Ginger Scanlon
Clinical Assistant Professor of Accounting
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CB 3490 Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Ginger Scanlon studies how organizations use managerial accounting information in complex settings, particularly in the healthcare sector.
She teaches courses in managerial, cost and financial accounting at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Dr. Scanlon worked in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry, where she gained firsthand insight into the inefficiencies of the U.S. healthcare system.
Motivated by this experience, her research as a managerial accountant focuses on improving cost measurement and management in healthcare, and on how information can be leveraged to enhance decision-making and align incentives in ways that ultimately benefit patients.
Her dissertation “Prescription for Savings? Disclosure in the Drug Market” won the 2025 Competitive Manuscript Award from the American Accounting Association.
She received the 2025 Latané Outstanding Student Teaching Award from the PhD Program at UNC Kenan-Flagler.
She earned her PhD in accounting from UNC Kenan-Flagler, her MBA from NC State University and her BS in chemistry from UNC-Chapel Hill.
