360 About the Authors
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invited guest editor of the Special Issue on Knowledge Management and IT in
Healthcare for the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine in 2004.
He is the founder and head of the Knowledge Management for Healthcare (KMH)
research subgroup and has a biographical entry in Who’s Who in the World.
Lieutenant Colonel Summer E. Bartczak is an assistant professor of information
resource management at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) in Dayton, Ohio.
In this position, she is responsible for the graduate education of officer and enlisted
candidates selected from across the Department of Defense. She currently acts as
program manager of the Information Resource Management Program. Lt. Col. Bartczak
holds a BS from the United States Air Force Academy (1986), an MS in information
resource management from the Air Force Institute of Technology (1990), a Master’s of
Military Operational Art and Science from the Air University Air Command and Staff
College (1998), and a PhD in management information systems from Auburn University
(2002). Her primary research interests include information and knowledge management,
strategy, and implementation.
Florian Bayer studied economics at the University of Regensburg (Germany). Since
2003, he is research assistant and PhD student at the Department of Management
Information Systems at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. His research
interests include knowledge management, strategic alliances, and risk management.
Anton Bradburn holds a PhD in management. He is currently a research fellow in the
Department of Business Information Management and Operations at Westminster
Business School (WBS). Anton is a member of the Business Information and Communi-
cations Technology research group within WBS where he is conducting a research
programme into intellectual capital, knowledge management, and information strategies.
Prior to taking up his research fellowship at the University of Westminster, Anton had
been a senior manager with London Fire Brigade and a visiting lecturer in strategic
management at other London-based universities.
Frada Burstein is associate professor at Monash University. She obtained her PhD in
decision support systems in 1984 from the Soviet Academy of Sciences. At Monash
University, Professor Burstein initiated and continues to lead the Knowledge Manage-
ment research group, which comprises a virtual knowledge management laboratory. She
has been a chief investigator for a number of research projects supported by grants and
scholarships from the Australian Research Council and industry. Frada’s research
interests include intelligent decision support, knowledge management technologies,
organizational memory, and knowledge reuse. Professor Burstein has published exten-
sively in scientific journals and collections of papers, including IT & People, European
Journal of Operations Research, and Journal of Decision Systems. She was an editor
for special issues of international and Australian journals in knowledge management and
decision support. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Information
and Knowledge Management, Decision Support Systems, and International Journal of
Knowledge Management.