Dr. Syed Haque is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Informatics, and Director of Graduate Programs in Biomedical Informatics at the UMDNJ-School of Health Related Professions. From its inception in 1988-89 to present, He has been responsible for initiating, developing and implementing the UMDNJ-SHRP’s Graduate Programs in Biomedical Informatics.  Development of these Master’s and Ph.D. degree programs (and a post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program) alone involved all the multi-faceted tasks and processes that ranged from initiating the Preliminary Program Announcement, performing market needs analysis, to developing the Program Approval Document (including the detailed outlines for all the courses), and short-term and long-range financial plans. 

As the Chair of the Department and Director of the UMDNJ-SHRP Graduate Programs in Biomedical Informatics, Dr. Haque has the privilege coupled with responsibility for advertising the program, recruiting, interviewing, and enrolling students; for advertising and recruiting highly qualified faculty for these programs; recruiting and coordinating clinical faculty of the program; and for day-to-day administration and management of the programs.

Some of Dr. Haque’s areas of research interest in Biomedical Informatics include: (1) Health Care Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Solutions, (2) Design of Intelligent Training Systems, and (3) Surveillance Techniques and Health Care Outcomes Research.