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Ralph Kray Faculty Bio

Ralph Kray

Ralph Kray

Ralph Kray, PhD
Executive Scholar-in-Residence in Healthcare Management

The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
100 International Drive
Baltimore, MD 21202

Ralph.Kray@jhu.edu

Ralph Kray, PhD (University of Siegen and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany) joined the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in 2011. He is Executive Scholar-in-Residence in Healthcare Management with expertise in the areas of global health business research & development, hospital management, alliance management with private industry, Med. 2.0 and social philosophy of the health society.

Honors and Distinctions

  • Editor-in-chief at Springer Science + Business Media/Gabler Series  "Health Management – Advanced Strategies in Business, Research & Public Communication” 
  • Counselor and author with Stern Magazine (Hamburg) in the field of science, medicine, and technology
  • Strategy counselor at IBM Germany, Health
  • Academic Coordinator of the German Technology Transfer-Summit

Selected Publications

  • Verlautbarungssystem Gesundheit. Die Zumutbarkeit politischer und anderer Kommunikation im Sozial- und Gesundheitswesen“. In: Rademacher, Lars (Hg.), Politik nach Drehbuch. Von der Politischen Kommunikation zum Politischen Marketing. Münster: LIT Verlag 2005, S. 182-205. [The Bulletin System in Health. The Reasonableness of political and other kinds of Communication in Healthcare and Social Services. In: Lars Rademacher (ed.),  Screenplay Politics. From Political Communication to Political Marketing. Münster: LIT Publishers 2005, pp. 182-205].
  • Strategische Allianzen im Gesundheitssektor. Kooperation und Koordination zwischen Krankenhaus und Industrie. [Strategic alliances in the health sector. Cooperation and coordination between hospital and industry.] Wiesbaden: Gabler 2009.
  • Achtung: Patientendämmerung online! In: Koch, Christoph (Hg.): Achtung: Patient Online! Wie Internet, soziale Netzwerke und kommunikativer Strukturwandel den Gesundheitssektor transformieren. Hg. v. Christoph Koch. Wiesbaden: Gabler 2010, S. 5-18. [Attention: Twilight of patients online! In: Christoph Koch (ed.), Attention: Patient Online! How the Internet, Social Networks and Communicative Structural Change transform the Healtcare Sector. Wiesbaden: Gabler, pp. 5-18.]
  • Der alt- und der neu-europäische Patient. Zur Beharrlichkeit von Platonikern im Gesundheitsgeschäft unserer Zeit. In: Fischer, Andrea/Sibbel, Rainer (Hgg.): Der Patient als Kunde und Konsument. Wie viel Patientensouveränität ist möglich? Wiesbaden: Gabler 2010, S. 5-8. [The patient in old and new Europe. On the perseverance of Platonics in the contemporary healthcare business. In: Andrea Fischer and Rainer Sibbel (eds.), The patient as a customer and consumer. How much patient’s sovereignty is possible? Wiesbaden: Gabler, pp. 5-8.]
  • Priorisierte Medizin. Ausweg oder Sackgasse der Gesundheitsgesellschaft? [Prioritized Medicine. Way out or cul-de-sac for our healthcare society?] Eds. Adele Diederich, Christoph Koch, Ralph Kray, Rainer Sibbel. Wiesbaden: Gabler 2011.
  • Die Ordnung der medizinischen Dinge.“ In: Priorisierte Medizin. Ausweg oder Sackgasse der Gesundheitsgesellschaft? Hg. v. Adele Diederich, Christoph Koch, Ralph Kray und Rainer Sibbel. Wiesbaden: Gabler 2011, S. 229-243. [The order of medical things. In: Adele Diederich, Christoph Koch and Rainer Sibbel (eds.), Prioritized Medicine. Way out or cul-de-sac for our healthcare society? Wiesbaden: Gaber 2011, pp.229-243.].
  • Kompendium Qualität in der Medizin. Hg. v. Ralph Kray, Christoph Koch und Peter Sawicki. Wiesbaden: Gabler 2012. [Compendium Quality in Medicine. Ralph Kray, Christoph Koch and Peter Sawicki (eds.). Wiesbaden: Gaber 2012.]

Works in Progress

  • With Bayer Pharma AG and other pharmaceutical companies projects on techtransfer, biotec and health business. 
  • With Springer Medizin blended-learning programs and internet community services for doctors and managers in the health market
  • With IBM projects on innovative healthcare portals, "Med 2.0" platform "Quality Medicine Online" 

Teaching Interests

  • Corporate Strategy, International Hospital Consulting
  • Leading Health Market Stakeholders: Business Development, Strategies and Alliances
  • Health Policy Development and The Issues of Aging Societies