{"id":4,"date":"2019-07-04T15:45:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T20:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/aappari\/about-me\/"},"modified":"2019-07-15T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T13:05:00","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/aappari\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ajit Appari is a Research Assistant Professor at Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University. Recently, he was Assistant Teaching Professor of Information Technology (IT) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpi.edu\/academics\/business\" target=\"_blank\">Foisie Business School<\/a> [2018-2019], <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpi.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Worcester Polytechnic Institute<\/a> in Worcester, MA. Prior to Foisie, he was Assistant Professor of Healthcare Management and Policy at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uth.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston<\/a> (UTHealth)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sph.uth.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">School of Public Health<\/a> [2013-2018]; a Research Fellow in the <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalstrategies.tuck.dartmouth.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Glassmeyer\/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuck.dartmouth.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tuck School of Business<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dartmouth College<\/a> [2008-2013]. During his doctoral training he served as\u00a0Teaching Assistant\/ Instructor at the <a href=\"https:\/\/whitman.syr.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Whitman School of Management\u00a0<\/a>at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syr.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Syracuse University<\/a> [2002-2008].<\/p>\n<p>His research focuses on two related areas: (a) the role of information technology in healthcare including organization-level impact of IT on quality and patient safety, and information security issues in healthcare; and (b) socioeconomics of health and health care delivery to priority population, particularly\u00a0 people with multiple chronic conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Statcounter code for @Vanderbilt https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/aappari\/ on Google Sites (new) --><\/p>\n<div class=\"statcounter\"><a title=\"Web Analytics\" href=\"https:\/\/statcounter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"statcounter\" src=\"https:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/12044693\/0\/87bf01cb\/1\/\" alt=\"Web Analytics\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- End of Statcounter Code --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ajit Appari is a Research Assistant Professor at Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University. Recently, he was Assistant Teaching Professor of Information Technology (IT) at Foisie Business School [2018-2019], Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA. Prior to Foisie, he was Assistant Professor of Healthcare Management and Policy at the University of Texas Health Science&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8377,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_onecolumn.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[6,4,9,7,5,10,12,8,11],"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-electronic-health-record","tag-healthcare-management","tag-healthcare-quality","tag-information-security","tag-information-systems","tag-multiple-chronic-conditions","tag-organizational-behavior","tag-patient-safety","tag-social-determinants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/aappari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/aappari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/aappari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/aappari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/aappari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/aappari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/aappari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/aappari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/aappari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}