Dr. Lawrence Acker is an assistant professor in the Busch School of Business Administration at Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis, Missouri.  Dr. Acker’s background includes twenty-five years in the health care management and education fields, including fourteen years as an independent health care business consultant.  Dr. Acker’s main areas of interest in the health care fields are health care inequities and the history of U.S. health care education.  .

In addition to health care management, Dr. Acker is interested in international education and the effects of culture on techniques used in education.  To this end, Dr. Acker has taught in the People’s Republic of China (Shanghai), Bangladesh (Dhaka), and Thailand (Cha’Am).  This summer, Dr. Acker is teaching English in Istanbul, Turkey.  




































Lawrence (Larry) Acker, Ph.D., MHA
Assistant Professor
Harris-Stowe State University
314/256-8165 (Phone)
Email:
ackerL@hssu.edu