Dr Angela Gomez

Angela P. Gomez, EdD, MBA, MS

  • Assistant Professor
  • Co-Director, Quality Enhancement Plan
 
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Angela P. Gomez, EdD, MBA, MS
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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, titled 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 (external link) Success (external link) and BMC Medical Education (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 evaluation
Adult learning practice
AI use in research and academic writing
Action research
Assessment and measurement
Educator development
Scholarship of teaching and learning

Publications

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Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Zhao, P., Majeethia, D.M., Wise, J.N., Gomez, A.P., Fernandez, M.E., Alford, J., & Tran Carapucci, T. (2026). The impact of a community action poverty simulation on empathy, attitude,s and knowledge among interprofessional health professions students. BMC Medical Education. Accepted for publication.
  • Coghlan, R.C., III, Wise, J.N., Gomez, A.P., Snow, F.K., & Jantea, R. (2026). Virtual interprofessional health policy simulation: An innovative approach to health policy education. Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice. In press, journal preproof. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xjep.2026.100858 (external link)
  • 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, 92(2a), 8-20. https://commons.ada.org/jacd/vol92/iss2/3 (external link)
  • Carlin, N., Gomez, A., & Ortiz, M. (2024). Teaching pathographies of mental illness. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 34(3), 321-329. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963180124000318 (external link)
  • Polczynski, A.M., Rozmus, C., & Carlin, N. (2019). Beyond silos: An interprofessional, campus-wide ethics education program. Nursing Ethics, 26(7-8), 2314-2324. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733019832948 (external link)
  • 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. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733014547974 (external link)
  • 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. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.0022-0337.2013.77.2.tb05462.x (external link)

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.* (* finalist for the Medical Education Research and Scholarship Award)
  • 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.
  • Coghlan, 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., Coghlan, 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.