In addition to teaching the introductory course on the American Health Care System and participating in the program's team taught senior seminar, Dr. Hackey offers courses on Policy Analysis in the Health Sector and Health Care Reform in America. His principal research and teaching interests lie in the area of comparative state health care policy (i.e., state efforts to control health care costs through certificate of need programs, health planning, and rate regulation) and applications of social theory to current health policy issues. Dr. Hackey is the author of Rethinking Health Care Policy: The New Politics of State Regulation published by Georgetown University Press in 1998 and is the coeditor of   The New Politics of State Health Policy, published by the University Press of Kansas in 2001. He has also published a wide range of peer-reviewed articles on state and national health care issues in Critical Sociology, the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, The Journal of Trauma, Medical Care Review, New England Journal of Public Policy, Outpatient Surgery, Polity, Social Science Quarterly, and Spectrum: The Journal of State Government.

He is currently working on a new book project on how the health care crisis in America has been defined and framed by reformers and the media.  In the Spring of 2003, Dr. Hackey was a visiting professor in the political science department at Brown University. In the 2004-05 academic year, Dr. Hackey introduced a new course on Social Theory and Health Policy for upper level majors in the program.

Before joining the HPM program faculty, Dr. Hackey served as the program manager for the Rhode Island Department of Health's trauma care system project. He taught at St. Anselm College from 1991-1992 and at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth from 1993-1999. Dr. Hackey's teaching was recognized with the President's Award for Teaching Excellence as a graduate student at Brown University in 1990 and with a commendation from the president's office at the University of Massachusetts in 1998. He designed, administered, and analyzed several regional public opinion surveys in Southeastern Massachusetts from 1996-1998. He served as a member of the executive board of the American Health Planning Association. In 2001, Dr. Hackey was a participating faculty member in Abbott Laboratories' Leadership Development Program in Milwaukee, WI and served as a panelist at the Maryland Health Care Commission's hearings on reforming the certificate of need program in November 2001.  In May 2003, he was chosen to deliver the faculty address at the College's annual honors convocation.

Dr. Hackey is a lifelong resident of Rhode Island. When not in the classroom, Dr. Hackey enjoys college basketball, model railroading, cooking, and playing with his daughters. He is an unapologetic fan of The Apprentice, Survivor and 24. He is a huge fan of modern art, particularly the work of Jackson Pollock. He earned a Ph.D. in political science with a concentration in public policy from Brown University in 1992.  He earned a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from the University of Rhode Island in 1987.