Pitt Business: Center for Health and Care Work

Carrie Leana, PhD
Center Director

Carrie Leana is the George H. Love Professor of Organizations and Management at the University of Pittsburgh where she holds appointments in the Katz Graduate School of Business, the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and the School of Medicine. Her research and training are in the area of organizational behavior and management. She has published two books and more than 90 articles on such topics as authority structures at work, employment relations, and organizational social capital. Her book, Coping with Job Loss (with D. Feldman), was short listed for the National Academy of Management's Best Book of the Year Award. Her paper, Social Capital and Organizational Performance: Evidence from Urban Public Schools (with F. Pil) was selected for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's 2006 Best Paper Prize in Industry Studies. She received the 2007-08 Aspen Institute's Faculty Pioneer Award for Academic Leadership in recognition of her work integrating social impact topics into scholarship and business school curriculum. In 2001-02 Leana was named the Viterbo Chair by the U.S. Fulbright Commission. She has held visiting international appointments at the Australian Graduate School of Management; the University of Melbourne (Australia); La Universita degli Studi della Tuscia (Italy); Universidad Federico Santa Maria (Chile); and Comenius University (Slovakia). Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Heinz Endowments, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the Wallace Foundation, and the Jewish Healthcare Foundation.

Jules Rosen, MD
Center Co-Director

Dr. Rosen is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Katz Graduate School of Business. He serves as the Chief of Geriatric Psychiatry Services at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and is the Director of the ACGME - approved Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program and Co-Director of the Hartford Foundation Center of Excellence in Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship. He has authored over 75 peer-reviewed articles in his subspecialty of geriatric psychiatry. His areas of research interest include pharmacological and behavioral treatment of behavioral disturbances in dementia, nursing home depression, and organizational changes in nursing homes to enhance quality of life. His current funded research includes "Longitudinal Study of Staff Turnover in Nursing Homes", and "Integration of Family into Nursing Home Care." In 2003, he was named Educator of the Year by the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry. In 2006, he was honored with induction into the "Academy of Master Educators" at the University of Pittsburgh.