Teaching portfolio

You can find my full teaching portfolio here.

Data science techniques in health care research

I have developed a project based seminar in which graduate students perform a data science project and apply econometrics using publicly available health care data based on the US Medical Expenditures Panel Survey and the US National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.

This course is part of Data Campus at University of Duisburg-Essen, an initivative to improve data literacy of students. We develop a resource to perfrom a reproducible research project using health care data for graduate students. Stay tuned!

Case study teaching

Case studies in health care management

I have written two case study texts in German languange, edited as part of a case collection for Public Administration scholars (Ritz A, Blankart CR, Jacobs CD, Lienhard A, Radulescu D, Sager F, editors. Praxisfälle Public Management: Ein multidisziplinärer Ansatz mit konzeptionellen Bausteinen. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien; 2021)

Case 1 discusses comparative advantage and strategy of the mail-order pharmacy business:

• Case text: Fallstudie 11: Der strategische Kampf: Wettbewerbsfähigkeit durch die europäische Waren- und Dienstleistungsfreiheit, p. 107-18

• Theoretical background: Strategische Analyse und Prognose – Analyse brancheninterner Strukturen (Fallstudie 11), p. 367–9.

Case 2 discusses market access and pricing of new pharmaceuticals with a focus on stakeholder management:

• Case text: Fallstudie 12: Heilung um jeden Preis? – Die 20.000-€-Pille oder die Herausforderung der Preissetzungsstrategie im Gesundheitswesen, p. 119–29

• Theoretical background: Stakeholder Typologie nach Mitchell, Agle und Wood (1997) (Fallstudie 12), p. 371–4

This is a selection of readily available case studies that I regularly teach to Master level students of Medicine Management at University of Duisburg-Essen. Educators can obtain full texts of the case study texts for free from Harvard Business Publishing.

• West German Headache Center: Integrated Migraine Care, by Michael Porter, Clemens Guth, Elisa Dannemiller, this case is staged at University Hospital Essen

• Queen Mary Hospital: Fighting the SARS Crisis, by Shunyin Lam, Simon Lam, Joyce Ho, Scarlet Chan, Shirley Chan

• CVS Health: Promoting Drug Adherence, by Leslie K. John, John A. Quelch, Robert S. Huckman

• Novartis’ Gilenya: Navigating the Interplay Between Drug Innovation, Pricing, and Reimbursement in Different Countries’ Health Care Systems, by Robert Chess, Jason Luther

• Schön Klinik: Measuring Cost and Value, by Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski, Jessica A. Hohman

• British National Health Service Reform, by Anne Snowdon, Alexander Smith, Luca Pisterzi

Harvard Business Publishing provides resources how to use the case study method in teaching.