Keiwan Wind

• DSB-A202
  DeGroote School of Business
  McMaster University
  1280 Main St W,
  Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8
• (905)525-9140 x28621
• windkei@mcmaster.ca

Educational Background

• Ph.D. in Health Services Organization and Management
  Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) at the University of Toronto
  Toronto, ON, Canada
  Year received: 2021
  
• Collaborative Specialization (Ph.D.) in Global Health – UofT Global Scholar
  Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH) at the University of Toronto
  Toronto, ON, Canada
  Year received: 2017
  
• M.Sc. in Electronic Health
  DeGroote School of Business (DSB) at McMaster University
  Hamilton, ON, Canada
  Year received: 2014
  
• Master of Business Administration
  Graduate School of Management and Economics at Sharif University of Technology
  Tehran, Iran
  Year received: 2009
  
• B.Eng. Software Engineering
  School of Computer Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology
  Tehran, Iran
  Year received: 2004

Current Status at McMaster

• Assistant Professor of Information Systems at DeGroote School of Business
  Teaching Track
  First appointment at McMaster: 2023

Employment History

Academic

• Information Systems Sessional Faculty (2022 – 2023)
  DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University
  Hamilton, ON, Canada
  
• Research Consultant and Post-Doctoral Associate (2021 – 2022)
  University of Rochester Medical Center
  Rochester, NY, USA
  
• Data and Implementation Science Research Associate (2016 – 2020)
  Institute for Global Health Equity and Innovation, University of Toronto
  Toronto, ON, Canada

Consultations

• Program Architecture Lead (2019-2020)
  Program in Impactful Giving, University of Toronto
  Toronto, ON, Canada
  
• Social Innovation Program Lead (2015 – 2018)
  Institute for Global Health Equity and Innovation, University of Toronto
  Toronto, ON, Canada

Other

• Health Informatics Project Manager and eHealth Intern (2012 – 2014)
  OSCAR EMR, McMaster University
  Hamilton, ON, Canada
  
• 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

Scholarly and Professional Activities

Grant & Personnel Committees

• Member of Seed Grant Review Committee
  Institute for Global Health Equity and Innovation, University of Toronto,
  Toronto, ON, Canada

Areas of Interest

Research

• Education, systems thinking, and environmental change.
• Generative AI, meta-cognition, and the Dunning–Kruger effect.
• Salutogenic approach to education.
• Jobs of the future and the future of jobs.

Teaching

• Digital Transformation
• Data Mining and Business Intelligence
• Applications of Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability in Business and Society
• System Dynamics Modelling for Wicked Business Problems
• Social Network Analysis for Innovation and Information Systems Implementation

Consulting

• Working with local communities to improve life and business in Hamilton.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

• COMMERCE 4KG3) Data Mining and Business Analytics
  • Winter 2022
  • Fall 2022
  • Winter 2023Winter 2024
  • Winter 2025

• COMMERCE 2KA3) Information Systems in Management
  • Fall 2023

Graduate

• BUSINESS K610) Digital Transformation: Thriving in a changing landscape
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025

• BUSINESS K740) Business Applications of Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
  • Winter 2022
  • Winter 2023
  • Winter 2024

• BUSINESS BL603) Competing Through Digital Transformation & Analytics
  • Spring 2023
• EHEALTH 705) Statistics for eHealth
  • Winter 2024
  • Winter 2025

Contributions to Teaching Practice

Pedagogic innovation and/or development of technology-enhanced learning

• Pedagogy for the Anthropocene and Land-Based Learning for Socioecological Transformation
  Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto (2017-Date)

Leadership in delivery of educational programs

• Redesigning MBA’s first year curriculum (served in the committee).

Course/curriculum development

• BUSINESS K610) Digital Transformation: Thriving in a changing landscape (2024)
  DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University
• BUSINESS K740) Business Applications of Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (2022)
  DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University
• EHEALTH 705) Statistics for eHealth (2024)
  DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University
• Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for the Program in Impactful Giving (2019)
  Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Lifetime Research Funding

• Pedagogy for the Anthropocene: Land-Based Learning for Socioecological Transformation
  Amount: 25,000 CAD
  Grant team members: Ben Brisbois, Keiwan Wind, Andrea Cortinois, Sarah Elton, Blake Poland (Dalla Lana School of Public Health, the University of Toronto), Raglan Maddox (University of Oxford), Roxanne Cohen (Conscious Minds Cooperative)

Lifetime Publications

Peer Reviewed

• Benedikt, D., Nguyen, M.D., Mudakenga, S.M., Cortinois, A.A., Maddox, R., Mychajluk, L., Poland, B. & Wind, K. (2024). Transformative learning at the community-university-land interface: A political ecology of knowledge, education and health. Journal of Political Ecology, 31, 258.
• Wind, K., Poland, B., HakemZadeh, F., Jackson, S., Tomlinson, G., & Jadad, A. (2023). Using self-reported health as a social determinants of health outcome: a scoping review of reviews. Health Promotion International, 38(6), daad165.
• Wind, K., Poland, B., Jackson, S. Tomlinson, G., & Jadad, A. (2022). Homelikeness as an essential factor for being or becoming healthy: The negative effect of migration on immigrants’ sense of coherence. Poster session at International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada.
• Dadgostar, P., Ramchandran, R., Heydari, B., Wind, K., Basant, J., Hazen, K., Sridhar, S., Devine, M., Fortuna, R. and Yousefi-Nooraie, R. (2022, June). Unraveling Dynamic Complexities of Implementing Teleophthalmology in Primary Care: A System Dynamic Model. In 2022 Annual Research Meeting. AcademyHealth.
• Sabogal, E., Basant, J., Sadhra, H., Guo, D., Szekeres, D., McIntosh, S., Ossip, D., Wind, K., Fortuna, R., Devine, M. & Hazen, K., (2022). Factors associated with follow up to eye care after teleophthalmology evaluation of diabetic patients. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 63(7), 1400-A0096.
• Zaman, M., Andoniou, E., Wind, K., Gibson, J., Upshur, R., Rojas, G., Jadad-Garcia, T. & Jadad, A. R. (2021). A good death: non-negotiable personal conditions for clinicians, healthcare administrators and support staff. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care.

Not Peer Reviewed

Books

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

Contributions to Book

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

Unpublished Documents

• Wind, K., Poland, B., Zadeh, F., Jackson, S., Tomlinson, G., & Jadad, A. Sense of Coherence and Social Determinants of Self-Reported Health: A Systematic Realist Review. Health promotion international (ABDC Ranking: A).
• Wind, K., Poland, B., Jackson, S., Tomlinson, G., & Jadad, A. (ready to submit). Homelikeness as an essential factor for being or becoming healthy: The negative effect of migration on immigrants’ sense of coherence. Will be submitted to Health Service Research (ABDC Ranking: A).
• Wind, K., Poland, B., Jackson, S., Tomlinson, G., & Jadad, A. (ready to submit). Health is caused by the silent interactions among its determinants. American Journal of Public Health (ABDC Ranking: A*).

Administrative Responsibilities

• Faculty representative at DSB EDI Advisory Committee (2024 – Date)
• Faculty representative the Graduate Curriculum and Policy Committee (GCPC) (2024 – Date)