Faculty Notes: February 2012

School of Accounting An article titled “Shareholder voting on auditor selection, audit fees, and audit quality” by Kannan Raghunandan, professor and Ryder Eminent Scholar Chair in Business Leadership and Dasaratha Rama, Knight Ridder Center Research Fellow, Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems, appeared in the January/February issue of The Accounting Review, published by the […]

Faculty Notes: January 2012

Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems An article titled “Health Informatics: Critical to Healthcare’s Success” by Nancy Borkowski, clinical associate professor and director of graduate health management programs, was published in the South Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Reporter in January 2012. The article highlighted the College of Business Administration’s new degree—the Master of […]

Health informatics master’s program brings IT specialty to medical community.

Starting in fall 2012, Florida International University’s (FIU) College of Business Administration will offer a master’s degree in health informatics, giving graduates a leg up in one of the fastest growing fields in the healthcare industry. The Master of Science in Healthcare Informatics and Management Systems (MSHIMS) is a Saturday-only, 12-month program at FIU Downtown […]

MSMIS students gain expert insight on Health Information Exchange.

One of the hottest topics in management information systems is Health Information Exchange (HIE), the mobilization and moving of healthcare data across organizations within a region, community or hospital system. In the United States, the regulations are still being defined for this complex concept. Students and alumni from the Master of Science in Management Information […]

Annual Faculty Awards Luncheon honors professional accomplishments.

All awards are welcome, but recognition by one’s peers, and for professors, recognition by one’s students, is particularly meaningful. Each year, the dedication of members of the faculty of the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU) gets special attention at the Faculty Awards Luncheon. Held this year on October 20th, the luncheon […]

Faculty Notes: September 2011

Department of Management and International Business Jerry Haar, associate dean for international affairs and projects, professor and research fellow, was quoted in article titled “Angola and Brazil Are Buying Portuguese Companies” in Bloomberg Businessweek on September 15, 2011. David Wernick, senior lecturer, successfully defended his dissertation, “Secondary Stakeholders as Agents of Influence: Three Essays on […]

Faculty Notes: August 2011

School of Accounting Wendy Gelman has been promoted to senior instructor. Department of Marketing Two articles by John Tsalikis, BMI associate professor of marketing, will be included in a 2012 30th anniversary commemorative issue of The Journal of Business Ethics, the leading academic publication in the area of business ethics. The 50 selections were based […]

MSMIS students create public health dashboards.

When Monica Chiarini Tremblay gave an assignment this spring to her health informatics class in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU), her instructions were vague—on purpose. The students, all working on a Master of Science in Management Information Systems (MSMIS), were given current nationwide health rankings and told to develop a […]

Faculty Notes: April 2011

Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems Monica Chiarini Tremblay, assistant professor and Gloria Deckard, associate professor, received a $495,980.00 grant from the Agency for Health Care Administration to evaluate the statewide health information exchange being put in by Harris for the State of Florida. This same study will be conducted by one team in […]