MM Health Care Program

Contact Us

mmhc@owen.vanderbilt.edu

Phone: 615.322.5851

Fax: 615.343.2293

Meet the Team

Heyley Reed

Hayley Reed

Program Coordinator, Health Care
615.322.3682




Scarlett Gilfus

Scarlett Gilfus

Program Director, Health Care
615.322.5851




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Lawrence Van Horn

Faculty Director, MM Health Care;
Associate Professor of Health Care Management
615.322.6046

MPH—University of Rochester, 1990
MBA—University of Rochester, 1992
PhD—The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1997

Lawrence Van Horn is a leading expert on health care management and economics. His research on health care organizations, managerial incentives in nonprofit hospitals and the conduct of managed care firms has appeared in such publications as the Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Law and Economics and Harvard Business Review. He has consulted with government and health care organizations and has presented at numerous seminars and conferences sponsored by industry, government and academic institutions.

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Capstone Director, MM Health Care
Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics at VU Medical Center
615.343.1528

MD—Washington University School of Medicine
MBA—Washington University in St Louis, Olin Business School
Master of Medical Information Science (MSc)—Stanford University

Mark Frisse is responsible for coordinating regional, state and national projects aimed at the application of information technology to advance patient care. Prior to assuming his position at Vanderbilt, he was Vice President in First Consulting Group’s Clinical Transformation Practice working to advance quality and safety through the application of technology, process redesign, evaluation techniques, and evidence-based practice. Active in medical informatics for 20 years, Mark is the author of over 50 scientific papers, reviews, and book chapters on medical informatics.

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Tami Fassinger Tami Tinsley Fassinger

Chief Recruiting Officer
615.322.2402

MBA—Rollins College, 1987
BA Russian—Vanderbilt University, 1985

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Tami Fassinger began her MBA career in marketing and product management with NCR Corporation in Ohio, focusing on new product releases and marketing communications. Her recruiting and training expertise includes corporate recruiting and staffing in the consulting industry as a western regional director and national recruiting director for Cap Gemini; executive search work in the technology and consulting industries for MRI in Denver; consulting to the Graduate Management Admission Council® in Virginia, owner of the GMAT® exam; university administration including EMBA degree and executive non-degree program management, MBA career services and MBA student recruiting and admissions at Vanderbilt. While at Vanderbilt's career services office, Tami co-authored Adams Job Interview Almanac, a popular business career book published in 1996. As Chief Recruiting Officer, Tami’s role helps students take a more career-centric approach to evaluating their choice of program within the Owen portfolio as well as maximizing potential career opportunities once enrolled.    

A native of Sarasota, Florida, Tami lives in Franklin, Tennessee, with her husband, two daughters and her dog.  She writes fiction, likes to cook, loves to eat, and spends as much time as possible outdoors or in Nashville's eclectic music venues.

Meet Tami in one of these locations in 2012:
Atlanta, Birmingham, Bowling Green, Chattanooga, Clarksville, Evansville, Hopkinsville, Houston, Huntsville, Knoxville, Lexington, Louisville, Memphis, Nashville, Paducah, and Tampa.