Biography

Angela Gomez is Instructor with the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics and is Co-director of UTHealth Houston’s Quality Enhancement Plan, Healthcare Policy for Health Professionals (HP2). She is actively engaged in educational research, assessment, and program evaluation, and collaborates across the university on health policy and ethics education.

She manages the Center’s blue book and fourth-year electives, Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration, and Campus-Wide Humanities and Ethics Program. Gomez contributes to communications for Arts and Resilience and the Clinical Humanities Certificate Program, serves as copy editor for Human Ties Digest, and is the Center’s web manager.

Dr. Gomez’s expertise and interests include quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods educational research; survey development and research; assessment of student learning; program evaluation; measurement; action research; learning technology; and educational theory and practice for adult learners. She is also the Assistant Webmaster of the American Educational Research Association‘s Measurement and Research Methodology division.

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

Higher education
Education in the professions
Education research
Assessment of student learning
Program evaluation
Measurement theory
Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodologies
Survey research
Statistics
Adult learning theory and practice
Program development
Educational and instructional technology
Action research
Quality improvement

Publications

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Dissertation & Master’s Project

  • Polczynski, A. M. (2021). Exploring the relationship between technology use and student performance in developmental mathematics (28801913) [Doctoral dissertation]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.
  • Gomez, A. P. (2022). The impacts of a medical humanities concentration on program graduates [Master’s project]. Georgia State University.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Polczynski, A. M., Rozmus, C., & Carlin, N. (2019). Beyond silos: An interprofessional, campus-wide ethics education program. Nursing Ethics, 26(7-8), 2314-2324.
  • 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.
  • Carlin, N., Flaitz, C., & Polczynski, A. (2013). Interprofessional ethics: An innovative active-learning experience for health professional students. Journal of Dental Education, 77(2), 224.

Conference Posters and Presentations

  • Snow, F. K., Gomez, A. P., Jantea, R. (2023, April 20). Policy influence and advocacy: A virtual interprofessional education health policy simulation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Texas Interprofessional Education Consortium, Houston, TX.
  • Jantea, R., Lunstroth, R., Champagne-Langabeer, T., Gomez, A., et al. (2023, March 4). Virtual interprofessional health policy simulation (VIPS): An innovative approach to health policy training for the next generation of health professionals. Paper presented at the 2023 Innovations in Health Science Education Annual Conference, UT System/Virtual.
  • Wise, J. N., Gomez, A. P., Linder, S. H. (2023, March 3). A campus-wide “Civics 101” learning model for diverse disciplines in the health sciences. Poster presented at the 2023 Innovations in Health Science Education Annual Conference, UT System/Virtual.
  • Wise, J. N., Gomez, A. P., Cunha, S. (2022, November 2-3). A virtual interprofessional policy simulation (VIPS). Poster presented at the 2022 International Conference on the Future of Health Professions Education, Coral Gables, FL.
  • Snow, F. K., & Gomez, A. P. (2022, October 28). Positioning nursing’s future impact on health policy. Poster presented at the 2022 health Policy Conference of the American Academy of Nursing, Washington, DC.
  • Rozmus, C. L., Carlin, N., Polczynski, A., & Frazier, L. (2017, July). Beyond silos: An interprofessional, campus-wide ethics education program. Paper presented at the 2017 International Nursing Research Congress, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Polczynski, A. (2017, March). A road map for applying culturally responsive teaching in the health humanities. Poster presented at the 2017 International Health Humanities Consortium, Houston, TX.
  • Polczynski, A. (2016, February). Exploring the relationship between developmental program characteristics and student performance in community colleges in Texas. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwest Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
  • Carlin, N., Flaitz, C., & Polczynski, A. (2013, March). Interprofessional ethics: An innovative active-learning experience for health professional students. Paper and poster presented at the annual meeting and exhibition of the American Dental Education Association, Seattle, WA.
  • Carlin, N., Seifert, W., Polczynski, A., Spike, J., & Cole, T. (2012, June). The Brewsters: A new resource for interprofessional ethics education for health professional schools.. Paper presented at the 16th annual meeting of the International Association of Medical Science Educators, Portland, OR.