Patrick Pang 彭祥佑

Dr Patrick Pang is a Lecturer at the School of Computing and Information Systems in the Melbourne School of Engineering of the University of Melbourne. He is an Information Systems researcher and a software engineer working in the digital health context. He received his PhD from the University of Melbourne. His research is inspired by the stories of patients and health consumers who cannot easily find useful health information. He aims to improve how health information can be found, accessed, disseminated and used for better health outcomes. His work advances health information behaviour models and the design of information systems in this era with patient-centric data, emerging technologies and new forms of communication. He is recognised locally and internationally in prestigious journals and conferences such as Journal of Medical Internet Research (the most-cited digital health journal; recommended by AIS SIG Health), Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (with one best paper nomination) and Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.