Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies
Management Division
30 E. Swedesford Road
Malvern
PAUSA
19355
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Janice L. Dreachslin is Professor of Health Policy and Administration in Penn State University’s School of Graduate Professional Studies in Malvern, Pennsylvania. Dr. Dreachslin teaches graduate courses in diversity leadership, behavioral sciences in business, and health policy and organization. Dr. Dreachslin has consulted in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Australia and is the author of numerous publications and presentations in health industry and general management. Dr. Dreachslin maintains an active consulting practice in diversity leadership and is author of the first academic book on strategic diversity management in healthcare, Diversity Leadership, published in June 1996 by the American College of Healthcare Executive’s Health Administration Press. Dr. Dreachslin and her collaborators received the 1999 ACHE Health Management Research Award for their Survey of Diversity Practices in Pennsylvania Hospitals. As chair of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration’s (AUPHA) Diversity Forum (2000-2004), Dr. Dreachslin led an initiative to define domains and core competencies for diversity leadership in health services management nationwide. She served as lead investigator for a recent study of factors that affect career advancement for women and people of color in health services management, commissioned by the National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL). Dr. Dreachslin is currently principal investigator for a Sodexo-funded NCHL diversity demonstration project. The project is the first to employ pre-post intervention assessment of system-wide diversity change initiatives. She is an invited member of the Institute for Diversity in Health Care Management’s benchmarking project advisory council.