[AISWorld] Call for Nominations: WHITE 2016 Doctoral Consortium

[Ritu Agarwal]

*WHITE 2016*

*CALL FOR NOMINATIONS*

*Doctoral Consortium at the 7th Annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics*

*October 20th, Westin Alexandria, DC Metro  [Main Conference October
21-22nd]*

www.rhsmith.umd.edu/chids/white



We are pleased to announce the WHITE 2016 Doctoral Consortium as a
pre-conference event for the *7th Annual **Workshop on Health IT and
Economics (WHITE)**.* The consortium will be held on October 20th, 2016,
from 1 pm to 6 pm, with a dinner following, in Alexandria VA. The
consortium will provide an opportunity for doctoral students to receive
feedback on their research, network and discuss career issues. All
interested PhD students and recent post-docs working on research in the
areas of health information systems, health economics, clinical fields and
health policy are invited to apply, as we are seeking multi-disciplinary
conversations.



Confirmed faculty advisers include (with more advisers being added):

-       Ritu Agarwal, Robert H. Smith School of Business

-       Gordon Gao, Robert H. Smith School of Business

-       Jeff McCullough, University of Michigan

          Acceptance to the consortium will be based on a review of the
application materials. Preference for attendance will be given to students
who will have defended their dissertation proposals but not their
dissertations by the date of the consortium, and to those whose
institutions or fields would not otherwise be represented.  There is no
cost to attend, and participants will receive a $100 discount on the main
conference registration. A limited amount of additional travel support may
be offered.

 The application packet should include:

1)   A 1-page informational document with: Name of applicant; Institutional
affiliation; Dissertation title (if applicable); Expected completion date;
Educational background; Professional background / prior work experience;
Future career aspirations.

2)      A summary of the applicant’s research (maximum of 2 pages)

3)      A brief letter from the dissertation chair/advisor supporting the
student’s participation in the Doctoral Consortium.

 The due date for applications and letters of recommendation is *August
1st, 2016*. Decisions will be announced on Aug 19th, 2016. Please email all
application materials as a single PDF file to: chids at rhsmith.umd.edu. For
questions, please contact Gordon Gao (ggao at rhsmith.umd.edu
<emmanuelle.vaast at mcgill.ca>), or Jeff McCullough (jemccull at umich.edu),
this year’s WHITE Doctoral Consortium co-chairs.  Please share this
announcement with any doctoral students you know who might be interested.
For further information and updates about the WHITE conference, please visit
www.rhsmith.umd.edu/chids/white.  WHITE is hosted by the Center for Health
Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the Robert H. Smith School of
Business, University of Maryland College Park, with support from the United
States Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) and the University
of Michigan School of Public Health.

-- 
Ritu Agarwal
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research
Professor and Dean's Chair of Information Systems
Director, Center for Health Information and Decision Systems
Robert H. Smith School of Business
4327 Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742-1815
301.405.3121 TEL
301.405.8655 FAX
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/chids
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/ragarwal