Biography:

Dr. Ledlow has earned a Ph.D. (University of Oklahoma), a Masters of Healthcare Administration (Baylor University) and a B.A. in Economics (Virginia Military Institute). He is a board certified Fellow in healthcare administration from the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).

He has twenty - two years of healthcare management experience in leadership positions in managed care, supply chain management and in academia. Recently, Dr. Ledlow was the Corporate Vice President for Supply Chain Operations for the Sisters of Mercy Health System within the Genesis Project and previously was the director and tenured faculty for the Doctor of Health Administration program at Central Michigan University. Earlier in his career, he was the executive director of corporate services at Central Michigan University and a commissioned United States Army officer in the Medical Service Corps where Dr. Ledlow worked in hospitals in Europe, combat zones within a mobile hospital in the former Yugoslavia and in combat divisions in Louisiana, California and Panama.

He has been awarded two ACHE Regent's Awards (1997 and 2003), the Federal Sector Managed Care Executive of the Year Award (1998) and the Boone Powell Award (1996). He has served on two ACHE Regent’s Advisory Councils over an eight year period.

Dr. Ledlow serves on the Executive Board of the Global Business and Technology Association, as Regional Editor for the Journal of Global Business and Technology, the Editorial Board or reviewer for several peer reviewed publications, and is a grant reviewer for the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute and National Eye Institute as a health administration expert.

He has edited and authored several books (Praeger/Greenwood Publishers, Hampton Press, Health Administration Press and Jones & Bartlett Publishers), book chapters and numerous articles and manuscripts. Dr. Ledlow has either lived or traveled to twenty - two countries, presented internationally in six nations and numerous times nationally and regionally.

Dr. Ledlow's interests are leadership and management, healthcare delivery systems, quantitative sciences, access to care, health needs, utilization and preference assessments, health communication and a myriad of issues regarding disparities in health, education and social structure.

Currently, Dr. Ledlow is the Director of the Center for Survey Research and Health Information within the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University.

Dr. Ledlow is married and is the father of three daughters.