Dr. Sajda Qureshi - Director
Dr. Sajda Qureshi is professor at the Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Department at the College of Information Science & Technology at the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO).
She holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science at the University of London the United Kingdom.
She has been coordinator of the Commonwealth Network of Information Technology for Development. She was at the Department of Decision and Information Sciences at the Faculty of Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. She has lectured at the MIS Department of the University of Arizona in the USA and has been involved in various consultancy projects in Italy and the UK.
She has over 100 publications in journals such as Group Decision and Negotiation, Information Infrastructure and Policy and Communications of the ACM, books published by Prentice Hall, Springer-Verlag, Chapman and Hall and North-Holland and conferences such as the International Conference in Information Systems and the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences.
She has performed editorial work for Journals such as DataBase for Advances in Information Systems and conferences such as the International Conference for Information Systems (ICIS), and the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS). Her research interests include the use of electronic communication technologies to support coordination and decision- making processes within international networks and network organizations.
She is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Information Technology for Development
- Office: 173-E PKI
- Telephone: 402.554.2837
- Email: squreshi@mail.unomaha.edu
Dr. Peter Wolcott
Dr. Peter Wolcott is an associate professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO).
He has long-standing interests in the international dimensions of information technologies, and data management. He is the Chair of the Department of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis at UNO.
His current research projects are in the areas of service learning and information technology for development. His teaching interests are in data management and information technology for development. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in Business Administration (Management Information Systems) in 1993.
- Office: 177-E PKI
- Telephone: 402.554.3158
- Email:pwolcott@mail.unomaha.edu
Dr. Jason (Jie) Xiong
Dr. Jason (Jie) Xiong is an assistant professor of Computer Information Systems and Supply Chain Management in the Walker College of Business at Appalachian State University.
Dr. Xiong’s research focuses on IT for Development (IT4D), E-Commerce, and the value of Information Systems. Dr. Xiong has work experiences in IT companies including Intel, Alibaba, and Baidu.
- Telephone: 828.262.2351
- Email:xiongjj@appstate.edu
Dr. John Windle
Dr. Windle is Professor of Medicine at UNMC and is a cardiac electrophysiologist, with an interest in the science of the mechanisms, functions, and performance of the electrical activities of specific regions of the heart.
In the past, Dr. Windle has also held the posts of Associate Dean of Continuing Medical Education (1997-2000), and as the first Director of the Collaborative UNO/UNMC Health Informatics Program (2000-2005).
Dr. Windle is very active in professional associations, having served as President of the Heartland Affiliate of the American Heart Association from 2004-2006. He also served as Governor of the Nebraska Chapter of the American College of Cardiology from 2002 through 2005.
Dr. Windle has been named as a "Best Doctor in America" for 2005, 2006 and 2009. Dr. Windle is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Windle has received extensive external funding in support of his research in Complex cardiac mapping, computerized decision-support and guideline modeling/health informatics.
In addition, he serves as Principal Investigator for a National Library of Medicine IAIMS Grant examining attitudes towards information technology of academic physicians versus private-practice physicians.
Read Full ProfileDr. Martina Clarke
Dr. Martina Clarke is an assistant professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Informatics. She received a B.S. in Business Information Technology Systems from the University of Charleston (Charleston, WV) and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Health Informatics from the University of Missouri (Columbia, MO).
Her current research focuses on human computer interaction, user-centered design, usability evaluation of health information technology, and cognitive load.
- E-mail:martinaclarke@unomaha.edu
Dr. Timi Barone
Dr. Barone earned a B.A. in anthropology from Indiana University, an M.A. in medical anthropology and Ph.D. in anthropology from Case Western Reserve University (in Cleveland, OH).
An associate professor of Anthropology with a specialization in Medical Anthropology. Her primary research interests are in the biocultural basis of health and barriers to health care access/utilization for minority populations. Recent research focuses on the cross-cultural study of sleep and health from the perspective of Darwinian medicine.
Dr. Barone is a member of the Women's Studies faculty, Native American Studies Faculty and the Latino/Latin American Studies faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She currently teaches Introduction to Anthropology, Introduction to Physical Anthropology, Nonwestern and Alternative Medicines, Ethnomedicines of the Americas, Applied Anthropology and Sex, Evolution and Society.
- Office: 383J ASH
- Telephone: 402.554.3372
- Email:tbarone@unomaha.edu
Dr. James McClay
Dr. James C. McClay is an associate professor for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. McClay attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Biophysics with Honors in 1979.
He later attended Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan earning a Doctorate of Medicine degree in 1984. In 1987, Dr. McClay completed his Master of Science degree in Bioengineering at the University of Michigan. He completed his residency program in General Surgery at St. John Hospital in Detroit, Michigan in 1986.
Dr. McClay has performed extensive research in Healthcare Informatics. Dr. McClay has been a faculty member at UNMC since 2000.
Read Full ProfileDr. Mahmooda Qureshi (MD, MSCP, DipABLM)
Dr. Mahmooda Qureshi is a Primary Care Physician at Mass General Hospital (MGH), and an Assistant Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She received her medical degree from St. George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London, U.K. in 1992, completed her Internal Medicine residency and General Internal Medicine & Women’s Health Fellowship in 1999, at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland Ohio. Dr. Qureshi is a certified faculty coach at Mass General Brigham (MGB), is certified in SMART (stress management and resiliency training), is a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine.
Her areas of expertise are preventive primary care delivery, women’s health, mind-body medicine, and lifestyle medicine.
Dr. Qureshi is the co-director of two Harvard Medical School continuing education courses: Primary Care Internal Medicine, and the unique Women’s Health and Menopause course.
Dr. Peter R. Chai (MD, MMS)
Dr. Peter R Chai is an associate professor of emergency medicine and medical toxicology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and affiliate research scholar at the Koch Institute for Integrated Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and The Fenway Institute. He is also research faculty at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Dr. Chai’s lab develops innovative technologies to discover health behavior change. This data is then leveraged to develop closed loop systems grounded in behavioral theory to support health behaviors. Major contributions of Dr. Chai’s lab include the development of ingestible sensors to measure and support medication adherence, development of novel drug delivery systems, and robotic and computer vision systems to detect changes in disease. He also conducts work at the translational stage between animal models and first in man trials.
Dr. Tiffany Glynn (PhD)
Tiffany Glynn, PhD, is a clinical health psychologist in the Behavioral Medicine Program in the Department of Psychiatry at Mass General, a research investigator in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Instructor at Harvard Medical School. Clinically, Dr. Glynn specializes in behavioral medicine (managing and adjusting to acute and chronic health/medical challenges; uptake and implementation of health behaviors). She also specializes in treating trauma and substance use.
Dr. Glynn’s research explores ways to improve the health of people experiencing marginalization with a focus on HIV and cardiovascular disease. She explores how biological processes, mental health, and social/structural environments interact to make it harder for people to get the care they need and engage in health behaviors – and ways to improve healthcare to address these issues