Anthony (Tony) Faiola, Ph.D., is a Full Professor in the Department of Health and Clinical Sciences, in the College of Health Sciences (CHS), with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Human Development Institute (Center on Disabilities), with strong collaborative research ties in the UK College of Medicine and Markey Cancer Center, which provides support for his clinical research. Dr. Faiola also served as CHS’s Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship, with his primary duties focusing on fostering research productivity, including oversight of the college’s research portfolio, pre/post award management, and considerable time mentoring junior research faculty, both within and outside CHS.

Prior to coming to UK, Dr. Faiola was head of the Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences in the College of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where he oversaw programs in Health Informatics and Health Information Management (online and on-campus programs). He also directed the newly formed PhD program in Biomedical and Health Informatics. Before his time at UIC, Dr. Faiola spent 15 years at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing (SoIC), Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). While at IUPUI, he served as the Executive Associate Dean (EAD) and chief executive officer for SoIC on the Indianapolis Campus. He also served in the capacities of Founding Director of Human–Computer Interaction, Director of Informatics, and Director of Media Arts and Science.

While at UIC and UK his teaching focused on (undergrad/graduate) courses in Health Informatics, Interprofessional Collaboration in Healthcare, and Health Sciences Research Methods for students in CHS’s pre-dental, pre-medicine, pre-pharmacy, pre-PT, and pre-PA programs. Dr. Faiola has spent considerable time mentoring and advising more than sixty-five MS and PhD students—with whom he has coauthored more than forty refereed papers and posters and collaboratively designed several interactive health technologies. Students previously under his direct mentorship now work at: NIH, Roche, Eli Lilly, Merck, the Indiana Department of Public Health, Parkview Health, Motorola’s mobile division, Yahoo, Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and Columbia University.

Dr. Faiola’s research falls under the broad domain of the health sciences, with two foci: (1) Digital health solutions (clinical interventions) and (2) Empirical studies in public health and the social determinants of health. In the former case, his interdisciplinary approach includes the study, development, testing, and clinical implementation of mobile health (mHealth) and gaming health interventions for patients and family members suffering from cancer, mental trauma, and cognitive impairment. In the latter case, recent research includes the investigation of several health areas, including: mHealth adoption among people aging with chronic diseases in rural areas, mental health disparities of families of critical care patients from rural communities and how mobile health might reduce mental trauma, the impact of Internet and media sources exposure on self-care behavior, information during the COVID pandemic, the prevalence of low health literacy in Pakistan, and the current state of family mental health of critical care patients hospitalized during the COVID pandemic.

Publications

• Rehman, A., Faiola, A., & Naeem, S. B. (2023). The prevalence of low health literacy in Pakistan: current status and future directions, Health Information and Libraries Journal, 40(1). DOI.org/10.1111/hir.12475
• Soroya, S. H. and Faiola, A. (2023). Why did people avoid information during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Understanding information sources’ dynamics among Pakistani Z generation. Library Hi Tech, 40(6):150. DOI 10.1108/LHT-02-2022-0113
• Faiola, A., Kamel Boulos, M.N., Bin Naeem S, ur-Rehman, A. (2023). Integrating social and family support as a measure of health outcomes: validity implications from the integrated model of health literacy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(1):729. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/1/729, doi: 10.3390/ijerph20010729.
• Soroya, S. H., Nazir, M., & Faiola, A. (2022). Impact of health-related internet use on disease management behavior of chronic patients: Mediating role of perceived credibility of online information. Information Development, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/02666669221144622
• Faiola A, Papautsky ELerner, Isola M.  2019.  Empowering the Aging with Mobile Health: A mHealth Framework for Supporting Sustainable Healthy Lifestyle Behavior.. Curr Probl Cardiol. 44(8):232-266.
• Hosseini M, Faiola A, Jones J, Vreeman DJ, Wu H, Dixon BE.  2019.  Impact of document consolidation on healthcare providers' perceived workload and information reconciliation tasks: a mixed methods study.. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 26(2):134-142.
• Zolnoori M, Fung KWah, Patrick TB, Fontelo P, Kharrazi H, Faiola A, Wu YShuan Shir, Eldredge CE, Luo J, Conway M et al..  2019.  A systematic approach for developing a corpus of patient reported adverse drug events: A case study for SSRI and SNRI medications.. J Biomed Inform. 90:103091.
• Zolnoori M, Fung KWah, Patrick TB, Fontelo P, Kharrazi H, Faiola A, Shah ND, Wu YShuan Shir, Eldredge CE, Luo J et al..  2019.  The PsyTAR dataset: From patients generated narratives to a corpus of adverse drug events and effectiveness of psychiatric medications.. Data Brief. 24:103838.
• Hosseini M, Faiola A, Jones J, Vreeman DJ, Wu H, Dixon BE.  2018.  Impact of document consolidation on healthcare providers’ perceived workload and information reconciliation tasks: a mixed methods study. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 26(2)
• Tunnell H, Faiola A, Bolchini D, Ellis RBartlett.  2018.  Simulated Clinical Encounters Using Patient-Operated mHealth: Experimental Study to Investigate Patient-Provider Communication.. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 6(11):e11131.
• Tunnell H, Faiola A, Bolchini D, Ellis RBartlett.  2018.  Simulated Clinical Encounters Using Patient-Operated mHealth: Experimental Study to Investigate Patient-Provider Communication.. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 6(11):e11131.
• Hosseini M, Jones J, Faiola A, Vreeman DJ, Wu H, Dixon BE.  2017.  Reconciling disparate information in continuity of care documents: Piloting a system to consolidate structured clinical documents.. J Biomed Inform. 74:123-129.
• Faiola A, Holden RJ.  2017.  Consumer Health Informatics: Empowering Healthy-Living-Seekers Through mHealth.. Prog Cardiovasc Dis. 59(5):479-486.
• Srinivas P, Reddy MC, Faiola A.  2016.  Better managing technology-mediated interruptions in the ICU: Examining the role of patient information for improving text message notifications.. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2016:1159-1168.
• Faiola A, Srinivas P, Duke J.  2015.  Supporting Clinical Cognition: A Human-Centered Approach to a Novel ICU Information Visualization Dashboard.. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2015:560-9.