Contact Information

Larry Gamm, Ph.D.
Director
TAMU 1266
College Station, Texas 77845
tel (979) 458-2244
gamm@tamhsc.edu

Eva Lee, Ph.D.
Co-Director
Systems Engineering
Atlanta, GA 30332-0205
tel (404) 894-4962
evakylee@isye.gatech.edu

James C. Benneyan, Ph.D.
Co-Director
334 Snell Engineering Center
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
tel (617) 373-2975
benneyan@coe.neu.edu

Harriet Black Nembhard, Ph.D.
Co-Director
310 Leonhard Building
University Park, PA 16802
tel (814) 865-4210
hbnembhard@psu.edu

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CHOT Member Benefits

  • Opportunity to create and/or participate in exploratory projects that can be used as basis for larger grant applications

  • Provides an avenue to investigate a topic which may otherwise not be done

  • Accomplishes research at a fraction of the cost of having in-house researchers

  • Allows an industry to utilize the talents and resources of a university

  • Provides an excellent recruiting tool for building the future of healthcare organizations

  • Access to researchers, knowledge, and training to evaluate and review intervention design and implementation

  • Participate in research studies using organization’s own data to answer questions about processes

  • Exclusive setting for information sharing and networking with other innovative healthcare systems across the nation

CHOT Member Commitments

  • Work with researchers to tailor proposals to address the organization’s transformation questions

  • Encourage leaders within the organization to identify research questions and to serve as co-investigators on projects

  • Participate, yearly, in the selection of other research projects undertaken by CHOT

  • Provide access to data and key staff for research activities

  • Offer regular feedback on the quality of the CHOT’s performance and its benefit to organization

  • Commit to partnership in CHOT for 3 years or longer

  • Pay annual membership fee