Susan Hart-Hester, PhD
Dr. Susan Hart-Hester received her Master's in Psychology from West Georgia College in 1977 and her Doctoral Degree in Curriculum Development and Special Education from the University of Virginia in 1986.
Dr. Hart-Hester served as an educational technologist for the Mississippi Department of Education and as coordinator of student teaching for the University of Southern Mississippi before joining the UMMC faculty in March 1992. She is a professor, and her principal responsibility is in the area of grant writing.
She serves as director of the Health Professional Shortage Core in the Institute for Improvement of Minority Health and Health Disparities in the Delta Region (DRI). She has served as principal investigator and/or co-investigator for state and federal grants and serves as co-editor for the American Health Information Management Association's (AHIMA) national peer-reviewed journal, Perspectives in Health Information Management.