Department of

Faculty

Steven Aker Mosher
Since 1989, Dr. Mosher has served as the director of the Health Care Administration Program at Mary Baldwin College. He is also a professor of health care administration and political science. He has held similar positions at Avila College in Missouri and Ferrum College in Virginia. He received his PhD in government and international studies from the University of South Carolina where he also received his Master of Arts degree in international studies and his Bachelor of Arts degree (cum laude) in political science.

Dr. Mosher’s 30 year career as an academic has involved teaching, researching, writing, consulting, mentoring, and making presentations at international and national conferences. He has spent considerable time investigating the field of long term care. He has a special interest in strategic management as well as comparative and international health care. He has traveled widely, investigating the health care systems of Canada, Australia, Norway, Cyprus, Malta, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. He has received numerous grants, including two awards from the government of Quebec to analyze their health care system. He has also worked with a long term care facility in Nova Scotia to enhance its decision making system. He has completed four consultancies in the area of organizational behavior and development with the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents, the only children’s psychiatric hospital in Virginia.

The undergraduate program in health care administration that Dr. Mosher directs is one of only 38 such programs in the United States and Canada to be fully certified by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration. The program is also the only one of its type to be endowed.

Dr. Mosher is an active member in a variety of professional organizations including the International Association of Homes and Services for the Ageing, the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, and he served for 14 years on the Planning Committee of the Augusta Health Care, Inc., a top 50 hospital in the United States.

Quality in long term care is the major research interest of Dr. Mosher. This interest is international in scope. It speaks to a commitment to the integration of academic and practitioner worlds to the betterment of the people served in long term care settings.

David Colton
David Colton, PhD, MPA, MEd, is employed at the Commonwealth Center in Staunton, Virginia, a treatment facility for children and adolescents operated by the Virginia Department of Mental Health. His responsibilities include analyzing data and completing internal evaluations for quality improvement, coordinating research activities, and assisting with technology implementation. Dr. Colton has published and presented in the areas of quality improvement and organizational development. He is co-author of the text Designing and Constructing Instruments for Social Research and Evaluation, a Jossey-Bass publication. In addition to his work for the Health Care Administration Program at Mary Baldwin College as an adjunct professor, Dr. Colton also teaches a graduate course in questionnaire design at the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia. Dr. Colton is a member of the American Evaluation Association.

Peter L. Cruise
Peter L. Cruise, PhD is associate professor of Health Care Administration at Mary Baldwin College. Since 1990, he has taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels in health care and public administration programs at universities in California (California State University-Chico, Golden Gate University), Florida (Florida Atlantic University), and Louisiana (Louisiana State University).  Before his teaching career, Dr. Cruise spent 12 years working in management positions in a variety of health care settings (hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician clinics and home health agencies).  He is a Faculty Member of the Medical Group Management Association.  He is also a reviewing editor for the Jossey-Bass/John Wiley Health Care Management Book Series, the Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, and the e-journal Global Virtue Ethics Review.  Dr. Cruise is Chair of the American Society for Public Administration’s Section on Health and Human Services Administration. 

In 1995, Dr. Cruise received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Public Administration from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.  Dr. Cruise’s research interests include medical tourism, values-based management, and ethnographic approaches in health services planning and program evaluation. He has presented the results of these and other research efforts at regional, national and international academic conferences (e.g., SECOPA, COMPA, AUPHA, ASPA, and IASIA). Dr. Cruise is the co-editor of the Handbook of Organization Theory and Management: The Philosophical Approach (2nd Edition, 2006). 

Dr. Cruise has also published in such peer-reviewed journals as Administration & Society, Ethnicity & Disease, Evaluation and the Health Professions, International Journal of Public Administration, International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior, International Review of Public Administration, Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Managed Care Quarterly, Public Administration and Policy, Public Administration Quarterly, and Social Service Review.

Eileen T. Hinks
Dr. Eileen T. Hinks received her BS in biology at Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA and received a PhD in microbiology from the Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. She completed a postdoctoral program in medical microbiology and immunology at Erie County Medical Center. From 1978 through 1988, Dr. Hinks held a variety of positions in a multi-hospital system in the Philadelphia area: Director of Microbiology and Immunology for three suburban hospital laboratories, Laboratory Manager at Rolling Hill Hospital and later, Corporate Laboratory Manager for United Hospitals, Inc. In addition to medical laboratory, infection control, teaching, and administrative responsibilities, Dr. Hinks was an active member, symposium coordinator, and branch officer of the Southeastern PA branch of the American Society for Microbiology.

After a brief family hiatus, Dr. Hinks joined Mary Baldwin’s Adult Degree Program in 1992 as an instructor. She began teaching health care administration courses in 1999 and since 2001 she has been an adjunct assistant professor of health care administration. She teaches a variety of courses including Biology of Women, Epidemiology, and Women’s Health Care Issues. In 2005, she received a faculty development grant through the health care administration program to do original research in the area of pandemic influenza planning in the Roanoke, Virginia area working in cooperation with the Virginia Department of Health. Dr. Hinks is also a part-time chemistry instructor at Virginia Military Institute where she teaches chemical science for liberal arts majors and a public health course. She has received two faculty mentor awards at VMI for her outstanding teaching.

John P. Wilkinson
John P. Wilkinson retired from the U.S. Navy as a CDR/MSC/USN in 1986. During that time he received a BS in health care administration from George Washington University and a MA in human resources management from Pepperdine University. He was a member of the faculty at seven universities and has been at Mary Baldwin as an adjunct professor in the HCA Program since 1990. Since retirement he has worked as the construction manager on various building projects, a farm manager, and most recently is working for the American Red Cross in their health and safety program.