Awards

Bicentennial Medal - 2019

About Kyle L. Grazier

Kyle L. Grazier received a master’s in engineering from the University of Notre Dame, and a master’s in public health and a doctorate in administrative sciences from the University of California at Berkeley. As a Director of the Indiana University Health System (IUHealth), she chairs the patient safety and quality committees of the academic health center and the system.

Grazier is the Richard Carl Jelinek Professor of Health Systems Management and Policy in the School of Public Health and Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of Michigan. She chaired two university multidisciplinary committees on redesigning and sustaining health benefits, and is faculty and advisor to the University of Michigan Comprehensive Depression Center and served on its inaugural leadership board. Prior leadership roles include serving as the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and the Director of the Sloan Graduate Program in Health Services Administration at Cornell University. She also held the King Sweesy and Robert Womack Chair in Medical Science and Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley, and was on the faculty at Yale University School of Medicine.

Grazier was a member of the Leadership Advisory Board for Ascension Health, a former director and treasurer of AUPHA, and former director of the Commission on Accreditation for Healthcare Management Education (CAHME). She received the ACHE Distinguished Faculty award and was the editor of the ACHE Journal of Healthcare Management for a decade. She has been a standing and ad hoc member of review committees for the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the NIMH, NIAAA, AHRQ, RWJF and the Nuffield Trust. In 2019, Grazier received Indiana University’s Bicentennial Medal, in recognition of her distinguished service and contributions to public health.