Dr. Mary Fennell is professor of sociology and community health and also a senior investigator with the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research. She is a former Dean of the Faculty and currently serves as Chair of the Department of Sociology.
Dr. Fennell specializes in the application of organizational theory to health care organizations. She has led or collaborated on more than a dozen externally-funded research projects in the areas of organizational change in health care, innovation diffusion, professional careers, inter-organizational linkage and alliance formation in health care. Among her current projects is a national study of racial segregation and quality of care in nursing homes, which relies on GIS methods to locate nursing homes and analyze the spatial relationships between people's former residence and the nursing home in which they receive care.
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