Health Services Administration

Program Director

Dr. William B. Stroube

Stroube

Education

  • Ph.D. in Analytical and Nuclear Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
  • M.B.A. in Finance, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
  • B.S. Chemistry, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky

Biography

Bill Stroube is Professor of Health Services Administration and Director of the Health Services Administration graduate and undergraduate programs. Before joining the University of Evansville faculty in 1998, he spent twelve years in management positions in the pharmaceutical industry, and eight years at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Stroube maintains an active research program, and has authored and co-authored over 50 publications in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. His research and teaching interests include international health care issues, health care marketing and strategy, health care regulatory issues, medical ethics, and public health. He is a member and officer of several professional societies. He is past president of the Division of Biology and Medicine of the American Nuclear Society, and is the past president and current board member of the international Business and Health Administration Association. He has served on the organizing committee for the past five International Conferences on Health Care Systems.

He has extensive international experience leading student groups through several health care systems. Since 2000, he has taught fifteen summer classes in various formats in England, China, Hungary, Slovakia, and Austria. He has spent a total of four months in China during the past four years, including teaching 5-week courses in Hangzhou, China during the summers of 2009 and 2011. His popular 5-week and 10-day comparative health systems courses in England have been attended by health care professionals and students from over twenty universities.

He has been active in service to the university and has served as Chair of the Faculty Senate. A past recipient of the Dean's Teaching Award, he was presented the University of Evansville Outstanding Teaching Award at the 2008 May Commencement.