Rate My Professor Edward Schumacher

Edward J. Schumacher, Ph.D., serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Care Administration at Trinity University. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Florida State University, as well as an M.A. and B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. With thirty years of experience in academia, Professor Schumacher teaches courses in health care economics, operations management, data analysis, qualitative methods and information management, and economic aspects of health care administration. For the past eleven years, he has directed Trinity University’s residential and executive Master’s programs in health care administration. In collaboration with colleague Patrick Shay, he has integrated innovation into the curriculum, including the development of the internal Tiger Tank innovation curriculum and Trinity’s national Healthcare PRISm Pitch Competition. These efforts contributed to the program receiving the 2022 CAHME/George and Regi Herzlinger Innovation Education Award. Earlier in his career, he was awarded the University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors Distinguished Award for Teaching. Professor Schumacher is a member of Academy Health, the International Health Economics Association, and the Society of Labor Economists.