Dr. Stephen L. Walston has worked in both as a professor and healthcare administrator and currently is a Professor at the David Eccles School of Business in the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Previously he served as the Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Utah Asia Campus (UAC) located at the Incheon Global Campus in Songdo, Korea and concurrently served as a professor on the faculty of the Division of Public Health in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine in the University of Utah’s Medical School in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Before he worked ten years as a professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Oklahoma’s School of Public Health Department of Health Administration and Policy in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He also is a former MHA program director at Indiana University and faculty member at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and specializes in healthcare strategy, organizational development, and leadership. In addition, he earned a bachelor and master degree from Brigham Young University. He beforehand served as an executive for fourteen years in hospitals in the Western United States. During this time, he was a chief executive officer for ten years. He became a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives in 1993. Dr. Walston has been active internationally and has worked in many Middle Eastern and Central American countries helping organizations to improve their strategic direction and leadership capabilities. He served on the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health’s International Advisory Board for five years. He has published in many different highly prestigious journals in the United States and Europe, along with three books. In his free time he enjoys woodworking, beekeeping, reading, bicycling, gardening, and helping his six children and six grandchildren.