Mary Sumner has taught for 32 years in the areas of management of information technology, information systems design, project management, health informatics, and enterprise systems implementation. She served as program director for the master’s in health informatics at BJC Healthcare, and taught in the program.
She has written seven textbooks, including college texts in management information systems and enterprise resource planning, and has published over forty research papers on enterprise resource planning, IT workforce issues, project management, and health informatics. Her research has appeared in Database, the Journal of Systems Management, Information and Management, the Journal of Computer Information Systems, Information Resource Management Journal, the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, and the Journal of Information Technology.
Professor Sumner served as conference co-chair at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2010), and is vice-president for Academic Affairs for the Society for Information Management (SIM).
The University of Oklahoma Michael F. Price College of Business has experienced significant growth over the past five years, becoming OU’s second-largest college with over 5,800 students. The college offers highly ranked undergraduate, master’s, executive and doctoral programs across six academic divisions. More information is available at price.ou.edu