Faculty and Staff

HAP Faculty

  • Image of Dr. Jinshan Tang

    Professor, HAP

    Dr. Jinshan Tang is a professor of Health Informatics in the Department of Health Administration and Policy. Before joining George Mason University, Dr. Tang was a full professor in the College of Computing at Michigan Technological University and a Founding Director of the Joint Center for Biocomputing and Digital Health.
  • Maria Uriyo

    Assistant Professor & MHA Online Coordinator, HAP

    Dr. Maria Uriyo is assistant professor and MHA Online Program Coordinator in the Department of Health Administration and Policy.  She was Program Director at Medicalincs LLC, an independent minority owned healthcare consulting firm located in Maryland where she oversaw the Rare & Expensive Medical Conditions Program that provided care coordination services to clients residing in select counties in Maryland.   
  • Image of Janusz Wojtusiak, PhD

    Professor, HAP
    Division Director, Programs in Health Informatics, HAP
    Director, Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory

    Dr. Wojtusiak, Professor of Health Informatics and Director of the Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory, has expertise that spans machine learning, health informatics, artificial intelligence in clinical decision support and knowledge discovery in medical data, and a wide range of applications of these fields in health care.
  • Associate Professor, HAP

    Dr. Hong Xue is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy. His primary research interests are in health economics, nutritional epidemiology, systems science and modeling, (childhood) obesity, mHealth, and big data and machine learning.
  • Regina Pickett

    Administrative Office Specialist III, HAP

    Regina Young is the Administrative Office Specialist in HAP.
  • Phillip Zane

    Assistant Professor, HAP

    Prof. Zane began teaching healthcare law at George Mason University as adjunct faculty member in the fall of 2014. In August of 2021, he joined the faculty full-time as an assistant professor. He teaches health economics, health policy, and cybersecurity for healthcare executives.