Keiwan Wind

A Data Philosopher

My CV

Work Experience

DeGroote School of Business , McMaster University

  • 2023-Date: Assistant Professor (Information Systems)
  • 2022-2023: Lecturer (Information Systems)

University of Rochester Medical Center

  • 2021-2022: Post-Doctoral Associate (Implementation and Data Science)

Education

PhD in Health Services Research,
Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, 2021

  • Dissertation Topic: What Causes Health? Health as a Network of Social Determinants: A Realist Evaluation
  • Advisory Committee: Alejandro Jadad, Blake Poland, George Tomlinson, and Suzanne Jackson

Collaborative Doctoral Program in Global Health,
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 2016

MSc in eHealth,
DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, 2014

  • Thesis Topic: A PHR Component for Pregnant Women, Development and Usability Evaluation
  • Thesis Committee: Norm Archer, Milena Head, and David Chan

Master of Business Administration,
Sharif University of Technology, 2009

BEng in Software Engineering,
Iran University of Science and Technology, 2004

Research Interests

  • Critical Realism and Dataism
  • Jobs of the future and the future of the jobs
  • Big data to big impact: Digital transformation & social innovation
  • Implementation Science in Management

Publications and Presentations

    Peer-Reviewed papers and Conference Presentations

  • Homelikeness as an essential factor for being or becoming healthy: The negative effect of migration on immigrants’ sense of coherence. Wind, K., Poland, B., Jackson, S. Tomlinson, G., & Jadad, A. (2022). International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) Conference, Montreal, QC , Canada.
  • Unraveling Dynamic Complexities of Implementing Teleophthalmology in Primary Care: A System Dynamic Model. Dadgostar, P., Ramchandran, R., Heydari, B., Wind, K., Basant, J., Hazen, K., Sridhar, S., Devine, M., Fortuna, R., & Yousefi-Nooraie, R. (2022). Annual Research Meeting Academy Health, Washington D.C.
  • A good death: non-negotiable personal conditions for clinicians, healthcare administrators and support staff. Zaman, M., Andoniou, E., Wind, K., Gibson, J., Upshur, R., Rojas, G., … & Jadad, A. R. (2021). BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care.
  • The Happy and Productive Dilemma in an Assembly Job: An In-class Activity to Apply Scientific Management and Job Characteristics Model to Work Design. HakemZadeh, F., Barragan, S., & Wind, K. (2019). 47th Administrative Science Association of Canada (ASAC) Management Education Division, St. Catherine, ON.

    Book Chapters

  • An evolving conceptual framework: Taking advantage of the power of self-assessed health in the workplace. Wind, K., & HakemZadeh, F. (2017). Unleashing a pandemic of health from the workplace: Believing is seeing. (pp. 101–129).
  • Towards health-creating Management. HakemZadeh, F., & Wind, K. (2017). Unleashing a pandemic of health from the workplace: Believing is seeing. (pp. 153–178).
  • Obtaining a baseline and identifying the challenges, stressors, and stress faced by workers. • Sepúlveda, J. H. D., Arciniegas, J. A., …, Wind, K. , Arengo, A., Jadad, A. R. (2017). Unleashing a pandemic of health from the workplace: Believing is seeing. (pp. 179–200). Beati Inc.

    Edited Book

  • Unleashing a pandemic of health from the workplace: Believing is seeingJadad AR, Arango A, Devia JH, Espinal S, Rodríguez D, Wind K. (2017).

    Under Review

  • Using Self-Reported Health as the Social Determinants of Health outcome: A Scoping Review of Reviews. with: Poland, B., Jackson, S. Tomlinson, G., & Jadad, A. R&R at Health Promotion International Sense of Coherence and Social Determinants of Self Reported Health: A Systematic Realist Review. with: Poland, B., Jackson, S. Tomlinson, G., & Jadad, A. R&R at Health Promotion International

    Work in Progress

  • A network approach to uncover the association between health and its determinants. with: Poland, B., Jackson, S. Tomlinson, G., & Jadad, A. Targeted outlet: Social Science and Medicine.

Teaching Interests

  • Implementation Science and Realist Eavluation in Management
  • Social Network Analysis
  • System Thinking and System Dynamics
  • Data Mining and Business Intelligence
  • Business Applications of Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
  • eHealth: Innovations, Trends, Successes and Failures

Teaching

    MBA

  • Business Applications of Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, 2022-Date
  • Competing Through Digital Transformation and Analytics, 2023

    MSc in eHealth

  • Statistics for eHealth, 2023-Date

    Undergrad

  • Data Mining For Business Analytics, 2022-Date
  • Information Systems in Management, 2023-Date

    International Business

  • Business Ethics and society, 2018 (Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, China)

Funded Research on Pedagogy

Pedagogy for the Anthropocene: Land-Based Learning for Socioecological Transformation (2017)

  • Role: Team Innovator
  • Amount: 25,000 CAD

Collegial Services

Program Architecture Lead (2019-2020)

  • Program in Impactful Giving (in Health and Social Care), University of Toronto

    Social Innovation Program Lead (2015-2018)

    • Institute for Global Health Equity and Innovation, , University of Toronto

Non-Academic Experience

Social Innovation Program Lead (2015 – 2018)

  • Institute for Global Health Equity and Innovation, University of Toronto – Toronto, ON

Health Informatics Project Manager (2012-2014)

  • McMaster University, OSCAR EMR (Electronic Medical Records) – Hamilton, ON

    Knowledge Manager and CEO’s Adviser in Change and Strategy (2007 – 2010)

    • Shams Tamin (High-Tech Investment Company) – Tehran, Iran

    Software Development Project Manager (2001 – 2006)

    • Sepanta Network Solutions – Tehran, Iran