Dale Gooden

Dale L. Gooden, DHSc, EJD, MBA, is an award-winning educator and subject-matter- expert in health administration, health law and compliance, health information technology, and the health sciences. As a mid-career professional in healthcare and life sciences, Dr. Gooden works as a Senior Consultant for Infosys, a global IT services, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation consulting firm. He has over a decade of progressive experience in macro healthcare projects in both hospital and clinical environments. He served as the HIE Program Manager during his tenure at Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp). He was a Lead Project Manager for Healthcare Partners (Optum) and Tenet Health and consulted for WellPoint, Community Health Systems, and Kaiser-Permanente.

Dr. Gooden is a professor of Business Administration at Saybrook University, part-time professor of Health Administration at Colorado State University Global, lead faculty at Concordia University Irvine, and associate professor of Healthcare Leadership at Union Institute and University. His teaching philosophy is a student-centered methodology with focused learning outcomes designed to build and reinforce self-directed student learning. Additionally, he serves as Dissertation Chair and Doctoral Faculty Advisory for the Doctor of Business Administration and Healthcare Administration Program at Franklin University.

Dr. Gooden's unique academic instruction approach integrates real-world proven experience with academic rigor, setting high expectations for student performance and engagement with the learning outcomes. In 2016, Dr. Gooden was awarded academic faculty of the year by his colleagues. He is no stranger to academic rigor, receiving his 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 Purdue University in 2022. Dr. Gooden was conferred a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Health Services Management from the University of La Verne in 2011