Ferhat Zengul, Ph.D., MBA, MAcc is a full-time Associate Professor in the Department of Health Services Administration, School of Health Professions (SHP) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Prior to joining the Health Care Management Program, he worked as a financial/managerial accountant at UAB Hospital Finance and UABHS Facilities Planning and Capital Projects Office. He has over ten years of experience in the financial management of capital projects.
Dr. Zengul’s overarching research goal is improving organizations' financial health and peoples' health and quality of life through data analytics and multidisciplinary approaches. To achieve this goal, his research focuses on three interest areas: 1) Accounting, Finance, and Data/Text Analytics, 2) Healthcare Management, and Informatics, 3) Infrastructure Projects. He is particularly interested in applying machine learning approaches in developing predictive models for the financial and clinical performance research domain. He has used data/text mining techniques in a variety of disciplines such as accounting, finance, informatics, and clinical research domains. Dr. Zengul is a Certified Revenue Cycle Specialist from Healthcare Financial Management Association. He has been teaching courses such as Accounting and Finance for Healthcare, Healthcare Economics, Finance, Revenue Cycle Management, Business Intelligence, Statistics, and Ethics both in undergraduate and masters and doctoral programs.

Prof. Dr. Ramazan Erdem received his bachelor's degree in 1994, his master's degree in 1997, and his doctorate in 2003 in Health Management from Hacettepe University (Türkiye). In 2009, he became an Associate Professor in Management and Organization, and in 2014, he was promoted to Professor. Since 2009, he has been a faculty member and head of the Department of Health Management in the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Süleyman Demirel University. Prof. Erdem is a member of the Health Administrators Association, the European Union Health Research Center (ABSAM), the International Strategic Health Research Center (USSAM), and the Medical Decision Science Association of Taiwan (MEDSAT). Additionally, he has served on the Board of the Institute for Turkish Health Policy Studies since 2017. His main research interests include critical management and medical studies, health sociology, and the impact of global warming and climate change on healthcare. He holds leadership roles in several academic initiatives, including founding the Workshop of Critical Perspectives in Management (2017) and the Workshop of Health Sociology (2020). Currently, he directs the Thematic Research Group on Global Warming, Climate Change, and Healthcare Services, focusing on sustainable healthcare solutions in response to environmental challenges.