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“About the Contributors” in “Handbook of eHealth Evaluation: An Evidence-based Approach”
About the Contributors
- Reza Alaghehbandan, MD, MSc, is a Surgical Pathologist and a Clinical Epidemiologist with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. His primary research interest is focused on oncologic surgical pathology spanning from use of novel biomarkers to the development of external quality assurance and proficiency testing in breast cancers. Reza’s other longstanding research interests include injury and chronic disease epidemiology as well as health issues related to vulnerable populations (i.e., women/children and Indigenous peoples) from human rights and social justice perspectives. Reza also has extensive expertise in developing and utilizing administrative health databases and EHR/EMR data for conducting population health research and surveillance.
- James G. Anderson, PhD, earned a BES in Chemical Engineering, MSE in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, MAT in Chemistry and Mathematics, and a PhD in Education and Sociology from the Johns Hopkins University. He is the former Director of the Division of Engineering of the Evening College at Johns Hopkins University. At Purdue University, he has served as Assistant Dean for Analytical Studies of the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education (1975 to 1978), Associate Director of the Health Services Research Training Program supported by the U.S. Public Health Service (1971 to 1976), Director of the Social Research Institute (1995 to 1998), and Co-Director of the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention (1994 to the present day). He is the author or co-author of five books.
- Paule Bellwood, MSc, is a PhD candidate enrolled in the Experimental Medicine program at University of British Columbia. Her research is focused on health informatics, targeting consumer health informatics in particular. Paule’s research interests include end user involvement in and processes of health information and consumer health systems design.
- Simon Diemert, BSEng, is a graduate student studying Computer Science at the University of Victoria. His research interests include software engineering in healthcare (specifically focused on medications management) and engineering for safety critical systems.
- Jeff Dowden, BSc, MAS, is a statistician with the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information. He has over 15 years combined educational and work experience in the areas of statistical analysis/research of health data; data analytics; secondary uses of administrative data; analysis of large data; and project leadership to support policy development. Jeff has co-authored a number of articles in the areas of statistical methods in health data and population health and has presented at national conferences. Jeff has been a methodological lead/co-lead in various projects to help enhance population health in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
- Rong Fu, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at Siena College. She received her dual-title PhD in Sociology and Gerontology from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Her fields of study include medical sociology, health, and social gerontology. She has extensive training in quantitative methods and has teaching experience in social statistics and research methods. She has engaged in independent and collaborative research projects related to social behaviours, health inequality, and aging, among others. Her dissertation examined how childhood and later life stressors affected cognitive health in older adults.
- Veeresh Gadag has a PhD in the field of Applied and Biostatistics. His field of expertise is in the field of application of biostatistics to the health-services-research, continuity of care, adverse drug events, epidemiology of chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases. He has been also working in the area of population health as it pertains to seniors’ age friendly communities. In the area of theoretical statistics, he has done research in stochastics processes, time series, risk analysis, branching processes, the detection of outliers, and sampling designs, among others.
- Yulong Gu, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Health Science at Stockton University, New Jersey. Before joining Stockton University, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Auckland from 2011 to 2015. She has worked on a range of research projects linked to grants and New Zealand National Health Information Technology Board contracts, which investigated subjects including electronic referral systems, shared care, personal health records, mobile health and medication adherence. She has a strong interest in knowledge management, health IT evaluation, grounded theory and thematic analysis.
- Ryan Habibi, HBSc, is a graduate student studying Computer Science at the University of Victoria. Ryan’s research focuses on human computer interaction and usability for data privacy in the healthcare domain.
- Simon Hagens, MBA, leads evaluation at Canada Health Infoway. In his 10 years with Infoway, Simon’s largest contributions have been the development and implementation of the Benefits Evaluation strategy and the establishment adoption requirements to drive adoption. Prior to Infoway, Simon has been a manager in a primary care and community health organization, where he led the implementation of an electronic medical record system. As a market researcher in the pharmaceutical industry, Simon applied a variety of qualitative and quantitative research approaches to provide intelligence and recommendations for marketing major products. Simon holds a BSc from the University of Guelph and an MBA from McGill University, and has over 15 years of healthcare experience.
- Anne Holbrook, MD, PharmD, MSc, FRCPC, is Director of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology and a Professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University. She is also an Active Medical Staff member at St Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton and Hamilton Health Sciences. Her clinical practice combines Clinical Pharmacology and Internal Medicine and specializes in the care of patients with multiple diagnoses and complex medication regimens. She has been a drug policy advisor to federal, provincial and regional governments for decades, influencing budgets of more than $5 billion per year. Dr. Holbrook is currently an investigator on multiple peer-reviewed, publicly funded research teams or projects, including a program of eHealth research — all oriented to improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of prescribing and medication use.
- Spyros Kitsiou, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Medical Internet Research, mHealth and uHealth. His current research interests focus on the effectiveness of home telemonitoring and mHealth interventions for patients with chronic conditions as well as the conduct of systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and overviews of systematic reviews to support evidence-based practice in health informatics. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, Information and Management, International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, and at several international conferences.
- Craig Kuziemsky, PhD, is an Associate Professor and University Research Chair in Healthcare Innovation at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. In 2013 he was named The University of Ottawa Young Researcher of the Year in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Dr. Kuziemsky’s research focuses on developing new approaches for modeling collaborative healthcare delivery so we can better design information and communication technology (ICT) to support different contexts of collaboration. His work has defined the structural aspects necessary to support collaboration as well as the behavioural and social processes that shape how the structural components work. His studies of collaboration have used concepts such as complexity theory to understand the nature of collaborative interactions in different healthcare settings (clinical healthcare and public health for disaster management).
- Francis Lau, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria Canada. He has a PhD in medical sciences with specialization in medical informatics. He has a diverse background in business, computer and medical sciences, with 14 years of professional experience in the health IT industry. Dr. Lau’s research foci are in health information system evaluation, clinical vocabularies, and palliative/primary care informatics. During 2008-2013 he was the recipient of the eHealth Chair funded by Canadian Institutes for Health Research / Canada Health Infoway to establish an eHealth Observatory to examine the impact of health information system deployment in Canada.
- Don MacDonald, PhD, is the Vice-President of the Analytics and Evaluation Services Department with the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information. In addition to his role in numerous applied health research studies, Don was the lead investigator for the several studies evaluating the benefits of the province’s EHR. In 2007, Don was named the benefits evaluation Subject Matter Expert for Picture Archiving and Communications Systems by Canada Health Infoway. He was chosen to develop Infoway’s evaluation indicators for the diagnostic imaging, and helped create Infoway’s EHR National Benefits Evaluation Framework. A graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Don obtained his PhD in the area of EHR benefits evaluation. Don also has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Statistics, a Diploma in Clinical Epidemiology, a Master’s in Science (Medicine). His current work focuses on developing a provincial health analytics model in support of health system management.
- Anthony J. Maeder, PhD, joined Flinders University in April 2016 as Chair in Digital Health Systems from Western Sydney University, where he founded the Telehealth Research and Innovation Laboratory in 2010. He was previously appointed as Research Director of the CSIRO Australian eHealth Research Centre in Brisbane, from 2004 to 2008. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society. He is currently a member of the Standards Australia IT-14 Health Informatics Committee. Professor Maeder was president of the Australasian Telehealth Society in the period 2010-2012, and joined the Governing Board of the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth in 2013. In 2015 he was appointed as the Fulbright Distinguished Professor in Life Sciences and Agriculture at Kansas State University.
- Lynne Nemeth, PhD, is a Professor in the College of Nursing at the Medical University of South Carolina, a Nurse Researcher at the Medical University Hospital Authority and a PPRNet Investigator. She has extensive clinical, educational, administrative and research experience. Her current and recent research is focused on translation of research into practice. She is an expert qualitative researcher with an emphasis on process evaluation and implementation research. She currently collaborates on research implementing mobile health applications in chronic care populations, and community engaged research. She teaches Advanced Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research to PhD students and chairs or mentors numerous PhD dissertations.
- Doreen Neville has a BN (Nursing, MUN, 1979), a MSc (Nursing, Toronto, 1984), a MSc (Health Services Administration, Harvard, 1986), and a ScD (Health Policy and Management, Harvard) and holds a faculty appointment as Associate Professor, Health Policy and Health Care Delivery, Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University. Her research interests lie in the area of applied health policy, namely in the evaluation of the effectiveness of health information systems and health system governance models. Her teaching interests include the use of technology to enhance achievement of learning outcomes and the creation of teaching and learning environments to maximize engagement among educators, students and key stakeholders in the community. In October 2011, Dr. Neville was appointed to a second term as Associate Vice-President (Academic), with specific responsibility for Planning, Priorities and Programs.
- Guy Paré, PhD, is a Professor of Information Technology Management and holds the Chair in Information Technology in Health Care at HEC Montréal. His current research interests involve the clinical, organizational and economic impacts of telehealth applications, electronic medical record systems and health information exchange projects as well as the barriers to adoption and implementation of health IT. His work has appeared in top-ranked scientific journals and presented at several international and national conferences. Professor Paré’s expertise in e-health has been sought by numerous organizations including the World Health Organization, the Department of Health in France, Canada Health Infoway, and the Québec Ministry of Health and Social Services. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 2012.
- Morgan Price, MD, PhD, CCFP, FCFP is an assistant professor (University of British Columbia, Department of Family Practice, Island Medical Program) and family physician practicing in the inner city with underserved populations in Victoria. Dr. Price is an Adjunct Professor in Computer Science and Health Information Science at the University of Victoria. His area of interest is in design and adoption research of clinical information systems, focused in primary care, decision support, and consumer oriented information systems (Personal Health Records). He has been Primary Investigator on several successful clinical informatics design and research projects exploring clinical decision support, EMR adoption, personal health records, and medication information systems.
- Khokan C. Sikdar, PhD, is a Lead Biostatistician in the Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary. His works centres on developing and applying innovative biostatistical and epidemiologic methods to advance clinical and public health sciences. Dr. Sikdar provides leadership and recommendation in statistical consultation and analytics for members of the institute and oversees the operations of the institute’s Biostatistics Analysis Core Lab. He leads the surveillance team of Alberta’s Strategy for Patient Oriented Research, is an adjunct professor in the Community Health Sciences at University of Calgary and a full member of O’Brien Institute for Public Health. Over the years of his professional career, he has been involved in more than 100 projects in a variety of health research areas, including studies that focus on cardiovascular disease, colorectal cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and adverse drug reactions.
- Peter Wang, PhD, is a tenured professor (Epidemiology) in the Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN). Dr. Wang graduated from Tianjin Medical University, China and received his PhD in Epidemiology from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Dr. Wang has broad research interests including chronic disease epidemiology, lifestyles and health, immigrants’ health, statistical modelling and genetic epidemiology. Dr. Wang has been a lead investigator or a co-investigator for more than 30 research grants that have been supported by various provincial, national and international funding agencies. Dr. Wang is a reviewer for a number of funding agencies and academic journals; he has published more than 80 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
- Jim Warren, PhD, is Professor of Health Informatics at the University of Auckland. After receiving his BS and PhD from University of Maryland, he was with the University of South Australia from 1993 to 2005. From 2008 to 2010 he served a term as Chair of Health Informatics New Zealand. He is also a founding Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Informatics. Jim’s primary research interest is in IT for chronic condition management, whether this is through improved “business intelligence” (or data mining), clinical decision support tools for health providers, or information systems to better empower health consumers in their own care.
- Jens H. Weber, PhD, PEng, is a Professor of Software Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering, at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He has an Adjunct Faculty appointment in the University’s School of Health Information Science and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family Practice. He is licensed as a practicing Professional Engineer in the Province of British Columbia.
- Laurence S. Wilson received a PhD in Cosmic Ray Physics in 1973 and after brief periods in research and teaching roles at the Universities of Oxford and Sydney respectively, established an international reputation for research in medical imaging in the Ultrasonics Laboratory of Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). Particular areas of interest includes ultrasonic tissue characterisation, Doppler, and knowledge-based imaging. He later led teams in home telecare and broadband telehealth for critical care, as well as leading CSIRO’s health-based ICT program. Other research interests include the role of Human Factors in telehealth. He has retired from full time work and is currently an Adjunct Professor at Western Sydney University.
- Jennifer Zelmer, PhD, is President of Azimuth Health Group, Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare Policy, an Adjunct Faculty Member at the University of Victoria, and serves on a range of health-related advisory committees and boards. Previously, Dr. Zelmer held a series of progressively responsible leadership positions in Canada and abroad, mostly recently as Executive Vice President at Canada Health Infoway, as Chief Executive Officer of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization, and as Vice President of Research and Analysis at the Canadian Institute for Health Information. She received her PhD and MA in economics from McMaster University and her BSc in health information science from the University of Victoria.
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