Our Student Health Care Management Association is organizing a Service – Learning Project “It Can Wait – Stop Texting While Driving” Campaign, August 28, 2013 a collaborative program with AT&T and GSU. The project consists of computer programs with simulation, key public officials including Legislators, the President of the University, our Dean and the Chief of public Safety.
Dr. Nadene Chambers is the newest member of our faculty. She is responsible for developing our new Masters of Health Informatics Program scheduled to begin in 2014. Nadene is our newest PhD and defended her Dissertation in June the title: is “Implicit Knowledge Transfer Use in Virtual Healthcare Information Systems Project Teams and Its Association with Successful Project Outcomes”.
Dr. Zo Ramamonjiarivelo has three papers presented at the Academy of Health two poster presentations at (Academy Health-Baltimore, June 2013) and one paper scheduled to be presented at the Academy of Management in Orlando-August 2013. The titles are:
TITLE: Privatization of Public Hospitals from 1997-2009: Is Financial Distress a Major Factor?
TITLE: Are Faith-Based Hospitals Different from Other Private Not-For-Profit Hospitals: A Longitudinal Analysis (2000-2010)
TITLE: Is Privatization the Solution to the Financial Distress of Public Hospitals?
Dr. Caren Rossow presented at the following conferences:
1. National Association of Multicultural Rehab Concerns Conference, New Orleans, LA, July 25-27, 2013 - Presenter – Multi-disciplinary Service Learning in Belize Central America
2. International Disaster Management Conference, A Courna Spain, July 9-11, 2013 hosted by the Wessex Institute of Technology, UK
Presentation Title: Healthcare providers: Will they come to work? Wednesday, July 10, 2013.
Publication: Disaster Management and Human Health Risk III, WIT Transactions on the Built Environment, Vol 133, WIT Press, 2013, ISSN: 1743-3509, ISBN: 978-1-84564-738-4.
The three day conference with a host of international researchers focusing on disaster monitoring and mitigation, disaster analysis, emergency preparedness, critical information and communication technologies, multi-hazard risk assessment, risk mitigation and socio-economic issues. Researchers from the United States included professors from Florida State University, Texas A & M, University of Utah.
Dr. DeLawnia Comer-HaGans was participated in the following activities:
1. Accepted to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Connections Seventh Annual Symposium June 12-14 in Princeton, New Jersey. The Symposium aims to increase the visibility and enhance the skill sets of New Connections grantees and potential applicants. Applicants to New Connections are early to midcareer researchers from historically underrepresented groups.
2. Presented a poster at the Academy Health’s 2013 Annual Research meeting June 23-25 in Baltimore, Maryland. The poster was entitled Socioeconomic Status and Demographic Disparities in Utilizing Dilated Eye Exams by DeLawnia Comer-HaGans, Ning Lu, and Zo Ramamonjiarivelo.