Dr. Dale L. Gooden, is an award-winning educator and subject-matter expert in business administration, health informatics, health administration, health law and compliance, health information technology, clinical information systems, and the health sciences. With over a decade of experience in macro healthcare projects in hospital and clinical environments, Dr. Gooden has held the corporate position of Senior Consultant for Infosys, and been the HIE Program Manager at Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp).
He has also spearheaded clinical information systems projects for Healthcare Partners (Optum), WellPoint, Community Health Systems, and Kaiser-Permanente. Dr. Gooden received a Doctor of Health Sciences (DHSc) in Fundamentals of Education from A.T. Still University of Osteopathic Medicine in 2017. His dissertation analyzed cybersecurity breaches in modern healthcare organizations since the adoption of electronic health records. He earned an Executive Juris Doctorate (EJD) in Health Law from Concord Law School at Purdue University Global in 2021. Dr. Gooden was also conferred a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Health Services Management from the University of La Verne in 2011.