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.

Prof. Chang is Professor for the Medical Informatics School, Chung Shan Medical
University; Department of Information Management, Ming Chuan University, and
president of Medical Decision Science Association of Taiwan. He recently joined the
International Advisory Board of Karadeniz Technical University and Süleyman
Demirel University to support their internationalization mission in 2023.
His research contributions are focuses on clinical studies of specific diseases,
including predicting cancer recurrence and Second Primary Cancer, diagnosing
glaucoma and early chronic kidney disease, and analyzing posttraumatic growth and
health behavior in clinical psychology. For practice issue, his team apply several
innovative information technologies and collaborate across disciplines and countries
around the world. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles in reputed
international journals and conferences.
Prof. Chang have co-founded three international conferences, two AI forums, and
the Medical Decision Science Association of Taiwan with his team members. There are
the International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics (ICMHI) in 2017 [1],
the International Conference on Healthcare Service Management (ICHSM) in 2018 [2],
the Health Big Data, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Forum (HBAAI) in 2017 [3],
the Joint Executive Board on Medical Informatics Taiwan (JEBMI) in 2018 [4] and the
Medical Decision Science Association of Taiwan (MEDSAT) in 2022 [5], the
International Symposium on Medical Decision Science (ISMDS) in 2023 [6], 2024 [7]
and the Medical Decision Science Association of Mongolia (MEDSAM) [8].
He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Decision Science in Medicine. He also an
editor for some interdisciplinary journals, including those in the fields of medicine,
computer science, and management science, include Intl Journal of Medical Sciences,
Open Medicine, Therapeutics & Clinical Risk Management, Intl Journal of
Environmental Research and Public Health, Frontiers in Genetics, Journal of Universal
Computer Science, Intl Journal of Computers and Applications, Journal of Quality,
Journal of Computing Science and Engineering, Intl Journal of Business and Systems
Research, ACM, Intl Journal of Management, Economics and Social Sciences and
Journal of Electronic Science and Technology etc. Details at
https://www.mdsat.org.tw/chichang.pdf

Arş. Gör. Mehmet Beşir Demirbaş, 2013 yılında Isparta Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Sağlık Yönetimi bölümünden 2020 yılında ise tekrar Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Sağlık Yönetimi bölümünde yüksek lisansını tamamlamıştır. Şu anda Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Sağlık Yönetimi bölümünde doktora eğitimine devam etmektedir. Demiroğlu Bilim Üniversitesi, Sağlık Yönetimi bölümünde araştırma görevlisi olarak çalışmalarına devam eden Demirbaş, sağlık turizmi, yapay zekâ, hibe projeleri ve dijital pazarlama konuları üzerinde çalışmaktadır.