Teaching Team Member

Elizabeth Teisberg, PhD, co-creator of the idea of value-based health care strategy, holds a Distinguished University Chair in Value-Based Health Care and serves as Executive Director of the Value Institute for Health and Care. The Value Institute creates curriculum for transforming strategy, culture, and measurement in health care to improve health outcomes and reduce costs. Offerings include an MS in Health Care Transformation and an array of executive education and professional development courses. The Institute’s translational research puts into practice thought-leading work on delivery of high value, relationship-centered health care, on value-based payment, and on achieving health equity. The Value Institute also provides leadership for Dell Medical School's patient outcome measurement and Experience Group research.

An internationally recognized author and professor, in 2022, Dr. Teisberg won the James Ewing Lecturer Award, the highest award of the Society of Surgical Oncology, given annually to an individual whose work defined in the broadest sense has an impact on cancer care, and was honored by China Medical University in Taiwan with a Visiting Professorship conferred in recognition of significant contribution to education and scientific excellence. Previously, she won the Wachovia Award for outstanding research, the Frederick S. Morton Award for Leadership, and the Book of the Year Award from the American College of Health Care Executives.