PhD in Health Policy and Management, Financial Management Minor
University of North Carolina (UNC), Department of Health Policy and Management, Chapel Hill, NC
Master in Health Administration, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston, SC
Master of Theological Studies, Duke University Divinity School, Durham, NC
BS, magna cum laude, Accounting, University of South Carolina (USC), Columbia, SC
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Director of Specialty Practices and Hospitalists, Palmetto Health, Columbia, SC, 2012-2014
Business Manager, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery | Manager of Clinic Operations, Surgical Specialties
at Emory Midtown, The Emory Clinic, Emory Healthcare, Atlanta, GA, 2011-2012
Administrative Fellow, Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, Spartanburg, SC, 2010-2011
Accountant, Water Missions International, Charleston, SC, 2007-2009
U66RH31458 (Ford D and King K, Co-PIs) 09/30/2019-09/29/2026
HRSA
Title: Telehealth Center of Excellence
Purpose: To establish and evaluate Tele-health programs and disseminate methods and processes throughout the United States.
Role: Co-Investigator
Amount funded: 30% Effort (10/1/22 – Current); 40% Effort (9/30/19 – 9/30/21)
Total Grant Funded: Year 1 (9/30/2017-9/29/2018): $600,000; Year 2 (9/30/2018-9/29/2019): $2,000,000; Year 3 (9/30/2019-9/29/2020): $2,000,000; Year 4 (9/30/2020-9/29/2021): $3,000,000;
University Research Core (Simpson K, PI) 11/01/2015-06/30/2022
MUSC Provost for Research
Title: Comparative Effectiveness Data Analytics Research Resource (CEDAR)
Purpose: To develop and direct a new university research core that will be the custodian of “Big Data” administrative data sets and provide consultation and analytical support for faculty and students to use these data for research.
Role: Co-Investigator
Amount funded: 5% Effort (7/1/21 – Current), 10% Effort (7/1/18 – 6/30/21)
COMPLETED RESEARCH SUPPORT AND OTHER FUNDING
1R01HSO28284 (Simpson K and King K, Co-PIs) 01/01/2021- 12/31/2022
AHRQ
Title: Leveraging Health System Telehealth and Informatics Infrastructure to Create a Continuum of Services for COVID-19 Screening, Testing, and Treatment: A Learning Health System Approach
Purpose: This study employs a rapid cycle, mixed-methods approach to describe, evaluate, and distill evidence of what was ultimately successful in a health system’s telehealth response to COVID-19. We will “probe” for any unintended consequences of changes brought on by the pandemic itself and of changes due to differential effect of our digital intervention on high-risk and underserved populations.
Role: Co-Investigator
Amount funded: 2% Effort; (1/1/21 – 12/31/22)
Real Estate Investment Trust Acquisition of Nursing Homes and the Cost and Quality of Nursing Home Care LJAF 21-05529 (Braun, RT, PI, Williams, D, Site PI) 05/01/2021-7/31/2022
Arnold Ventures
Purpose: To identify nursing homes with real estate investment trust (REIT) investment; identify the organizational structures of nursing homes with REIT investment; and determine the relationship between REITs’ investments in nursing homes and the cost and quality of care for both post-acute patients receiving short-term rehabilitation and long-stay residents receiving custodial care in these facilities.
Role: Site PI, Co-Investigator
Amount funded: 10% Effort;
Health Resources and Service Administration (Shea, C, PI) 11/01/2015-06/30/2022
Title: Telemedicine Implementation in Rural Hospitals
Award #: U1CRH29074
Role: Consultant (2020)
National Research Service Award Pre-Doctoral Traineeship from the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality sponsored by the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Grant No. 5T32 HS000032-28, UNC, 2016-2018
Top Cited Article 2021-2022, The Journal of Rural Health
Developing Scholar, MUSC College of Health Professions, 2021
Best Scientific Poster Award, Palmetto Care Connections Annual Conference, 2021
Exceptional Reviewer, The Journal of Rural Health, 2020
The Governor’s School of South Carolina at the College of Charleston, graduate
Medical University of South Carolina
Course Coordinator Healthcare Financial Management I (Graduate level, Executive format: 3 credits, Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Summer 2022)
Course Coordinator Healthcare Financial Management I (Graduate level, Residential format: 3 credits, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022)
Course Coordinator Healthcare Financial Management - Advanced (Graduate level Independent Study (MHA): 3 credits, Spring 2022)
Course Coordinator Healthcare Financial Management (Doctoral level (DHA): 3 credits, Summer 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023)
Course Coordinator Doctoral Project Dissertation Chair (Doctoral level (DHA): 9 credits per semester per student: Fall 2020 (18 credit hours), Spring 2020 (18 hours), Fall 2021 (9 hours), Spring 2021 (9 hours), Summer 2021 (9 hours), Fall 2022 (36 hours), Spring 2023 (27 hours)
Course Coordinator Healthcare Financial Management (Doctoral level (PhD): 3 credits, Spring 2021)
PUBLICATIONS (Peer-Reviewed)
Braun, R, Williams, Dunc, Stevenson, D, Casalino, L, Jung, H, Fernandez, R, Unruh, M “The Role of Real Estate Investment Trusts in Staffing US Nursing Homes.” Health Affairs 42, No. 2 (2023).
https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2022.00278
Williams, Dunc and AS Kazley, “A Classroom Finance Conference to Enhance Student Competency and Guide Career Development.” The Journal of Health Administration Education. Forthcoming, accepted 8/28/22.
Alishahi Tabriz, A, Turner, K, Williams, Dunc, Babu, N, North, S, Shea, C, “Association of Financial Factors and Telemedicine Adoption for Heart Attack and Stroke Care Among Rural and Urban Hospitals: A Longitudinal Study.” Telemedicine and e-Health. June 2022. PMID: 34559014. http://doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2021.0341
Dooley, M., Simpson, A. N., Nietert, P. J., Williams, Dunc, Cristaldi, K., McElligott, J., & Simpson, K. N. “A modification of time-driven activity-based costing for comparing cost of telehealth and in-person visits." Telemedicine and e-Health. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2021.0338
Williams, Dunc, AS Kazley, DL Brinton, “Hospital Meaningful Use Incentive Dollars and HIT-Related Capital Expenditures.” Journal of Health Care Finance. 2021. Summer; 42 (1); http://www.healthfinancejournal.com/~junland/index.php/johcf/article/view/263
Dooley, M., Simpson, A. N., Nietert, P. J., Williams, Dunc, & Simpson, K. N. “Minimally important difference in cost savings: Is it possible to identify an MID for cost savings? Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology.” Health Serv Outcomes Res Method, 21, 131-144. 2021 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10742-020-00233-5
Williams, Dunc, A Simpson, K King, et. al. “Do Hospitals Providing Telehealth in Emergency Departments Have Lower ED Costs?” Telemedicine and e-Health. 2021. http://doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2020.0349
Williams, Dunc, J Lawrence, YR Hong, A Winn. “Tele-ICUs for COVID-19: A Look at National Prevalence and Characteristics of Hospitals Providing Tele-Intensive Care.” The Journal of Rural Health. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/jrh.12524. Top Cited Article 2021-2022, The Journal of Rural Health.
Williams, Dunc, G Pink, PH Song, K Reiter, GM Holmes, “Capital Expenditures Increased at Rural Hospitals that Merged between 2012 and 2015.” Journal of Healthcare Management. 65(5):346-364, September-October 2020. https://doi.org/10.1097/JHM-D-19-00219
Williams, Dunc, K Reiter, G Pink, GM Holmes, PH Song. “Rural Hospital Mergers Increased Between 2005 and 2016—What Did Those Hospitals Look Like?” Inquiry. 2020 Jan-Dec; 57: https://doi.org/10.1177/0046958020935666
Williams, Dunc, GM Holmes, PH Song, K Reiter, G Pink, “For Rural Hospitals That Merged, Inpatient Charges Decreased and Outpatient Charges Increased: A Pre-/Post-Comparison of Rural Hospitals That Merged and Rural Hospitals That Did Not Merge Between 2005 and 2015.” The Journal of Rural Health. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/jrh.12461
Hong YR, Lawrence J, Williams, Dunc, Mainous III, A. “Population-Level Interest and US Hospital Telehealth Capacity in Response to COVID-19: Analysis of Google Search Data and National Hospital Survey.” JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 2020. Apr-Jun; 6(2): e18961. https://doi.org/10.2196/18961
Williams, Dunc and G Mark Holmes. “Rural Health Care Costs – Are They Higher and Why Might They Differ from Urban Health Care Costs?” North Carolina Medical Journal. 2018. January; 79 (1) 51-55; https://doi.org/10.18043/ncm.79.1.51
PUBLICATIONS (Funded Technical Briefs)
Williams, Dunc, S Thomas, H Howard, and G Pink. “Rural Hospital Mergers from 2005 through 2016” Findings Brief: North Carolina Rural Health Research Program, 2018. https://www.ruralhealthresearch.org/alerts/249
Williams, Dunc, P Song, and G Pink. “Estimated Costs of Rural Freestanding Emergency Departments” Findings Brief: North Carolina Rural Health Research Program, 2015. https://www.ruralhealthresearch.org/projects/100002342
CONFERENCE PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
"Not Home Alone: COVID-19 Post Discharge RPM Pilot" Warr P. Heincelman M. Warr E. Ford D. Cristaldi Ki. Gardella P. Kruis R. Williams, Dunc. Simpson K. Podium Presentation. Society of Hospital Medicine. March 2023.
“U.S. Employer-Sponsored Insurance Coverage through the COVID-19 Pandemic”. Wen J. Williams, Dunc. Simpson KN. Brinton DL. Podium Presentation. AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting. June 2022.
“Finance Conference for MHA Students to Develop Student Competencies and Guide Career Development” Williams, Dunc. Podium Presentation. HFMA Annual Conference. June 27, 2022.
“An Evaluation of the Financial Performance of Rural Hospitals Providing Telehealth in Emergency Departments” Williams, Dunc. Podium Presentation. SEARCH Annual Conference. November 9, 2021.
“Rural Hospital Financial Performance Before and After Merger” Williams, Dunc. Podium Presentation. National Rural Health Association’s 43rd Annual Meeting. May 21, 2020.
“Characteristics Associated with Rural Hospitals that Merged (2005-2016)” Williams, Dunc. Podium Presentation. National Rural Health Association’s 42nd Annual Meeting. May 9, 2019.
“Rural Hospital Mergers: 2005-2016” Williams, Dunc. Invited Presenter. Rural Health Research Gateway. November 1, 2018. Link: http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/news_release/george-pink-and-dunc-williams-presentation-on-rural-hospital-mergers-and-acquisitions-from-2005-through-2016/. The most downloaded Rural Health Research Gateway webinar of 2018.
“Leading a Successful Multigenerational Organization” Williams, Dunc. Invited Panelist. The Medical University of South Carolina Alumni and Leadership Conference sponsored by the South Carolina Lowcountry Chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives, 2011
CONFERENCE POSTER PRESENTATIONS
“Characteristics of Patients with Sickle Cell Disease: Patterns of Utilization and Cost by Quarter (2017-2020).” Johnson J, Harvey J, Holmes-Maybank K, Williams, Dunc. Poster presentation to Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. June 2022.
“Effects of Medicaid expansion on diabetes-related hospital utilization in Appalachia.” Neal GL, Williams, Dunc. D, Simpson KN, Brinton DL. Poster presentation to Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. June 2022.
“An Evaluation of the Financial Performance of Rural Hospitals Providing Telehealth in Emergency Departments” Williams, Dunc. Dooley, M. Johnson, J. Poster Presentation. Palmetto Care Connections Annual Telehealth Summit of South Carolina. November 2021. (2021 Best Scientific Poster Award)
“Economic Assessment of Vaccination Against SARS-CoV-2: The Case of SC.” Morrow, C. Williams, Dunc. Simpson, K. Poster Presentation at AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting. June 2021.
“Contribution of Continuous Virtual Monitoring (CVM) to Hospital Safety, Quality and Value of Care for COVID-19 Patients” Simpson, K. Dooley, M. Williams, Dunc. Warr, E. Kruis, R. King, K. Poster Presentation at AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting. June 2021.
"Do Hospitals Providing Telehealth in Emergency Departments Have Lower ED Costs?" Poster Presentation at SEARCH Annual Meeting. October 2020.
“Were Hospital Meaningful Use Incentive Dollars Associated with More HIT-Related Capital Expenditures?” Williams, Dunc. Poster Presentation at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting. June 2020.
“Rural Hospital Mergers: Identification, Prevalence, and Post-Merger Effects on the Availability of Services and Capital – 2005-2016” Williams, Dunc. Poster Presentation at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting. Seattle, WA, June 2018.
“Are Rural Hospital Mergers Good for Rural America” Williams, Dunc. Poster Presentation at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting. New Orleans, LA, June 2017
Invited lecturer on “Medical Ethics: The Perspective of an Administrator and Faculty” to Dr. Zahi Jurdi’s master’s course “Medical Ethics,” Fall 2022.
Invited lecturer on “Evolving Systems of Care Administration and Policy” for a “Digital Transformation Through Telehealth Administration Leadership” certificate course created at MUSC, October 2022.
Invited presenter on “Rural Hospital Finances and Telehealth” to a Palmetto Cares Connection webinar, August 2022.
Invited lecturer on “Healthcare Financial Management Basics” to Dr. Kathleen Fortier’s master’s course “Introduction to Healthcare Management and Leadership,” Summer 2021.
Invited lecturer on “Rural versus Urban Health Care Costs” to Drs. Nancy Winterbauer and Ronny Bell’s Master of Public Health course “Interdisciplinary Rural Health,” Fall 2019.
Invited lecturer on “Rural Hospital Mergers” to Dr. Thomas Mckee’s Doctor of Health Administration course “Healthcare Financial Management,” Summer 2018.