Patient Work

Kathleen Pine is an associate professor in the health care systems neighborhood here at Arizona State University's College of Health Solutions. She is an interdisciplinary social scientist working at the intersection of human centered computing, including human-computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work and health informatics; management and organization studies; and science and technology studies. Her research centers on data practices: the situated social, technical, and organizational practices through which data are created, managed and deployed, as well as the social and organizational implications of digital information technologies in the realms of health care and community health. She has a PhD in social ecology from the University of California, Irvine and worked previously as a postdoctoral research engineer in the user experience research group at Intel Labs, as an assistant project scientist in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine.

Samantha Whitman is a PhD candidate in the human and social dimensions of science and technology program out of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at ASU. She also earned her Master of Science in science of health care delivery from ASU’s College of Health Solutions. Her interdisciplinary work lies at the intersection of health services research, science and technology studies, health informatics, and human-computer interaction disciplines; and she draws on and contributes to these fields to research technology and work in the context of health care. Her work looks to understand the social construction of medical treatment and uncover the nuances of patient work (the practices and labor of those navigating the health care system to manage their illnesses and treatments) through the case of chronic illness.

Elizabeth Kizer is an associate teaching professor focused on teaching undergraduate classes in the health care administration and policy program (previously named science of health care delivery). Her teaching interests include research methods, data analysis (biostatistics and qualitative), public/population health, public mental health and process engineering. Her mixed-methods research focused on the use of community health assessments and community health improvement plans in the development and implementation of environmental and policy-level initiatives. She facilitated a community-based participatory research initiative in a rural community to assess and improve the nutrition environment. Specifically, she examined whether a geographically dispersed backyard garden program impacted the rural food environment by increasing the availability of fresh foods. Presently she is using a community-based participatory research framework to improve social determinants of health support for marginalized populations in a community health care setting.

Rida Imtiaz has earned a master's degree in science of health care delivery from ASU. She has a keen interest in researching health informatics, patient work and burden. Rida has previous experience working as a graduate research assistant and Medicare advisor.