About
Professor.Engineer.Author.
Twenty-seven years connecting healthcare systems — and teaching the people who will run them.
Meet Emmanuel — in 90 seconds.
My story
From hospital basements to university classrooms
My career began at a major academic medical center in the United States, implementing the billing, laboratory, and electronic medical record systems that hospitals run on. In 2005, I analyzed HL7 messages for a national bio-surveillance program — work that showed me how much depends on healthcare data moving reliably between systems.
Then came the chapter that changed everything. For more than eleven years, Abu Dhabi has been home, where I helped lead a large-scale Epic EMR implementation at a world-class hospital — serving as scrum master, project manager, integration engineer, and platform engineer. Along the way I have designed complete hospital integration architectures and developed more than 10,000 interfaces.
Building systems is only half of my story. I have taught at two universities — a decade online from 2008 to 2018, and since 2023 full-time in the classroom in Abu Dhabi. My doctoral research explored why healthcare professionals resist new technology — insight I use every day, in the classroom and in the field.
Career milestones
2001
Integration engineering begins
Billing, laboratory, and EMR implementations across major U.S. healthcare organizations — the start of a 22-year engineering run (2001–2023).
2005
National bio-surveillance
Analyzes HL7 messages and contributes to system requirements for a national public-health surveillance program.
2008
Teaching begins — online
A decade of online university teaching in health information management (2008–2018), alongside full-time engineering.
2012
Abu Dhabi — a new chapter
Moves to Abu Dhabi to help lead a large-scale Epic EMR implementation at a world-class hospital: scrum master, project manager, integration engineer, platform engineer (2012–2023).
2023
Back to the classroom
Transitions from engineering to full-time classroom teaching as senior university faculty in Abu Dhabi.
Today
Professor
Teaching the next generation of health information professionals — with 10,000+ interfaces behind every lecture.
Education
Credentials
Language and systems — an unusual pairing that turned out to be the point: integration is translation.
PhD
Information Systems
Nova Southeastern University · 2016
MS
Health Information Systems
University of Pittsburgh · 2000
Dual BA
Linguistics & English
University of Pittsburgh · 1995
Certificate
Mastering Project Management
Villanova University · 2014
Integration expertise
The engine room
10,000+ interfaces across every major integration engine and HL7 message type.
Integration engines
HL7 message types
Delivery record
- 30+ integration projects managed
- 10,000+ interfaces developed
- Java / JavaScript / SQL Server / PHINMS
- Full hospital integration system design
Let's talk healthcare integration
HL7 interfaces, EMR implementations, integration architecture — or a guest lecture.