UT Tyler Faculty Recognized for Excellence in Health Care Management Education
November 26, 2024 | Hannah Buchanan
Kerrie Anne Ambort-Clark, a distinguished teaching professor in management and assistant dean in the Soules College of Business at The University of Texas at Tyler, was named a 2024 Regent’s Awardee by the American College of Healthcare Executives. An elected board member of the East Texas ACHE Chapter, Ambort-Clark first received this recognition in 2022 and is the lone two-time chapter recipient.
The ACHE Regent’s Awards recognize members who have made significant contributions to the advancement of health care management excellence and achievement of ACHE’s goals.
“Kerrie Anne has been an outstanding board member supporting many aspects of our chapter,” said Dawn Johnston, ACHE Board of Directors president and East Texas chapter member. “We are proud to recognize all of her exceptional contributions.”
Ambort-Clark is instrumental in the development and execution of UT Tyler health care management education, interdisciplinary programs and student success initiatives in her roles as assistant dean of health-related business programs in the Soules College and the School of Medicine’s Health Care Leadership Distinction director. Outside UT Tyler, she has provided leadership development for community constituents and created leadership training modules used in both academia and industry.
She was recognized in a private ceremony earlier this month at the UT Tyler Health Science Center alongside ACHE and community health care administrators and university colleagues. She was also awarded the ACHE top Leader-to-Leader–Academic Category honor last year.
A UT Tyler alum, Ambort-Clark has served the university since 2009. She teaches in business and is a professor of practice in the School of Medicine, contributing to the population health system sciences/health care administration leadership and management curriculum. Recognized for her excellence in teaching, she received a 2018 UT System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award and was named a 2019 UT Tyler Academy of Distinguished Teachers Faculty Fellow and a 2024 UT System Academy of Distinguished Teachers Fellow.
The ACHE is the professional society for health care leaders committed to improving health. For more information, visit ache.org/.
With a mission to improve educational and health care outcomes for East Texas and beyond, UT Tyler offers more than 90 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 10,000 students. Through its alignment with UT Tyler Health Science Center and UT Health East Texas, UT Tyler has unified these entities to serve Texas with quality education, cutting-edge research and excellent patient care. Classified by Carnegie as a doctoral research institution and by U.S. News & World Report as a national university, UT Tyler has campuses in Tyler, Longview, Palestine and Houston.