Biography of The Dean
Name: Dr. E. Andrew Balas
Address: College of Health Sciences, 203-G Spong Hall, Old Dominion University, Hampton Blvd, Norfolk, VA 23529
Phone: (757) 683-4960 (Office), (314) 517-2890 (Mobile). Fax: (757) 683-5674
Email: abalas@odu.edu
Andrew Balas serves as the Dean of the College of Health Sciences and Professor of Community Health at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. His areas of expertise include strategic leadership for organizational advancement to achieve national impact, development of policy priorities for the production of new scientific knowledge responsive to societal needs, and application of advanced information technologies for transferring research to practice.
He is a member of the National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Board of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association, and the Steering Committee of the eHealth Initiative. He is an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. He has served on several expert panels of the Institute of Medicine, several state government committees, and study sections of the National Institutes of Health. He is quoted in the press including Business Week, Bloomberg News, CNN, Managed Care, St. Louis Post Dispatch, National Public Radio, and Reuters.
As a Congressional Fellow, Andrew Balas worked on health care legislation for the Public Health and Safety Subcommittee of the United States Senate. His contribution has been acknowledged in the Records of the United States Senate. He has been a leading contributor of many community health initiatives, including the St. Louis Regional Health Commission, the Booneslick Rural Health Network, and the Missouri Governor’s Task Force on the Uninsured. In various capacities, he has been an effective advocate of expanded transatlantic collaboration and developed numerous multinational research consortia. He served as the Director of the Missouri European Union Center, worked with European Commissioners and with the governments of several countries. During the last five years, Andrew Balas has given more than 50 invited presentations and keynote speeches in the United States, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Hungary, and Brazil.
The credentials of Andrew Balas include over 100 publications, including peer-reviewed scientific articles, various textbooks and invited papers. He has published reviews and editorials in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), British Medical Journal, Archives of Internal Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Healthcare Financial Management, Pediatric Annals, and other periodicals. His papers are cited by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, health systems nationwide, numerous research publications internationally, and the policy recommendations of the National Health Service of the United Kingdom. During the last ten years, he has been responsible for 10 million dollars of externally funded research as principal investigator/project director.
Prior to his current position, he served as Dean of the School of Public Health at Saint Louis University. During his tenure, the School achieved the greatest number of students, largest faculty and staff size, lowest ratio of students per faculty, highest amount of new contracts and grant awards, and largest corporate donations historically. Previously, he was the Weil Distinguished Professor of Health Policy at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He obtained degrees in medicine (M.D.), medical informatics (Ph.D.), and applied mathematics (M.S.)
