Christopher P Mulrooney Ph.D.
Chief Operating Officer, Florida Medical Practice Plan, Inc.
Associate Dean for Clinical and Community Affairs
Associate Professor, Department of Geriatrics
Job Description
Dr. Mulrooney provides executive leadership for Florida Medical Practice Plan, Inc., a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation within the College that meets community and faculty needs through residency and fellowship program support, healthcare service agreements, and clinical practice operations. For several years after first joining the University in 2010, he also helped establish the College's office of graduate medical education and created business affiliations with multiple hospital systems across the state for the development of residency and fellowship training programs sponsored by the College of Medicine.
In his faculty role within the Department of Geriatrics, Dr. Mulrooney pioneers new models of service delivery to older adults, including FSU SeniorHealthTM, the College's community-based geriatrics clinical practice, as well as initiatives to advance person-directed care and culture change in post-acute and long-term care settings regionally and nationally. As an organizational psychologist, he also assists the College with leadership development, executive coaching, and training facilitation with deans and faculty as needed.
Biosketch
Prior to his joining FSU, Dr. Mulrooney spent 30 years in direct service, administrative, consulting, and executive roles in health care and aging services. His prior positions include serving as a Division Vice President and CEO of not-for-profit senior living and health care services organizations in Florida and Michigan, as a Leadership Development and Management Consultant for health care executives at a Boston-based global consulting firm, and as a Skilled Nursing Facility Administrator in Rhode Island.
Dr. Mulrooney has also taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Aging and Society, Human Services Administration, and Research Methods in Counseling at Rhode Island College, St. Joseph College (Connecticut), and Spring Arbor University (Michigan), as well as conducted over a hundred executive and manager training sessions on performance improvement. Throughout the course of his career, Dr. Mulrooney has integrated and focused his direct service, administrative, teaching, and research efforts on improving the quality of health care for older adults via organizational and individual interventions that increase person-directed behaviors at the point of service. He has also worked with numerous health care system CEOs and their top teams on leadership development and executive team performance.
Education
B.S. (cum laude), Gerontology, University of Southern California
M.P.S., Gerontological Services Administration, New School for Social Research (New York, NY)
Ph.D., Psychology/Gerontological Studies, Boston University
Service
Member, Executive Committee, FSU College of Medicine
Member, Deans Group, FSU College of Medicine
Chair, Clinical Care & Service Excellence Committee, FSU College of Medicine
Member, Self-Insurance Plan Council, FSU College of Medicine
Faculty Advisor, Leadership in Medicine (LIM) para-curricular program, FSU College of Medicine
Member, Joint Advisory Board, FSU Institute for Successful Longevity
Chair, Florida Pioneer Network
Honors/Awards
Long-Term Care Research Award, Foundation of American College of Health Care Administrators
Young Investigator Award, International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics
Health Services Research Traineeship, Department of Veterans Affairs
Multidisciplinary Aging Research Traineeship, National Institute on Aging
Wolfson Foundation Scholar, New School for Social Research
Davis Scholar, University of Southern California
Memberships
Fellow, American College of Health Care Administrators
Gerontological Society of America
American Psychological Association (I/O Psychology & Aging)
American Geriatrics Society
LeadingAge Southeast
Research Focus
Dr. Mulrooney's expertise includes research-based competency model development and competency-based assessment of health care executives and managers, physician leaders, and paraprofessional caregivers using thematic content analysis of narrative data derived from Behavioral Event Interviews and other motivational interviewing techniques. His research on the characteristics of person- and relationship-centered caregiving among nursing assistants in home health, skilled nursing, and assisted living earned him researcher-of-the-year awards from the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics and the Foundation of the American College of Health Care Administrators.
Publications
Snow, J. L., & Mulrooney, C. P. (2002). Effective Top Teams: Five Strategies for Success.
Healthcare Executive, 17(2), 22-25.
Mulrooney, C. P. (1994). Controlling exposure and exposing control. The Journal of Long-Term Care Administration, 21(4), 14-15.
Additional Information
- Licensed Nursing Home Administrator
- State of Florida, #NH5017 (active)
- State of Rhode Island #NHA735 (active)
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts #NH2272 (inactive)
- Commonwealth of Kentucky #2865 (inactive)
- Nationally Certified Nursing Home Administrator
- American College of Health Care Administrators (active)
- Nationally Certified Assisted Living Facility Administrator
- American College of Health Care Administrators (active)
Dr. Mulrooney provides executive leadership for Florida Medical Practice Plan, Inc., a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation within the College that meets community and faculty needs through residency and fellowship program support, healthcare service agreements, and clinical practice operations. For several years after first joining the University in 2010, he also helped establish the College's office of graduate medical education and created business affiliations with multiple hospital systems across the state for the development of residency and fellowship training programs sponsored by the College of Medicine.
In his faculty role within the Department of Geriatrics, Dr. Mulrooney pioneers new models of service delivery to older adults, including FSU SeniorHealthTM, the College's community-based geriatrics clinical practice, as well as initiatives to advance person-directed care and culture change in post-acute and long-term care settings regionally and nationally. As an organizational psychologist, he also assists the College with leadership development, executive coaching, and training facilitation with deans and faculty as needed.
Prior to his joining FSU, Dr. Mulrooney spent 30 years in direct service, administrative, consulting, and executive roles in health care and aging services. His prior positions include serving as a Division Vice President and CEO of not-for-profit senior living and health care services organizations in Florida and Michigan, as a Leadership Development and Management Consultant for health care executives at a Boston-based global consulting firm, and as a Skilled Nursing Facility Administrator in Rhode Island.
Dr. Mulrooney has also taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Aging and Society, Human Services Administration, and Research Methods in Counseling at Rhode Island College, St. Joseph College (Connecticut), and Spring Arbor University (Michigan), as well as conducted over a hundred executive and manager training sessions on performance improvement. Throughout the course of his career, Dr. Mulrooney has integrated and focused his direct service, administrative, teaching, and research efforts on improving the quality of health care for older adults via organizational and individual interventions that increase person-directed behaviors at the point of service. He has also worked with numerous health care system CEOs and their top teams on leadership development and executive team performance.
B.S. (cum laude), Gerontology, University of Southern California
M.P.S., Gerontological Services Administration, New School for Social Research (New York, NY)
Ph.D., Psychology/Gerontological Studies, Boston University
Member, Executive Committee, FSU College of Medicine
Member, Deans Group, FSU College of Medicine
Chair, Clinical Care & Service Excellence Committee, FSU College of Medicine
Member, Self-Insurance Plan Council, FSU College of Medicine
Faculty Advisor, Leadership in Medicine (LIM) para-curricular program, FSU College of Medicine
Member, Joint Advisory Board, FSU Institute for Successful Longevity
Chair, Florida Pioneer Network
Long-Term Care Research Award, Foundation of American College of Health Care Administrators
Young Investigator Award, International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics
Health Services Research Traineeship, Department of Veterans Affairs
Multidisciplinary Aging Research Traineeship, National Institute on Aging
Wolfson Foundation Scholar, New School for Social Research
Davis Scholar, University of Southern California
Fellow, American College of Health Care Administrators
Gerontological Society of America
American Psychological Association (I/O Psychology & Aging)
American Geriatrics Society
LeadingAge Southeast
Dr. Mulrooney's expertise includes research-based competency model development and competency-based assessment of health care executives and managers, physician leaders, and paraprofessional caregivers using thematic content analysis of narrative data derived from Behavioral Event Interviews and other motivational interviewing techniques. His research on the characteristics of person- and relationship-centered caregiving among nursing assistants in home health, skilled nursing, and assisted living earned him researcher-of-the-year awards from the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics and the Foundation of the American College of Health Care Administrators.
Snow, J. L., & Mulrooney, C. P. (2002). Effective Top Teams: Five Strategies for Success.
Healthcare Executive, 17(2), 22-25.
Mulrooney, C. P. (1994). Controlling exposure and exposing control. The Journal of Long-Term Care Administration, 21(4), 14-15.
- Licensed Nursing Home Administrator
- State of Florida, #NH5017 (active)
- State of Rhode Island #NHA735 (active)
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts #NH2272 (inactive)
- Commonwealth of Kentucky #2865 (inactive)
- Nationally Certified Nursing Home Administrator
- American College of Health Care Administrators (active)
- Nationally Certified Assisted Living Facility Administrator
- American College of Health Care Administrators (active)