Faculty Fellows

The Center for Health Information and Decision Systems brings together distinguished faculty from the Department of Decision, Operations and Information Technology, other departments at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, and other academic units within the University of Maryland system with special expertise to conduct healthcare related research. The faculty offers a diverse, multifaceted perspective on health care research issues and challenges.

Corey M. Angst is Assistant Professor in Management Department at Mendoza College of Business, Notre Dame, Indiana. He was the Associate Director and Co-Founder of CHIDS; and has contributed significantly CHIDS’ research activities. His major areas of research interest are the transformational effect of IT on the healthcare industry, privacy and other barriers to adoption of health information technology and technology usage in the healthcare sector.
Gordon Gao is assistant professor in DO&IT at the Smith School. His research interests in the healthcare management area related to quality and transparency, health 2.0 and the business and economic value of IT in healthcare.
Dr. Timothy B. Gilbert, M.D, is Professor of Anesthesiology and Associate Vice Chair for Clinical Research in the Anesthesiology Department at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He has special interests in Computer Applications, Respiratory Physiology, Adult Cardiac Critical Care, Echocardiography and Transplant Anesthesia.
Bruce Golden is professor and the France-Merrick chaired professor in Management Science at Smith School. His research interests in the healthcare domain are focused on methods for the optimization of different facets of hospital operations.
Sunil Mithas is assistant professor of Information Systems at the Smith School. His research interests are in the business value of IT. Recently he is has been engaged in a study on the health status and IT investments of various countries, along with Jiban Khuntia of CHIDS.
Kislaya Prasad is research professor at Smith School and a guest scholar at The Brookings Institution. His current projects and research interests related to healthcare include medical treatment variations and diffusion of technologies in medicine, and physician social networks and medical practice.
Louiqa Raschid is professor in the DO&IT department and at UMIACS of University of Maryland. She has interests in bioinformatics, data delivery platforms for healthcare, and health data representation and management.
Galit Shmueli is associate professor of Management Science and Statistics at Smith School. Her interests include developing and using statistical and probabilistic methods in marketing, quality control, and bio-surveillance.
Gilvan “Gil” Souza is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. His primary research areas are in technology management, and supply chain management, including production planning, remanufacturing, reverse logistics, and closed–loop supply chain design.
Bo Xie is Assistant Professor at College of Information Studies in University of Maryland. Her research Interests Health informatics; older adults' learning and use of computers and the Internet; computer literacy; lifelong learning; civic engagement; volunteering; social relationships; social support; online communities; health and well-being.