Forum Faculty

Michael E. Frisina, Ph.D., M.A.

Michael E. Frisina received his B.S. degree from Saint Bonaventure University graduating with honors and distinguished military graduate. He earned his M.A. degree and completed doctoral course work at Indiana University receiving his doctorate, magna cum laude, from Auberdeen University. He completed post-graduate studies earning a certificate in International Bioethics from Girton College at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.

Dr. Frisina served as a faculty member and subject matter expert in leadership and ethics at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, The United States Army Medical Department Center and School, San Antonio, Texas, and the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and School of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland. Prior to entering civilian healthcare, he served as consultant to the Army Surgeon General for medical research and development and to the Department of Defense Human Genome Project. He is a Visiting Fellow in Medical Humanities at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and a Visiting Scholar at The Hastings Center.

Upon retirement from the United States Army Medical Department, Dr. Frisina founded a consulting firm specializing in leader development, peak performance coaching, and organizational development located in Columbia, South Carolina. He focuses his training on key methodologies for providing safe, high-quality, and patient centered care. He served in various leadership positions of hospital and healthcare systems specializing in the implementation of scientific, consistent, and measurable approaches for leader, staff, and process development to maximize the health, productivity, and profitability of the organization.

A certified expert in continuous quality improvement methodologies and a certified facilitator in life skill development, Dr. Frisina is featured in the prestigious "Doing The Right Things Right," publication of demonstrated best practice hospitals published by The Joint Commission. He has authored numerous papers and published articles on leadership, organizational effectiveness, and quality for the American Hospital Association and the National Association of Healthcare Quality. He is a contributing author to The Borden Institute's highly acclaimed textbook series on military medicine. Dr. Frisina was awarded the Outstanding Educator of the Year Award from the South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium in 2007.