Professor and
Robert H. Smith Dean's Chair of Information Systems
Decision and Information Technologies Department


Phone:
(301) 405-3121
Fax: (301) 405-8655
Email:
ragarwal@rhsmith.umd.edu

URLs:
Profile: www.smith.umd.edu/dit/faculty/agarwal.html

Webpage: www.smith.umd.edu/faculty/ragarwal/index.html
 

 
 

 


R
itu is
a Professor, and the Robert H. Smith Dean’s Chair of Information Systems, at the Smith School. Her research is in the area of information technology management. Her current research is focused on the use of IT in healthcare settings, technology-enabled transformations in the auto-retailing and printing sectors; and appropriate strategies for the management of IT human capital.

To find out about her most recent projects follow this link: WORKING PAPERS

Ritu teaches in the Smith School's MBA and Ph.D. program. She is also active in executive education, and participates in the Smith School’s Executive MBA program.

Links to the websites of some of her recent doctoral students: Ph.D. STUDENTS

Ritu is the founder and Director of the
Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the Smith School. CHIDS is an academia-led effort with collaboration from industry and government affiliates, designed to research, analyze, and recommend solutions to challenges surrounding the introduction and integration of information and decision technologies into the health care system. 

To find out more about the Center please visit our website: CHIDS

For photographs from her most recent hiking trips go to: TRIPS

A more detailed
profile is available at: PROFILE

 

                             

                                    


 WHAT'S NEW?


 Professor Ritu Agarwal testifies before the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
 on the use of Personal Health Records.

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