Priya Nambisan

Priya Nambisan

  • Associate Professor, Health Care Informatics
Director, SMAHRT Lab
Director, ARDT Lab

Education

Post Doctoral Fellow, Center for Health Enhancement Support Systems (CHESS); University of Wisconsin-Madison 2006
PhD Communication & Digital Technologies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2005
MS Nutrition Science, Department of Public Health, Food Studies & Nutrition; David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, Syracuse University 1997
M.Sc. & B.Sc. Public Health and Extension Education, University of Kerala 1993

Speaker Topics

  • Social Media and impact on mental well-being
  • Aging research and digital technologies
  • Health Care Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Consumer/Patient Experience in Digital Environments

Interests & Expertise

Dr. Nambisan’s research interests are in the broad areas of social media and mental well-being, aging and digital technologies, innovation & entrepreneurship, and healthcare management. Her current work focuses on social media (and other digital) experiences and their impact on a) consumer/patient behavior and decision-making, b) entrepreneurial behavior and value co-creation, and c) health and mental well-being.

Dr. Nambisan pursues highly inter-disciplinary research that draws from different fields.

Her work has been published in premier journals such as the Journal of Business Research (JBR), MIT Sloan Management ReviewJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), Health Care Management Review (HCMR) and Health Expectations. She has also actively participated and presented in reputed academic conferences such as AoM, HICSS, GSA, ICIS, USASBE, APHA, and AMIA.

Selected Publications

Nambisan, P. & Kreps, G. (2024). Designing for and Assessing Learning in Digital Health Apps and Platforms: Case Study of a Comprehensive Digital Self-care Support System (CDSSS -myHESTIA) for the Aging. Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences conference, HICSS-57, Honolulu, Hawaii. (Peer-reviewed – Proceedings -full paper).

Nambisan, P., Stange, K. C., Lyytinen, K., Kahana, E., Duthie, E., & Potnek, M. (2023). A Comprehensive Digital Self-care Support System for Older Adults With Multiple Chronic Conditions: Development, Feasibility, and Usability Testing of myHESTIA. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 42(2), 170-184.

Nambisan, P., Abahussain, M., Duthie, E., Galambos, C., Zhang, B., & Bukowy, E. (2022). Nursing Home Vulnerabilities amid COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of Midwestern States.  Journal of Nursing Home Research, Vol. 7. Pg :55-61. (Official journal of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics).

Kapoor, A., Nambisan, P., & Baker, E. (2020). Mobile applications for breast cancer survivorship and self-management: A systematic review. Health Informatics Journal, Vol. 26(4), pp.2892–2905.

Kapoor A., Nambisan, P. (2020). Personal decision support for survivor engagement: A conceptual framework for implementing online cancer survivorship care plans. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 20, 59.

Kapoor, A., & Nambisan, P. (2018). Usability and acceptance evaluation of ACESO: A Web-based breast cancer survivorship tool. Journal of Cancer Survivorship, 12(3), 316-325.

Nambisan, P. (2017, November). Should Health Care Organizations Use Information Gleaned from Organization-Sponsored Patient Support Groups in Strategic Planning? AMA journal of ethics19(11), 1088-1095.

Nambisan, P. (2017, June). Factors that impact Patient Web Portal Readiness (PWPR) among the underserved. International Journal of Medical Informatics102, 62-70.

Nambisan, P. (2016, November). Social media data for assessing the impact of water quality of nearby waterways on people's physical and mental health. Proceedings of the American Public Health Association 2016 Annual meeting and Expo, Denver, CO.

Rastegar-Mojarad, M., Liu, H., & Nambisan, P. (2016, June). Using Social Media Data to Identify Potential Candidates for Drug Repurposing: A Feasibility Study. JMIR Research Protocols5(2), e121.

Nambisan, P., Gustafson, D. H., Hawkins, R., & Pingree, S. (2016, February). Social support and responsiveness in online patient communities: impact on service quality perceptions. Health Expectations19(1), 87-97.

Nambisan, P., Luo, X., Kapoor, A., Patrick, T. B., & Cisler, R. A. (2015). Social media, big data and public health informatics: Ruminating behavior of depression revealed through twitter. Proceedings of the HICSS -48 (Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences) conference.

Nambisan, P., Luo, J., & Kapoor, A. (2014). Social Media and Big Data: Can tweet moods predict illness and hospital visits in a region?.

Nambisan, P., Kreps, G. L., & Polit, S. (2013). Understanding Electronic Medical Record Adoption in the United States: Communication and Sociocultural Perspectives. Interactive Journal of Medical Research (iJMR)2(1), e5.

Nambisan, P. (2011). Evaluating patient experience in online health communities: Implications for healthcare organizations. Health Care Management Review36(2), 124-133.

Nambisan, P. (2011). Health information seeking and social support in online health communities: Impact on patients’ perceived empathy. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association18(3), 298-304.

Nambisan, P., & Watt, J. H. (2011). Managing customer experience in online communities. Journal of Business Research64(8), 889-895.

Nambisan, P., & Nambisan, S. (2009). Models of consumer value co-creation in health care. Health Care Management Review34(4), 344-354.

Nambisan, P. (2009). Online health information technologies: Enabling service innovation in health care. Annals of Information systems5, 159-177.

Nambisan, S., & Nambisan, P. (2008). How to profit from a better “virtual customer environment. MIT Sloan Management Review49(3), 53-61.

Nambisan, P., & Watt, J. H. (2008). Online community experience (OCE) and its impact on customer attitudes: An exploratory study. International Journal of Electronic Marketing and Retailing2(2), 150-175.

Recent Funded Grants

Using digital photovoice to explore the relationships between social media content and suicidality among transgender adolescents
Funder: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) R01
Dates: 2024-2027
Role: Principal Investigator

Adapting a Digital Self-care Platform (CDSSS-myHESTIA) for the Aging Population in India
Funder: U.S. Fulbright Scholar Award
Dates: 2024 - 2026
Role: Principal Investigator

Lung Disease Prediction Using Local LLMs and Audio Analysis
Funder: Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute (NMDSI)
Dates: 2024 – 2025
Role: Principal Investigator

Honors & Awards

U.S. Fulbright Scholar 2024-2025

The Teacher Excellence Award, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. May 2024.

The Teacher Excellence Award, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. December 2023

Participant (2005) Organizational Communication Doctoral Consortium, ICA.

Dissertation based work selected (2005, October) American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

Annual Doctoral Consortium.

Graduate Student Fellowship (2004) School of Humanities and Social Sciences, RPI.

Fellow (2003) Annual Summer Graduate WebShop.

Graduate Teaching Assistantship (2003) RPI.

Graduate Research Assistantship (2002) RPI.

Graduate Teaching Assistantship (2001) RPI.

William W. Allen Scholarship (1996) College of Human Development, Syracuse University.

Graduate Tuition Scholarship (1995) College of Human Development, Syracuse University.