Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering

Affiliated Faculty

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NameE-mailDepartmentResearch Interests
Dulcy Abraham dulcy@purdue.edu Civil Engineering  
James Anderson andersonj@purdue.edu Sociology Medical error prevention
George Avery gavery@purdue.edu Health & Kinesiology health economics; healthcare management; epidemiology; healthcare quality; public health preparedness
Tom Brady tbradyjr@pnc.edu Industrial Engineering Technology analysis, design and improvement of large-scale systems, using simulation and optimization technology.
Melanie Braswell braswell@purdue.edu Nursing Healthcare TAP; Perioperative Nursing and Nursing Informatics
Jeff Brewer jbrewer@purdue.edu Computer Technology Systems analysis and design, computer-aided software engineering (CASE), agile development methodologies, IT project management and Telecare/Telemedic
Barrett Caldwell bscaldwell@purdue.edu Industrial Engineering human factors and sociotechnical systems engineering; distributed supervisory control; team coordination and task performance; knowledge management
Suresh Chand suresh.chand.1@purdue.edu Management operations management; production lot sizing and scheduling for multiperiod production inventory problems with varying demand forecasts
Karen Chang ckchang@purdue.edu Nursing health information technology
Bill Cleveland wsc@purdue.edu Statistics computer networking, data visualization, statistical model-building, time series
Chris Clifton clifton@cs.purdue.edu Computer Science privacy issues in analysis of healthcare data
Bart Collins bcollins@purdue.edu Communication telemedicine, tele-health and health literacy
W. Dale Compton dcompton@purdue.edu Industrial Engineering industrial engineering
Gordon Coppoc coppoc@purdue.edu Veterinary Clinical Services medical informatics; school of medicine
Michael Criswell criswelm@purdue.edu Nursing critical care outcomes; nursing simulation
Brad Duerstock bsd@purdue.edu Center for Paralysis Research assistive technology, neurological recovery, physiological monitoring
Vincent Duffy duffy@purdue.edu Industrial Engineering digital human modeling; human factors; computer-aided design
Benjamin Dunford bdunford@purdue.edu Management

Employee relations and health care effectiveness, burnout, participative management, organizational development, team building, medical errors
Phillip Dunston dunston@purdue.edu Civil Engineering Virtual Reality Applications for Construction Planning and Management; Construction Automation and Robotics
Mohan Dutta mdutta@purdue.edu Communication health disparities
David Ebert ebert@purdue.edu Electrical and Computer Engineering Information security and privacy risks, risk perception and management, vulnerability analysis, cost-benefit analysis of information technology invest
Fariborz Farahmand fariborz@purdue.edu   CERIAS  
Melissa Franks mmfranks@purdue.edu Child Development and Family Studies Aging families, marriage and health, health behaviors and chronic illness management
Robert Hannemann hanneman@purdue.edu Biomedical Engineering biomedical engineering, healthcare engineering, pediatrics
Marietta Harrison harrisonm@purdue.edu Pharmacy Practice  
Tyler Harrison tharrison@purdue.edu Communication organizational influence on health-related campaigns
Jeanne Holdren jholdren@purdue.edu Nursing health policy
Haslyn Hunte hhunte@purdue.edu Health & Kinesiology population health, racial ethnic/disparities in health
Sujin Kim sujin@purdue.edu Industrial Engineering stochastic simulation
Nan Kong nkong@purdue.edu Biomedical Engineering discrete optimization under uncertainty
Mark Lawley malawley@purdue.edu Industrial Engineering
Kai Ming Li mmkmli@purdue.edu Industrial Engineering acoustics
Sandra Liu liuss@purdue.edu Consumer Sciences and Retailing Consumerism in healthcare delivery; sales management in a knowledge era; customer capital and structural capital in healthcare industry
James McGlothlin jdm3@purdue.edu Health & Kinesiology ergonomics, industrial hygiene, epidemiology
David McKinnis mckinnis@purdue.edu HealthcareTAP quality; safety; productivity
Susan Morgan semorgan@purdue.edu Communication Construction of persuasive messages to strengthen health communication campaigns.
Seza Orcun sorcun@purdue.edu   decision-making; collective care
Joe Pekny pekny@purdue.edu Industrial Engineering Systems analysis, combinatorial optimization, supply chain management, planning and scheduling systems, pharmaceutical pipeline management, model-base
Kimberly Plake kplake@purdue.edu Pharmacy Practice  
Doraiswami Ramkrishna ramkrish@ecn.purdue.edu Chemical Engineering Metabolic modeling and Engineering, Modeling of Cancer Therapy, Chemical Reaction Engineering
Polly Royal proyal@purdue.edu Nursing involvement with the legislative process at the state and national levels, which address the factors influencing the current nursing shortage
Chip Rutledge chipr@purdue.edu  
Laura Sands lsands@nursing.purdue.edu Nursing optimal functioning in vulnerable older adults; long-term care environments; disability in older adults; database analysis
Scott Schaffer sschaff@purdue.edu Communication learning and performance in the workplace and other informal settings, including virtual and public settings
Lee Schwarz lschwarz@purdue.edu Management supply-chain modeling; secure multiparty computation in decision-making
Pankaj Sharma sharma@purdue.edu   detection of tuberculosis; climate change; global health; product lifecycle management
Cleveland Shields cgshields@purdue.edu Child Development and Family Studies Families and health, healthcare, family interventions in health, patient-centered care, couples and cancer
Thomas Siegmund siegmund@purdue.edu Mechanical Engineering solid mechanics; bone mechanics; mechanics of phon.ation
Howard Sypher hsypher@purdue.edu Communication Health communication; communication and technology
Thomas Talavage tmt@purdue.edu Electrical and Computer Engineering  
Tsigeweini Asgedom Tessema tatessema@purdue.edu Military Family Research Institute Personalized Health Care in preventive healthcare delivery
Joseph Thomas jt3@pharmacy.purdue.edu Pharmacy Practice health outcomes; cost of treatment analysis; dementia; medication use among elderly persons
Juan Wachs jpwachs@purdue.edu Industrial Engineering
Abram Walton waltona@purdue.edu Industrial Technology Continuous process improvement, Lean, Six Sigma, Leadership and Organizational Development, and their applications to Healthcare
Hong Wan   Industrial Engineering  
Sharon Weiner sweiner@purdue.edu Libraries Information literacy, health literacy, and all affiliated literacies; higher education organization, administration, and leadership
Steve Witz witz@purdue.edu RCHE application of engineering, science and management principles to transform healthcare delivery
Karen Yehle kyehle@purdue.edu Nursing telehealth; cardiovavscular nursing
Ji Soo Yi yij@purdue.edu Industrial Engineering human-computer interaction, information visualization, mobile computing, and assistive technology
Yuehwern Yih yih@purdue.edu Industrial Engineering system design; flow analysis; scheduling and resource allocation
Lingsong Zhang lingsong@purdue.edu Statistics

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