Peter Haried is the academic director of the HIMT program, department chair, and an associate professor of information systems (IS) at the College of Business Administration at UW-La Crosse. He received his Ph.D. in management science with a concentration in management information systems from UW-Milwaukee. His research focuses on: IS offshoring, IS project management, health information systems and e-commerce continuance.  He has published over 35 papers in international conferences and journals. At UW-La Crosse, he teaches the undergraduate capstone systems analysis and systems implementation/project management course sequence and courses in healthcare project management and healthcare systems analysis and design.