Services to Profession (Editorial Board/ Grant Reviews)
Senior Editor, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (2018-present).
Area Editor, Health Systems (2022-present)
Associate Editor for the Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (2014-2018).
Early Career Reviewer for the National Institute of Health - Health Disparities and Equity Promotion (HDEP) study section, February 2018
External Reviewer on a health information security grant call for the CHIST - ERA, a European Union funding consortium, 2016.
Services to Academic Associations
Communications Committee Chair & Webmaster, Division of Health Care Management, Academy of Management, (2019-2022)
Ad-hoc Resume Reviewer for INFORMS Career Services at Annual Meetings (2018-present)
Review Panel Member for the AcademyHealth's Alice S. Hersh Student Scholarship during 2014, 2015, 2016,
Review Panel Member for the AcademyHealth's Presidential Scholarship for New Health Services Researchers in 2014.
Services to Profession (Reviewer for Journals & Conferences)
I serve as ad-hoc reviewer for more than 20 international journals and conferences in the information systems and healthcare disciplines including: MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Medical Care, Health Services Research, JAMIA, Health Care Management Science, International Journal of Medical Informatics, American Journal of Managed Care, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Information and Management, and Journal of Systems and Software; and (inter)national conferences such as AcademyHealth, Academy of Management, International Conference on Information Systems, American Conference on Information Systems, Workshop on Economics of Information Security, and AcademyHealth's Health Datapalooza.
Services to Profession (National/ International Conferences Administrative Support)
Session Chair, 2019 Conference on Health IT and Analytics, Nov 15-16, Washington, DC.
Review Panel Member for the Health Information Technology track of the 2013 AcademyHealth annual meeting;
Moderator/Session Chair for 2006 Academy of Management meeting (Aug 11-16, Atlanta, GA), and 2016 APHA annual meeting (Oct 29-Nov 02, Denver, CO);
Review Panel Member for the Minimalism & Agility in Information Systems Development track of the 2010 Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (Sept12-14, Tel Aviv, Israel);
Review Panel Member and provided conference administration support for the 2008 Workshop on Economics of Information Security (June25-28, Hanover, NH).
Institutional Services (at UTHealth School of Public Health)
I was instrumental in the development of a minor option Health Information Technology Management for the PhD program at School of Public Health, in collaboration with the UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics. This minor option comprises of five courses, and two of these courses are offered by me at School of Public Health.
I represented the Department of Management, Policy, and Community Health at various school-wide councils including Research Council (2014-Spring2016), Information Technology Council (2013-2014), and Faculty Council (2013-2014). Additionally, I have served as faculty judge for the UTHealth School of Public Health Student Research Day (2015, 2016) and served as faculty mentor to Student Research Day committee to organize their 2016 edition.
Further, I revived the department level Faculty Seminar Series and managed it during 2013-2015 to promote exchange of research ideas and expose doctoral students to latest research by inviting faculty from inside and outside UTHealth.