Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) Faculty & Staff

Program Coordinator, Master of Healthcare Administration | Professor | DNP, MSN, RN, NEA-B...

Program Coordinator, Master of Healthcare Administration | Professor | DNP, MSN, RN, NEA-BC | Online Innovative, tenured professor bringing over 20 years of healthcare leadership experience to help develop future healthcare leaders and graduate nursing professionals. Adept in graduate course delivery and healthcare leadership curriculum development, along with accreditation activities to support programs. Expertise in healthcare policy, strategy, operations management, leadership, informatics, and helping students develop their final, scholarly capstone projects. Executive healthcare leadership experience that is translated into the the online classroom. Research interests include interprofessional collaboration, graduate curriculum development, competency-based learning/outcomes in healthcare leaders, and burnout in healthcare professionals.

Co-Chair, School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership | Program Coordinator, Health Services...

Co-Chair, School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership | Program Coordinator, Health Services Administration & Leadership & Innovation in Aging Studies | Certified in Lean Process Improvement Methodology & Online Teaching Certified in Bioinformatics

Program Coordinator, Graduate Nursing | Professor | PhD, MSN, RN-BC, CNE | Online

EDUCATION: Ph.D., Business Administration: Marketing, Rutgers-The State University of New...

EDUCATION: Ph.D., Business Administration: Marketing, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, USA MS, Management Information Systems: Oklahoma State University, USA BBA, Business Administration: University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA (with Honor) BA, Advertising & Public Relations: Hanyang University, Korea (Cum Laude) AWARDS, CERTIFICATES & HONOR: BEST ABSTRACT in Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity Marketing Track (Atlantic Marketing Association, 2019) BEST PAPER in Social Media Track (Society for Marketing Advances, 2018) CERTIFIED Academic Advisor (MSUM, 2018) Beta Gamma Sigma (The University of Hawaii at Hilo Chapter, 2007) Who’S Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges (2007) Scroll of Gratitude & Certification of Appreciation (Eighth United States Army, 2003) COURSES TAUGHT at MSUM: MKTG 490 Digital Marketing MKTG 311 Marketing Management MKTG 270 Principles of Marketing ENTR 232 Entrepreneurial Marketing COURSES TAUGHT at Rutgers: Intro to Marketing Consumer Behavior Management Information Systems BIO: Dr. An is a mentor, an experienced marketing educator, and a marketing researcher with a demonstrated history of working in higher education and the real world of industry. He is skilled in college student teaching/mentoring/counseling/advising. His teaching focuses on Digital/Social Media Marketing. Helping students is a great joy for him. Before entering the field of higher education, Dr. An was an inventory analyst in the retail industry utilizing his management information skills and sales data analytic skills. Hands-on industry experience earned from the real world of business helps him offer students a broader view toward the industry. Since he joined MSUM, Dr. An has been actively participating in academic research activities and he presented his studies in various academic conferences including the Atlantic Marketing Association (AtMA), Academy of International Business Midwest Chapter (AIB-Midwest), Society for Marketing Advances (SMA), Business and Applied Sciences Academy of North America (BAASANA) and Northeast Business & Economics Association (NBEA). He is an active member of the Society for Marketing Advances (SMA) and Beta Gamma Sigma the exclusive business honor society. Besides, he is actively contributing to the academic communities by reviewing peer-review journal/conference articles.

EDUCATION: Ph.D., Business Administration: Marketing, Temple University, USA MBA, Market...

EDUCATION: Ph.D., Business Administration: Marketing, Temple University, USA MBA, Marketing Emphasis, Pepperdine University, USA MSc, Marketing, Strategy and International Business, Konkuk University, Korea AWARDS & HONORS (Selected): • Best Paper Award at the 2021 Three Technology Innovation Associations’ Conference in South Korea (2021) • Honored as Top 10 Most Read Articles by the Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science (2019) • Best Paper Award in Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity Marketing Track, The Atlantic Marketing Association (2019) • Employee Excellence Award in Research & Creative Activity, MSUM (2019) • Student Organization Advisor of the Year Award with Beta Gamma Sigma, MSUM (2019) • Best Paper Award by Tourism Sciences Society of Korea, The Korea-America Hospitality & Tourism Educators Association (2019) • Junior Faculty Scholarship Award, The Midwest Academy of Management (2018) • Best Conference Paper Award, The Korea-America Hospitality & Tourism Educators Association (2018) • Advisory Board in Professional Science Master Program, KMAC (2016-2018) • Best Paper Award in Sports Marketing Track, The Atlantic Marketing Association (2017) • Google i-10 High Citation-Impact Award, The Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science (2016) COURSES TAUGHT AT MSUM: [Undergraduates] MGMT/ENTR 229 Start Your Own Business MKTG 270 Principles of Marketing MKTG 311 Marketing Management MKTG 421 Consumer Behavior MKTG 444 International Marketing MKTG 451 Marketing Research I: Theory and Statistics in Marketing MKTG 452 Marketing Research II: Actual Marketing Project and Consulting [Graduates] MBA 611 Marketing Management MBA 615 International Marketing MBA 695 Portfolio - MBA Thesis BRIEF BIO: Dr. Wooyang Kim’s experience is characterized as a business savoir-faire, encompassing a diverse set of experiences in both industry and academic fields globally. He is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, an honor society for business schools worldwide, as well as of academic communities in marketing-related fields. As a practitioner, he has worked for companies as an analyst, consultant, instructor, and researcher. The companies have included Samsung, LG, and other Korean conglomerates as well as small & medium companies in both South Korea and the USA (e.g., CA, FL, MN, ND, NJ, NY, and PA). His main duties have included market & marketing analysis, behavioral analytics, brand & new product development, and employee education. He is also a certified mentor and subject expert at SCORE affiliated with Small Business Administration (SBA). As a scholar, his foci on research are consumer perception and decision process in the naturalistic given information underlying an ecological perspective (e.g., foraging behavior and heuristics), which represent an infusion of the Darwinian framework in behavioral ecology into marketing fields. Dr. Kim’s research interests cover three topic areas including consumer information foraging, consumer innovativeness and innovation diffusion, and healthcare service consumption, associated with cross-cultural socioeconomics and sociodemographics. His scholarly works have been awarded academic achievements and are found in academic journals, books, and conference proceedings, etc. He has served as a Vice President, editorial review board member and reviewer at the reputed journals as well as a member of the organizing committee at academic conferences. His expertise encompasses the following areas: behavioral theories and analytics, consumer decision process, cultural marketing, healthcare marketing, marketing strategy, and research methodology. At PSB in MSUM, Dr. Kim has been working with students. With his students, he made several academic publications at the conferences as well as completed the local business projects.

Vinod Lall, Ph.D., CSCP is the co-chair and professor of Operations and Supply Chain Manag...

Vinod Lall, Ph.D., CSCP is the co-chair and professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at the AACSB accredited Paseka School of Business (PSB) at Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM) with teaching responsibilities in supply chain management, operations management, prescriptive analytics and project management. Since 2003, he has been involved in delivering a graduate course in logistics and supply chain management to US Navy personnel through the Department of Engineering Management at Old Dominion University. Every Fall Semester, he teaches an Executive MBA course in Operations Management for American University Bulgaria (AUBG) at the Elieff Center in Sofia, Bulgaria. Other international teaching assignments at the graduate level have taken Vinod to Ecuador, India and Thailand. Previously, he developed and taught online courses for Kaplan College.com, a division of The Washington Post and has developed online content for several institutions. Vinod’s recent research activities have focused on the application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for selection decisions and the application of the Six Sigma methodology to services and transactional data. He has an active research agenda and published thirteen peer reviewed journal articles between 2010 and 2019. In August 2006, Vinod earned the Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) credential by APICS, The American Society for Operations Management. Between 2013 and 2018, he served as a member of the CSCP subcommittee. The subcommittee is responsible for developing and maintaining the CSCP body of knowledge. Vinod and his wife Rita have been married for 33 years. They are the proud parents of two daughters - Naveena (27) and Anjali who unexpectedly passed away in June 2014 at the age of 18.

Adjunct Faculty, MHA | AJD, MHSA, BBA, FACHE | Online

Atif is a PhD in Industrial Engineering from North Dakota State University. His research i...

Atif is a PhD in Industrial Engineering from North Dakota State University. His research interests are in sustainable optimization of renewable energy supply chains, stochastic programming, simulation modeling, and application of systems engineering concepts to healthcare operations.

Ph.D. in Strategic Management, Syracuse University. MBA, Emphasis in Management, Universi...

Ph.D. in Strategic Management, Syracuse University. MBA, Emphasis in Management, University of West Georgia. B.Sc. in Chemistry, Bogazici University Istanbul. Dr. Serdar's research interests include corporate social responsibility and corporate governance. His research examines the combined impact of state and national politics on how firms operate and how politics affect firm performance. Dr. Serdar teaches Strategic Management, International Business, and Organizational Behavior both at MBA and undergraduate capstone level. As a practitioner, he has spent most of his time in the pharmaceutical industry. He has practical experience in the United States, Germany, and Turkey with companies including Johnson & Johnson and Bayer HealthCare.

Education: PhD in Accounting, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University MS...

Education: PhD in Accounting, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University MS in Accounting, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University BS in Accounting, University of Tulsa Teaching: Graduate Level Financial and Managerial Accounting Advanced Accounting (Consolidations) Intermediate Accounting Cost Accounting Principles of Financial and Managerial Accounting Research: Dr. Stone’s research interests include accounting pedagogical studies, corporate crisis communication, as well as ethical decision-making. Her research has been published in several academic journals, including Issues in Accounting Education, Advances in Public Interest Accounting, Journal of Business and Accounting, and Academy of Strategic Management Journal. Dr. Stone is active in professional organizations, serving as treasurer of the Red River Valley chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants. As a professor, Dr. Stone wants to not only teach her students accounting skills, but also foster a desire for learning, a commitment to excellence, respect for teammates, and responsibility for serving others.

Siwei holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship from Stevens Institute of...

Siwei holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship from Stevens Institute of Technology, an MS in Management Information System from New Jersey Institute of Technology, and a BS in Electric and Information Engineering from Beijing Information Science and Technology University. Siwei's research focuses on knowledge network, entrepreneurship education, and corporate innovation. JOURNALS: S Zhu, B Morkan, Z Yan (2022), "Young Geniuses versus Old Masters: Two Different Trajectories of Individual Knowledge Bases in the Innovation Process", Knowledge and Process Management, In Press S Zhu, G Serdar (2022), "Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Searching Combinatorial Potential Through Knowledge Network", International Journal of Innovation Management 26 (2), 2250017 S Zhu (2022), "Network Dynamic for Experimental Learning Cycle and Innovation Process: A Conceptual Model", Entrepreneurship Research Journal, In Press HMJ Bertels, M Mithani, S Zhu, PA Koen (2020), "Corporate champions of early-stage project proposals and the institutionalisation of organisational inertia", International Journal of Innovation Management 24 (03) CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: S Zhu (2022), A Network Dynamic of Experimental Learning Cycle for Early-Stage Project Success, Academy of Management Proceedings 2022 A Sanford, G Serdah, S Zhu (2022), A Cursory Overview of Business Ethics, Academy of Management Proceedings 2022 S Zhu, B Morkan(2021), Different Curvilinear Trajectories of Individual Knowledge Bases in the Innovation Process, Academy of Management Proceedings 2021, 13440 S Zhu, G Serdar(2021), Searching Combinatorial Potential through Knowledge Networks, Academy of Management Proceedings 2021, 13582 S Zhu (2021), Learning by Networking A Network Dynamic for Experimental Learning Cycle, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 41 S Zhu, G Serdar, X Gao (2020), Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Searching Combinatorial Potential through Individual Knowledge Networks, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 40 S Zhu (2018), Creating Innovators through Knowledge Networks: Theory and Evidence, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 38 S Zhu (2017), Creating Prodigious Innovators through Knowledge Network, Academy of Management Proceeding 2017, 17403 S Zhu, H Bertels, P Koen, M Mithani (2015), What Helps and Hinders Corporate Entrepreneurs in Their Quest for Funding? Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 35 BOOKS: Zhipeng Yan, Yan Zhan, Siwei Zhu (2015), Maniacs, Swindlers and Fools: A Third Eye on Investments, Beijing: The Commercial Press COURSES: MBA 661 Corporate Entrepreneurship MBA 641 Human Resource Management MGMT 465 Entrepreneurial Thinking MGMT 260 Principle of Management MGMT 229 Start Your Own Business PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: Reviewer (Journal): R&D Management, Journal of Knowledge Management, Sustainability Reviewer (Conference): AOM, Babson, AMS