Anthony (Tony) Faiola, PhD, MFA, is a Full Professor in the Department of Health and Clinical Sciences, in the College of Health Sciences, with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, the University of Kentucky (UK).

While Dr. Faiola’s research resides at the intersection of human-centered computing and health informatics, the focus is on the translational application of how mobile health (mHealth) serves as an medical intervention to foster healthy lifestyle behavior and rehabilitation, including mental health. He considers himself a social scientist who studies the effects of mHealth/telehealth in the context of patient and family-centered care and self-care monitoring. He also has extensive knowledge of several subdomains, such as human-computer interaction design and usability science, as applied to digital health information technologies.

Outcomes of Dr. Faiola’s research include more than 100 refereed papers and extended abstracts, as well as over 100 presentations and keynotes in the U.S., Europe, Russia, India, China, and Saudi Arabia. As both principal and co-principal investigator, he has secured external funding from the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Walther Cancer Institute, and the Fulbright Institute. He has taught over 1,000 students at every level, including the advising of more than 65 MS and PhD students—with whom he has co-authored more than 40 refereed papers. He has mentored a diversity of national and international graduate students who hold/held positions at NIH, Roche, Eli Lilly, Merek, the Mayo Clinic, Columbia University, Motorola Mobile Div., Yahoo, Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft.

While at UK, Dr. Faiola was the Associate Dean of Research for the College of Health Sciences (2020-2021). Prior to coming to UK, Dr. Faiola was Professor and Head of the Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago. He also served as Associate Professor and the Founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Program (Dept. of Human-Centered Computing), Indiana University—School of Informatics and Computing (IU-SoIC), Indianapolis. At IU-SoIC, he also served as Executive Associate Dean for five years. He received his PhD from Purdue University.

Dr. Faiola administrative and research expertise qualify him for a range of health informatics and digital health projects, which include the oversight of the design/development, human factors assessment, and usability testing of mobile/digital health technologies, including all system/service dashboards, user interfaces, and biometric wearable devices.

See Dr. Faiola’s Research Tab for current and past applied mHealth projects, as well as his CV and NIH Biosketch.