About Me

• Teaching

• Curriculum development

• Learning management systems (Sakai, Blackboard, Canvas)

• Content management systems (Wordpress, Google Sites)Qualitative research 

• Interviewing

• Data analysis

• Social science research

• Quantitative research

• Writing for targeted and general audiences

• Scientific writing

• Editorial writing

• Editing

• Managing writing teams

• Translating technical content to a lay audience

• Communication (internal, external, interpersonal, mass, written, verbal, telecommunication)

• Website editing 

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Communication and Information Sciences (CIS),

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM), Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

Focus Areas: Social Informatics, Communication Theory, Health Behavior, Information Policy & Planning

Dissertation: Examining the Influence of Wearable Health Monitors on Patients and Physicians in a Filipino Community

Master of Arts (MA)

School of Communication and Information, UHM, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

Thesis: Running With Social Media: Social Network Sites and The Adoption of Marathon Running

Bachelor of Science in Journalism (BS)

E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

Major: Journalism

Specializations: Business and Sociology

• Professional Grant Writing, University of Houston

• American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) - Apple Digital Innovation Bootcamp: From Content to Action

• Apple Certified Teacher, Apple Teacher Learning Center 

• Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) at the University of Miami multiple completed courses in social science and behavioral research

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST) Women’s Institute in Summer Enrichment, University of California, Berkeley

• Best Paper Nomination for “Wearable Health Monitors and Physician-Patient Communication: The Physician’s Perspective” (co-author Elizabeth Davidson), presented at the Hawaiʻi International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

• Second Place for “Local Newspaper Use in Hawaiʻi Fosters Acculturation to Local Culture, Community Ties and Involvement” (PI: Francis Dalisay, co-authors: Masahiro Yamamoto, Chamil Rathnayake, and Kapiolani Ching), presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Conference in Minneapolis

• Dan J. Wedemeyer Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching Assistants

• Nomination: Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching