Angela P. Gomez, EdD, MBA, MS
- Assistant Professor
- Co-Director, Quality Enhancement Plan
Biography
Angela P. Gomez is Assistant Professor with the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, and Co-Director of UTHealth Houston’s Quality Enhancement Plan, Healthcare Policy for Health Professionals (HP2). She actively engages in educational research, assessment, and program development and evaluation, collaborating across the university on topics such as health policy, humanities and ethics, and the use of AI in teaching and research. Her scholarly interests are at the intersection of adult learning, health professions education, and faculty and student development as educators and researchers.
She holds a Doctor of Education from Sam Houston State University (Department of Educational Leadership), where she previously earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Business Administration, and a Master of Science from Georgia State University (Department of Educational Research and Policy Studies). Dr. Gomez advises learners at all levels on educational research, instructional technology, and program evaluation with a focus on studying teaching and learning environments and enhancing educational activities. She teaches and facilitates small groups at McGovern Medical School, manages the Center’s extracurricular (or blue book) and selected fourth-year electives, contributes to the GME in Humanities & Ethics and Medical Humanities Workforce Training programs, serves as the copy editor for Human Ties Digest, and is the Center’s web manager.
Before joining UTHealth Houston as a program coordinator in 2009, she worked for 10 years in market and social science research. Gomez previously held a two-year term as Web Manager for the Measurement and Research Methodologies division of the American Educational Research Association (external link) and was a member of the Executive Board and Communications Committee. She is currently on the Communications and PR Committee of the National Organization for Student Success (external link). She serves as a peer reviewer for the Journal of the National Organization for Student Success (external link) and is an associate editor of the Journal of Medical Humanities (external link).
Dr. Gomez’s expertise and interests include quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods educational research; survey research; assessments of learning (including knowledge and skills); program evaluation; measurement; action research; learning technology; and educational theory and practice for adult learners.
Education
- Bachelor of Business Administration
- Sam Houston State University
- Master of Business Administration
- Sam Houston State University
- Master of Science
- Georgia State University
- Doctor of Education
- Sam Houston State University
Areas of Interest
Research Interests
Health professions education
Educational research and program evaluation
Adult learning theory and practice
AI and educational technology
Action research
Assessment and measurement
Faculty and student development
Scholarship of teaching and learning
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications
- Gomez, A.P., Franklin, D.R., Carlin, N., & Robertson-Preidler, J. (2026). A dental clinical humanities program at UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry: The first ten years and future directions. Journal of the American College of Dentists, forthcoming.
- Carlin, N., Gomez, A., & Ortiz, M. (2024). Teaching pathographies of mental illness. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 34(3), 321-329. doi: 10.1017/S0963180124000318
- Polczynski, A. M., Rozmus, C., & Carlin, N. (2019). Beyond silos: An interprofessional, campus-wide ethics education program. Nursing Ethics, 26(7-8), 2314-2324. doi: 10.1177/0969733019832948
- Rozmus, C., Carlin, N., Polczynski, A., Spike, J., & Buday, R. (2015). The Brewsters: A new resource for interprofessional education. Nursing Ethics, 22(7), 815-826. doi: 10.1177/0969733014547974
- Carlin, N., Flaitz, C., & Polczynski, A. (2013). Interprofessional ethics: An innovative active-learning experience for health professional students (Published abstract). Journal of Dental Education, 77(2), 224.
Recent Presentations
- Gomez, A.P., & Kumar, S.S. (2026, June). Practical applications of AI for research. Invited lecture for the McGovern Medical School Summer Research Program, Houston, TX.
- Wise, J.N., & Gomez, A.P. (2026, June). Health science center’s Quality Enhancement Plan pilots new curricula on advocacy and medical-legal partnerships for health professions students. Presentation at the Academy of Professionalism in Health Care Annual Meeting, Camden, NJ.
- Gomez, A.P., & Wise, J.N. (2026, May). Connecting teaching with theory to enhance education: Methods for meaningfully applying andragogy. Poster presented at the AAMC Southern Group on Educational Affairs Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
- Gomez, A.P., & Wise, J.N. (2025, April). Civics and advocacy online learning modules for health professional students. Poster presented at the 2025 Association of American Medical Colleges’ Annual Southern Regional Meeting of the Groups on Educational Affairs, Student Affairs, and Organization of Student Representatives, Miami, FL.
- Gomez, A.P. (2025, April). Exploring lasting perceptions, impacts, and experiences of a medical humanities concentration among alumni. Poster presented at the 2025 AAMC’s Annual Southern Regional Meeting of the GEA, GSA, and OSR, Miami, FL.
- Gomez, A.P., & Wise, J.N. (2025, February). Civics and advocacy online learning modules for health professional students. Paper presented at the Southwest Educational Research Association’s 2025 Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
- Coughlan, R.C. III, Wise, J.N., & Gomez, A.P. (2025, February). Virtual Interprofessional Policy Simulation approach to health policy education. Paper presented at the American Political Science Association’s 2025 Annual Conference on Teaching and Learning, Alexandria, VA.
- Wise, J.N., Coughlan, R.C. III, & Gomez, A.P. (2025, February). Teaching civics and advocacy to health science students online learning modules. Workshop presented at the APSA’s 2025 Annual Conference on Teaching and Learning, Alexandria, VA.
- Gomez, A.P., & Wise, J.N. (2024, December). Healthcare policy for health professionals: A QEP to enhance student knowledge. Poster presented at the 2024 Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) Annual Meeting, Austin, TX.
- Koshy, A., & Gomez, A.P. (2024, September). Houston, we have a problem: Impacts on a novel graduate medical education (GME) program in the humanities and ethics. Poster and video presentation at the 2024 Joint Congress of the International Association of Music in Medicine (IAMM) and International Society for the Arts in Medicine (ISfAM), Virtual and Berlin, Germany.
- Gomez, A.P., Wise, J.N., & Fenton, S.H. (2024, May 3). Adapting quality enhancement plan activities for the online environment. Poster presented at the 2024 Symposium of the Texas Educators’ Academies Collaborative for Health Professions – Southeast (TEACH-S), Galveston, TX. (3rd Place Poster Award)
- Majeethia, D.M., Gomez, A.P., Wise, J.N., & Tran, T. (2024, March 19-20). Impact of a Community Action Poverty Simulation (CAPS). Poster presented at the 2024 Society for Public Health Education, St. Louis, MO.
- Koshy, A.J., Gomez, A.P., Ortiz, M., & Flores, R. (2024, February 23). Build it, and they will come: Development and findings from a pilot GME Humanities and Ethics Certificate Program. Presented at the 2024 Innovations in Health Science Education Annual Conference, Austin, TX.