Faculty Research

School of Health Management and Informatics

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Faculty Areas of Specialty

Barbara Andraka-Christou, Ph.D., JD

Associate Professor

E-mail: barbara.andraka@ucf.edu

Phone: 407-823-5174

Health services
Health policy
Substance use disorder treatment

Yara Asi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

E-mail: yara.asi@ucf.edu

Phone: 407-823-5087

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

E-mail: mark.bush@ucf.edu

Phone: 407-823-5380

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

E-mail: Catherine.Bush@ucf.edu

Phone: 989-205-0997

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)

Latarsha Chisholm, Ph.D., MSW

Associate Professor

E-mail: latarsha.chisholm@ucf.edu

Phone: 407-823-4775

Long-term services and support
Quality of care
Disparities
Dementia care
Implementation and dissemination

Sung Choi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Phone: 407-823-2369

Health information technology
Cybersecurity
Data breaches

Michelle Crozier, Ph.D.

Lecturer and HCI Academic Program Coordinator

E-mail: Michelle.Crozier@ucf.edu

Phone: 407-823-1402

Adverse Childhood Events
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Resilience

Su-I Hou, Dr.P.H., CPH, MCHES, RN, CDP, FACHE, FGSA

Professor

E-mail: su-i.hou@ucf.edu

Phone: 407-823-3344

Healthy Aging-in-Community
Cancer Screening Disparities
HIV Behavioral Research
Global Healthcare Management

Parul Naib, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Scholar

E-mail: parul.naib@ucf.edu

AI Clinical Decision Support systems
Public Health

Reid Oetjen, Ph.D.

Professor and MHA Program Coordinator

E-mail: reid.oetjen@ucf.edu

Phone: 407-823-5668

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

E-mail: jaeyoung.park@ucf.edu

Machine learning & Deep learning
Missing data
Causal inference
Transfer learning
Federated learning

Giang Vu, DDS, MS, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

E-mail: giang.vu@ucf.edu

Phone: 407-823-0652

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