[AISWorld] Call for Nominations: Doctoral Consortium at CHITA 2018

Wed Jun 6 15:09:15 EDT 2018

Doctoral Consortium Call for Nominations

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Doctoral Consortium at the 9th Conference on Health IT and Analytics
Thursday, October 18th

Main Conference: October 19-20th, 2018 | Washington Hilton, DC
go.umd.edu/chita2018
We are pleased to announce the CHITA 2018 Doctoral Consortium as a
pre-conference event for The 9th Conference on Health IT and Analytics. The
consortium will be held on Thursday, October 18th, 2018,from 1 pm to 6 pm,
with a dinner following, in Washington, DC. The Doctoral Consortium will
provide an opportunity for doctoral students to receive feedback on their
research from senior researchers, 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, health analytics and
informatics, 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, University of
Maryland
-       Gordon Gao, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of
Maryland
-       Jeff McCullough, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
-       Brad Greenwood, Carlson School of Management, University of
Minnesota

Application Selection Process
Acceptance to the Doctoral Consortium will be based on a review of the
application materials. Preference for attendance will be given to PhD
students who have determined the direction of their dissertation research,
but who still have substantial work to complete, or PhD candidates who are
in the early stages of their dissertation research, and to those whose
institutions or fields would not otherwise be represented. There is no cost
to attend, and participants will receive $500 in travel support. Attendees
are required to register for the main conference.

Application Submissions
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.
4) Please email all application materials as a single PDF file to:
chita at rhsmith.umd.edu

Important dates
Application and letter of recommendation due date: Friday, July 27th, 2018
Decision notification: Friday, August 3rd, 2018
Doctoral Consortium: Thursday, October 18th, 2018

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 CHITA 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 CHITA conference,
please visit go.umd.edu/chita2018
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CHITA 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, in partnership with the University of Michigan School of
Public Health with support from the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ).
About the Center for Health Information & Decision Systems
The Center for Health Information & Decision Systems (CHIDS)
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 is an academic research center in the Robert H. Smith School of Business,
University of Maryland at College Park. CHIDS works in collaboration with
industry, clinical and government partners to develop solutions to the
challenges surrounding the design, adoption and integration of information
technologies into the healthcare system. The research at CHIDS seeks to
understand how digital technologies can be more effectively deployed to
address outcomes such as patient safety, healthcare quality, efficiency in
healthcare delivery, and a reduction in health disparities. CHIDS draws on
the expertise of the Decision, Operations & Information Technologies
Department (DO&IT) at the Smith School and the University of Maryland
Schools of Engineering, Public Health, Medicine, and Pharmacy. DO&IT is
acknowledged by several publications as a Top 5 performer in research
production worldwide and the Information Systems group ranks in the top 10
worldwide in Business Week and U.S. News and World Report. Since its
inception in 2005, CHIDS has served as a focal point for thought
leader-ship around the topic of digitally-enabled health transformation.

Contact:
Kenyon Crowley
Deputy Director, CHIDS
(301) 405-9593
chids at rhsmith.umd.edu

-- 
Ritu Agarwal
Senior Associate Dean
Distinguished University Professor and Dean's Chair of Information Systems
Director, Center for Health Information and Decision Systems
Robert H. Smith School of Business
2416F  Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742-1815
301.405.3121 TEL; 301.314.9120 FAX
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/chids
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/directory/ritu-agarwal