Annette Valenta, DrPH

EDUCATION

Certificate in Online Teaching and Learning, California State U Hayward
DrPH, Doctor of Public Health, UIC
MPH, Master of Public Health, UIC
BS, UIC University of Illinois at Chicago

PUBLIC SERVICE WORK

Chair, AMIA Health Informatics Accreditation Committee
Co-Chair, Biomedical Informatics Training Workgroup (BITWG, re evaluate training competencies / establish a core curriculum), Education / Career Development and Informatics Key Function Committees, Strategic Goal Committees 2 and 3, CTSA Consortium
Member, Selection Committee, Diana Forsythe Award of the AMIA People and Organizational Issues Working Group
Member, AMIA Academic Forum, Clinical Informatics Specialty Program Accreditation Task Force
Member, AMIA Academic Forum, [Informatics] Roles and Functions Task Force
UIC Faculty Representative, Association of Research Libraries / Digital Library Federation (ARL/DLR) E-Science Institute
Co-Chair, People and Organizational Issues Working Group, American Medical Informatics Association
Appointed Member, American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Masters Model Education Task Group
Appointed Member, AHIMA Workforce Study Project Advisory Committee
Federal Grant Reviewer, Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), HITECH Program Chair, Research Committee of UIC Informational Technology Governing Council (ITGC)
Member, UIC Interprofessional Education Strategic Thinking Task Force Invited Member, Chair, UIC Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Review Board Member of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Co Principal Investigator, IGERT: Electronic Security and Privacy: Technological, Human, Enterprise and Legal Considerations
VN Venkatakrishnan, PhD, Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation

HOME PAGE

UIC website

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Valenta AL, Wigger, U. (1997) Q-methodology: Definition and application in health care informatics. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 4, 501-510.

Valenta, AL, Therriault, D, Dieter, M., & Mrtek, R. (2001). Identifying student attitudes and learning styles in distance education. Online Learning Journal [was JALN: Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 5(2). [on-line at http://sloanconsortium.org/jaln/v5n2/identifying-student-attitudes-and-learning-styles-distance-education].

Boyd AD, Naiman M, Preston R, Stevenson G, Valenta AL. Portable devices to detect directed energy: User perceptions of personal risk and protective devices. International Journal of Computational Models and Algorithms in Medicine 2011 Jul-Sep;2(3):1-13

Stevenson G, Naiman M, Valenta AL, Boyd AD. Cursor on target: Research for a sensor network. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics [Internet] 2012 Dec 30;4(3):[14p.]. Available from: http://www.firstmonday.dk/ojs/index.php/ojphi/article/view/4275/3398 PubMed PMID: 23569647; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3615829

Boyd AD, Naiman M, Stevenson GW, Preston R, Valenta AL. Technical and operational users' opinions of a handheld device to detect directed energy. Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine 2013;84:528-33. PubMed PMID: 23713221