Carol Ann Lockhart, 78, passed away on October 9. She received a Pew Health Policy Fellowship to do her doctoral studies at the Heller School at Brandeis University. Her master's degree was from the University of California at San Francisco and she received her baccalaureate degree from Case Western University, Bolton School of Nursing.



Carol taught health economics and health policy for 15 years as a professor in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Nursing, Doctor of Nursing Practice distance-learning program. She also served as the Carter-Fleck Visiting Professor, teaching health policy and economics in the Ph.D and master's program at the University of New Mexico College of Nursing. Earlier in her career, she taught in the nursing baccalaureate and masters programs at ASU, Boston University and the University of Massachusetts.



In the public sector, Carol served as a director of three different divisions in the Arizona Department of Health Services, including being the first director of the Arizona Health Care Cost and Containment System (AHCCCS), the nation's first capitated Medicaid system. She was one of the original 13 commissioners of the Physician Payment Review Commission (PPRC) advising the US Congress on payments to physicians under Medicare.



In the private sector Carol was the Executive Director of the Greater Phoenix Affordable Health Care Foundation, a business and health care coalition seeking to address health policy and costs.



Carol was a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, a member of Sigma Theta Tau Honorary Society, the Arizona Public Health Association, Arizona Town Hall, Charter 100, and formerly, the American Public Health Association where she served on the board and as Chair of the Public Health Nursing Section.

Carol retired in 2016 as president of C. Lockhart Associates, a health systems relations and policy consulting firm after 25 years of assisting local, national and international organizations in planning, implementing and evaluating health care and public health policy. Her international work included projects in Hong Kong, Barbados, Jamaica and Jordan. In retirement, she was active in Tempe, Arizona's innovative Dementia Friendly City outreach and served as a volunteer with AARP on policy issues concerning seniors. She was also an active member of ASU's Women in Philanthropy.



Carol is survived by her husband, Harold "Woody" Wilson, a cousin and a niece. A celebration of Carol's life for family and friends will be announced in November. Donations can be made in her honor to Hospice of the Valley. (Source: Arizona Republic)