Advisors
Dr. Mayowa Awe
Director in STEM program at the National Science and Technology Medals Foundation
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Dr. Mayowa Awe is the director inSTEM program at the National Science and Technology Medals Foundation, where she leads research and evaluation of the program’s impact and strategic planning for future expansion and program development. Before joining the Foundation, she was a Senior Data Analyst at Lockheed Martin Corporation. She received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Arlington in May 2019. Outside of her work, Dr. Awe enjoys teaching, public speaking, and mentoring. Through speaking engagements, she seeks to encourage the next generation of STEM scholars and expose people to the versatility of mathematics.
Dr. Marion J. Ball
Executive Director of the Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics (MICHI)
Chair and Presidential Distinguished Professor, Department of Bioengineering
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Raj and Indra Nooyi Endowed Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering, Presidential Distinguished Professor, and Executive Director of the Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics.
Dr. Marion Ball is an international innovator, educator, author, and member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) with over forty-five years of experience in the healthcare IT community. Her research focuses are on health informatics, curriculum design, education, and research towards bringing enabling technology from theory into practice. Dr. Ball served and continues to serve on a variety of boards, i.e., the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), President of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), board member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Health on The Net (HON), College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME), American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), Co-Chaired the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI). She is a founding member of the TIGER (Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform).
Dr. Ball received numerous awards for her contributions to the world and was named as one of the Most Influential Women in Health IT by HIMSS. She also was awarded the high honor given by the American Medial Informatics Association AMIA, the Morris Collen Award., as well as the Francois Gremy award, the highest honor given in Health Informatics, given by the International Medical Informatics Association( IMIA ). Dr. Ball has over 400 publications in textbooks, journal articles, and book chapters.
Faculty Profile
Lolin Martins-Crane
Director of the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Career Development Center
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Lolin Martins-Crane is the Director of the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Career Development Center. Lolin is an alumnus from UTA in Psychology and received her master’s in Industrial Organizational Psychology from the University of North Texas. She brings over 30 years of business experience in various industries and corporations including international consulting, telecommunications, healthcare, retail, security, travel, and supply chain. Corporations include DDI International Consulting, Lockheed Martin, Nokia, Sabre – Travelocity, Texas Health Resources – Med Synergies, ADT Security, Southwest Airlines, and Pier 1. Lolin held various positions in these organizations focused on strategy development, change management, organizational design, competency management, human resources, performance management, executive and manager leadership development, team dynamics, and selection and recruiting. She is in her 8th year as the Director of the UTA Career Development Center, where she and the Career Development Center Team strive daily to ensure career development and readiness become a true differentiator for UTA. The team strives to be the centralized hub for career insights, knowledge, services, employer partnerships, and engagement opportunities all focused on providing cutting-edge career development experiences for their students.
Peace Ossom-Williamson
Associate Director of the NNLM National Center for Data Services and Associate Curator, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
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Peace Ossom-Williamson, MLS, MS, AHIP is the Associate Director of the NNLM National Center for Data Services and Associate Curator, NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Ossom-Williamson’s expertise includes research data services, scholarly communications, and health sciences information literacy. Her research areas are in scholarly research behaviors, open data, open science, and DEIA. In recognition of her research, Peace received the 2021 Texas Woman’s University Hallmark Alumni Award as well as the Medical Library Association’s 2020 Ida and George Eliot Prize which recognizes the most effective article in furthering medical librarianship. She has experience in a wide variety of roles, and is an active educator, teaching at San Jose State University’s graduate iSchool program and The University of Texas at Arlington’s undergraduate public health program.
Faculty Profile
Toria Shaw Morawski
CEO of Globally Empowered, a consulting firm dedicated to coaching, education, research, and training in the healthcare ecosystem. Her superpower is bringing diverse populations together to achieve individual and institutional goals and objectives.
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Toria (Tori) Shaw Morawski, MSW, IICDP, is the CEO of Globally Empowered, a consulting firm dedicated to coaching, education, research, and training in the healthcare ecosystem. Her superpower is bringing diverse populations together to achieve individual and institutional goals and objectives. She is the architect and principal administrator of the second phase of the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) initiative from HIMSS. TIGER provides the healthcare workforce with innovative tools and resources.
Tori is an Inclusion Institute Certified Diversity Practitioner through The People Company Consulting Group. Tori received her MSW from UIC’s Jane Addams College of Social Work. She trained to become a clinical therapist by working with vulnerable, marginalized communities. Tori earned her project management certificate from Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies.
Tori has two decades of experience in the global nonprofit sector throughout the U.S., Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe. Her efforts were focused on workforce development initiatives funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the European Commission. Tori’s passion for making a positive impact on healthcare systems led her to co-found Global Implementation Solutions, a nonprofit organization committed to strengthening healthcare systems worldwide. Her subject matter expertise includes capacity building and workforce development.