Michael Howley, PA-C, PhD

Mike Howley is a Clinical Professor at the LeBow College of Business. Prior to becoming a business professor, Mike worked for 2 decades as a clinical Physician Assistant (PA), working for 9 years delivering primary care to underserved areas of rural Maine and 11 years in critical care and surgical services. He also has 5 years of experience in practice management and as a business owner.

Professor Howley received his PhD in Business Administration from Arizona State University. At Drexel, he teaches courses in how to manage service quality as well as introductory courses in Marketing. He was previously the Director of the Health Care Management Graduate Concentration and taught courses in Health Care Management and Pharmaceutical Management.

Professor Howley’s previous research examined how to measure and then manage quality in clinical trials. He is now working on large data analyses of health service processes and writing a book on measuring quality in health care.

Selected Publications:

• “Trends and Variability in Total Shoulder Arthroplasty Utilization in Medicare Patients,” with Benjamin M Zmistowski, Eric M Padegimas, Joseph A Abboud, Gerald R Williams, & Surena Namdari, Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, forthcoming, accepted April 11, 2017.
• “The Drivers of Medicare Reimbursement for Thoracolumbar Fusion: An Analysis of Data From The Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services,” with Krishn Khanna, Kushagra Verma, Benjamin M Zmistowski, & Eric Padegimas, Spine, forthcoming, accepted March 6, 2017.
• “Work-Life Balance for the Health Professions Educator,” with Patrick Auth, chapter in The Health Professions Educator: A Practical Guide for New and Established Faculty, editors Gerald Kayingo & Virginia Haas, Springer Publishing, forthcoming, accepted February 7, 2017.
• “Medicare Reimbursement for Total Joint Arthroplasty – What are the Driving Forces?” with Eric M Padegimas, Benjamin M Zmistowski, Kushagra Vema, Julie L Shaner, & James J Purtill, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Vol 98(12), 1007-13, June 15, 2016, (Impact factor 5.2).
• “The Long-Term Financial Impact of EHR Implementation,” with Edgar Y Chou, Nancy Hansen, & Prudence W Dalrymple, The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Vol 22(2), 443-452, March 1, 2015, (Top 10 most-read articles of 2015, Impact Factor of 3.5).
• “How to Prevent Patient Centricity from Becoming a Fad,” with Peter Malamis, Applied Clinical Trials, Vol 25(2), 24 – 28, February 1, 2016.
• “Quality Drivers in Clinical Trials Conduct,” with Peter Malamis, Applied Clinical Trials, available at http://www.appliedclinicaltrialsonline.com/quality-drivers-clinical-trial-conduct-0, July 14, 2015.
• “From Theory to Bedside and Back: Relationship Marketing and Medical Care,” chapter in Handbook of Relationship Marketing, edited by Robert M. Morgan, Janet Turner Parish, & George Deitz, Northampton MA, Elgar Publishing, January 30, 2015.
• “The Quality of Clinical Trials,” Applied Clinical Trials, with Peter Malamis, January 13, 2015, available at http://www.appliedclinicaltrialsonline.com/quality-clinical-trials.
• “Metrics Malpractice,” Pharmaceutical Executive, available at http://www.appliedclinicaltrialsonline.com/appliedclinicaltrials/Blogs/How-We-Fall-into-Metrics-Malpractice/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/844223?contextCategoryId=49914, May 27, 2014.
• “High Performing Study Startups,” Applied Clinical Trials, with Peter Malamis, Vol 23(6), 20-28, June 2014.
• “The Next Generation of Clinical Trial Performance Measurement,” Applied Clinical Trials, available at http://www.appliedclinicaltrialsonline.com/appliedclinicaltrials/CRO%2FSponsor/The-Next-Generation-of-Clinical-Trial-Performance/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/836589?contextCategoryId=47497, February 27, 2014.
• “Performance Measurement You Can Use (and believe).” Clinical Leader, with Peter Malamis, available at http://www.outsourcedpharma.com/doc/clinical-trial-performance-measures-you-can-use-and-believe-0001, October 10, 2013.