Below is an alphabetical listing of our faculty members with a brief biography and their contact information.
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Tony Sinay, Ph.D Professor and Department Chair |
 562 / 985-5304 tsinay@csulb.edu |
A national search resulted in the selection of Professor Tony Sinay as the new Health Care Administration Department Chair, effective fall 2003. Dr. Sinay comes to Long Beach from the Health Management Program, Des Moines University - Osteopathic Medical Center, where as Associate Director he also taught health economics and health finance courses. Dr. Sinay formerly taught courses in research methods, statistics, health care financial management, economics and policy, and rural health care issues at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. At Saint Louis University he taught micro and macroeconomics, statistics and econometrics courses.
Dr. Sinay's research interests include hospital mergers and closures, rural health clinics, access to care, and healthy communities. His recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Economics and Finance, Eastern Economic Journal, Journal of Public Health and Health Management, and Journal of Rural Health, Health Care Management Review and Journal of Health Care Finance. He has conducted manuscript reviews for the Journal of Rural Health, Healthcare Management Science, Health Care Management Review and the American Journal of Managed Care. Dr. Sinay has served as a Fellow for the Accrediting Commission on Education in Health Services Administration (ACEHSA) and as an accreditation advisor to several health care administration programs throughout the nation.
Dr. Sinay earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in management engineering from Istanbbul Technical University in Turkey. He obtained an M.S. degree in finance and a Ph.D. in economics from Saint Louis University.
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Erlyana Erlyana , MD, Ph.D Assistant Professor |
 562 / 985-5800 eerlyana@csulb.edu |
Dr. E. Erlyana is a physician who received her MD from University of Atmajaya, Indonesia, and earned a Ph.D. in Public Administration with a concentration in Health Service Administration from University of Southern California. Dr. Erlyana’ s research interests include access to care to underserved population; social determinant's of health care utilization, disparities on health, managed care, and comparative health.
Currently she is teaching Global Health and Economics of Health in Health Care Administration Dept. at California State University in Long Beach.
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Janice Frates, Ph.D Professor |
562 / 985-5394 jfrates@csulb.edu |
Janice Frates teaches undergraduate and graduate health policy, marketing and management courses in the Health Care Administration Program at California State University Long Beach. Prior healthcare experience includes:
Dr. Frates received her Ph.D. in Public Administration from USC, with a concentration in Health Services Administration. Her recent research and publications focus on Medicaid managed care and state health policy to expand health insurance coverage for the uninsured. She is also a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, holds a Master of Social Work from the University of California, and was a social work practitioner and administrator in the San Diego County Department of Social Services and the Orange County Department of Public Health.
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Brenda Freshman, Ph.D.
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Brenda Freshman is founder and president of Social Logistics, a management consulting firm specializing in leadership development for health care professionals. As an external consultant over the last 12 years she has helped managers and leaders in government agencies, private corporations and non-profit entities to achieve their goals. From 1996-2006 Dr. Freshman served on the faculty of the UCLA School of Public health where she lectured and trained health care professionals in managerial and leadership competencies. In addition during that time she designed and delivered the Self-Development Curriculum for the MPH for Health Professionals Program.
Currently Brenda Freshman is an assistant professor at California State University Long Beach, in the Health Administration Program. She began teach courses at CSULB in the Summer of 2007, and became a full time faculty position in Fall 2007.
Dr. Freshman holds a BS in Psychology (UCLA), a MA in Applied Psychology (University of Santa Monica), a MS in Organizational Psychology (California School of Professional Psychology), and a Doctorate in Organizational Psychology (California School of Professional Psychology). Dr. Freshman’s research and practice interests concentrate on how thoughts and emotions influence behavior, productivity and quality of life. She has been producing and delivering workshops on self-development and leadership skills, since 1993.
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C. Kevin Malotte, Ph.D Professor and Chair Center for Health Care Innovation |
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Dr. C. Kevin Malotte is the newly appointed Archstone Endowed Chair and Director of the Center for Health Care Innovation. He was previously Professor of Health Science and Director of the Community Health and Social Epidemiology (CHASE) Programs at CSULB. Much of his career has been devoted to the development, implementation, and rigorous evaluation of theory-based behavioral interventions in a number of health-related areas. These areas include substance abuse prevention, adherence with medical treatments, provision and uptake of screening for sexually transmitted infections (STDs), and a number of risk-reduction interventions for HIV and other STDs.
Dr. Malotte has over 25 years of experience designing and evaluating health behavior change interventions in clinical, community, and school settings, and has co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications that have appeared in journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Preventive Medicine, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases. He has been or is currently an investigator on several studies funded by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health. He is currently the principal investigator on two CDC-funded studies, one an STD prevention study, and one working with volunteer community health leaders designed to examine factors that keep these volunteers productive and satisfied with their roles. He holds a BA in psychology from Chapman College, an MA in social psychology from Claremont Graduate School, and an MPH and DrPH from the UCLA School of Public Health.
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Henry O'Lawrence, Ph.D. MDP Associate Professor |
 562 / 985-8103 holawren@csulb.edu |
Dr. Henry O’Lawrence research interests include global economy, comparative analysis of world poverty and health care, workforce development policy, issues, and trends, cooperate training and administrative leadership. Dr. O’Lawrence is an Associate Professor and former department chair of Professional Studies. He is the recipient of 2008 Educational Specialist of the year from the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC) and a current member of Western Association for Schools and Colleges (WASC). Dr. O’Lawrence earned an Associate degree in Business Administration from Guilford Tech, B.Sc. in Economics from Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, and MS in Business and Marketing Education from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He obtained his Ph.D. in Workforce Education and Development with emphasis in Research Methods and Leadership from Penn State University, University Park, PA. Dr. O’Lawrence also completed a diploma program in Leadership Management Program (MDP) at Harvard University in 2009 and a Certificate in Action Inquiry and Reflective Teaching at Oxford University, England in 2008. He is a member of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA).
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Grace Reynolds, Ph.D. Assistant Professor |
562 / 985-5885 greynol2@csulb.edu |
Grace Reynolds is the Associate Director at the CSULB Center for Behavioral Research and Services, since 2000. She has extensive experience in data analysis and program evaluation for a variety of health and human services organizations including The Mental Health Association of Greater Los Angeles, the City of Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Program, the State of California Alcohol and Drug Programs and the State of Alaska Division of Public Health. Dr. Reynolds teaches undergraduate and graduate courses for the Health Care Administration Program in analysis and evaluation and quantative methods, as well as research methods for the Health Sciences Department. She holds a B.A. in English from Macalester College, Master's degrees in Public Administration and Creative Writing from the University of Alaska Anchorage, and a Doctorate in Public Administration from the University of Southern California.
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Veronica Acosta-Deprez, Ph.D. |
 562 / 985-7698vacosta@csulb.edu |
Dr. Veronica Acosta-Deprez is currently Professor in the Department of Health Science at California State University, Long Beach. She has an undergraduate degree in nursing from St. Louis University, Philippines, and a Masters and PhD degrees in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in educational technology and public health from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her professional and research interests, in which she has several publications and presentations, are in the areas of curriculum design and development, program evaluation, issues of race, class and gender in health care and health education, international health, multicultural health education, community-based participatory program planning, program evaluation, and public health preparedness. Dr. Acosta-Deprez has also received funding on several service related grants on program assessment and evaluation and research grants related to health care access and community-based participatory research. Most recently, she and Dr. Sarath Gunatilake, Department of Health Sciences, have been recipients of a HRSA grant to develop a Bioterrorism and Disaster Preparedness Curriculum to train students as volunteers, staff, and managers in the event of a disaster. She is a member of the California State University Consortium on Emergency Management and Homeland Security, and has participated in research related to the integration/infusion on emergency management and disaster preparedness in various courses in higher education curricula. More recently, she has been involved in a collaborative research to study the impact of mobile technology and its integration into disease prevention and health promotion activities.
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Courtney Atkins, MHA, FACHE |  562 / 985-5694  catkins@csulb.edu |
Courtney Atkins is a Manager of Clinical Decision Support for MemorialCare Health Services, where she coordinates the collection, analysis and reporting of all clinical data sources for a five hospital system. She also evaluates current data sources for use in future quality initiatives. Prior experience includes serving as Data/Quality Improvement Coordinator for Emergency Medical Services, Health Care Agency of Orange County and Trauma Data Analyst/Project Manager, University of California Irvine Medical Center. Ms. Atkins holds a BS degree in Biology/Pre-Med from the University of California Riverside and a Master's in Health Care Administration from CSULB. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in operations research and data analysis for the HCA Program, and has also served as an intern preceptor.
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Rus Billimoria, M.D., M.P.H, C.P.H.Q. | 562 / 985-5694 rbillimo@csulb.edu |
Dr. Rus Billimoria is Senior Director, Medical Management, a medical practice management company in Los Angeles. Prior experience includes consulting to PfizerPharmaceuticals; director of Health Services for Maxicare Health Plan; and Director of Quality Management for Molina Medical Centers. Prior to joining Molina, he was Director of Quality Management for CalOptima in Orane County, and was manager of Quality Management for CareAmerica Health Plan. In each of these positions Dr. Billimoria developed or enhanced quality assurance programs and worked to ensure compliance with accrediting and regulatory quality criteria. He has also conducted quality research studies for UniHealth American health system and served as medical advisor to a multinational pharmaceutical firm in its conduct of drug trials and post-marketing studies.
Dr. Billimoria obtained his medical degree from the University of Bombay, India, and also completed a post-graduate degree with a pharmacology major. He holds a Master's of Public Health degree from UCLA and is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality. His publications and conference presentations encompass a wide range of topics, from pharmacology to access to care to quality management. He teaches a combined graduate and undergraduate level class at CSULB on quality assurance in health care administration.
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Heidi Burkey, MPH, CHES | 562 / 985-5694 hburkey@csulb.edu |
Heidi Burkey, MPH, CHES has been working in the college health ambulatory clinic setting for six years. She has experience in continuous quality management and improvement, including the design, implementation and analysis of clinic studies. Additionally, she designs and conducts health, patient satisfaction and needs assessment surveys; manages clinical studies with corporate sponsorship); health education programs; and administers a quality improvement program for patient education. Ms. Burkey is a health educator in the CSULB Student Health Services. She provides individual and group health education programming to students and is a State-Certified HIV Prevention Test Counselor. She coordinates the HIV Testing and Counseling program at the clinic. Ms. Burkey has been a part-time instructor for the Health Care Administration since 2007.
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Charles Del Campo |  562 / 985-5694 cdelcamp@csulb.edu |
Charles Del Campo is a medical group practice management administrator with over 25 years experience in physician group and independent practice association (IPA) management, from start-ups to turnarounds. He currently serves as the administrator of Emergent Medical Associates in Manhattan Beach, California, an emergency physicians' group with multisite hospital contracts in the greater Los Angeles area. Prior recent administrative experience includes the Sinskey Eye Clinic in Santa Monica and the TCS Medical Group in Long Beach, California, a large cardiology practice with multistate contracts and operations. As Director of Network Development for PrimeHealth, Mr. Del Campo oversaw the application process for a limited Knox-Keene health care service plan license for a provider sponsored network of 25 nonprofit hospitals and affiliated medical groups and IPAs. As an instructor for the UCSD School of Medicine, he taught courses for physicians on the health care system, health care finance and the financial aspects of medical practice. Mr. Del Campo holds a Master's of Business Administration from Monmouth College in New Jersey. He teaches the medical group practice management class for the California State University Long Beach Health Care Administration Program.
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Dan Fahey, MPH, PhD |  909/537-7724 dfahey@csusb.edu |
Dr. Fahey is an Associate Professor and Program Director in Health Services Administration at California State University, San Bernardino. His areas of interest are health policy, health systems, organizational behavior, and managed care. Before becoming a full time faculty member, Dr. Fahey served as Chief Executive Officer of three large, multi-specialty medical groups and Chief Executive Officer of several acute care hospitals where he managed satellite hospitals, a skilled nursing facility, a home health agency and several medical office buildings. He is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives; serves on the ACHE Regent’s Advisory Council for District 9; and is the recipient of the ACHE Regent’s Award for Senior Level Executive. Dr. Fahey is also a member of the Medical Group Management Association, and the Association of University Programs in Healthcare Administration. Dr. Fahey has been published in several healthcare journals and has presented at national and regional healthcare meetings. Dr. Fahey earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a Master’s Degree in Public Administration, California State University, Los Angeles, a Master’s Degree in Public Health (Health Services Administration), University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in Public Administration, with an emphasis in health policy, from Arizona State University.
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Cindy Gotz, MPH, C.H.E.S. | 562/985-5414 cgotz@csulb.edu |
Cindy Gotz is the manager of Mentor Programs for Women with Cancer at the Todd Cancer Institute at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and program coordinator for the accelerated Master’s in Health Care Administration here at CSULB. Prior to her current health care roles, Ms. Gotz spent over twenty years in technology management, holding senior management positions within large biotech and health care related companies. She completed her BA at CSU Dominguez Hills and her Master’s in Public Health and certificate in Health Care Administration at CSULB. Ms. Gotz coached the 2009 HCA College Bowl team. She teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in the Health Care Administration and Health Science departments at CSULB.
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Jean Klein, MBA | 562/98-5694 |
Jean Klein has over 20 years of comprehensive managed care experience. From 1997 to 2001 she managed the health care consulting practice unit of Ernst & Young's Los Angeles office. Prior experience includes director of Medicare Operations for United HealthCare Corporation, where she designed the product and set up the operational systems for the plan's new Medicare risk product. From 1991-95 she worked for FHP, Inc., as Director of Government Programs; as a Medical Center Administrator; and as Staff Manager for the plan's Management Development Program. During the 1980's she served as an Assistant Department Administrator and as Training Director for two Kaiser Permanente regional medical centers. Ms. Klein graduated from the State University of New York and holds an MBA with dual concentrations in marketing and finance management from The Peter F. Drucker Graduate Management Center of The Claremont Graduate University.
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James Lott, Sr. Executive Vice President, Healthcare Policy Development and Communications Hospital Association of Southern California |
 213 / 538-0777  jlott@csulb.edu |
In his current position, Jim Lott is the media and policy spokesperson for a healthcare trade association representing over 200 hospitals and integrated healthcare systems in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernadino, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. Prior experience includes serving as President and CEO of the Hospital Council of San Diego and Imperial Counties; Staff Director and Chief Consultant to the California State Senate Committee on Health and Human Services; Director, California Childrens Services. He holds a BA in sociology from UCLA, an MBA from University of Redlands, and is a doctoral candidate at Pepperdine University in Education and Psychology with a concentration in Organizational Leadership.
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Thomas P. McCabe, J.D., MBA |  562 / 985-5694 tmccabe@csulb.edu |
Tom McCabe has extensive experience in medical group practice and managed care administration. Most recently he was Director of Finance for North East Medical Services, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in San Francisco's Chinatown. Prior experience includes serving as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and in-house legal counsel for American Medical Specialty Organization, a specialty physician management services firm; Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for MD HealthShares/Patient's Choice, a start-up HMO in Baton Rouge, Lousiana; Executive VP/In-House Counsel for the Friendly Hills Healthcare Foundation, a physician-hospital delegated risk contracting entity in southern California; Chief Operating Officer for the Friendly Hills Medical Group; Executive Director, United Medical Group Association; and Assistant Controller, FHP International HMO. Mr. McCabe holds a J.D. from Western State University College of Law and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from CSULB, where he also received his BS in Accounting.
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Hannah Nguyen, Ph. D |
562 / 985-5694 hnguyen@csulb.edu |
"Dr. Hannah-Hanh D. Nguyen received her B.A. degree in Psychology at California State University, Long Beach (a Summa Cum Laude) and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Michigan State University. An Assistant Professor, she has joined the CSULB Department of Psychology since 2006, becoming a part-time instructor in the Department of Health Care Administration since 2009. She enjoys supervising HCA graduate students' theses on various health-related topics in the accelerated program.
Dr. Nguyen’s research interests are diverse. Her current research programs include the effects of social media on job-seeking behaviors, international hiring discrimination practices, Asian and Asian-American entrepreneurship, and stigma against workers who nap. Previously, she conducted research on the effects of stereotype threat on minorities’ cognitive ability test performance, the assessment of test-taking strategies, Asian-oriented conflict coping strategies, and cross-cultural effects of collectivism-individualism on cooperative behaviors. She has published in Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Performance, African and Asian Studies, and Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, as well as writing two book chapters.
An immigrant and former re-entry student herself, Dr. Nguyen has a healthy respect for mature professionals who are willing to set goals for themselves and work diligently toward an advanced degree in HCA."
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Kevin Torres, MPA VP Information Services, MemorialCare Health System |
 562 / 933-9415  ktorres@memorialcare.org |
Kevin Torres graduated from California State University, Long Beach in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science degree, and in the spring of 1998 completed a Master's in Public Administration with a healthcare concentration. He began his career in at Santa Marta Hospital (Carondelet) as a Data Systems Operator. In 1985, he accepted a position as an Information Systems Coordinator at San Pedro Peninsula Hospital, and was later promoted to Information Systems Manager. As a result of a merger with Little Company of Mary Health Services in 1993, Mr. Torres was promoted to Corporate Director of Information Systems. He was responsible for implementing an information system to support the vertical integration strategy of the health delivery network. In June of 1998 Mr. Torres became Executive Director of Information Services for Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, and is a key member of the senior executive management team. Mr. Torres assisted in the re-insourcing and re-organization of the information services division and created an Information Service Delivery Plan.
In 2005, Mr. Torres was promoted to V.P. Information Services for MemorialCare with responsibilities for all 5 hospitals in the MemorialCare health system. He has published several Information Technology articles and co-authored an article in the International Journal of Public Administration with Dr. Frates. Mr. Torres is on the Board of Directors for The Children’s Clinic of Long Beach. In addition to teaching in the Health Care Administration Program, Mr. Torres has developed an innovative program for HCA bilingual bicultural students to work as part time paid interpreters at LBMMC and has arranged numerous internship opportunities for HCA students.
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Richard Tradewell, Ph.D |  562/985-5694 rtradewe@csulb.edu |
Richard Tradewell comes to California State University, Long Beach from Claremont McKenna College where he is a Fellow of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government. He taught two Healthcare Administration classes in spring 2003 and will teach two classes this fall: HCA 422I, Global Health, and HCA 536, Hospital Management.
Dr. Tradewell has worked in Public Policy Analysis since 1995, in a healthcare/health services role. Earlier career roles include Program Evaluation, Managed Healthcare, Hospital Administration and Health Services.
Dr. Tradewell holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from California State University, Fullerton, a Masters degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California, a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Claremont Graduate University and a PhD in Political Science from Claremont Graduate University.
