Health Policy and Management since 2002.

He is a Fellow in the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and a Diplomat (CHE) in the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).