Health Organization Management's Founding Father
John Aure Buesseler, M.D., M.S.B.A
In 1970 Dr. Buesseler was appointed as Founding Vice President for Health Affairs of the Texas Tech University Complex, Founding Chief Executive Officer of the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, and Founding Dean of the Texas Tech School of Medicine. He operationally defined an area study in order to identify West Texas, Texas, and Southwestern United States regional resources and needs, innovatively conceptualized the mission of the new institution, and accomplished long and short range financial, facilities, and personnel planning.
It was his role as founding Dean of the Medical School that he conceptualized, obtained authorization and funding, and instituted the operation of the following innovative departments as the first of their kind based in a medical school: the Department of Health Communications with the first Master of Science degree program in Health Communications; the Department of Biomedical Engineering; the Department of Computer Medicine and Biomathematics; the Department of Environmental Health; the Department of Health Organization Management; and the Department of Forensic Medicine.
Founding Fathers Life Story
Dr. Buesseler, now in his 90's, talks about his life story and his
many accomplishments.
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