The
Center for Health Innovation cordially invites you to meet our faculty and hear
about their current work in our CHI Scholar series. Adelphi University faculty
are actively engaged in improving the health and health care of our families
and our communities. Light refreshments will be served. Please join us!
Wednesday
October 22, 2014
1-2
pm, Ruth S. Harley University Center, Room 211
Professor
Tonya Samuel: "Finding a Place for GIS in Community Health
Assessments"
Professor
Thomas Virgona: "The Deployment of Geographic Information Systems into
Healthcare Informatics Research"
Tonya
Samuel, EdD, MSPH
Dr.
Samuel is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing and Public
Health. She has over 15 years of experience in health education and
research that spans academic, public and non-profit sectors. From
Dr. Samuel's field experience in violence, diabetes and hypertension
prevention; tuberculosis and tobacco control, she is able to make students
aware of the realities of public health and has published papers in
community-engaged research. Dr. Samuel holds an EdD in health and
behavioral studies and MSPH in epidemiology.
Thomas
Virgona, Ph.D.
Research
Interests
•
Disaster Recovery
•
Information Security
• Health
Care Informatics
Dr.
Virgona an Assistant Professor aand Director of the Healthcare Informatics
Graduate Program at Adelphi University. Prior to joining Adelphi, he was an
Associate Professor at Central Connecticut State University [School of
Business]. Dr. Virgona was an employee of CitiGroup on Wall Street from
1990 - 2009. As a Vice President in the technology group, some of my
responsibilities included Technology Information Security Officer, Software
Quality Manager, Export Licensing and Project Management.
Dr.
Virgona has published a number of articles in refereed journals, including
“Towards an Epistemological Definition of the Research Front of Information and
Society,” and “Graduate Nursing Student Self-Assessment: Fundamental
Technology Skills,” both of which were published in 2013. In addition, he
published a book in 2008 entitled, September 11, 2001: A Study of the Human
Aspects of Disaster Recovery Efforts for Wall Street Financial Services Firms, which
was followed 10 years post-9/11 by the article entitled, “September 11, 2001 In
Retrospect: A decade on, what business continuity and information security
lessons have we learners?”
