Teaching
The following are brief descriptions of courses I have taught
Healthcare Management. This course is intended for those interested in a systematic understanding of organizational principles, practices, and insights pertinent to the management of health services organizations. The course covers broad concepts and skills of management and application of these techniques to health care organizations including hospitals and other provider organizations as well as suppliers, buyers, regulators, public health and financing organizations. I developed an online version of this course for students in the online B.S. in Science of Health Care Delivery program.
Fundamentals of Health Informatics. This course provides an overview of the field of health informatics, including clinical informatics, consumer health informatics, and public health informatics. The course is directed towards healthcare, public policy, management, computing and engineering students who want to understand the rapidly evolving field of Medical Informatics and its integral role in healthcare practices. I have offered this course at the undergraduate and the graduate level, in online and on-ground formats.
Project in Medical Informatics. As the nationwide push for Health Information Technology (HIT) grows, there are increasing interests in studying the use HIT systems in various health practices. This project course provides students an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in health informatics and focuses on getting students involved in various in-class activities and a quarter/semester-long end-to-end group project. This course is designed as a second course in the Health/Medical Informatics area and is intended to let students apply the knowledge they learned in Introduction to Medical Informatics to a practical project.
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). This course explores the technical, organizational and social issues involved in designing, developing, deploying, and evaluating computational and communication tools to support groups and organizational activities. This course reviews a variety of research methods and conceptual frameworks that have guided CSCW research and practices in the past 25 years. Both classic and contemporary materials are read and discussed. Students gain first-hand experience with a variety of concepts and tools through class lectures and readings.
Doing Research in the Community. Students critically examine the objectives and processes for conducting research collaboratively with community organizations. Students work in teams on real-world community research projects with faculty mentors and community partners. This course emphasizes methods, values, and relationships that are appropriate for community-based research.
Environmental Analysis & Design. This course orients students to the study of complex relationships between human beings and the non-human world and subsequent application of this knowledge to the development of interdisciplinary theories of environmental problems, impacts, and solutions that span all levels from individual behavior to international policy.