Below is an alphabetical listing of our faculty members with a brief biography and their contact information.
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Janice Frates Ph.D. Professor |
 562 / 985-5394 jfrates@csulb.edu |
Dr. 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. Assistant Professor |
 562 / 985-1962 bfreshma@csulb.edu |
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 begins 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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Robert Friis, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Health Sciences Dept. |
562 / 985-1537 rfriis@csulb.edu |
Robert Friis teaches an epidemiology course in the Healthcare Administration Department at CSULB: He is currently the Chair of the Department of Health Science, and the Director of the Veterans Administration/CSULB Joint Studies Institute. Dr. Friis has been a Visiting Professor at Max Planck Institute and Dresden Technical University in Germany, as well as a Visiting Researcher for the Center for Nutrition and Toxicology in Stockholm, Sweden. Before coming to Long Beach, he was an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine at U.C., Irvine, an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University School of Public Health, and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Community Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Dr. Friis' research interests include psychiatric and social epidemiology, health promotion, minority health and aging. He had many grant awards and has published articles in numerous peer reviewed journals. He is senior author of Epidemiology for Public Health Practice, Third Edition, published by Jones and Bartlett in 2003. Additionally, he is a member of many professional and community and public service organizations.
Dr. Friis holds a B.A. in Psychology from U.C., Berkeley, an M.A. in Educational Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a PhD in Higher Education from Columbia University. He did post graduate work in Social Epidemiology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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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.
| Britt Rios-Ellis, Ph.D. Professor, Health Sciences Dept. Director, Latino Health Professional Project (LHPP) |
 562 / 985-1770 bellis@csulb.edu |
Britt Rios-Ellis began her work in Hispanic/Latino health issues at the University of Oregon where she conducted a doctoral study regarding the HIV/AIDS related experience of migrant Latina adolescents. She then worked at COSSMHO, now the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, on the Hispanic Health Research Consortium. She then went to the University of Maryland, College Park in the Department of Health Education where she conducted research on infant feeding and care practices among Latina immigrants and taught various health-related courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level.
Dr. Rios-Ellis is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Science at California State University, Long Beach where she also serves as Director of the Latino Health Professionals Project in the Health Care Administration Program, a scholarship and training program for first generation-educated Latinos designed to ameliorate the lack of Latinos in management positions in the health care professions. She currently teaches courses in Latino Health Care Access, Human Sexuality, Community Health and Maternal/Child Health Promotion. She also serves as the Project Director of Nataional Council for La Raza's Latino Family HIV/AIDS Prevention Project. This project, funded by the Office of Minority Health, has conducted focus groups and interviews with 322 HIV positive and at-risk Latinos in 14 sites throughout the United States and Puerto Rico in an effort to assess the HIV prevention needs of various groups of Latinos.
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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 Grater 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 Alask 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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Tony Sinay, Ph.D Professor and Program Director |
 562 / 985-5694 tsinay@csulb.edu |
A national search resulted in the selection of Professor Tony Sinay as the new Health Care Administration Program Director, 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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Courtney Atkins, MHA, FACHE |  562 / 933-1826 catkins@memorialcare.org |
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 billimoria@msn.com |
Dr. Rus Billimoria is Director of Health Services for Medical Network 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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Charles Del Campo |  562 / 985-5694 seedelcamp@aol.com |
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; ans 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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Jean Klein, MBA | 949 / 458-8218 jeanklein7@cox.net |
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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Thomas C. Knego, J.D. |  562 / 985-5694 Tom.Knego@phs.com |
Tom Knego is currently Associate General Counsel for PacifiCare Health Systems. Previous to that he was a partner in the Konowiecki and Rank (K & R Law Group, LLP) firm's litigation practice group where he represented health plans and healthcare providers in a variety of litigation matters including managed care liability, commercial litigation, employment litigation and medical malpractice. Prior experience includes Corporate Counsel for FHP, Inc., where he managed litigation concerning medical malpractice, ERISA, employment, anti-trust, contract and healthcare matters. Before joining FHP he served as an associate and senior associate to law firms in Orange and San Diego Counties. In that capacity he was responsible for case management of professional negligence litigation from inception, all phases of discovery, settlement negotiations, arbitration or trial and appeal.
Mr. Knego received his law degree from California Western School of Law in San Diego in 1986 and his undergraduate degree from California State University, Fullerton in 1983. He was awarded the Richard O. Westbrooke award in 1987 for "Excellence in Trial Advocacy" from the San Diego County Bar Association. He is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and Orange County Bar Association. He is a frequent speaker on legal issues affecting managed care organizations and health care providers. He is a part-time faculty member at California State University, Long Beach where he teaches Legal Aspects of HealthCare Administration.
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James Lott, Sr. Executive Vice President, Healthcare Policy Development and Communications Hospital Association of Southern California |
213 / 538-0777 lott@sbcglobal.net |
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 / 708-0955 t.mccabe7@verizon.net |
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.
| Rachel Plotkin | rtothetop@aol.com |
Rachel Plotkin graduated from East Los Angeles College with an Associate Degree in Nursing—Registered Nursing in 1989. Rachel has worked at St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach as a Registered Nurse in the Labor and Delivery, Postpartum, and high-risk obstetrics areas. Since 1999, Rachel has been of service in the role of Community Outreach which has since been expanded to include Community Benefits and Advocacy.
Ms. Plotkin obtained her Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Excelsior College in Albany, New York in 2003, and a Masters of Science in Nursing/Masters of Science in Health Care Administration (MSN/MSHCA) at CSULB in December 2004. Rachel is currently completing the requirements for her Doctorate in Health Science (Dr. H.Sc.) from Nova Southeastern University.
Ms. Plotkin commits time and energy to several educational social service and professional organizations. She also has taught for East Los Angeles College/Los Angeles Community College District, California State University Long Beach, Career Colleges of America and Kaplan.
Among her recent awards are the American Business Women’s Association Business Associate of the Year and California Senator Alan Lowenthal’s Woman of Distinction in 2007; NAACP Living Legends Lillie’s Grigsby Award in 2006; National Council of Negro Women-Long Beach Chapter (NCNW) “Angel Award” and Nursing Economic$ Foundation Scholar, both in 2004.
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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 |  949 / 400-0960  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.
