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One unique component of Trinity’s Health Care Administration program is the Executive in Residence position. This position involves a current health care executive co-teaching a graduate course, to offer students an experienced executive’s perspective of the industry.

The current Executive in Residence is Mr. Robert N. Shaw, most recently the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Cancer Therapy & Research Center in San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Shaw previously was President and CEO of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center’s Outreach Corporation in Houston, an entrepreneurial company responsible for developing MD Anderson Sponsored Cancer Centers around the country and in Spain. For eleven years he was the Senior Vice President for the Memorial Healthcare System in Houston, and Chief Executive for the Memorial Regional Healthcare Services; Health Ventures and Management Services Corporations.

A native of Kaufman, Texas, Mr. Shaw received his BS in Business Administration and MS in Health Care Administration from Trinity University in San Antonio. He also served Trinity as past president of the National Alumni Board and Healthcare Alumni Board and currently is a member of Trinity’s Board of Visitors.

He has participated in numerous professional and community activities. He is a Fellow of American College of Healthcare Executives, Founding Chair of Health Insights, Inc., a national non-profit healthcare think tank, Founding member of The Healthcare Forum’s System and Physician Leaders Network, member of the Board of Directors at the St. Luke’s Lutheran Healthcare Ministries, the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and Goodwill Industries of San Antonio, and has served on the Editorial Board of Healthcare Leadership Magazine. He was a member (1983-2002) and past director of the Rotary Club of Houston chairing its Vince Lombardi Award Committee in 1993.

Mr. Shaw will help teach the course, Health Care Organization Theory and Management, the Spring semester of 2008.