Faculty and Staff
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Fatema Ahmed, Ph.D., MHA
Postdoctoral Scholar
Health Management and Informatics
E-mail: fatema.ahmed@ucf.edu
Barbara Andraka-Christou, Ph.D., JD
Associate Professor
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401
E-mail: barbara.andraka@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-5174
Areas of Specialty:
- Health services
- Health policy
- Substance use disorder treatment
Yara Asi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Health Management and Informatics
E-mail: yara.asi@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-5087
Areas of Specialty:
- Global health policy
- Health in fragile and conflict-affected populations
- Gender inequities in global health
- Structural violence and health
- Health effects of climate change
Mark Bush, DHA, MBA
Associate Lecturer and Undergraduate Health Services Administration Academic Program Coordinator
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401
E-mail: mark.bush@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-5380
Areas of Specialty:
- Healthcare reimbursement variability and its impact on hospital financial strategy
- Market dynamics and consumer decision behavior in post-acute and long-term care settings
- Data analytics in quality improvement and patient safety outcomes
- Workforce development and transition models from academia to healthcare leadership roles
- Technology-enabled learning strategies in graduate healthcare education
Catherine Bush, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 402C
E-mail: Catherine.Bush@ucf.edu
Phone: 989-205-0997
Areas of Specialty:
- The impact of leadership behaviors on creating an inclusive workplace (grounded theory research project currently underway)
- Leadership behaviors that impact employee motivation and demotivation (research project completion expected in Fall 2021)
Landon Canida
Administrative Assistant III
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401
E-mail: landon.canida@ucf.edu
Latarsha Chisholm, Ph.D., MSW
Associate Professor
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401I
E-mail: latarsha.chisholm@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-4775
Areas of Specialty:
- Long-term services and support
- Quality of care
- Disparities
- Dementia care
- Implementation and dissemination
Sung Choi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401
Phone: 407-823-2369
Areas of Specialty:
- Health information technology
- Cybersecurity
- Data breaches
Kendall Cortelyou, Ph.D.
Professor and School Director
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401N
E-mail: kcortely@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-2359
Areas of Specialty:
- Substance Use and the Overdose Crisis
- Overdose Surveillance and Emerging Drug Trends
- Health Data Analytics and Informatics
- Health Care Workforce
Michelle Crozier, Ph.D.
Lecturer and HCI Academic Program Coordinator
Health Management and Informatics
E-mail: Michelle.Crozier@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-1402
Areas of Specialty:
- Adverse Childhood Events
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- Resilience
Kristin Dellasala
Academic Support Coordinator II
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401B
E-mail: kristin.dellasala@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-3267
Shannon Elswick, MSHA, FACHE
Associate Instructor and Executive in Residence
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401
E-mail: Shannon.Elswick@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-4168
Varadraj Gurupur, Ph.D.
Professor
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401J
E-mail: varadraj.gurupur@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-5161
Su-I Hou, Dr.P.H., CPH, MCHES, RN, CDP, FACHE, FGSA
Professor
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 402M
E-mail: su-i.hou@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-3344
Areas of Specialty:
- Mixed Methods Research (MMR)
- Program Evaluation & Implementation
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
- Aging-in-Community & Healthy Aging
- Brain Health & Dementia Prevention
- Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)
- Digital Health & Community Health
- Global Health Management
Christian King, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401
E-mail: Christian.King@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-4146
Parul Naib, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Health Management and Informatics
E-mail: parul.naib@ucf.edu
Areas of Specialty:
- AI Clinical Decision Support systems
- Public Health
Christine Neubert, MS, RHIA
Instructor
Health Management and Informatics
E-mail: christine.neubert@ucf.edu
Hannah Nguyen
Academic Support Coordinator II
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 402A
E-mail: hannah.nguyen@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-0002
Kourtney Nieves, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer and Assistant Director
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401
E-mail: kourtney.nieves@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-3264
Dawn Oetjen, Ph.D., MHA
Professor and Executive MHA Academic Program Coordinator
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401
E-mail: dawn.oetjen@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-0204
Reid Oetjen, Ph.D.
Professor and MHA Program Coordinator
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401
E-mail: reid.oetjen@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-5668
Areas of Specialty:
- Aging and gerontology
- Long-term care systems
- Healthcare practitioner tool development
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
- Academic Leadership and Governance
Jaeyoung Park, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 402O
E-mail: jaeyoung.park@ucf.edu
Areas of Specialty:
- Machine learning & Deep learning
- Missing data
- Causal inference
- Transfer learning
- Federated learning
Virginia Pinzon
Academic Program Coordinator II
Health Management and Informatics
E-mail: virginia.pinzon@ucf.edu
Bernardo Ramirez, MD, MBA
Associate Professor
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401
E-mail: bernardo.ramirez@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-2359
Meredith Robertson
Associate Instructor
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401
E-mail: meredith.robertson@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-3765
Timothy Rotarius, Ph.D., MBA
Professor
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401
E-mail: Dr.Timothy.Rotarius@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-3762
Olga Lucia Russell, MD, Ph.D., RHIA
Associate Lecturer
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401
E-mail: olga.russell@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-4137
Suhas Shewale, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Health Management and Informatics
E-mail: suhas.shewale@ucf.edu
Steven Ton, MS
Senior Instructor
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401
E-mail: steven.ton@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-5328
Samuel D. Towne, Ph.D., MPH, CPH, FAAHB
Associate Professor
Health Management and Informatics
E-mail: Samuel.Towne@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-2296
Pamela Von Graff
Academic Program Coordinator III
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401F
E-mail: pamela.vongraff@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-0564
Giang Vu, DDS, MS, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 402L
E-mail: giang.vu@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-0652
Areas of Specialty:
- Adverse oral health outcomes among patients with systemic diseases (e.g., diabetes)
- Disparities in utilization and access to dental and medical care services
- Applications of artificial intelligence to analyze costs of dental prevention for medical conditions
Amanda Walden, Ph.D., RHIA, CHDA, FAHIMA
HIM and HI Academic Coordinator, Senior Lecturer
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401
E-mail: amanda.walden@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-3613
Areas of Specialty:
- Healthcare Privacy
- Health Information Systems
- Healthcare Management
- Affordable Educational Initiatives
- Higher Education Student Success
Cynthia Williams, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 403D
E-mail: cynthia.williams@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-0948
Areas of Specialty:
- Telehealth/Telemedicine
- Health Equity
- Aging
- Chronic Disease Management
Ashley Wilt, Ph.D., SHRM-CP
Lecturer
Health Management and Informatics
Location: DPAC
Suite: 401H
E-mail: ashley.wilt@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-2174
Tahira Yeasmeen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Health Management and Informatics
E-mail: tahira.yeasmeen@ucf.edu
