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Raymond G. Davis

Associate Professor, Emeritus
School of Public Affairs and Administration
1445 Jayhawk Blvd., 4060 Wescoe Hall
Lawrence, KS 66045-3177
Phone: (785) 864-3527
FAX: (785) 864-5208
email: rdavis@ku.edu

Personal:
Home: 1145 West Hills Parkway
Lawrence, Kansas 66044
(785) 842-1604

Married: Kathleen Thompson Davis
One son

EDUCATION

  • University of California, Davis
    l972
    Ph.D. Political Science
    Specialization: public policy and administration
  • University of Wyoming
    l965
    M.A. Political Science
  • University of Wyoming
    l964
    B.A. Political Science and History (honors)
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ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS

  • Associate Professor
    Division of Government
    Department of Public Administration
    University of Kansas
    1977-2007
  • Courtesy Professor
    Department of Health Policy and Management
    School of Medicine
    University of Kansas
    1982-present
    1982-1997 Chair
  • Director, Edwin O. Stene Graduate Program in Public Administration
    Department of Political Science
    University of Kansas
    1977-1982
  • Associate Chair
    Department of Political Science
    University of Kansas
    1976-78
  • Courtesy Professor
    Department of Preventive Medicine
    School of Medicine
    University of Kansas Medical Center
    Kansas City, Kansas
    1977-97
  • Assistant Professor
    Department of Political Science
    University of Kansas
    1972-78
  • Post Doctoral Fellow
    Bureau of Community Health Services
    United States Public Health Service
    Health Services Administration
    Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
    Washington, D.C.
    1974-1976
  • Instructor
    Division of Social Science
    University of Nebraska at Kearney
    1965-1967
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HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Distinguished Teaching 1998, 2001
    Department of Health Policy and Management
  • Honorary Member, KUCIMATS, 1982 (Kansas MPA Alums)
  • Hope Award Nominee, 1978 (teaching award)
  • NASPAA Post Doctoral Fellow, United States Public Health Service, 1974-1976
  • University of California Dissertation Fellowship, 1971-1972
  • NDEA Fellowship, University of California
  • Pi Sigma Alpha
  • Omicron Delta Kappa
  • Center for Teaching Excellence, Outstanding Teaching, University of Kansas, 1998
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PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

(* significant)

  • *Commissioner, Accrediting Commission on Education for Health Services Administration, 2001
  • *Past-chair, Association of University Programs in Health Administration, 2000-2001
  • *Chair, Association of University Programs in Health Administration, 1999-2000
  • Chair-elect, Association of University Programs in Health Administration, 1998-1999
  • *Chair, President Search Committee, AUPHA, 1999
  • Board, Association of University Programs in Health Administration, 1997-2001
  • Higher Education Committee, American College of Healthcare Executives, 1995-1998
  • Advisory Board, Rural Health Research Center, Center for Health Policy Research and Development, University of Oklahoma, 1996-
  • *Trustee, Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 1993-present
    *Chair, 1996-1998
  • Nomination Committee, Association of University Programs in Health Administration, 1996, 2002
  • Presidential Search Committee, Association of University Programs in Health Administration, 1993
  • *Conference Committee, Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA), 1990-92
  • Board of Editors, HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT REVIEW, 1982>91
  • Board of Editors, JOURNAL OF HEALTH ADMINISTRATION EDUCATION, 2002
  • Editor, PUBLIC ENTERPRISE, newsletter of the National
  • Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), 1983>1984
  • Careers and Marketing Committee, NASPAA, 1987-89
  • Peer Review Committee NASPAA (committee charged with responsibility for accreditation of academic programs offering masters in public affairs or public administration, l983>1986
  • *Chair, Peer Review Committee NASPAA, 1985>86
  • Standards Committee NASPAA, 1982>1983
  • Executive Committee NASPAA, 1981>1983
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Kansas Public Health Authority
  • Lawrence-Douglas County Health Board
  • American Political Science Association
  • American Society for Public Administration
  • American Public Health Association
  • Kansas Public Health Association
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND EXPERIENCE

  • 2001 Facilitator, United Methodist Health Ministry Fund
  • 2001 Presentor, Organizational Meeting, Board of Trustees, Sunflower Foundation, Topeka
  • 2000-2001 Executive Planning Committee, National Summit on Management Education for Health Administration
  • 1999 speaker, 6th annual Leadership Development Institute, University of Kansas Medical Center, August
  • 1999 speaker, International Personnel Management Association, Kansas City, June, Ethics
  • 1999 Moderator, Plenary Session Linking Research to Education, AUPHA National Conference, Chicago, June
  • 1998-9 review of Longest, HEALTH POLICYMAKING IN THE UNITED STATES, INQUIRY
  • 1997 Speaker, Leadership Kansas
  • 1996 Keynote Speaker, Regional Conference on Managed Care, Des Moines, Iowa
  • 1995 Advisory Board, Kansas Health Institute, Topeka
  • 1995 Keynote Speaker, Four State Nurses Conference, Pittsburg
  • 1995 Speaker, Lawrence Professional Womens Association
  • 1995 Working Group on Rural Health Delivery and Financing, Kansas Health Foundation, Kansas Hospital Association, Kansas Department of Health and Environment
  • 1995 Speaker, Kansas Home Health and Hospice Association, Manhattan
  • 1995 Presenter, The Role of Allied Health Professionals, Schools of Allied Health
  • 1994 Presenter, Kansas Leadership Institute, Kansas Health Foundation
  • 1993-96 Member, Interagency Taskforce on Health Facilities, Lawrence City Commission, Douglas Count Commission
  • 1993 Presenter, Department of Public Administration, "Impact of Health Reform on Local Governments," IBM Conference
  • 1993 Convener, Workshop on national and state health care reform, Standing Committees on Health and Public Welfare, Kansas State Legislature
  • 1993-5 Appointed Member, Kansas State Health Care Data Board
  • 1993 Presenter, Kansas Association of Quality Control Directors, Wichita
  • 1993 Kansas Health Foundation, Founding Leadership Institute, Wichita, Kansas. Elderly Advisory Group
  • 1992 Appointed, Kansas Healthy People 2000 Taskforce
  • 1992 Presenter, Program Directors Workshop, AUPHA, October,
  • 1992 Myers and Stauffer, Presenter, ethics
  • 1992 Wesley Foundation Conference on Rural Health Care Development, invited, Kansas City, Missouri, June 9-10
  • 1992 Facilitator for Commission for the Future of Health Care, Inc., hearings. Wichita, June 26-27
  • 1992 Invited speaker, KCUR-FM radio feature on health care reform
  • 1992-8 Board of Directors, The Bert Nash Mental Health Center, Lawrence, Chair 1995-96
  • 1992 Speaker (invited) 45th Annual Spring City Managers Conference "Health Care and the City", May
  • 1991 Review of Kovner, et. al., Casebook on Health Services Management, JOURNAL OF HEALTH ADMINISTRATION EDUCATION, Spring
  • 1991 Capitol Complex Executive Development Seminar, "Perplexing Problems and Proximate Policies"
  • 1991 Speaker, School of Nursing, Mid-Winter Series for Nursing, "The Emerging Changes in American Health Care"
  • 1990 Speaker (invited) Myers and Stauffer, Chartered, Ethics
  • 1990 Speaker (invited) and Moderator, Health Care Cost Containment Roundtable, Wichita, Kansas
  • 1990-1992 Kansas Public Health Systems Study, Kansas Public Health Association
  • 1990 Speaker, United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, Quality Assurance, El Paso, Texas
  • 1989 Governors Conference on Rural Health Topeka
  • 1989 Chair, Taskforce on Douglas County Care Home Governance
  • 1989-91 Kansas Health Care Commission, Employees Advisory Committee
  • 1989 Speaker, Financial Environment for Rural Hospitals, Center for Aging, Kansas State University
  • 1989 Speaker, Myers and Stauffer, Chartered, Management Development Seminar
  • 1989 Consultant, Wilson County Hospital, Neodesha, Kansas
  • 1988 Convener, Kansas Rural Health Consortium
  • 1988 Speaker (invited) Kansas Association of Homes for the Aged, Topeka
  • 1987 Consultant, Stanton County Hospital, Johnson City, Kansas
  • 1986 Consultant, Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas
  • 1983 Speaker, Kansas Hospital Association Reimbursement and Change in Health Care Delivery
  • 1983-Present Lecturer, School of Nursing, University of Kansas Medical Center
  • 1983-1985 Consultant, Ministry of Public Health, Government of Tunisia
  • 1978 Hearing Officer, National Health Plan, Public Health Service Bureau of Health Planning, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
  • 1976 Speaker, Kansas Political Science Association Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974
  • 1969-1972 Consultant State Senate, Natural Resources Committee, California State Legislature
  • 1968-1969 Committee Staff

Referee:

  • POLICY STUDIES
  • ADMINISTRATION AND SOCIETY
  • HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT REVIEW
  • PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
  • JOURNAL OF POLITICS
  • JOURNAL OF HEALTH ADMINISTRATION EDUCATION INQUIRY
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COURSES TAUGHT

  • Health Care Policy and Administration
  • Health Services Ethics
  • Introduction to American Government
  • Role of Government in American Society
  • The Administrative State
  • Introduction to Public Administration
  • Professionalization and Democracy
  • Western Civilization (Honors)
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ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS AND SERVICE > KANSAS

  • University Senate Executive Committee (elected) 2002-2003
  • University Senate (elected) 2000-2003
  • University Council (elected) 2001-2002
  • Search Committee, Faculty in Department of Health Services Administration, 1994-95
  • Admissions Committee, Department of Health Services Administration, 1983-96
  • Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Benefits, University Governance, 1992-93
  • Chair, University of Kansas Taskforce on AIDS 1987
  • University Council (Elected) 1986>89
  • Administrative Committee School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 1985-97
  • Executive Committee School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 1985-97
  • Western Civilization Program
    Advisory Committee
    College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 1985>88
    Chair, l985>86
  • Supervising Academic Officer and Chair Advisory Committee Department of Occupational Therapy, 1982>1984
  • Chair, Long Range Planning Committee
    Graduate Council, 1983>1984
  • Chair, Graduate Review Committee
    Department of Educational Policy and Administration
    School of Education, 1983>1984
  • Dean Search Committee
    School of Social Welfare, 1982>1983
  • Dean Search Committee
    College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 1980>1981
  • Chair, Search Committee
    Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor of Public Administration, 1980>1981
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GRANTS AWARDED

  • 2000, RWJ study of Uninsured, PI Ed Fonner (refused)
  • 1999, 2000, 2001 Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, Medician Managed Care Evaluation, CoPI (Mike Fox)
  • 1998-2000 United Methodist Health Ministry Fund, Medicaid Children’s Access to Dental Services, $100,000, PI
  • 1997 Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Research on estimates of uninsured and underinsured and managed care penetration in Kansas ($22,000) PI
  • 1997 Kansas Health Foundation, Survey of Uninsured in Kansas ($10,000) PI
  • 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 US Department of Education, Program Enhancement for Programs in Health Services Administration PI
  • 1983 AID, Graduate Education
    Ministry of Public Health
    Government of Tunisia, 1983>1985 PI
  • 1980 HUD Minority Work Study Grant
    1981, 1982 PI
  • 1979 Intergovernmental Personnel Act
    Study of Citizen Participation in Local Governments in Kansas (with Elaine Sharp)
  • 1978 Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
    National Health Plan
  • 1977 Title IX, Program Support for Schools of Public Administration and Affairs, 1978, 1979
    1973 University of Kansas Graduate Research Award 1974
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PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

  • 2002 Health Wave, American Journal of Public Health, 2002, with Mike Fox and Jan Moore
  • 2000, Medicaid Children’s Access to Dental Services; Policy Implications, submitted
  • 2000, An Evaluation of the Medicaid Managed Care Program in Kansas,” SRS, March
  • 2000, Kan Be Health Improve Medicaid Children’s Access to Dental Services in Kansas?, United Methodist Health Ministry Fund, February
  • 2000 Big Business, Small Stage: Health Reform in Lawrence, Kansas, Forthcoming
  • 1999, Status and Prospects for Medicaid Beneficiaries Access to Dental Services in Kansas, Report to the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund, July
  • 1998 Managed Care Trends in Kansas: An Incomplete Picture, Kansas Department of Health and Environment, January, with Mike Fox, Jocelyn Johnston, and Barbara Langner
  • 1997 University of Kansas Health Insurance Survey: Analysis from a Statewide Survey and Secondary Data on Insurance Coverage, Kansas Department of Health and Environment, September, with Mike Fox, Jocelyn Johnston, and Barbara Langner
  • 1996 Health Reform in Kansas: A Policy Before Its Time, in Howard Leichter, HEALTH REFORM IN THE STATES, Sharpe, forthcoming, with Barbara Langner
  • 1996 Cautious Kansas: The Move Toward Medicaid Managed Care, Marc Daniels, MANAGED CARE, 1997, with Mike Fox and Jocelyn Johnston
  • 1994 Kansas Primer on Health Issues, Wichita Eagle, February 6
  • 1994 "Health Care Reform and the Probabilities of Change," KANSAS JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY, Winter 1993-1994
  • 1994 "Primary Care Access," with Rod McAdams and Nelson Tilden, RURAL HEALTH SERVICES, Beaulieu and Berry, eds., Health Administration Press
  • 1994 "Perplexing Problems and Proximate Policies: Kansas Public Health Policy, KANSAS POLICY ISSUES, George Frederickson, ed., University Press of Kansas
  • 1991 "Perplexing Problems and Proximate Policies: Kansas Public Health Policy" Executive Development Seminar Capitol Complex Center, Topeka, Kansas February 22, 1991
  • 1990 "Rural Hospitals Under Prospective Payment" with Tim Zeddies, Mary Zimmerman, and Bob McLean, JOURNAL OF RURAL HEALTH, July 1990
  • 1990 "Paradox and Public Health Policy" Department of Health Services Administration, University of Kansas
  • 1987 REFLECTIONS ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROFESSIONALS, with John Nalbandian, Department of Public Administration, University of Kansas
  • 1986 "Health Care Delivery in Rural Kansas," KANSAS COMMUNITIES, University of Kansas
  • 1984 "Congress and the Emergence of Public Health Policy," HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT REVIEW, Winter
  • 1982 "Program Administration as Brokerage," National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration national meeting, Portland
  • 1981 "Doctoral Programs in Public Administration>>A Study of Student Preferences," American Society for Public Administration meeting, Detroit
  • 1979 THE LEGISLATURE AS AN ORGANIZATION, Regents Press of Kansas, with Marvin Harder
  • l979 THE NATIONAL HEALTH PLAN>>REPORT FROM THE STATE OF KANSAS, DHEW
  • 1978 "The New Bureaucracy, Health Systems Agencies,"American Society for Public Administration, Phoenix
  • 1977 "The Malek Manual Revisited," THE BUREAUCRAT, June, with Frank Thompson
  • 1975 "The Tuskegee Study: Professionalization and the United States Public Health Service," Western Political Science Association meetings, Seattle
  • 1975 "The Evolution of California Legislative Staff," in James Heaphy and Alan Balutis (eds.) COMPARATIVE LEGISLATIVE STAFF, Sage
  • 1973 "Strategies for Studying Legislative Staff: An Organization Theory Model," Southwest Social Science Association meetings, Dallas
  • 1972 THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE AS AN ORGANIZATION, Institute of Governmental Affairs, University of California (Davis)
  • 1970 "Regional Government for Lake Tahoe: A Case Study,"Institute of Governmental Affairs, University of California (Davis)
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WORK IN PROGRESS

  • “Are Independent Evaluations Valuable: The Case of Kansas Medicaid Managed Care?”