David Dobrzykowski, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor
Information Operations and Technology Management Dept.
College of Business and Innovation
Director, School of Healthcare Business Innovation & Excellence
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University of Toledo
2801 W. Bancroft, Mail Stop 103
Toledo, OH, 43606-3390, USA
Email: david.dobrzykowski@utoledo.edu
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Telephone: (419) 530-2342
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ABOUT DR. DOBRZYKOWSKI
Dr. David Dobrzykowski is an assistant professor of Information Operations and Technology Management in the College of Business and Innovation at the University of Toledo (UT). He holds a joint faculty appointment in the department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in UT’s College of Medicine and Life Sciences and serves as director for the School of Healthcare Business Innovation and Excellence. Prior to joining UT, he was an assistant professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Eastern Michigan University. He received his Ph.D. from UT’s College of Business in Manufacturing and Technology Management and a graduate certificate in Epidemiology from UT’s College of Medicine.
He has served in a variety of management and leadership roles in the healthcare and manufacturing sectors. His multi-faceted healthcare background includes positions with emergency department contract management, hospital tertiary care, managed care, physician-hospital, diagnostic imaging, and employee benefits organizations. While working in the provider vertical, Dr. Dobrzykowski served as Regional CEO of a national diagnostic imaging organization, where he managed all operations of an existing business while he launched three start-ups; successfully writing and securing more than $3 million in funding for three business plans. It is this rich portfolio of business experience that fuels his passion for teaching.
Today, Dr. Dobrzykowski is an active educator and scholar whose research has been presented on three continents and in six countries. A summary of his dissertation was published in Decision Sciences, and his other publications have appeared (or forthcoming) in International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, among other scholarly outlets. He has received a number of research awards including the Distinguished Paper Award in the Healthcare Management Track at the Decision Sciences Institute 43rd Annual Meeting in 2012, Honorable Mention (first runner up) for his dissertation research at the 2011 Elwood S. Buffa Dissertation Competition at the Decision Sciences Institute 42nd Annual Meeting, and an Emerald Literati Network Outstanding Paper Award from Benchmarking: An International Journal. While at EMU, Dr. Dobrzykowski was awarded two fellowships, a research grant, and was selected as a faculty honoree at the 2011 Athletic Scholars Banquet for “going above and beyond” in working with a top student athlete. He has published several refereed journal articles and/or book chapters – one of which won an Emerald Literati Network Outstanding Paper Award in 2011. He is a member of the Editorial Review Board for a top journal in the field, Journal of Operations Management, and recently served as a Guest Editor for a special issue of Benchmarking: An International Journal dealing with ‘Challenges and Opportunities for Supply Chains in Turbulent Times.’ He also serves as the Vice President of Outreach for POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management (http://www.poms.org/colleges/chom).
He has taught/teaches a variety of courses at the undergraduate (BBA), graduate (MBA), and Executive MBA levels. These courses include: (1) BBA Manufacturing and Service Systems, (2) BBA Operations Management, (3) BBA Global Supply Chain Management (Capstone course), (4) BBA Information Technology Management, (5) BBA Marketing Research and Database Management, (6) BBA Strategic Management (Capstone course), (7) MBA Supply Chain Management, (8) MBA Customer Relationship Management, (9) MBA Marketing Strategy, and (10) EMBA Business Math and Statistics.
Dr. Dobrzykowski is very active in the community serving as a Board Trustee and First VP of UT’s Alumni Association, Past Chair of the Executive MBA Advisory Board, and Past Chair of the Pastoral Council at St. Patrick of Heatherdowns Parish. He has been recognized as the 2003 UT Outstanding Young Alum, the 2004 UT Volunteer of the Year, the 2005 UT Executive MBA Alumnus of the Year, the 2010 UT College of Business PhD Student Pacemaker, the 2011 UT College of Business and Innovation Outstanding Young Alum, and is a Toledo 20 Under 40 Leadership Award Recipient (from 2004).
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., 2010
University of Toledo, College of Business, Toledo, Ohio
Accredited by the AACSB
Major Field: Manufacturing and Technology Management
Minor Field: Information Systems
Dissertation: Linking Antecedents and Consequences of Value Density in the Healthcare Delivery Supply Chain
Graduate Certificate (Ph.D. Minor), 2010
University of Toledo, College of Medicine, Toledo, Ohio
Collaborative of Bowling Green State University and University of Toledo
Major Field: Public Health Epidemiology
(E.)M.B.A., 1999
University of Toledo, College of Business, Toledo, Ohio
Major Field(s): Executive Management; Technology Management,
Entrepreneurship, and International Business
B.B.A., 1995
University of Toledo, College of Business, Toledo, Ohio
Major Field: Marketing
