Director, Institute for Health Studies

Office: Peelle 204 - mboynton@adrian.edu

Biography

Marcia J. Boynton brings to Adrian College a broad base of experience as a health care executive and attorney.

Boynton will assist Adrian students in understanding the health care system as a whole. In preparing for their health care careers, students will be encouraged to consider present and future opportunities, and plan for the profound changes this decade will bring in health care financing and organization.

Over a 25 year career at the University of Michigan Health System, Boynton held administrative roles in the hospital, the medical school and at M-CARE HMO. She has directed clinical and administrative operations, presented at professional conferences of health lawyers and health professions across the country, and acted as a consultant to physicians in private practice. In a recent role, she led expansion of a Michigan based network of specialty physicians to operations in 40 states.

Boynton is a graduate of Wittenberg University and the University of Akron School of Law. She has also completed the Executive Program in Managed Healthcare Administration through the National Center for Managed Care Administration at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Boynton has held adjunct faculty appointments at Eastern Michigan University teaching Health Law and Health Insurance Reimbursement.

She is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, American Health Lawyers Association, Medical Group Managers Association, and is licensed by the State of Michigan as an administrator of health insurance programs.