Patrick Dunn, PhD (Instructional Specialist)
Instructional Support Specialist (Statistics)
Program Area: Statistics (including biostatistics)
Education: PhD Public Health, concentration in Community Health Education
Location: Texas
About Pat: I completed a PhD in Public Health with a concentration in Community Health Education at Walden University in 2015. My area of research is in the development of health literacy skills in patients with cardiovascular disease and diabetes. My background includes over 30 years as a clinical exercise physiologist and program director in the field of cardiac rehabilitation and quality management. I have been tutoring students in general statistics and biostatistics since 2012, and currently am an Instructional Support Specialist in the Academic Skills Center. Also, I work on the Patient and Healthcare Innovation Team for the American Heart Association. I have BS in Education from the University of Dayton, an MS from Purdue University, and an MBA from Indiana University. Also, I am a Certified Exercise Specialist with the American College of Sports Medicine, and I am a Blackbelt in Lean-Six Sigma.
Zin Htway, PhD (Instructional Specialist)
Instructional Support Specialist (Statistics)
Program Area: Statistics
Education: PhD Public Health, Epidemiology (Walden University)
Location: California
About Zin: My name is Zin Htway and I completed a PhD from Walden University in December 2014. The course of study was Public Health, Epidemiology. I hold an MBA Healthcare Management from Western Governor’s University and an Undergraduate degree in Clinical Science, Cytotechnology from California State University Dominguez Hills. My background is in Pathology and Cytopathology. I am currently the Supervisor and Operations Manager of an Anatomic Pathology laboratory, and Hazmat Safety Officer at a local hospital. Also, I am a part-time lecturer at California State University Channel Islands in the Department of Biology/Natural Sciences. Currently, I reside on the West coast of the United States with my wife and our three children.
Sarah Inkpen, EdD (Instructional Specialist)
Instructional Support Specialist (Statistics)
Program Area: Statistics and Math
Education: EdD in Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Location: Doha, Qatar
About Sarah: My passions are mathematics, statistics, technology, and education. Statistics and quantitative methods are my specialties! I taught at the University College of the Cayman Islands in 2004. Now at the College of the North Atlantic in Qatar, I have taught a wide array of math courses here over the past 10 years. I have worked in Walden’s Academic Skills Center since 2013. I have a B.Math from the University of Waterloo, MEd from Brock University, and an EdD from Walden University. Getting my first degree in the 1970s and my last in 2016 makes me the poster child for lifelong learning and education!
Janine Allwright
Program Area: Graduate Assistant, Statistics and Math
Current Walden Program: PhD Public Policy and Administration
Location: California
About Janine: I completed an MBA from Open Universiteit (Heerlen, The Netherlands). I have a personal fondness for math and statistics and enjoy how technology can help students master both. I am an avid gardener, play a modest level of classical piano, and enjoy reading and cooking.
Ashley Boss
Program Area: Graduate Assistant, Statistics and Math
Current Walden Program: PhD Psychology, General Teaching
Location: Texas
About Ashley: I attained a MBA from South University in Savannah, GA and a Bachelors of Science from South University in Psychology. In addition to tutoring at Walden, I am a part time teacher for community programs in El Paso. I enjoy hiking with my children and our two large dogs.
Michael Gomez-Melendez
Program Area: Graduate Assistant, Statistics and Math
Current Walden Program: PhD Health Services
Location: Puerto Rico
About Michael: I earned a BS in Biology from the University of Puerto Rico and a MS from Walden University. I currently work in a hospital using statistics, SPSS, and Microsoft Excel with the aim to improve the quality and safety of the services offered to our patients. I enjoy helping other students to overcome difficulties they have with certain statistical problems. My hobbies are playing the trombone, going to the gym, and traveling.
Michael Mba
Program Area: Graduate Assistant, Statistics and Math
Current Walden Program: PhD Public Policy and Administration
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
About Michael: I graduated from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka with a bachelor’s degree in Statistics and Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering (Information & Communications Technology). I enjoy working on statistics with SPSS, econometrics with Eviews, and data analysis with Microsoft Excel. I am always ready to mentor others to appreciate the beauty of statistics and the world of data analysis. To ease off the statistical tension, I enjoy watching movies.
Curtis Peterson
Program Area: Graduate Assistant, Statistics and Math
Current Walden Program: PhD Social Psychology
Location: Idaho
About Curtis: I am currently working on my doctoral dissertation which is a quantitative experimental design. My dissertation tests whether social identity, when made salient, reduces an individual’s subjective evaluation of emotional and social loneliness. I love the scientific aspects of psychology including research design, analysis, statistics, and the excitement of the research process. I have spent the last six years working at the community college level teaching courses in psychological sciences including research methods. In my personal life, I like to spend time with my two adult children and my granddaughter.