CERIAS Fellow
Title
Emeriti Faculty, Professor
Office Phone
(765) 494-4703
Education
B.E.S. in Chemical Engineering, M.S.E. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, M.A.T in Chemistry and Mathematics, Ph.D. in Education and Sociology from Johns Hopkins University.
Prior Appointments
Director of the Division of Engineering of the Evening College at Johns Hopkins University and Research Professor of Educational Administration at New Mexico State University.
Research Areas
Use of Information technology in health care, E-Healthcare, AIDS/STD Prevention
Key Areas
Risk Management, Policies, Laws
Notable Experience
Assistant Dean for Analytical Studies of the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education (1975-1978), Associate Director of the Health Services Research Training Program supported by the U.S. Public Health Service (1971-1976), Director of the Social Research Institute (1995- 1998), and Co-Director of the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention, a joint research center with Purdue University, Indiana University and Texas A&M University. Former member of international delegations on medical informatics to China, Hungary, and Russia.
Notable Awards
American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics Award for Outstanding Paper
Presented at AAMSI Congress 83, San Francisco, May, 1983.
Governor's Award for Outstanding Contributions to the State of Indiana, 1987.
T. Hale Ham New Investigators Award, Association of American Medical Colleges, 1988.
Certificate of Appreciation, Society for Computer Simulation, 1993.
Wyeth-Ayerst/William Campbell Felch, MD Award for Medical Research, 1995.
American Medical Informatics Association, Award for the Best Theoretical Paper, 1997.
Elected, Senior Member, Society for Computer Simulation International, 1998.
Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Purdue University,
2001.
Elected Fellow American College of Medical Informatics, 2003
Certificate of Appreciation, Conference Committee of the 2005 Western Simulation
Multiconference, Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 2005
Seeds of Excellence Award for Contributions to the Research Enterprise at Purdue
University, 2005
Elected Fellow, Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security,
2009
Notable Affiliations
Membership on the Medical Technology Committee of the Indiana Business Modernization and Technology Corporation, a state agency that provides seed money for start-up companies in Indiana.
Publications
Author/co-author of four books including Ethics and Information Technology: A Case-Based Approach to a Health Care System in Transition, Springer-Verlag, 2002. Edited two books that address the barriers to, and organizational impact of, computer-based information systems and coauthored a book on social and ethical issues related to the use of the Internet in healthcare.
Biography
James Anderson earned a B.E.S. degree in Chemical Engineering, M.S.E. degree in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, M.A.T. degree in Chemistry and Mathematics, and a Ph.D. in Education and Sociology from the Johns Hopkins University. He is the former Director of the Division of Engineering of the Evening College at Johns Hopkins University and Research Professor of Educational Administration at New Mexico State University. He joined the faculty at Purdue University in 1970 with a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology and the School of Industrial Engineering. Since coming to Purdue, he has served as Assistant Dean for Analytical Studies of the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education (1975-1978), Associate Director of the Health Services Research Training Program supported by the U.S. public Health Service (1971-1976), Director of the Social Research Institute (1995-1998), and Co-Director of the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention, a joint research center with Purdue University, Indiana University and Texas A&M University ( 1994-Present). His primary research has involved the application of social science theory and research methods to better understand and improve the delivery of health services. He is the author/co-author of four books including Ethics and Information Technology: A Case-Based Approach to a Health Care System in Transition, Springer-Verlag, 2002. His work has been recognized by outstanding research awards by the American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics (1983), the Association of American Medical Colleges (1988), the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education (1995), and the American Medical Informatics Association (1997). He has also been a member of international delegations on medical informatics to China (1988), Hungary (1995), and Russia (1995). Theory and methods include: social network theory, structural equation modeling, and computer simulation. He has edited two books that address the barriers to and organizational impact of computer-based information systems and co-authored a book on social and ethical issues related to the use of the Internet in healthcare.