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 England.  Lieutenant Colonel 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 and the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and School of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.

Prior to entering civilian healthcare, Lieutenant Colonel Frisina 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.

After his 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 customer focused patient care. He is presently an administrative director at Tuomey Healthcare System in Sumter, South Carolina, 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. His departments won the Avatar patient satisfaction award for “Best Performance in Ambulatory Surgery” in 2003. Again these departments achieved a 99 percentile ranking with Press-Ganey patient satisfaction in 2006 winning the Compass Award in 2007.  Dr. Frisina was awarded the Outstanding Educator of the Year Award from the South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium in 2007.

A certified expert in continuous quality improvement methodologies and a certified facilitator in life skill development, The R-Factor, 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 and organizational effectiveness. He is a contributing author to The Borden Institute's highly acclaimed textbook series on military medicine. Additionally, he was a member of the United States Army leadership consortium responsible for the revision of the Army Field Manual 22-100, Leadership, for the Department of the Army.  Dr.  Frisina is a recipient of the United States Army Legion of Merit Medal and the coveted Order of Military Medical Merit for lifetime achievement and contribution to the United States Army Medical Department.

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