Christina Gardiner, Ph.D., MHA, MBA, CSSBB, LNHA

Christina Gardiner, Ph.D., MHA, MBA, CSSBB, LNHA is a Collegiate Faculty and Professor in the Department of Global Health Management and Administration at the University of Maryland Global Campus at the School of Business. Christina holds two bachelors of science degrees, two master’s degrees, a doctoral degree in healthcare administration.

Christina is the President of Summit Healthcare Advisors, enjoys concurrent adjunct teaching roles at other universities based in the United States, and has over two decades of executive healthcare experience. She has taught a variety of subjects including healthcare administration, public health, quantitative and qualitative analysis, finance, and business management. She has advised, both, private firms and nonprofit organizations on issues related to value-based healthcare, healthcare system competition, market allocation, patient safety, and health policy. Christina is known for being a trusted consultant, educator, and subject matter expert on complex healthcare systems as well as evidence-based interventions that support public health responses.

Over the past five years, Christina has conducted over 100 speaking engagements on topics related to value-based healthcare, public health preparedness, and neurological disorders. She also engages in public health projects such as large-scale nursing home evacuation preparedness, conducts Alzheimer’s research using artificial neural networks, and performs data analysis for nonprofit organizations and post-secondary institutions. Christina is actively involved with research on healthcare quality, safety, and costs, along with disease-specific conditions, leveraging healthcare information technology programming.