Dr. Uijtdehaage is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the UCLA Department
of Medicine. He received his PhD in Experimental Psychology in 1991
from The Pennsylvania State University. Specialized in
psychophysiology he conducted research at UCLA for about 10 years in
the areas of motion sickness, cardiovascular risks of stress and the
electrophysiological underpinnings of depression and dementia. While
teaching psychology at UCLA in the early nineties, he was one of the
first to employ the World Wide Web in teaching. In 1998, he joined
the Instructional Design and Technology Unit of the UCLA School of
Medicine. His primary responsibility is to oversee the maintenance
of the technical infrastructure that supports the development and
delivery of digital teaching and learning tools. Dr. Uijtdehaage has
a strong interest in the use of databases to support the
dissemination of course materials. He spearheaded a national
initiative to promote sharing and exchange of educational multimedia,
resulting in the Health Educational Assets Library (HEAL), a national
multimedia repository. Since 2000, this program has received funding
from the National Science Foundation and the National Library of
Medicine exceeding 1.5 million dollars. Dr. Uijtdehaage is consultant
for the National Library of Medicine and Tokai and Showa Universities
in Japan. He has given numerous presentations nationally and
internationally. He co-chairs the Medical Education Fellowship
program and teaches faculty development workshops on research
methods, statistics, and assessment.
