Faculty and Staff

HAP Faculty

  • Associate Professor, HAP
    Director, Health Services Research PhD

    Dr. Gimm, associate professor of health administration and policy, has research experience in disability and aging, program evaluations, and health care payment reforms. Currently, Dr. Gimm serves as a co-investigator on a 5-year Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) to examine rural-urban disparities in access to services among adults with disabilities. Dr. Gimm is the Director of the Health Services Research PhD program.
  • Debora Goetz Goldberg

    Associate Professor, HAP

    Dr. Goldberg is an Associate Professor at George Mason University in the Department of Health Administration and Policy. She is a mixed methods researcher with an emphasis on survey and qualitative research methodologies. Her research focuses on primary care practice transformation, patient experience, and care for the underserved.
  • Assistant Professor, Health Administration and Policy

    Dr. Hafeez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy.
  • Associate Professor, HAP

    Dr. Renady Hightower is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy.
  • Dr. Y. Alicia Hong

    Professor, HAP

    Dr. Alicia Hong’s current research interests focus on how to effectively apply health information technology in disease prevention and health promotion, particularly on chronic disease management and caregiving. She employs community-engaged user-centered design to develop culturally tailored programs, integrating low-cost digital tools with clinical care to deliver personalized programs that are easy to adopt and sustain in underserved communities, ultimately reducing health disparities.
  • Jeah Jung

    Professor, HAP

    Dr. Jeah Jung is a Professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy. Jung’s research analyzes health policy issues using approaches to infer causal relations from observational data. 
  • Assistant Professor, HAP

    Dr. Hansoo Ko is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy. Hansoo is a public health physician and health services researcher with training in health economics.
  • Mason Department of Health Administration and Policy Professor, PJ Maddox, smiles in a publicity portrait.

    Chair, Department of Health Administration and Policy, HAP
    Professor, HAP

    Dr. Maddox is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Administration and Policy at George Mason University. She is a nurse with a distinguished career in health services administration, health policy analysis and health services research.
  • Hua Min

    Associate Professor, HAP

    Dr. Hua Min is an associate professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy. Min’s research interests are ontology-based data integration, ontology-based machine learning methods, data extraction and analysis from various EHR systems.
  • Assistant Professor, HAP

    Hedyeh Mobahi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy at George Mason University.