James Langabeer II, PhD, EdD, FACHE is a tenured full professor. He holds joint appointments at the McGovern Medical School in both Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine. He also is the Director of the Center for Health Systems Analytics.

Dr. Langabeer is a behavioral decision scientist and management strategist. His health-related research focuses on emergency, cardiovascular, and addiction medicine. He has built an international reputation for his research in improving quality and outcomes of care. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and the American Heart Association. His career has involved hospital leadership, technology startups, management consulting, and research and teaching. Langabeer was the founding Chief Executive Officer of Greater Houston Healthconnect (one of the largest regional health information exchanges in the country). He has helped develop and lead multiple research centers, including the UTHealth Center for Emergency Research and the Fleming Center for Healthcare Management. He was previously on the graduate management faculty at Boston University.

Dr. Langabeer currently leads a comprehensive system of care for managing substance use and behavioral health disorders, called the Houston Emergency Opioid Engagement System (HEROES). He also writes a popular column on decision-making for Psychology Today.

Langabeer earned his PhD in decision sciences from the University of Lancaster (England) School of Management. He is the author of multiple textbooks, including the best-selling Healthcare Operations Management: A Systems Perspective (Jones and Bartlett), utilized in hundreds of graduate healthcare management programs. Dr. Langabeer served for three years as the National Chair of the Ambulatory Health Quality Committee for the American Heart Association, as well as several other national quality committees for AHA. He served as the AHA scientific advisor for multiple large research projects in Wyoming and North Texas in recent years. He has been funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Department of Health and Human Services. He was previously the Associate Editor of the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine and on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Healthcare Management.

“The future of healthcare is in maximizing the use of technology, creating organizational collaboration and partnerships, and improving processes and quality simultaneously. Discovering how to make sense of emerging clinical and administrative data, and modeling these for better decisions and higher quality of care, is what my research team focuses on,” said Langabeer.

Education

• PhD, Decision Sciences, The University of Lancaster School of Management (England)
• Doctor of Education, Leadership and Administration, The University of Houston
• MBA, Information Systems Management, Baylor University
• BBA, Management, University of Texas at San Antonio

Clinical Training and Fellowships

• Licensed Emergency Medical Technician, NREMT
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support
• Fellow, American Heart Association (FAHA)
• Fellow, American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE)
• Fellow, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (FHIMSS)

Areas of Expertise

• Decision making and strategy
• Healthcare finance and behavioral economics
• Emergency and cardiovascular medicine
• Addiction and behavioral health

Publications

Textbooks:

• Langabeer, James R. (2018). Performance Improvement in Hospitals and Health Systems: Managing Analytics and Quality in Healthcare Organizations, 2^nd Taylor and Francis Publishing/CRC Press. Forthcoming in February 2018.
• Langabeer, James R. and Helton, J. (2016). Health Care Operations Management: A Systems Perspective. 2^nd Boston, Massachusetts: Jones and Bartlett Publishers. ISBN 1284050068.
• Langabeer, James R. & Rose, J. (2003). Creating Demand Driven Supply Chains: Concepts, Economics, and Strategies for Demand Driven Organizations, 2nd edition.  London England: Spiro Press.  177 pages.  ISBN 1904298400.
• Langabeer, James R. and Napiewocki, J. (2000). Competitive Business Strategy for Teaching Hospitals. Westport, Connecticut: ABC/CLIO (formerly Greenwood Publishing).  312 pages.  ISBN: 1567203493.

Journals

Dr. Langabeer has been published in leading medical, management, and informatics journals. See all his publications:

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