Peter L. Cruise, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Health and Community Services Department at California State University-Chico.  Since 1990, he has taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels in public administration and health care management programs at universities in California (Golden Gate University), Florida (Florida Atlantic University), and Louisiana (Louisiana State University).  Before his teaching career, Dr. Cruise spent 12 years working in management positions in a variety of health care settings (hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician clinics and home health agencies).  He is a Faculty Member of the Medical Group Management Association.  He is also a reviewing editor for the Jossey-Bass/John Wiley Health Care Management Book Series, the Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, and the e-journal Global Virtue Ethics Review.  Dr. Cruise is Chair of the American Society for Public Administration’s Section on Health and Human Services Administration (SHHSA).  In 1995, Dr. Cruise received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Public Administration from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.  Dr. Cruise’s research interests include values-based management in the public sector and ethnographic approaches in health services planning and program evaluation. He has presented the results of these and other research efforts at regional, national and international academic conferences (e.g., SECOPA, COMPA, AUPHA, ASPA, and IASIA).  Dr. Cruise is the co-editor of the Handbook of Organization Theory and Management: The Philosophical Approach (2^nd Edition, 2006).  He has also published in such peer-reviewed journals as Administration & Society, Evaluation and the Health Professions, International Journal of Public Administration, International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior, International Review of Public Administration, Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Managed Care Quarterly, Public Administration and Policy, Public Administration Quarterly, and Social Service Review.