Over 90 faculty and staff across 28 offices, centers and departments are affiliates of the CHB. The networking opportunities and collaboration between our affiliates foster a sense of community and belonging those interested and curious about the health industry at Bentley and beyond.
Below is a list of our affiliates, along with their interests in the health sector.
Savannah Adkins
Lecturer
Economics
Research Interests:
- Maternal health
- Policy evaluation of public health interventions
- Gender and development
Nana Adu
Assistant Director
Gender and Sexuality Student Programs
Research Interests:
- Intersectional mental health
- Black maternal health
- Normalizing conversations around suicidal ideation/suicide
- LGBTQ+ well-being
Onur Altindag
Associate Professor
Economics
Research Interests:
- Policy evaluation of public health interventions
- Infant and maternal health
- Demography and population economics
- Causal empirical designs
Aaron Ancell
Assistant Professor
Philosophy
Bridie (Bee) Andrews
Associate Professor
History
Research Interests:
- Chinese medicine
- Medicine in cultural exchange
- Drug trades
- Acupuncture
- Efficacy
Payal Arya
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Integration of Science and Industry
Research Interests:
- Neuroscience research
- Data analytics
- Data science
- Translational science
Tamara Babaian
Professor
Computer Information Systems
Research Interests:
- Human-computer interactions
- Intelligent systems
- AI applications in health care
Oyenike Balogun-Mwangi
Assistant Professor
Natural & Applied Sciences
Research Interests:
- Racial/gender disparities in mental health
- Body image among Black African women
- Mixed-methods research
Nora Basile
Assistant Director
Bentley University Health Center
Research Interests:
- LGBTQIA+ health care and access
- Sexual health and perceptions
- Clinician biases
- Pharmacological interventions
- Electronic health record data analysis
Iris Berdrow
Professor; MBA Program Director
Management
Dan Berlin
Adjunct Lecturer
Experience Design
Research Interests:
- Uncovering opportunities to improve Electronic Health Records (EHR) design
- Using psychometrics to discover User Experience (UX) opportunities
- Determining moderation best practices for user interviews
Danielle Blanch Hartigan
Associate Professor
Natural and Applied Sciences
Research Interests:
- Health communication
- Patient-centered care
- Cancer survivorship
- Nonverbal behavior
- Patient perceptions
Ryan Bouldin
Associate Professor; Department Chair
Natural and Applied Sciences
Research Interests:
- Bioinspired material synthesis
- Mechanisms to remove toxic chemicals from consumer products
- Green polymer chemistry
- Sustainable product development
Jill Brown
Professor
Management
Research Interests:
- Hospital strategic management
- Hybrid for-profit/nonprofit structures
- Co-opetition in health care
- Physician bargaining power
Liz Brown
Professor
Law and Taxation; Business Law
Research Interests:
- Workplace wellness programs
- Privacy in health care provision
- Regulation of wearable health trackers
- Intersection of technology and health law policy
Jacqueline Burgoyne
Nurse Practitioner
Health Center
Research Interests:
- Advanced Practice Registered Nurse practice/policy
- Racial/gender disparities in healthcare
- Emotional Intelligence
Stephen M. Campbell
Associate Professor
Philosophy
Research Interests:
- Ethical theory
- Medical ethics
- Well-being
- Death
- Philosophy of disability
Xuemei Cao
Assistant Professor
Sociology
Research Interests:
- Aging and health
- Immigration
- Family and gender
- Asia and Asian Americans
- Qualitative research methods
Benjamin Chartock
Assistant Professor
Economics
Research Interests:
- U.S. health care policy
- Quality & price transparency
- Out-of-network billing
- Insurance & provider issues
- Patients as consumers
Paula Chaves da Silva
Adjunct Lecturer
Natural and Applied Sciences
Research Interests:
- Neuroscience research
- Translational science
- Data science
- Biopharmaceutical activity
Clifton Chow
Adjunct Lecturer
Management
Research Interests:
- Evidence-based outpatient behavioral health services
- Discrete Markov models in system cost-effectiveness
- Primary care & behavioral health outcomes & quality
- Employment interventions for individuals with mental health disabilities
Zana Cranmer
Associate Professor
Natural and Applied Sciences
Research Interests:
- Health impacts of energy generation
- Economics of energy and climate change
- Environmental impacts of energy generation
- Energy policy
Mateo Cruz
Assistant Professor
Management
Research Interests:
- Social perception, stereotyping, unconscious bias
- Stereotype threat (individual & organizational interventions)
- Women in STEM (careers)
- STEM organizational culture and change
Kelly Cunningham
Lecturer
Philosophy
Research Interests:
- Bioethics
- End-of-life care
- Trust and distrust in medicine
Gary David
Professor
Sociology
Research Interests:
- Ethnographic research
- Experience design and technological implementation
- Organizational cultural change
- Speech recognition
- Electronic medical records
- Conversation analysis and forensic linguistics
- Medical transcription
Dhaval Dave
Stanton Research Professor
Economics
Research Interests:
- Policy analysis
- Socio-economic determinants of health behaviors & outcomes
- Linkages between health and labor markets
- Substance abuse and risky behaviors
- Advertising and marketing in health care markets
Robert DeLeo
Associate Professor
Global Studies
Research Interests:
- Public health policymaking
- Public health preparedness and prevention
- U.S. health care policy
- Risk and hazard governance
- Health risk framing and government agenda setting
Suzanne Dove
Executive Director
Badavas Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning
Research Interests
- Digital learning
- Experiential learning
- Global education
- Faculty development
- Organizational change
Jon Ericson
Associate Professor
Experience Design
Research Interests:
- Emerging technologies for physical and behavioral health care
- Virtual (VR) and augmented (AR) reality systems
- Serious games (“games for impact”) in health care settings
- Data visualization, user experience (UX), and interaction design
- Wayfinding, environmental design and architecture
James Fitz Gerald
Lecturer
English and Media Studies
Research Interests:
- American literature & medicine
- Medical & health humanities
- History of medicine
- Critical disability studies
- Health & empire
Peter Forkner
Director
Bentley University Counseling Center
Research Interests:
- Treatment of anxiety, depression and substance abuse
- Masculinity and its influence on male behavior
- Mental health issues
- Student resilience and flourishing
Brian Fox
Associate Professor
Management
Research Interests:
- Competitive dynamics
- Firm performance
- Value-based business strategy
- Industry evolution and innovation
- Game theory
- Managers and the behavioral theory of the firm
Fei Gao
Assistant Professor
Marketing
Research Interests:
- Digital marketing in health care
- Medical crowdfunding
- Digital nudges
Angela Garcia
Professor
Natural and Applied Sciences
Research Interests:
- Conversation analytic research
- Meditation
- Emergency & service calls
- Sociology of leisure
- Ethnomethodology
Monica Garfield
Professor
Computer Information Systems
Eric Gaynor
Lecturer
Accounting
Research Interests
- Medicaid administration
- Healthcare finance
- Cost allocation for health and human service agencies
Jessica Greher Traue
Director
Center for Health and Wellness
Research Interests:
- Social norms and norm clarification
- Prosocial bystander behavior
- Alcohol expectancy
- Self-protective strategies
- Affirmative consent
Bill Gribbons
Professor
Experience Design
Research Interests:
- Human factors
- Human computer interaction
- Innovation
- Universal accessibility
- Product usability
- User experience information visualization
Haijing Hao
Associate Professor
Computer Information Systems
Casey Hayward
Professor
English and Media Studies
Research Interests:
- Communities dependent on/addicted to opioids
- Issues of the blind community
- Pediatric cancer research and treatment, including family-centered care
- Epilepsy care and management
Julia Hvoslef
Director
Gender & Sexuality Student Programs
Research Interests:
- Gender equity and inclusion
- Inclusive pedagogy
- Restorative justice
- Barriers to psychological safety
- Western gender norms and behaviors
Tony Kiszewski
Associate Professor
Natural and Applied Sciences
Research Interests:
- Emerging infections
- Sustainable malaria interventions
- Tropical public health, vector-borne disease
- Vector ecology
Ipek Koparan
Assistant Professor
Management
Research Interests:
- Decision-making under risk and uncertainty
- Strategic factor markets
- Dynamic capabilities
- Entrepreneurial opportunity recognition and creation
Maria Lazebnik
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Natural and Applied Sciences
Research Interests:
- Direct-to-consumer genomic testing in health care
- Attitudes towards genomic testing in college students
- Gene therapy
- Biology education research
- Genomic biomarkers in hearing loss
- Transcriptional regulation in Willams-Beuren Syndrome (WBS)
Jackson Lautier
Assistant Professor
Mathematical Sciences
Research Interests:
- Statistical applications to drug development and pharmacology
- Health insurance
- Mortality/survival analysis
- Economic impact of COVID-19
- Sports injury modeling/injury prevention
Fred Ledley
Professor; Director
Natural and Applied Sciences, Management; Center for Integration of Science and Industry
Research Interests:
- Biotechnology
- Translational science
- Entrepreneurship
- Futurism
- Strategy
- Data analytics
Mengyan Li
Assistant Professor
Mathematical Sciences
Research Interests:
- Transfer learning
- Representation learning with EHR data
- Measurement error model
- Missing data
- High dimensional data analysis
Sen Li
Assistant Professor
Computer Information Systems
Christine Liu
Associate Professor
Accounting
Research Interests:
- Financial accounting
- Credit markets
- Big data
- Economic implications of human capital
Mingfei Li
Professor
Mathematical Sciences
Research Interests:
- Applied statistics methods
- Data science
- Health analytics including medical and clinical studies
Piaomu Liu
Associate Professor
Mathematical Sciences
Research Interests:
- Lifetime data analysis (recurrent event & competing risks)
- Joint dynamic modeling
- Semiparametric methods
Marco Marabelli
Professor
Information and Process Management
Research Interests:
- Knowledge management and innovation
- Implications of big data
- Knowledge mobilization and coordination in healt hcare and adoption of EMR/EHR
- Social media and social networks
Summer Marion
Lecturer
Global Studies
Research Interests:
- Global health governance
- Philanthropy & public-private partnerships
- Governance of infectious disease outbreaks
- Trade & travel measures in infectious disease outbreaks
- Social support & information-seeking
Mary Marcel
Associate Professor
Experience Design
Research Interests:
- African Esophageal Cancer Consortium/epidemic of esophageal cancer
- Breast cancer diagnosis and treatment
- HIV/AIDS in women
- ADLs in seniors
- Communication apprehension as a phenomenon
Jackie Masloff
Lecturer
Computer Information Systems
Research Interests:
- Academic success of first-generation college students
- Health and well-being of first-generation college students
Julia Matthews
Director
Student Health Center
Research Interests:
- Health & wellness of college students
- Sexual & reproductive health & rights
- Clinical nursing education
- Underserved communities
- Refugee women's health & rights
Helen Meldrum
Associate Professor
Natural and Applied Sciences
Jim Miranda
Assistant Professor
English and Media Studies
Research Interests:
- Latinx and Indigenous literature
- Narratives of (im)migration
- Border studies
- Role of writing and storytelling in addressing public health
- Collective (and divergent) practices associated with violence and grief
Reagan Mozer
Assistant Professor
Mathematical Sciences
Research Interests:
- Causal inference and experimental design for randomized trials and observational studies
- Heterogeneous treatment effects
- Matching methods
David Murungi
Associate Professor
Information and Process Management
Research Interests:
- Health information systems
- Social implications of technology in organizational settings
- IS project management
Ikechukwu Okonkwo
Adjuct Lecturer
Accounting
Michael Ortiz-Castro
Lecturer
History
Research Interests:
- Bioethics
- History of medicine and the life sciences in the US, with a focus on biology and medicine
- Quantification of medical risk, statistics, the history of racial science in medicine
- Relationship between corporations, race, and rights
Elizabeth Paushter
Director of Education Innovation and Learning
Badavas Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning
Jeffrey Proudfoot
Associate Professor
Computer Information Systems
Research Interests:
- Cybersecurity regulations
- Corporate board governance of cyber risk
- Behavioral information security
- Deception/insider threat detection
Sandeep Purao
Professor
Information and Process Management
Research Interests:
- Design and evolution of complex technologies at larger scales
- Design science methods
- Clinical decision support systems
Arthur Ream III
Lecturer
Information and Process Management
Research Interests:
- Cybersecurity and health care
- Geopolitical events and and correlation of cyber attacks
- Quantum computing and cryptography
- Supply chain technologies
Arielle Scoglio
Assistant Professor
Natural and Applied Sciences
Research Interests:
- Trauma-related health conditions
- Violence prevention
- Trauma-informed practice
- Resilience and social support
Axel Seemann
Professor
Philosophy
Leeann Simons
Adjunct Lecturer
Natural and Applied Sciences
Christine Skubisz
Assistant Professor
Natural and Applied Sciences
Research Interests:
- Health communication
- Message design and effects
- Public health campaigns
- Patient-centered outcomes research
Brandon Smit
Assistant Professor
Management
Research Interests:
- Work-life balance
- Psychological detachment & recovery
- Stress & coping
Curt Smith
Assistant Professor
Sociology
Research Interests:
- Homelessness and housing access
- Health disparities and homelessness
- Health disparities and immigration
- Acceptance into services
Ankita Srivastava
Assistant Professor
Information and Process Management
Research Interests:
- Health IT and analytics
- Success of IT in health care
- Intended and unintended consequences of EHR: use, EHR design and usability
David Stamps
Assistant Professor
Experience Design
Research Interests:
- The health care experience in communities of color
- Racial barriers in telehealth
- Health care providers and social support/trust in communities of color
Euthemia (Effie) Stavrulaki
Associate Professor
Management
Research Interests:
- Health care operations
- Health care quality
- Health care process management
- Patient well-being and education
Betsy Stoner
Assistant Professor
Natural and Applied Sciences
Research Interests:
- Marine community & ecosystem ecology
- Effects of anthropogenic activities on aquatic community dynamics
- STEM education
- Nutrient pollution in aquatic habitats
Naveen Sunder
Assistant Professor
Economics
Research Interests:
- Maternal and child health
- Mental health
- Low-middle income countries
- Policy evaluation
- Causal empirical designs
Dave Szymanski
Associate Professor
Natural and Applied Sciences
Research Interests:
- Transdisciplinary sustainability curriculum development
- Elemental cycling in watersheds
- Forensic chemistry
- Climate and sustainability policy
Gregory Vaughan
Associate Professor
Mathematical Sciences
Research Interests:
- Statistical applications for public health
- Statistical learning
- Model selection longitudinal data analysis
Jiaying Weng
Assistant Professor
Mathematical Sciences
Research Interests:
- Application of statistical methods in Health Analytics
- Sufficient dimension reduction
- Variable selection on high-dimension data analysis
Katherine Wood
Assistant Professor
Finance
Lan Xia
Professor
Marketing
Research Interests:
- Consumer information processing
- Behavior pricing
- E-commerce
- Service and satisfaction
Anqi Xu
Assistant Professor
Computer Information Systems
Research Interests:
- Health information technology
- Health care decision making
- Online health care communities
- Online knowledge communities
- User behaviors and emotions
- Social medial analysis
- Machine learning
- Deep learning
Jennifer Xu
Professor
Computer Information Systems
Research Interests:
- Health care analysis
- Applications of machine learning and AI in health care
- Human-computer interactions
Edward Zhou
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for the Integration of Science and Industry
Research Interests:
- Advancements in pharmacology
- Neurodegenerative disease research
- Data analytics
- Data science
- Translational science
Mounia Ziat
Associate Professor
Experience Design
Research Interests:
- Haptic and tactile perception
- HCI and multimodal experience design
- Accessibility