RESEARCH

• Overview
• Faculty Interests and Research Publications
• Resources for Students

Overview
Faculty members in the Department of Health Management and Informatics engage in a variety of innovative research studies and welcome student participation and collaboration. For a list of focus areas of research and links to faculty CVs with their research publication citations, see Faculty Interests and Research Publications. Information for students interested in conducting research should visit Resources for Students.

Faculty Interests and Research Publications
Focus areas of research and corresponding researchers (with e-mail links) in the department include the following:

• Geriatric and long-term care - Lynn Unruh, Reid Oetjen
• Global Health - Bernardo Ramirez
• Health-care finance and economics - Lynn Unruh, Timothy Rotarius
• Health-care leadership - Aaron Liberman, Myron Fottler, Donna Malvey, Reid Oetjen
• Health-care organizational behavior and human resources - Myron Fottler, Donna Malvey, Aaron Liberman, Reid Oetjen
• Health-care quality - Dawn Oetjen, Donna Malvey, Lynn Unruh, Reid Oetjen
• Health-care workforce - Lynn Unruh, Myron Fottler, Donna Malvey, Reid Oetjen
• Health informatics - Thomas Wan, Jackie Zhang, Aaron Liberman
• Health services strategy and policy - Bernardo Ramirez, Aaron Liberman, Timothy Rotarius, Myron Fottler, Donna Malvey
• Homeland security, emergency management and disaster research - Myron Fottler, Aaron Liberman, Donna Malvey
• Minority health, cultural compentency and disparity in health care - Dawn Oetjen, Bernardo Ramirez, Reid Oetjen
• Patient safety - Lynn Unruh
• Preventive health care and epidemiology - Bernardo Ramirez
• Scholarship of teaching and learning - Reid Oetjen

For a list of all faculty researchers in the college engaged in these focus areas of research, visit COHPA Research Clusters.

Faculty CVs
Click on a faculty member's name to view his or her research publication citations.

• Thomas Falen, M.A., RHIA, LHRM, CPUR/CPUM, EMT-B
• Myron Fottler, Ph.D., M.B.A.
• Aaron Liberman, Ph.D.
• Donna Malvey, Ph.D., M.H.S.A.
• Dawn Oetjen, Ph.D.
• Reid Oetjen, Ph.D., M.S.H.S.
• Bernardo Ramirez , M.D., M.B.A.
• Timothy Rotarius, Ph.D., M.B.A.
• Lynn Unruh, Ph.D., RN, LHRM

Faculty researchers with secondary appointments in the department include

• Thomas T. H. Wan, Ph.D., M.H.S. (Primary appointment: Doctoral Program in Public Affairs)
• Ning Jackie Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. (Primary appointment: Doctoral Program in Public Affairs)

Resources for Students

Undergraduate Students
UCF Office of Undergraduate Research

Graduate Students
Overview of Graduate Research at UCF