IDRIS Lecture Series: Dr. Michelle Rogers

Join us as Dr. Michelle Rogers presents her research on data capture and availability in electronic medical records (EMRs) used by midwives, and how it supports better birthing care for Black women. This important conversation takes place on November 18th, with options to attend either in person or virtually.

About Dr. Michelle Rogers:

Michelle L. Rogers, PhD is an associate professor in the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University. Her research agenda is framed around the intersection of people, technology and information, primarily but not exclusively, in the healthcare domain. For more than 15 years, she has focused on solving three focused research problems (1) the evaluation of implementing and designing information technology in complex work systems, (2) the inefficient and ineffective healthcare information technology (HIT) used by healthcare providers’ with and by medically underserved communities (patient portals and electronic medical records) and (3) understanding the success of women and girls’ participation in STEM fields/careers. She has used techniques from industrial and systems engineering, sociotechnical systems theory, user interface design methodologies, scenario-based user evaluation and participatory design. Internationally, Dr. Rogers has investigated HIT in the Ugandan maternal health system among midwives and other community health workers. Most recently, she is collaborating with faculty from industrial design, dance and education to understand how making, arts, and coding can assist in making the realization of a career in STEM fields achievable – Black Girls Steaming through Dance (BGSD). From 2020 – 2022, she served as a program officer at the National Science Foundation in the Computing and Networking Systems (CNS) division of the CISE directorate. There, she was working on the Broadening Participation across the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate. A native New Yorker and graduate of NYC Public schools, Brooklyn Technical High School, she completed the dual degree engineering program at Spelman College and Georgia Tech (electrical engineering). Dr. Rogers graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison with a MS and PhD in Industrial Engineering.