• Patrick Shay is a faculty member in the Department of Health Care Administration at Trinity University, where he teaches graduate courses on topics including health services organization, organization theory, healthcare strategy, and innovation and design thinking.  His research applies organization theory to understand and explain phenomena facing healthcare organizations, including the strategic activities and configurations of local multihospital systems, among others.  Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked as a healthcare administrator for a post-acute system in south Texas.

    • Ph.D. in Health Services Organization and Research, Virginia Commonwealth University
    • M.S. in Health Care Administration, Trinity University
    • B.S. in Business Administration, Trinity University

    • Hefner, JL, Cross, DA, & Shay, PD. (Eds.). (2024). Advances in Health Care Management, Volume 22: Research and Theory to Foster Change in the Face of Grand Health Care Challenges.  Leeds, UK: Emerald Publishing.
    • Shay, PD. (2023).  “Leadership Matters – For Healthcare’s Present and Future.”  In Dye, CF, Leadership in Healthcare: Essential Values and Skills, Fourth Edition (pp. 389-412).  Chicago: Health Administration Press.
    • Shay, PD. (2021). Organizational and environmental factors associated with local multihospital systems: Precipitants for coordination?  Health Care Management Review, 46(4), 319-331.
    • Shay, PD & Mick, SSF. (2017). Clustered and distinct: A taxonomy of local multihospital systems. Health Care Management Science, 20(3), 303-315.
    • Mick, SSF, & Shay, PD. (Eds.).  (2014). Advances in Health Care Organization Theory, 2nd Edition.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

    • Organization theory in health care
    • Local hospital-based systems
    • Post-acute care
    • Health administration education

    • Health services organization
    • Organization theory
    • Healthcare strategy
    • Healthcare innovation & design thinking

    • John D. Thompson Prize, Association of University Programs in Health Administration (2023)
    • Momentum Award, Trinity University Health Care Administration Department Alumni Association (2020)