Dr. Willging is currently a senior associate at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health and an instructor in the University’s School of Medicine. His teaching and research interests are in the area of health care management, with an emphasis on long-term care. Dr. Willging is also a member of the Board of Trustees at the A. T. Still University of Health Sciences, where he is an Adjunct Professor in the University’s School of Health Management.

Dr. Willging has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Assisted Living Federation of America, where he was responsible for managing the association as well as for representing the assisted living industry in the media, on Capitol Hill and before the executive branch of government. Previously, Dr. Willging was President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Health Care Association (AHCA), a long-term care trade association representing 12,000 non-profit and for-profit nursing and assisted living communities.

Dr. Willging has over thirty years of extensive experience in the health care field. Before joining the American Health Care Association, he was an officer at Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Greater New York and Deputy Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (now CMS). He also served as Chairman of Howard County General Hospital, a 220-bed acute care facility in Maryland and now a part of Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Health Care Management, Long-Term Care, Nursing Facilities, Assisted Living, Congregate Care, CCRCs, Health Care Policy

2000 Vesta Bowden Award for Outstanding Service to the Long Term Care Industry, Colorado Health Care Association

1990 Distinguished Service Award, Virginia Bar Association

1978, 1982 Administrator’s Citation, Health Care Financing Administration

1979 Superior Performance Award, Health Care Financing Administration

1978 Distinguished Service Award, Department of Health, Education and Welfare

1977 Superior Performance Award, Social and Rehabilitation Service

1966-1969 Columbia University Faculty Fellowship

1965-1966 Ford Foundation Fellowship (Columbia University)

1964-1965 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (Columbia University)

1963-1964 Fulbright Scholarship (Free University, Berlin)

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