Biography
Mervat Abdelhak is recognized internationally as a leader and visionary with significant contributions to health information management (HIM) and health informatics (HI) education and practice. Abdelhak founded the University’s health information management master’s programs and PhD core, making this the first academic department offering graduate education for HIM professionals. She also accelerated the department’s research program.
Abdelhak has 40+ scholarly articles published; has been an invited speaker with over 100 international/national presentations, and has provided numerous consultancies in the United States, Puerto Rico, Japan, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait and UAE.
Education
- PhD, University of Pittsburgh
- Master of Science in Information Science, University of Pittsburgh
Awards
- Distinguished Member Award, American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), 2009
- Fellow of American Health Information Management Association (FAHIMA), 2006
- Edna K. Huffman Literary Award of the American Health Information Management Association, 1996
Research Interests
- Electronic health record
- Privacy and security
- Outcome research
