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Dr.Farrokh Alemi, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Systems Administration, School of Nursing and Health Studies, Georgetown University

Dr. Alemi is professor of health care management at Georgetown University. Dr. Alemi has a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from University of Wisconsin, Madison. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation post doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He has more than 24 years of experience in applying system analysis concepts to healthcare problems. His research have included pioneering areas such as online management of patients, probabilistic risk analysis of sentinel adverse events, behavior change through system analysis, activity based costing of health care delivery systems, process improvement and design, implementation and evaluation of electronic health records. He holds two patents, one on assessment of severity of episodes of illness and the other on personalized medication benchmarks. Dr. Alemi is a pioneer in open online courses. He has published more than 50 articles and three books, including the widely used textbook on decision analysis for health care managers. He has provided congressional testimony on the role of internet in health care. Dr. Alemi is an active researcher whose work has been funded by National Institute of Drug Abuse, National Institute of Heart Lung and Blood, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and various corporations.