AUPHA at HIMSS 13
The 8th Annual AUPHA Academic Forum was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 3, 2013, in conjunction with HIMSS 2013. Chaired by Brian Malec, PhD, Professor of Health Administration, California State University - Northridge, the Forum included paper presentations and an update on AUPHA’s Health Information Management Systems Technology and Analysis (HIMSTA) curriculum project.
Presenters included Jay J. Shen, PhD, and Christopher Cochran, PhD, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Mark Gaynor, St. Louis University; Gabriela Mustata Wilson, PhD, and Gina L. Schaar, RN, DNP, University of Southern Indiana; Eta S. Bemer, EdD, University of Alabama Birmingham; Kendall H. Cortelyou-Ward, PhD, University of Central Florida; Martha Cornwell-Riddell, DrPH, and Andrew Johnson, PhD, University of Kentucky.
A special thank you to Mark Diana, PhD, Tulane University, for sponsoring the reception following the Forum, and to Margaret Schulte, DBA, Northwestern University, for her continued leadership and support of the HIMSTA Project.