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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Health
Professor Pillay
Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Health, Collat School of Business and School of Medicine, United States
Professor Pillay
Editor-in-Chief: Professor Rubin Pillay
Rubin Pillay is a medical futurist and professor of healthcare, innovation and entrepreneurship at the Collat School of Business and School of Medicine at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. He is also a visiting professor of healthcare innovation at the Copenhagen Business School and was previously the Daniel White Jordan Chair and executive director of the Center for Health Systems Innovation at the Spears School of Business, and the Center for Health Sciences at Oklahoma State University. He is a family physician and clinical pharmacologist who holds a PhD in business administration, an MBA and an MSc in Health Management.
Prior to taking up his current position, he headed up programs in health leadership at the Alex G. McKenna School of Business, Economics and Government (Pennsylvania, USA) and the School of Business and Finance (Cape Town, South Africa). He has extensive international teaching and consulting experience and has published widely in the field of strategic health leadership. His current work focuses on the role of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship (CIE) in the transformation of health and health care, and he is widely regarded as a preeminent health futurist and scholar in this area.
He is the first president of the International Society of Healthcare Entrepreneurship Education and Research (ISHEER), a harvard advanced leadership fFellow in health innovation and the founding chairperson of the International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Healthcare.
Editorial Board
Professor Barlow
James Barlow, Professor of Technology and Innovation Management, Imperial College Business School, London, UK
Professor Burns
Lawton R. Burns, James Joo-Jin Kim Professor of Health Care Management, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Prof. Dr. Gandjour
Afschin Gandjour, Professor of Health Management, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Germany
Dr Hwang
Jason Hwang, Co-Founder, Icebreaker Health (Lemonaid Health), San Francisco, CA, USA
Dr Joiner
Keith Joiner, Professor of Economics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Professor Kendall
Elizabeth Kendall, Professor, School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University, Australia
Dr Langer
Lynn Johnson Langer, Director, Enterprise & Regulatory Science Programs, Center for Biotechnology Education, Johns Hopkins University, Rockville, MD, USA
Professor Randolph
Greg Randolph, Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Adjunct Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; President & CEO, Population Health Improvement Partners, USA
Prof. Dr. Rauner
Marion Rauner, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business, Economics, and Statistics, Dept. of Innovation and Technology Management, University of Vienna, Austria
Professor Savage
Grant T. Savage, Professor of Management, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
Dr Shakarishvili
George Shakarishvili, Senior Advisor, Health Systems Strengthening, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland
Professor Valentin
Finn Valentin, Professor, Research Centre on Biotech Business, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark
Prof. Dr. Velez Lapao
Luís Velez Lapão, Professor of International Health Management and Innovation, International Public Health and Biostatistics Unit – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Professor Weech-Maldonado
Robert Weech-Maldonado, Professor & L.R. Jordan Endowed Chair, Dept of Health Services Administration, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
