Jonna Koponen (jonnapauliina.koponen@uef.fi)
Leading an international research project on e-leadership with digital communication 2021-2016 funded by the Academy of Finland.
Research area I: E-leadership and digital communication. Challenges and opportunities in e-leadership, digital communication channels in e-leadership, video communication and social presence.
Research area II: Relationship marketing and B2B sales management. Customer relationships, customer experience, value co-creation, sales communication and interaction, interpersonal communication competence, digital marketing.
Research area III: Communication competence and AI in management. E-leaders’ and sales managers’ communication competence, physicians’ communication competence, AI integration in service and sales teams, AI and ethics in management.
Katri Salokangas (katri.salokangas@uef.fi)
I am a general practitioner and I have a special qualification as a medical supervisor. I teach undergradutate medical students general practice and the work of a health centre doctor, as well as basic medical skills for encountering, interviewing and researching a patient. In addition, I am involved in the postgraduate medical education in the YEK phase doctors and physicians specializing in general practice.
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Mervi Rantsi (mervi.rantsi@uef.fi)
I am a health economist interested in implementation of evidence-based practice. I aim at strengthening the implementation research with health economic applications and methods. My research interests are primarily related on older people.
In my PhD thesis evaluated the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different implementation strategies. At the moment, I am working on a registry study evaluating the implementation of The Finnish clinical guideline of memory disorders and influence of physicians’ peer networks on psychotropic prescribing in MEDIFF project, funded by the Social Insurance Institution.
I work as a personal study plan supervisor in Health economics master’s program.
Pieter Dhondt (pieter.dhondt@uef.fi)
As senior lecturer and adjunct professor in general history, my current research focuses on the history of university celebrations, student revolts, and on medical history, including the development of medical education at universities and colleges of higher education and changing attitudes towards medical uncertainty. My publications deal with, among other themes, the intercultural transfer of university ideas within Europe in the nineteenth century and the history of academic mobility.
Currently I am in charge of two projects dealing with “Changing attitudes towards medical uncertainty in the training of physicians from the 1880s” (NOS-HS, 2019-2022 and Academy of Finland project, 2019-2024).
Yearly I am teaching five to six courses, such as “World history since 1600”, “History of historiography and theory of history”, “History of ideas and cultural history”, “History of colonisation and decolonisation of (Central) Africa”, “History of the Baltic Sea Region”, “History of Medicine”, and Bachelor dissertation seminar.
Virva Hyttinen-Huotari (virva.hyttinen-huotari@uef.fi)
I am a health economist interested in register-based research. In my PhD thesis I studied how potentially inappropriate medications in older people are associated with health care use, costs and mortality. After the dissertation, my research has continued to focus on the older people and medication use, increasingly focused on physicians’ decision-making and system-level implementation evaluation using registry data and quasi-experimental methods. I am a Principal Investigator in two research projects (MEDIFF and GuideGap, both funded by the Social Insurance Institution (SII) of Finland). The MEDIFF evaluates the effectiveness of implementation of strategies for improving rational pharmacotherapy using registry data. The GuideGap is mixed-method research project, which aims to evaluate physicians’ adherence to clinical guidelines generally.