Faculty Listing

Dr. Allison Kunerth, Ph.D
Dr. Kunerth has been awarded numerous honors, including membership in the SALUTE Honor Society and Alpha Sigma Nu Honor Society, the Disney-SVA STEM Scholarship, and Morgan Book Award Recipient. Her professional publications cover topics such as flu vaccination behavior, presenteeism attitudes, and school-based syndromic surveillance data. She has also presented research at various conferences, including the American Public Health Association meeting.

Dr. Baran Erdik, MD
Dr. Baran Erdik, MD is a multidisciplinary health professional who aims to use his diverse clinical expertise, international compliance knowledge, and latest formal education in Clinical Sciences to help resolve issues and provide solutions to contemporary health systems challenges. He has experience in various roles including Compliance Specialist, Consultant, Medical Consultant, Resident Doctor, Intern Doctor, and Graduate Teaching Assistant. Dr. Erdik has published papers, presentations in international conferences, and a chapter of a medical textbook.
He has a Master’s degree in Health Policy and Administration, and a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine. Additionally, he has Lean/Six Sigma and Project Management Certifications, as well as multiple healthcare certifications. Dr. Erdik's unique skills include hospital administration and management with a strong focus on community health, understanding gaps, miscommunications, and opportunities that exist between healthcare providers, ancillary support, healthcare administration team, and health policy leaders, and serving as a provider in several international healthcare environments while working under different compliance and regulatory systems.

Dr. Christine Smith, Ed.D

Dr. Ericka Williams, Ed.D

Dr. Genevieve Dobson, DBA
Dr. Genevieve Dobson is a dedicated leader with 10 years of experience providing instructional guidance and educational development solutions, coupled with 15+ years of business consulting and leadership experience. She holds a Doctor of Business Administration from the University of South Florida, an MBA from the University of Maryland University College, and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology.
Dr. Dobson is passionate about improving academic performance and attitude towards business and entrepreneurship, and has received recognition for her work, including awards for excellence in diligence and outstanding behavior. She has also authored several publications, including a book on managing student loans and a dissertation on addressing the student loan crisis.

Dr. Karl Hellman, DBA
Dr. Karl Hellman has over 50 years of management and consulting experience, in addition to extensive academic credentials. He has a Bachelor's of Arts in Economics from Beloit College, a Master of Science in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences from Northwestern University, and a DBA in Marketing from Georgia State University.
Dr. Hellman has authored numerous papers in business and marketing journals and has given presentations on marketing. He co-authored a book with Ardis Burst, The Customer Learning Curve: Creating Profits from Marketing Chaos, and has contributed to the field through his work as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Letterform Archive and the creation and curation of Salesinsights.org, a website focused on sales and marketing. Additionally, he has developed web-based courses on product management for the Institute for the Study of Business Markets at Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Hellman has been recognized for his contributions to the field and has served as an Executive in Residence at the Center for Business and Industrial Marketing at Georgia State University. He joined a Harvard Business School faculty consulting firm from 1976 to 1982 and was later put into business for himself by Coca-Cola, co-founding several consulting firms, including Hellman Werneke, Vantage Consulting, The Learning Corporation, and Resultrek.

Dr. Robert Stojanovic, DBA

Dr. Samantha Calvin, Ph.D

Dr. Scott Phillips, DBA, JM, MSHCM, HM1 USN (Ret.)
Lifelong learner and leader Doctor Scott Phillips joins the AVU faculty as an Adjunct Professor. Prior to joining Scott was the Humana Military Market Development Manager in Military Health and Resilience. He was also Humana SALUTE network Resource group Healthier Communities Committee Co- chairman and a Men Advocating Real Change (MARC) team leader. Prior to his roles with Humana, Scott completed his doctorate in business administration wherein he conducted and authored Fixed Effects Estimation of Private Insurance Influence on Workplace Outcomes. He received the Florida International University (FIU) Harry W. Colmery award, earning a graduate certificate in Management Leadership and his Doctorate in Business Administration. During his doctoral studies Scott was director of operations to a Miami health insurance sales start-up. Previous to that role he ran his own consulting firm while graduating under provost distinction from Florida International University College of Law.
Before that Scott served for two years in federal healthcare administration as fellow to the executive director of Miami Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. He is retired at the rank of E6 from the Department of Defense wherein he held several healthcare leadership positions.While enlisted in the United States Navy, Hospital Corps, Petty Officer First Class Phillips served in an Operational Health Support Unit, deployed overseas with the Navy Expeditionary Medical Unit, and was Lead Petty Officer of Health Services Support, Headquarters 4th Marine Logistics Group. His service awards include the Navy and Marine Corps commendation, Army commendation, and military outstanding volunteer
During his enlistment Phillips completed a master of science in health care management, a Navy residency in Plans Operations and Medical Intelligence (POMI) and his Juris Master in financial compliance. Doctor Phillips also completed applied science studies at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, focused on population health management.
Scott is an American Public Health Association, Academy of Management and American College of Healthcare Executives member, and an avid proponent of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. He is married to Evelyn Robles of Hartford, Con- necticut. They live in Brickell, Miami, Florida, with their Australian Labradoodle Zoë, Maincoon cat Ezekiel and toy poodle Zuri.

Dr. Weiqi Zhang, Ph.D
Dr. Weiqi Zhang served as a Research Associate at Harvard University, an Instructor and Teaching Assistant at the University of Georgia, an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Georgia, and a Lecturer at Middle Georgia State University. He has received several teaching awards for his courses such as International Trade and Commerce, Global Issues, Data Analytics, Statistics, and Chinese Culture and Society.
His research interests include International Business, China Studies, and Data Analytics, and he has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on topics related to politics, economics, and media.
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