MICHI Affiliates
Dr. Matthew Brothers
Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Programs, College of Nursing and Health Innovation
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Dr. Matthew Brothers is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Programs in Exercise Science in the Department of Kinesiology at UT Arlington. He has taught various graduate and undergraduate classes, with a primary focus on Exercise Physiology, at the University. Currently, he is teaching KINE 1300 “Introduction to Kinesiology and Exercise Science”. His research interests focus on mechanisms of elevated prevalence of Cardiovascular and Cerebral Vascular Disease in at-risk populations. His lab is primarily interested in autonomic and hormonal control of the peripheral and cerebral circulations in health and disease. In addition, he has and currently serves on numerous Departmental, College, and University committees.
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Anita Corbitt
Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Nursing and Health Innovation
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Anita Corbitt is a dedicated professional with a background in both accounting and public health. She holds a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), specializing in urban health and demonstrating a particular interest in epidemiology and information technology.With a solid foundation in office environments as a staff accountant, Anita brings valuable work-related skills to her public health career. However, she believes that life experiences hold immense value, often surpassing the knowledge gained solely from textbooks. This perspective has driven her towards a career in teaching, as she seeks to support and guide students in achieving their public health aspirations. Anita firmly believes that knowledge is power and is passionate about sharing that power with others.
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Dr. Cory Forbes
Professor and Chair, College of Education
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Cory Forbes is Chair, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction, Fenton Wayne Robnett Endowed Professor of Science Education, and Director of the STEM Education Research Collaboratorium and Resource Center in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Arlington. Forbes holds a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and M.S. in Science Education from the University of Kansas and M.S. in Natural Resources and Ph.D. in Science Education from the University of Michigan. His teaching and research efforts focus on STEM education in K-12 and undergraduate STEM contexts. He directs multiple externally-funded projects involving STEM curriculum development, assessment design and testing, professional development for K-12 STEM teachers, and classroom-based research on STEM teaching and learning that are based in regional, national, and international partnerships with education researchers, STEM faculty, K-12 teachers, and stakeholders. Forbes is a NARST Early Career Research Awardee and Fulbright Faculty Scholar.
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Dr. Genevieve Graaf
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
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After several years of social work practice in community-based mental health settings serving families and children with complex behavioral health care needs, Dr. Graaf leverages this professional experience to study health and disability policy and its role in shaping community-based care for individuals with complex care needs. In particular, her research examines how policy and organizational environments—particularly state Medicaid and mental health policies—facilitate or constrain access to high-quality and effective community-based behavioral health services for youth with serious emotional or behavioral challenges and their families. Her expertise centers on using policy documents in conjunction with large secondary datasets to understand Medicaid and how it can be used to support individuals with complex health needs in their homes and communities and reduce disparities in healthcare.
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Dr. Ambra Green
Associate Professor, College of Education
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Ambra L. Green, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Special Education within the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at The University of Texas at Arlington. She received her Ph.D. and served as an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Green is a national scholar with publications and research focused on students of color with and at-risk for disabilities, issues related to inequitable school practices (i.e., disproportionality in special education and exclusionary practices), behavior disorders, positive behavioral interventions and supports, and teacher use of evidence-based practices. She is the Primary Investigator on a 1.1 million-dollar U.S. Department of Education Office for Special Education Programs (OSEP) personnel preparation grant which provides rigorous training for master’s special education and social work students to support K-12 students with disabilities and high-intensity needs. In addition to providing technical assistance at the school, district, and state levels, Dr. Green has provided professional special education consultation in a number of capacities, including for U.S. Senators Roy Blunt and Claire McCaskill and the Texas Education Agency. Dr. Green also has experience working within the U.S. Department of Education Office for Special Education Programs (OSEP) and serves on the OSEP National Technical Assistance Center on PBIS Equity workgroup. Prior to her work in higher education, Dr. Green was a middle school special education teacher and PBIS Coach. She holds current teacher certifications in EC-6 Generalist, 4-8 Generalist, and EC-12 Special Education in the state of Texas. Visit Dr. Green’s professional profile here and find a list of her research publications here. A full personal curriculum vitae is available upon request.
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Dr. Julienne Greer
Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts
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Dr. Julienne A. Greer is the Associate Chair and Associate Professor of Theatre: Social Robotics and Performance with The Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Texas at Arlington. She hold the position of Area Head for BA undergraduate students and the Director of the Emotional Robotics Living Lab. She earned a BFA in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MA in Media Arts from Texas Christian University’s Bob Schieffer’s College of Communication (formerly College of Communication). Dr. Greer earned a PhD. in Humanities from the University of Texas at Dallas School of Arts and Humanities. She is currently a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is a multi-disciplinary scholar + artist who produces, directs, and writes in the fields of social robotics, theatre, cinema, and humanities disciplines. She brings a performance expertise based in the understanding of human-centered sensory data to interdisciplinary collaborations. Dr. Greer has presented work in Sydney, Australia, Oxford, United Kingdom. Lisbon, Portugal, and New Delhi, India. Dr. Greer was awarded the 2019 Outstanding Teaching award from UTA, College of Liberal Arts. She is a 2015 recipient of the CoLA faculty award granting the purchase of “Pepper,” the emotional robot for use in her interdisciplinary course at UTA – “Robots, Digital Humanities, and Theatre.” Dr. Greer has led multiple research studies as PI and Co-PI. She has been awarded two Interdisciplinary Research Program grants in 2019 and 2016. The study titled: “Shakespeare and Robots: Examining the impact of a theatre intervention on psychological well-being in older adults” was featured internationally. She has been a co-program manager for TransAI 2021, 2022 conferences, an IEEE-sponsored international conference.
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Dr. Chyng-Yang Jang
Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts
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Dr. Chyng-yang Jang is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Texas at Arlington. He received his Ph. D. in Information and Media from Michigan State University. His research interests center on the uses and effects of information and communication technology such as groupware, blog, and social media, in various contexts including health communication, marketing communication, relational communication, and teamwork. He is passionate in learning how people use information technology and how technology can be better designed to bring positive impacts to people’s personal and organizational lives. His recent research efforts focus on health information seeking and health promotion related to HPV and COVID-19 vaccination. At UTA, Dr. Jang also serves as the coordinator for the Communication Technology majors. He teaches courses on Web design, Internet marketing and data analytics. He supervises undergraduate student teams in building Websites and applications for local businesses and organizations.
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Dr. Justyn Jaworski
Associate Professor, College of Engineering
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Justyn Jaworski completed his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University in 2004 and received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley/UCSF in 2009. After his post-doctoral work at the Medical Research Council – Laboratory of Molecular Biology in England, he then moved to South Korea where he served as an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at Hanyang University from 2011–2016 before joining UT Arlington’s Department of Bioengineering in 2017. Dr. Jaworski has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has several book chapters and patents. His laboratory focuses on the engineering of functional soft matter and biological systems. Some of his research works include: engineering of bacteriophage and enzyme based assays and screening tools; engineering reporter cell lines to mimic the glycan display of certain B cell cancers; formulation of spray-on sensing materials; and development of a method for 3D free-form micro/nanofabrication of biomolecular “inks”.
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Dr. Chengkai Li
Professor and Associate Chair, College of Engineering
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Dr. Chengkai Li is a Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is also the Executive Program Director of Master of Science in Data Science and a Co-Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Big Data (CARIDA). His research interests are in several areas related to big data intelligence and data science, including databases, data mining, machine learning, and natural language processing. Dr. Li and his collaborators pioneered the interdisciplinary field of computational fact-checking.
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Dr. Yue Liao
Assistant Professor, College of Nursing and Health Innovation
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Dr. Liao is an Assistant Professor of the Public Health Program in the Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Liao’s research interests include leveraging mobile technology and wearable sensors to capture daily behaviors such as physical activity, sedentary behavior, eating, and sleep, and to investigate the contextual and psychosocial determinants of those behaviors in our everyday life. Her current research focuses on the development of personalized interventions using data from wearable biosensors to promote physical activity to reduce the risk of obesity-related chronic diseases, as well as in insufficiently active cancer patients to improve their quality of life after cancer.
Dr. Liao completed a competitive postdoctoral fellowship in colorectal cancer prevention at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center after receiving her PhD in Health Behavior Research from University of Southern California. She received her Master in Public Health degree in Biostatistics from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Liao was the recipient of the Mentored Junior Faculty Fellowship at MD Anderson and a fellow of the National Cancer Institute’s Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer (TREC). Dr. Liao now directs the Physical Activity and Wearable Sensors (PAWS) lab at UT Arlington.
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Dr. Radha Mahapatra
Professor and Chair, College of Business
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Dr. Radha Mahapatra is Professor and Chair of the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management. His research interests include agile software development, healthcare information systems, and information technology for development (IT4D). His research articles in these areas have appeared in several journals, including, MIS Quarterly, Journal of the AIS, Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems, and European Journal of Information Systems. He is a charter member of the Association for Information Systems. He is passionate about improving healthcare delivery to medically underserved populations around the world using mobile technologies.
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Dr. Shirin Nilizadeh
Assistant Professor, College of Engineering
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Shirin Nilizadeh is Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington. She received her Ph.D. in Security Informatics from the Indiana University Bloomington (IUB). For her dissertation on Privacy-aware Decentralized Architectures for Socially Networked Systems, she received a two-year fellowship from the School of Informatics and Computing at IUB. Following her doctorate, she held post-doctoral positions in CNets at IUB from 2014-2015, in SecLab at University of California Santa Barbara from 2015-2017, and then in CyLab at Carnegie Mellon University from 2017-2018. She conducts data-driven research to study online security, privacy, and safety. Her research is interdisciplinary and spans across multiple areas, from traditional security and privacy research to social computing and Health Informatics.
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Dr. Laura Phipps
Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Nursing and Health Innovation
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Dr. Laura Phipps is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Public Health Program within the Department of Kinesiology. Her professional interests are centered on international health and emergency preparedness, with a particular interest in community resilience and the ethical issues inherent in disaster and data management. She is always looking for opportunities for students to travel abroad and gain exposure to health leadership and practice in international settings. Dr. Phipps holds a B.S. in Microbiology from Texas A&M University as well as a Master of Public Health with a concentration in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and a Doctor of Public Health from the University of North Texas Health Science Center.
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Jennifer Roye
Assistant Dean for Simulation and Technology and Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Nursing and Health Innovation
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Jennifer Roye, MSN, RN, CHSE, CNE is The Assistant Dean for Simulation and Technology and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington College of Nursing and Health Innovation. She is lead faculty for the Fundamental Telehealth Skills course in the Health Informatics Certificate Program. Mrs. Roye received her MSN from UTA in 2003 and is currently enrolled at The University of Alabama in the EdD Instructional Leadership program. She practiced as a CPNP in private practice for 10 years and as an RN in the Emergency Department at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Ft. Worth, Texas for 16 years. Her areas of research interest include simulation, telehealth, student engagement, enhancing online education, health informatics, and moral distress in the undergraduate nursing student population.
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Dr. Barbara Schneider
Endowed Professor in Gerontological Nursing Excellence, College of Nursing and Health Innovation
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Dr. Barbara St. Pierre Schneider is a Professor and Endowed Chair in Gerontological Nursing Excellence in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation. She received her PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles and completed postdoctoral work at both the University of California, Los Angeles and Pennsylvania State University. Her nursing clinical experience includes medical-surgical and oncology specialties. Her research interest centers on the white blood cell (leukocyte) response to an acute skeletal muscle injury. This interest encompasses not only leukocyte types and functions, but also factors that can influence the leukocyte response, such as older age, ovarian hormones, and hypoxia. As part of this research, Dr. Schneider utilizes innovative, computer-based approaches and bioinformatics to quantify the leukocyte response. Dr. Schneider’s research has been funded by federal agencies (e.g., National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense) and professional organizations. Moreover, Dr. Schneider has mentored or worked with undergraduate and graduate students majoring in nursing, biology, bioengineering, kinesiology, medicine, and other fields.
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Dr. Peggy Semingson
Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts
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Dr. Peggy Semingson is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics and TESOL at The University of Texas at Arlington where she teaches courses in TESOL. Her Ph.D. is in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in Language and Literacy Studies from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008. Research interests include digital pedagogies, media-based learning, online learning, and remote/virtual ESL teaching and learning. Current research studies include COVID Health literacy and multimodal texts and materials and the ways that we can use digital and innovative pedagogies to engage teachers to most effectively help them to teach in their current and future classroom contexts. Within this area, she is more specifically interested in socially distributed knowledge sharing that takes place online, distributed cognition, and video-mediated (e.g., YouTube) discussion and dialogue. Her longstanding education-focused YouTube channel has over two million views of original video content and over 5,000 subscribers.
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Dr. Salman Sohrabi
Assistant Professor, College of Engineering
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Dr. Salman Sohrabi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at UT Arlington. Before coming to UTA, Salman Sohrabi did his postdoc in the lab of Dr. Coleen Murphy in Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrative Genomics at Princeton University. His expertise lies in developing tools and methods for applications in biology and medicine. His research interests focus on utilizing engineering tools to develop novel technologies to study aging and age-related diseases using nematode C. elegans, a millimeter-sized short-lived model organism. He was awarded the 2021 Rising Star in Engineering in Health and has published 27 papers (10 as the first author). His lab will utilize their customized tools and techniques in combination with cell and molecular biology methods to provide insight into treatments of age-related diseases.
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Dr. Shan Sun-Mitchell
Professor, College of Science
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Dr. Shan Sun-Mitchell is a Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Mathematics.
She is also Program Director for the MS in Applied Statistics and Data Science.
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Department of Mathematics
Dr. Mari Tietze
Myrna R. Pickard Endowed Professor, College of Nursing and Health Innovation
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Mari Frances Tietze, PhD, RN-BC, FHIMSS, FAAN
Dr. Mari Tietze is the recipient of the Myrna R. Pickard Endowed Professorship at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) College of Nursing and Health Innovation (CONHI). In that role, she is also the Affiliate, representing nursing, to the UTA Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics (MICHI), a collaboration among numerous health informaticists. She is also the director of the graduate certificate and Master’s in Nursing (MSN) Health Informatics at UTA CONHI.
Dr. Tietze’s contributions over the past 30 years, have been based on a combination of interprofessional informatics and telehealth technology. For interprofessional informatics, she implemented one of the first bedside computer systems in the U.S. using barcode-based medication administration and a team of nurses, pharmacists, and information systems professionals. More recently in 2016 and in 2020, Dr. Tietze was co-investigator in two Texas-wide multi-method studies to examine over 1,000 nurses’ experiences using their electronic health records (EHRs). Dr. Tietze is co-author of the AJN Book of the Year, Nursing Informatics for the Advanced Practice Nurse: Patient Safety, Quality, Outcomes, and Interprofessionalism. She has been a long-standing member of the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) global initiative, working on harmonization of informatics competencies.
Dr. Tietze received her BSN from Washburn University, her MSN from Kansas University, and her PhD from Texas Woman’s University College of Nursing. She is a Fellow of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and is certified in nursing informatics from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Dr. Tietze is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing
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