05 Dec Professor Michael Galper Named to Board of UniHealth Foundation
Congratulations to Professor Michael Galper who has been elected to the UniHealth Foundation Board of Directors as its newest member. Galper is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and teaches Healthcare Financial Accounting in the Executive MPH (EMPH) and online MHA programs.
The Pasadena (CA)-based UniHealth Foundation supports projects to improve and sustain population and community health, healthcare delivery systems, and the healthcare workforce, statewide with a focus on Southern California.
Galper, a CPA and expert in public health finance and operations, is a retired partner of PwC’s Health Care Consulting Practice. During his tenure at PwC, he held leadership positions in global advisory tools and methods, west coast health practice, and national health insurance practice. He has worked with clients such as integrated health systems, managed care companies, hospitals, physician groups, and academic medical centers, assisting with financial and operational performance and regulatory compliance.
In addition to his new board appointment at UniHealth, Galper has previously served on the Board of Achievable Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), and Sycamores, a child and family mental health services organization. He earned his MPH from UCLA (’94) and BA in Economics (‘81) from the University of California, Santa Barbara.