Deputy Program Director
Army-Baylor University Graduate Program in Health & Business Administration
Dr. Tiara Walz is the Deputy Program Director and an Assistant Professor at the Army-Baylor University Graduate Program in Health and Business Administration, serving since August 2022. With over 16 years of service as a healthcare administrator in the Army Medical Service Corps, Dr. Walz holds the rank of Major. She has over a decade of experience leading in military healthcare units and military treatment facilities, both deployed and stateside. She earned her PhD In Public Health, specializing in Health Policy, from Oregon State University in 2023, and completed her MHA and MBA through the Army-Baylor Program in 2017. She has been a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) since 2017.
Dr. Walz currently serves as the Outreach Director on the Board for the South Texas ACHE Chapter and as the Chair for the ACHE Army Regent Operations Committee. An active volunteer, she is deeply committed to networking, teaching, research, and advancing healthcare leadership in various forms. She serves as a Deputy Consultant to the 70A Healthcare Administrator community in the Army, providing guidance and mentorship to aspiring and current healthcare administrators. Her doctoral work explores chronic pain in the veteran population, focusing on its impact on healthcare utilization and expenditures at both individual and systems levels. She is particularly passionate about addressing health disparities among veterans, especially women and marginalized groups, through health policy initiatives.
At Army-Baylor, Dr. Walz teaches Organizational Behavior and Theory, Health Policy and Policy Analysis, Influential Communication Techniques for Public Speaking, and Health Insurance and Managed Care Systems. She chairs the program’s Marketing Committee, overseeing marketing efforts, community and alumni engagement, and the Annual Stakeholder Report. She enjoys fostering social and professional connections within the program’s extensive and tight knit alumni network.
In her spare time, she loves reading, traveling, and embarking on adventures with her husband, Tom, and their dog, Zeus Remington.
You Belong at the Table, but Bring Your Own Chair: Navigating Imposter Syndrome
Monday, March 2, 2026
4:30pm - 5:30pm CT