Biography

Dr. Heon-Jae Jeong received MD degree in South Korea in 2002. Four years later, he matriculated at Johns Hopkins University and received MPH, MBA and DrPH degrees as a Sommer Scholar from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and was also selected as a WHO patient safety scholar in 2007. He had been involved in developing and improving patient safety system in South Korea, Taiwan and Canada, and helping many hospitals, including Johns Hopkins, design and implement their own safety programs for years. He authored Korea’s national bestseller, “Hospital User’s Manual: 33 Safety Rules for Patients,” which led many Korean hospitals to develop patient engagement programs for safer care; Korea’s largest patient advocate association along with the Ministry of Health and Welfare developed a national patient safety campaign, based on the contents of the book, “Smiling Patient, Safe Hospital.” (WHO’s Patients for Patient Safety Newsletter—Winter 2013 covered this whole story). Through these works, he received Korean Minister of Health and Welfare Award twice in 2005 and 2013, and Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association’s most prestigious Outstanding Graduate Award in 2014. In addition, he been serving as an Incident Management Faculty of Canadian Patient Safety Institute, Director of International Affairs for the Korean Society for Patient Safety, Distinguished Advisor on Research and International Development to the Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation, International Society for Quality in Health Care Fellow, and Editor-in-Chief for Biometrics and Biostatistics
International Journal. Also, as the president of the Care Quality Research Group, he was working on various projects and researches on quality and safety of health care globally.

Research Interest

Statistics based quality and safety improvement in healthcare
Measuring and analyzing patient safety culture with statistics  
Quality and Safety of medical care (keyword: Quality of Care & Patient Safety)
Healthcare Provider Behavior
Patient Behavior in Medical Care Use
Big Data Analysis on Quality and Safety
Safety Culture in Healthcare Setting
Evidence Based Healthcare Management and Quality Improvement.

Biography

Prof. Rama Shanker has completed his Bachelor, Master and Ph.D in Statistics from Department of Statistics, Patna University, Patna, India. He was awarded gold medal for first position at master examination in Patna University in 1996. He has completed his Ph.D in 2003 on the topic, “Generalized Logarithmic Series Distributions and Their Applications” under the supervision of Prof. Amarendra Mishra, Department of Statistics, Patna University, Patna, India. He has more than twenty years of teaching and research experience. Presently, he is working as Professor and Head, Department of Statistics, Eritrea Institute of Technology.

Prof. Shanker research interests include Distribution Theory, Modeling of Lifetime Data, Statistical Inference, Biostatistics, Reliability, Transportation and Assignment Problems. He has more than 80 research papers published in national and international journals of Statistics, Mathematics and Operations research. Some of his research papers are so popular that in many countries research scholars are working on their extension, modification and applications in different areas for completing their master and doctoral thesis.

Prof. Shanker is the founding head of Department of Statistics under College of Science at Eritrea Institute of technology, Asmara, Eritrea. He was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of “Eritrean Journal of Science and Engineering (EJSE)”, a biannual Science and Engineering Journal, published from Eritrea Institute of Technology, Eritrea.

Prof. Shanker is the international advisory Board members of research journals published from India, Singapore and USA and reviewers of research papers in distribution theory of many international journals of Statistics. He has been working as international advisory committee members of conferences/seminars in Statistics. He has delivered invited/plenary talks in international/national conferences/seminars in Statistics and Statistics related disciplines. He is the external examiner of Ph.D thesis in Statistics for different universities.

Recently Prof. Shanker has been invited as a chief guest for delivering a lecture on, “Statistics- A Key Technology for Social Transformation in 21^st century in Nilambar Pitambar university, Daltonganj, Jharkhand, India. He has also delivered a popular lecture on “How to get What you want” in the same university. 

Research Interest

Distribution Theory, Statistical Inference, Operations Research, Reliability and Survival Analysis, Bayesian Statistics, Biostatistics/Medical Statistics, Stochastic Processes, Decision Theory