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ALEX CITURS
Assistant Professor of Decision and Information Analysis
Alex Citurs comes to Emory from Case Western Reserve University, where
he is finishing up his doctoral education in information systems. Citurs
has a BA in management and information systems, and an MBA (with concentrations
in MIS and operations research) from the University of Iowa. He also has
worked as a business analyst and software project manager for the Allied
Group, and as a programmer/analyst for State Farm Insurance. Citurs dissertation
is entitled, Changes in Team Communication Patterns: Learning During
Technology Project Crisis Resolution Phases.
AMRIT TIWANA
Assistant Professor of Decision and Information Analysis
Amrit Tiwana comes to Emory from Georgia State University, where he is
finishing up his doctoral degree in information systems. He also has a
degree in electrical engineering from Bangalore University in India. Tiwanas
research is in knowledge management, e-business strategy and the management
of information systems. His dissertation is titled, The Influence
of Knowledge Integration Capability on Project Success: An Empirical Examination
of E-Business Project Teams. He has taught courses on intelligent
systems and knowledge management, telecommunications for business, and
introduction to computer-based information systems.
JOE LABIANCA
Assistant Professor of Organization & Management
Joe Labianca has a doctorate in management from Penn State University,
and a BA (cum laude) in psychology from Harvard. He has spent the past
three years on the faculty of the Freeman School of Tulane University,
where he has taught courses on organizational behavior, organizational
theory and organizational change. Labianca is in an expert on social network
analysis in organizations. His most recent publication is Emulation
in Academia: Structural and Identity-Related Factors Influencing Categorization
into Strategic Reference Groups, which is forthcoming in Organization
Science.
ELLIOT BENDOLY
Assistant Professor of Decision and Information Analysis
Elliot Bendoly is currently finishing up his dissertation in operations
management at the Kelley School of Business Indiana University. His dissertation
topic is Supply and Demand Management in Clicks and Mortor Operations:
Strategies and Service Implications. Bendoly has an MS in operations
from Indiana, and joint BS/BA degrees in materials engineering and economics
from Case Western Reserve University. His most recent publication is Employee
Involvement and Pay at U.S. and Canadian Auto Suppliers, which is
forthcoming in the Journal of Economic and Management Strategy.
MIKE PRIETULA
Professor of Decision and Information Analysis
Mike Prietula has a bachelors degree in psychology and MIS from
Purdue University, and a PhD in MIS from the University of Minnesota.
He has been on the faculties of Dartmouth, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins
and most recently, the University of Florida. Prietulas interests
are in artificial intelligence and expertise. A recent paper with Kathleen
Carley, Exploring the Effects of Agent Trust and Benevolence in
a Simulated Organizational Task, appeared in the journal Applied
Artificial Intelligence. He also is currently pursuing work on computational
models of trust, emotion, and gossip among artificial agents, a project
funded by NSF. Prietulas broader interests include IT-enabled business
models, risk, and technology; the role of intelligent agents in electronic
commerce; trust in IT technologies and agents; computational models of
organizations and the impacts of technologies; IT and organizational design;
and behavioral models of firms and market behavior.
SUDIPTA BASU
Associate Professor of Accounting
Sudipta Basu has a BA degree from Delhi University, an MBA from the Indian
Institute of Management in Calcutta, and MS and PhD degrees from the University
of Rochester.
He is currently on the faculty of Baruch College in NYC. Basu works in
the area of financial reporting. His most recent publication is Discussion
of International Differences in the Timeliness, Conservatism and Classification
of Earnings, in the Journal of Accounting Research. His dissertation,
Conservatism and the Asymmetric Timeliness of Earnings was
published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics.
SANDY JAP
Associate Professor of Marketing
Sandy Jap comes to us from MIT where she has spent the past five years
as an Assistant Professor of Marketing. She has a PhD and a BA in marketing
from the University of Florida and has also worked in the marketing area
for SunBank. Jap received the Academy of Marketing Sciences dissertation
award in 1996 and the Marketing Science Institutes dissertation
proposal prize in 1993. She is an expert on interorganizational marketing
and channel relationships and is an active member of the American Marketing
Association and INFORMS. Japs most recent publication is Perspectives
on Joint Competitive Advantages in Buyer-Supplier Relationships,
forthcoming in the International Journal of Research in Marketing.
ALBERTO SA VINHAS
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Alberto Sa Vinhas is finishing up his dissertation at INSEAD where he
also received an MS in marketing as well. His dissertation is titled,
Dual Distribution Channels in Business-to-Business Marketing: A
Transaction Interdependencies View. Sa Vinhas spent three years
as a marketing manager for CIN, a European paint manufacturer. He has
also been an assistant professor of economics at the University of Oporto
in Portugal. Sa Vinhas research interests are business-to-business
marketing, forward integration, marketing strategy and e-marketing. He
is fluent in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.
SUSAN HOGAN
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Susan Hogan is finishing her doctorate in marketing at the Wharton School.
She also has an MBA in finance from NYU, and a BA in marketing from Michigan
State University. Hogans dissertation topic is Shooting or
Embracing the Messenger: Delivering Bad News in a Business-to-Business
Environment. Prior to returning to study for her PhD, Hogan worked
in various marketing capacities for IBM. Her research interests are in
business-to-business marketing and consumer behavior.
RICHARD METTERS
Associate Professor of Operations Management
Rich Metters comes to Emory from SMU where he was an associate professor
of operations management. He has a doctorate in operations management
from UNC-Chapel Hill, an MBA from Duke and a BA in economics from Stanford.
Metters is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Operations Management,
Production and Operations Management and the Journal of Service Research.
His research interests are in the management of services, and his most
recent publication is Managing Inventory with Multiple Products,
Lags in Delivery, Resource Constraints, and Lost Sales: A Mathematical
Programming Approach.
STANIMIR MARKOV
Senior Lecturer in Accounting
Stanimir Markov is completing his dissertation in accounting (minor: finance)
at the University of Rochester. His dissertation is entitled, Financial
Analyst Stock Recommendations and Earnings Forecast Revisions. Markov
has an MBA from Georgetown and an MA in international relations from the
University of National and World Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria. His research
interests are in the role of financial analysts in capital markets, voluntary
disclosure, empirical accounting and financial research.
MOLLY MERCER
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Molly Mercer will receive her doctorate in accounting this fall from the
University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation topic is, The Credibility
Consequences of Managers Decisions to Provide Warnings about Positive
and Negative Unexpected Earnings. Mercer has a BBA degree from the
University of Wisconsin at Madison. Mercer also has worked as an auditor
for Arthur Andersen. Her interests are in behavioral financial accounting.
School of Medicine
AMY CHEN
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology-HNS
Amy Chen received her undergraduate degree from University of Texas and
MD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and MPH from the University of
Texas School of Public Health. She completed a fellowship in head and
neck oncologic surgery at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston,
Texas, before joining the Emory faculty. At Emory, Chen will be involved
in clinical research and outcomes and will divide her time between the
University and the VA Hospital.
SERGUEI DIKALOV
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Serguei Dikalov received his PhD in physical chemistry and biochemistry
from the University of Novosibirsk in Novosibirsk, Russia. He comes to
Emory following a visiting fellowship in the Laboratory of Pharmacology
and Chemistry at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
At Emory, Dikalov is serving as director of the newly created Free Radicals
in Medicine Core.
PARASKEVI GIANNAKAKOU
Assistant Professor of Hematology/Oncology in the Winship Cancer Institute
Paraskevi Giannakakou received her B.Pharm from the University of Athens
in Athens, Greece, and her PhD from the University of Athens and the National
Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
At Emory, she is involved in research of the genetic basis of sensitivity
and resistance to antineoplastic drugs of the taxane class. Giannakakou
also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Pharmacology.
TAI-HWANG MICHAEL FAN
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Tai-Hwang Michael Fan received his bachelors of public health from
China Medical College in Taiwan, his PhD in pharmacology from the University
of Rochester in New York, and his MD from the State University of New
York in Buffalo. Fan is in the Division of Cardiology and primarily based
at the VA Hospital.
ROBERT GROSS
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
Robert Gross received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and
his PhD in molecular pharmacology and his MD from the Albert Einstein
College of Medicine in New York. Gross clinical and academic interests
include functional/stereotactic neurosugery, movement disorders and epilepsy.
CHRISTINE HEIM
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Christine Heim received her undergraduate degree, MA and PhD from the
University of Trier in Germany. She did a postdoctoral fellowship at Emory.
Heim joins the Emory faculty after being on faculty at the University
of Trier and working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Her work at Emory involves the neurobiology of stress and psychopathology
and continues a collaborative effort with the CDC.
STUART HOFFMAN
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Stuart Hoffman received his undergraduate degree from Clark University
in Worcester, Mass., and
his PhD in behavioral and molecular neuroscience from Rutgers University-Newark
campus. He did a postdoctoral fellowship in pharmacology at the Medical
College of Virginia. Hoffmans research work is part of the brain
injury group, a collaborative research effort in brain injury across
a range of clinical and basic science departments at Emory. Additionally,
he is involved in collaborative research with the Emory/Georgia Tech Department
of Biomedical Engineering.
KENNETH KOKKO
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Kenneth Kokko received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College,
an MS from Emory University, and MD/PhD, also from Emory. Kokko joins
the faculty following a fellowship in nephrology and will divide his time
between Emory and Grady. His research efforts are focused on the immunological
causes of transplant rejection.
ROBERT LEE
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Robert Lee received his undergraduate degree from Purdue University and
MS and PhD in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University. He
completed a postdoctoral fellowship in physiology. Lees research
is in the cellular neurophysiology of vertebrate neurons and will contribute
to the departments efforts in neuroscience and neuroengineering.
ICHIRO MATSUMURA
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Ichiro Matsumura received his undergraduate degree from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and his PhD in biochemistry from the University
of California at Berkeley. He did a postdoctoral fellowship at the University
of Texas. Matsumuras research is focused on understanding the adaptive
evolution of protein structure and function.
SRIVIVASAN MUKUNDAN
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Srivivasan Mukundan received his undergraduate degree from Emory,
as well as a PhD in chemistry and an MD. Additionally he completed a residency
in diagnostic radiology and fellowship in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
prior to joining the faculty. Mukundans efforts will be in the Division
of Neuroradiology.
SHOICHIRO ONO
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Shoichiro Ono received his undergraduate, MSc and PhD in science from
Chiba University in Japan. He did postdoctoral work at Mitsubishi Kasei
Institute of Life Sciences in Japan and at Emory. Onos research
focuses on the actin cytoskeketon and several proteins that regulate its
dynamic assembly. He is in the Experimental Pathology Division of his
department.
DIMITRIS PAPANICOLAOU
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dimitris Papanicolaou received his undergraduate degree from the Aristotelian
University in Thessaloniki, Greece, and his MD from Athens University
in Athens, Greece. He did his residency in primary care at Yale and joins
our faculty from the National Institutes of Health. Papanicolaou is in
the division of endocrinology and his work at Emory is a collaborative
effort with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
WEI ZHOU
Assistant Professor of Hematology/Oncology in the Winship Cancer Institute
Wei Zhou received his undergraduate degree from Georgia State University
and his PhD from Emory. His postgraduate training was at Johns Hopkins
University. Zhous research is focused on using serial analysis of
gene expression to identify potential tumor markers and in developing
new genomics tools for cancer detection, diagnosis and drug discovery.Candler
School of Theology
Candler School
of Theology
BRENT STRAWN
Assistant Professor of Old Testament
Brent Strawn received his PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary and
has taught at Asbury Theological Seminary. He has published in the area
of Old Testament exegesis, Qumran studies and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Strawn
is currently working on a book manuscript dealing with metaphor and image
in the Ancient Near East.
LEWIS AYRES
Assistant Professor of Historical Theology
Prior to joining the faculty of Candler, Lewis Ayres taught at the Universities
of Kent and Liverpool in Great Britain. Ayres also served as lecturer
at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and assistant professor of Theology
at the Divinity School of Duke University. His DPhil is from Merton College,
Oxford University. He will be teach in the area of early and medieval
church history and doctrine. Ayres has wide research interests which are
reflected in his impressive list of scholarly publications. The list includes
works on Augustine, early and medieval church doctrine, as well as issues
in contemporary theology. He is currently finishing book manuscripts on
Augustine's Trinitarian theology and the practice of Christian doctrine.Oxford
College.
Oxford College
GUIBAO YANG
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Dance
Guibao Yang received a BS in physical education and pedagogy from Beijing
Institute of Physical Education in 1977, an MS in physical education in
teacher education from Shenyang Physical Education Institute in 1983,
an MS in sport psychology and physical education from Florida State University
in 1993, and a PhD in sport psychology and educational psychology from
Florida State in 1994. Yang previously served as an assistant professor
in the Physical Education Department at Corning Community College (SUNY)
in Corning, New York. He is a Japanese Karate Association certified black
belt-karate instructor and Tai Chi and Chinese Qi Gong meditation master.
His research interests include: motor learning and development, teacher
education, exercise physiology, kinesiology, adapted physical education,
test and measurement, research methods, first aid and safety, and stress
management.
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