THE CONTRIBUTORS
Qiang Cheng, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Peking University in China in 1994 and 1996, respectively, and his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. He received the Invention Achievement Award from IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in 2001. His research interests include multimedia computing and communications, watermarking, computer and communication security, human-computer interaction, and pattern recognition.
Tsang-Hsiang Cheng, Ph.D., is assistant professor in the Department of Business Administration at Southern Taiwan University of Technology in Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in management information systems from the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan in 2003. His research interests include data mining, text mining, information retrieval, and schema integration.
Winnie Cheng, M.Sc., is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University and her B.A.Sci in computer engineering from the University of British Columbia.
Avery Clouds holds an MBA and a doctorate in business administration. He has led the information management efforts at INTEGRIS Health, producing one of the most automated health systems in the country and winning the Most Wired award for four consecutive years. He is widely published and is a frequent speaker at academic and business meetings.
George Demiris, Ph.D., is assistant professor of health management and informatics and director of the health informatics graduate program at the University of Missouri—Columbia. He is also a member of the academic cabinet of the European Union Center and a member of the core faculty of the NLM informatics training grant at the University of Missouri. His research focuses on the use of telemedicine technologies in home care and the design and evaluation of smart home technologies.
George Eisler, Ph.D., is CEO of the British Columbia Academic Health Council. His career has taken him from polymer engineering and biomaterials research to biomedical engineering, educational administration, and health care governance. Along the way, he earned an M.A.Sc. from the University of Waterloo, an M.B.A. from S.F.U., and a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. His research has focused on management of technology in health care. Eisler established and led one of the first clinical engineering departments in British Columbia. He has been dean of the School of Health Sciences at British Columbia Institute of Technology and served on the board of Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre. He has been asked to lead a council of senior health care and educational administrators in the further integration of health research, education, and practice in British Columbia.
Weiguo Fan, Ph.D., is assistant professor in information systems and computer science at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan Business School in 2002. His research interests include knowledge management, information retrieval, text mining, and Web computing.
Pam Forducey, Ph.D., is a rehabilitation psychologist who has worked in rehabilitation for the past fifteen years. She is director of clinical research and development for the INTEGRIS Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Center. Prior to that, she served as the clinical director for the INTEGRIS Rural Telemedicine Program. She received her doctorate from the University of Oklahoma.
Penny Grubb, Ph.D., is a founding member of the Yorkshire Institute for Clinical and Health Informatics and a lecturer at Hull University. During the 1990s, she headed one of the United Kingdom's first health informatics research groups, which became a world leader in the field.
Bob Hodge is manager of the local and wide area network for over seventy locations and oversees network specifications, installation, and maintenance for the INTEGRIS Health system. He was part of the planning team for the Rural Telemedicine project.
C. Ed Hsu, Ph.D., is assistant professor of health management and policy at the University of North Texas School of Public Health. He teaches health information systems and coordinates the Master of Public Health in Health Informatics program. Hsu has published in the area of spatial analysis of health and income disparities and is currently working on two projects that apply geographical information systems (GIS) in bioterrorism needs assessment training. He served as a programmer for a GIS-enabled community health information system to support his doctoral training. He received his Ph.D., (management and policy sciences), M.S. (health informatics) and M.P.H. (health services organization) from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Ph.D., is associate professor at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah. He received his Ph.D. in management information systems from the University of Arizona. His research interests include information technology applications and management in health care, management of system implementations, electronic commerce, digital government, and human-computer interaction. He has published articles in the Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Sciences, the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, and other publications.
Patrick Hung, Ph.D., is assistant professor at the Faculty of Business and Information Technology in the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Before that, he was visiting assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and also a research scientist with Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia. He has industrial experience in e-business projects in North America and Hong Kong. He serves as a panelist of the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs of the National Science Foundation. He is an executive committee member of the newly formed IEEE Technical Community of Services Computing, a W3C member, and also an editorial board member in several international journals. Further, he has published a number of technical papers in journals and conferences, and also has delivered many seminars at different institutions and research labs around the world. In addition, he has been a visiting Ph.D. student at RSA Laboratories West at San Mateo, California. His recent research interests include Service Computing, Web Services Security and Privacy, e-Business Process Integration, and Electronic Negotiation and Agreement.
Lee Kallenbach, Ph.D., is an epidemiologist in the Department of Community Medicine at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. His career has spanned the public, private, and academic sectors. His research interest is in the measurement of improvement in community health as a shared responsibility of community partners.
Kawaljeet Kaur, M.D., M.Sc., completed medical school in India and received a Master of Science degree in health informatics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is a Cisco Certified Network Associate. She worked at INTEGRIS Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Center as a clinical development specialist and is currently pursuing her residency in medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Mengistu Kifle is a doctoral student in computer and system sciences at Stockholm University. The research for his dissertation is on the diffusion of e-medicine in Ethiopia. He has worked extensively in the field of health informatics in sub-Saharan Africa.
Liang-Ming Kung is a marketing engineer at IBM Taiwan Corporation. He received a B.S. degree from Soochow University in Taiwan in 1996 and an M.B.A. in management information systems from National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan in 1998. His research interests include data mining and electronic commerce.
Binshan Lin, Ph.D., is professor of operations and information management at Louisiana State University in Shreveport (LSUS). He is a six-time recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award at LSUS and has published numerous articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings since 1988. He serves as editor-in-chief of Industrial Management and Data Systems, the International Journal of Mobile Communications, the International Journal of Innovation and Learning, the International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, Electronic Government, and the International Journal of Electronic Healthcare. He is president-elect of Southwest Decision Sciences Institute (2003-2004), president of the Association for Chinese Management Educators (2003-2004), program chair of the Louisiana Information Technology Research Association 2003 meeting, and an active member of the International Association for Computer Information Systems. His research interests involve e-commerce, information technology management, quality management, and health care management.
Lin Lin has a Ph.D. in management information systems from the University of Arizona. His research interests include the application of machine learning and data mining algorithms in health care, system development, electronic commerce, and Internet marketing.
Barry P. Markovitz, M.D., is associate professor of anesthesiology and pediatrics, practicing pediatric critical care and anesthesiology at St. Louis Children's Hospital. He earned his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania, completed a pediatric residency at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, a residency in anesthesiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is chair of the ethics committee and medical director of respiratory care at St. Louis Children's Hospital. He has a strong interest in medical informatics and has been the Webmaster and principal editor of PedsCCM, The Pediatric Critical Care Website (http://PedsCCM.org) since its inception in 1995. He has served as chair of the medical records subcommittee of the St. Louis Children's Hospital medical staff and has played an important role in the ongoing development of electronic medical records at the hospital. His interest in evidence-based medicine and clinical epidemiology has involved him in co-editing the Evidence-Based Journal Club on the PedsCCM Web site, co-directing the journal clubs for pediatric and anesthesiology residents at Washington University School of Medicine, and teaching medical students and completing a Masters in Public Health degree at St. Louis University School of Public Health.
Sharline Martin works at an information technology company. She received an M.B.A. with a concentration in management information systems in 2000. Her research interests include the Internet, Web analysis and design, and electronic commerce.
Victor Mbarika, Ph.D., is assistant professor of information systems and decision sciences at Louisiana State University. He holds a Ph.D. in management information systems from Auburn University. His research interests focus on multimedia learning and the transfer of information technology to developing countries. He has written one book, Africa's Least Developed Countries' Teledensity Problems and Strategies: Telecommunications Stakeholders Speak, and numerous book chapters, journal papers, and conference papers.
Chitu Okoli, Ph.D., is assistant professor of management information systems at Concordia University. He received his Ph.D. in ISDS from Louisiana State University in 2003. He researches applications of the Internet in developing countries, strategic use of the Internet for competitive advantage, and remote electronic voting systems.
David Prouty is a network architect for INTEGRIS Health and played an important role in design, management, testing, and resolution of integration issues related to the Rural Telemedicine project.
Huyu Qu received a B.S. degree from the China Institute of Metrology in 1993 and an M.S. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Wayne State University in 2003. He joined the technology department at China Telecom in 1993, mostly working with wired and wireless telecommunication network optimization. He is currently a Ph.D. student at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. His research interests include wireless communication, network security, and telemedicine.
Anne F. Rutkowski, Ph.D., is assistant professor of information systems at Tilburg University in Tilburg, the Netherlands.. She received her Ph.D. in cognitive and social psychology. Since 1994, she has been involved in education and research activities in fundamental psychology. Her research interests and publications are oriented toward group decision making, problem solving, virtual and multicultural collaboration, and e-learning.
Cynthia Scheideman-Miller, M.H.S.A., advocates for legislative and third-party reimbursement changes to facilitate telehealth initiatives and improve the telehealth industry. She served as program director of the INTEGRIS Rural Telemedicine Grant from 1998 to 2003, and she holds a master's degree in health service administration from the University of Kansas.
0livia R. Liu Sheng, Ph.D., is Presidential Professor and Emma Eccles Jones Presidential Chair of Information Systems at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah. Her research focuses on global knowledge management, including knowledge fusion and knowledge-refreshing technologies for portal management, biomedical, electronic commerce, digital government, risk management, telemedicine, telework, and distributed learning applications. She received a B.S. degree from the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and a master's degree and a Ph.D., both in computers and information systems, from the University of Rochester. She joined the management information systems faculty at the University of Arizona in 1985 and was department head from 1997 to 2002. She has also been a visiting faculty member at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and at Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Sam Sheps, M.D., M.Sc., F.R.C.P., Pediatrics, is a Robert WoodJohnson Clinical Scholar and research fellow in the Department of Social Medicine and Administration at the London School of Economics. He is also professor in the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and director of the university's Western Regional Training Center for Health Services Research. He is a member of the college of reviewers for the Canadian Research Chair Program and a frequent journal reviewer. Sheps assisted in the development of the British Columbia Linked Database with colleagues from the Center for Health Services and Policy Research, where he is a core faculty member. He is a member of a national team that researches adverse medical events. His other research interests include waiting lists and wait times for surgical and other health services; high users of health services in British Columbia; and utilization of home care services. He has published on acute care utilization and the impact of hospital downsizing.
Mason Shieh is vice president and chief engineer of Pacific Meditech Inc., a medical application software company that specializes in picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), teleradiology, and system integration. He has extensive experience in implementation and maintenance of secure teleradiology operations through virtual private networks, broadband wireless networking, and other Internet-empowered technologies.
Yao Y. Shieh, Ph.D., is a clinical professor at the University of California Irvine Medical Center. His research interests include computer-aided diagnosis, medical image processing, and medical informatics. His research has been published in the Journal of Digital Imaging, the International Journal of Healthcare Technology Management, and ACME Transactions, among others.
Jung P. Shim, Ph.D., is professor of management information systems at Mississippi State University and has taught at Georgia State University, New York University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong while on sabbatical. He has published numerous journal articles on the subject of management information systems. He is a seven-time recipient of outstanding faculty awards, including the John Grisham Faculty Excellence Award.
Sharon S. Smeltzer, M.S., CCC-SLP, is administrative director of the INTEGRIS Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Hospital, a hundred-bed rehabilitation facility that is the largest in the state of Oklahoma and that includes several rural satellite clinics.
William E. Sorrells is a health care administrator and a captain in the United States Air Force. He served as secretary for the New Mexico Health Care Managers Forum, is a member of the Health Information Management and Systems Society and the American College of Healthcare Executives, and was the 2002 Air Force Materiel Command Medical Information Systems Officer of the Year.
Francisco G. Soto Mas, M.D., Ph.D., has a medical and public health background and extensive experience in disease prevention and health promotion. He received his medical degree in 1984 and worked as general practitioner for several years in his home country, Spain. Soto Mas completed two postgraduate degrees in sports medicine and nutrition and received his master's degree in public health from the University of Arizona in 1994 and his Ph.D. in health education from the University of New Mexico in 2002. For more than fifteen years, Soto Mas has been involved in academic and research activities related to social and behavioral sciences, including the development of theory-based health education programs. He is assistant professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Public Health at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth.
Ronald Spanjers, M.Sc., started in 1992 as a financial consultant at the Jeroen Bosch Hospital in Den Bosch. From 1998 to 2002, he was managing director of the Division of Perinatology and Gynecology at the University Medical Centre Utrecht. Currently, he is chief financial and information officer at Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In addition, he is working on his Ph.D. in the Department of Information Systems and Management at Tilburg University.
Joshia Tan, currently a sophomore at Andover High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, has excelled in every subject, maintaining a grade point average of 4.0. His hobbies include playing and listening to music, reading and composing works of literature, designing computer programs, and playing basketball.
Pency Tsai, M.B.A., is a translator and interpreter for Abcare Interpreter Service in Southfield, Michigan, providing interpreting and translating services to clients in various languages. She has worked as a market research analyst for Alliance Technology Inc. in Troy, Michigan, and received her M.B.A. from Wayne State University in 2004.
Yingge Wang received her B.S. degree from Peking University in China and an M.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She worked for CH2MHILL Inc. for two years. She was awarded the First Class University Award at Peking University, 1993–1994, the Huikai Academic Excellence Award at Peking University, 1994–1995, and the Contribution Award at CH2MHILL Inc. in 2002. Her research interests include signal processing, sensor technology, and biomedical sciences.
Chih-Ping Wei, Ph.D., is professor in the Department of Information Management at National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in management information systems from the University of Arizona. His papers have appeared in IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine and the European Journal of Information Systems, among others. His research interests include knowledge discovery and data mining; text mining and information retrieval; knowledge management; and multidatabase management and integration.
H.Joseph Wen, Ph.D., is associate professor of management information systems and chair of the Department of Accounting and Management Information Systems at Donald L. Harrison College of Business at Southeast Missouri State University. He holds a Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has published over ninety-five papers in academic refereed journals, book chapters, encyclopedias, and national conference proceedings. He has received over $6 million in research grants from state and federal funding sources. His areas of expertise are Internet research, electronic commerce, transportation information systems, and software development.
Harris Wu is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan Business School. He has had over ten publications in journals such as Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology and Decision Support Systems, at conferences such as CHI, Hypertext, ICIS and WWW, and in edited books.
David C. Yen, Ph.D., is professor of management information systems and chair of the Department of Decision Sciences and Management Information Systems at Miami University. He received a Ph.D. in management information systems and an M.S. in computer science from the University of Nebraska. He is active in research and has published three books and over one hundred articles. He was also a co-recipient of grants from the Cleveland Foundation (1987–1988), GE Foundation (1989), and Microsoft Foundation (1996–1997).