Emerald Publishing chooses Professor Hassan's paper as a Highly Commended Award Winner

July 6, 2011 - PRLog -- A paper co-authored by Professor Mahmud Hassan was chosen as a Highly Commended Award Winner in the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2011 for being one of the most impressive articles the editorial team had seen throughout 2010. The paper, entitled “Hospital length of stay and probability of acquiring infection,” was published in the International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing. Professor Hassan’s co-authors on the article are Howard Tuckman, Robert Patrick, David Kountz, MD, and Jennifer Kohn.
Emerald's publishing awards philosophy focuses on six areas: internationality; diversity; support for scholarly research; encouragement of applied research (impact); commitment to high quality scholarship; and a desire to ensure the reader experience is the best it can be.

Professor Hassan’s various research articles have been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Business, Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), Health Affairs, International Journal of Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Marketing, Inquiry, and many other peer-reviewed journals. His research areas include mergers and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical industry, cost of capital and investment decisions, capital structure policy, charity care by non-profit hospitals, and medical malpractice, among others.


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Congratulations to Professor Hassan for this achievement!

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