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Faculty

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Full-Time Faculty


Freddie Seba

Program Director

Program Director Seba is a serial tech entrepreneur, experienced global corporate executive, innovator, and educator at the intersection of fintech and digital health. He draws his teachings from over twenty-five years of practice in both tech-driven large multinationals and Silicon Valley startups in highly regulated industries, and from a rigorous education at Yale’s and Stanford University’s graduate programs. He has been teaching in the Master of Science in Health Informatics program since...

Education:

Stanford University, Master of International Policy Studies (IPS), Yale University Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Expertise:

Digital Transformation, Technology Innovation, New Business Models, Digital Health, FinTech and BigTech, Global Ecosystems

William Bosl

Associate Professor

Dr. William (Bill) Bosl, associate professor of health informatics and clinical psychology focuses his primary research on clinical neurophysiology and neurodiagnostics. In 2018 Professor Bosl was appointed Visiting Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Professor Bosl is leading a series of projects to discover patterns in infant EEG signals that can serve as biomarkers for autism and other neurodevelopmental pathology in collaboration with Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH...

Education:

PhD, Behavioral Neuroscience, Boston University School of Medicine, PhD, Geophysics, Stanford University, MA, Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, MS, Atmospheric Physics, University of Michigan, BS, Chemistry, Miami University

Part-Time Faculty


Ketan Kothari

Adjunct Professor
(650) 353-7769

Ketan was a co-founder of Root-1, Inc., a 2 year-old education technology startup that was acquired by Edmodo in March 2013. As part of the executive team at Edmodo, Ketan oversaw various areas of business. Prior to that, he was also the CEO and co-founder of AlphaSmart, Inc (IPO, NASDAQ in February 2004). Prior to co-founding AlphaSmart, Ketan worked as part of Apple’s staff, where he contributed to the success of several key products and services. He is also a member of the Advancement...

Education:

Brigham Young University, MBA, 1989, Brigham Young University, BS in Electrical Engineering, 1987

Expertise:

Startups

Andrew Nguyen

Associate Professor

Andrew Nguyen works at Genentech as a Principal Medical Informatics Architect. He is also the Co-founder and CTO of Digital Health Startup Qlaro. Previously, he worked as USF Assistant Professor and Program Director of the Master of Science in Health Informatics (MSHI) program at USF.

Education:

PhD, Biological and Medical Informatics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, CA

Sue Sarafrazi

Adjunct Professor

Professor Sarafrazi is a full-stack data scientist working at Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical. She enjoys working on all stages of data science, from identifying patterns in data to deploying models and building tools. Sue’s areas of interest include health, nutrition, genomics, economics, and financial markets, and she is passionate about teaching and making concepts easy to understand.

Education:

University of San Francisco, MS in Health Informatics, 2019, Drexel University, Ph.D. in Economics, 2015

Expertise:

Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Data Analytics of Genomics Data, Statistics and Econometrics

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