Benn Konsynski, PhD

Benn Konsynski is the George S. Craft Professor of Business Administration for Decision & Information Analysis. He arrived at the Goizueta Business School/Emory University in 1993 following seven years on the faculty at the Harvard Business School where he taught in the MBA program and several executive programs. Prior to arriving at the Harvard Business School, he was a professor at the University of Arizona, where he was co-founder of the university's multi-million dollar group decision support laboratory. He was named Hewlett Fellow at the Carter Center in 1995.

He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University. Professor Konsynski specializes in issues of digital commerce and information technology in relationships across organizations. This work involves extensive domestic and international field work on interorganizational systems, digital commerce, electronic data interchange (EDI), channel systems, electronic integration, information partnerships, and the electronic marketplace.

He is the author of "Information Systems and Decision Processes" and co-author of "Introduction to Computers." He has published in such diverse journals as Communications of the ACM, Harvard Business Review, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Journal of MIS, Data Communications, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He has served as a consultant on management and technology issues with many organizations including UPS, IBM, AT&T, Northern Trust, Texas Instruments, U.S. Army, Bestfoods/Unilever, Northwestern Mutual Life, Ernst and Young, Bank of Montreal, Plasti-line, J.C. Penney, Aetna, TESSCO, and Dillard's Department Stores. He also serves on boards of directors and senior management advisor positions.

Goizueta Magazine - Winter 2001



Kenneth Thorpe, PhD

Kenneth Thorpe is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy & Management, in the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. He was a Vanselow Professor of Health Policy and Director, Institute for Health Services Research. Professor Thorpe received his Ph.D. from the Rand Graduate School, an M.A. from Duke University and his B.A. from the University of Michigan. He was previously Professor of Health Policy and Administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Associate Professor and Director of the Program on Health Care financing and Insurance at the Harvard University School of Public Health and Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public Health at Columbia University. Dr. Thorpe has also held Visiting Faculty positions at Pepperdine University and Duke University. Most recently, Professor Thorpe was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Policy in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

In this capacity, he coordinated all financial estimates and program impacts of President Clinton's health care reform proposals for the White House. He also directed the administration's estimation efforts in dealing with Congressional health care reform proposals during the 103rd and 104th sessions of Congress. As an academic, he has testified before several committees in the U.S. Senate and House on health care reform and insurance issues. In 1991, Professor Thorpe was awarded the Young Investigator Award presented to the most promising health services researcher in the country under age 40 by the Association for Health Services Research. He also received the Hettleman Award for academic and scholarly research at the University of North Carolina and was provided an "Up and Comers" award by Modern Healthcare.

Dr. Thorpe has authored and co-authored over 60 articles, book chapters and books and is a frequent national presenter on issues of health care financing, insurance, and health care reform at health care conferences, television, and the media. He also serves as a reviewer on several health care journals.

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Andrew Bishop, MD

As a life time resident of Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Bishop has practiced orthopedic surgery in the city for the past 18 years. He was the orthopedic team physician for the NFL's Atlanta Falcon football team from 1997-2005.

Prior to starting his private practice of orthopedic surgery, he attained his undergraduate and medical school degrees from Emory University. Subsequently, he completed his orthopedic surgery residency training at Emory, and later, his Sports Medicine Fellowship with Dr. John Garrett in Atlanta.

Dr. Bishop is actively involved with the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, GA Orthopedic Society, Medical Association of GA.

CRISTEN PAGE, MD, MPH

Dr. Page is on the teaching faculty of a major university medical center in North Carolina.  Her area of expertise is in the practice of family medicine and public health.