SAT - e-Health
The TAB will include technologies, applications and management issues of technologies in healthcare. More specifically, how IT and wireless technologies are shaping the delivery, utilization and management of healthcare services, how new IT-centric services can be designed, and how improved healthcare service can be offered to an increased number of people by a limited financial and human resources.
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Committee Chair Upkar Varshney |
Biography
Upkar Varshney is on the faculty of CIS at Georgia State University. His current interests include wireless networks, pervasive healthcare, ubiquitous computing and mobile commerce. In a recent CAIS study, he was ranked among the most productive researchers in the world for 2001-2005. He is the co-founder (with Prof. Imrich Chlamtac) of International Pervasive Health Conference and also co-chaired the conference in 2006.
He has authored over 110 papers including about 50 in journals. He is the author of several highly cited papers in wireless networks and mobile commerce. According to scholar.google, the total number of journal and conference citations for his papers exceeds one thousand. Upkar has presented several very well received tutorials and workshops (and even a few keynotes) at wireless, computing, and information systems conferences. He has also received grants from several funding agencies including the National Science Foundation.
His teaching awards include Myron T. Greene Outstanding Teaching Award (2004), RCB College Distinguished Teaching Award (2002), and, Myron T. Greene Outstanding Teaching Award (2000). He is serving or has served as an editor/guest editor for several journals including IEEE Transactions on IT in Biomedicine, ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks (MONET), IEEE Computer, and Decision Support Systems (DSS).