NEWPORT – Salve Regina University has hired two cybersecurity experts with cross-specialization in the fields of government affairs and health care to serve as visiting professors during the 2017-18 academic year.
Ben Buchanan, a postdoctoral fellow for the Cyber Security Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Dr. Mark Ridinger, a medical doctor and entrepreneur who most recently co-founded a digital health cloud-based care-coordination platform, will teach courses through the school’s Administration of Justice and Health Care Administration and Management departments, beginning in the fall.
Buchanan’s research focuses on the intersection of cybersecurity and statecraft. His first book, “The Cybersecurity Dilemma: Hacking, Trust and Fear Between Nations,” was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. A contributor to numerous scholarly books and articles, Buchanan also currently serves as a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars.
He earned his Ph.D. in War Studies from King’s College London, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Georgetown University.
Ridinger’s career includes credentials as a double board-certified physician, clinician, medical researcher, inventor and entrepreneur. After finishing residency training at Duke University, Ridinger and his colleagues launched a pioneering predictive-analytics company that helped to herald in the era of medical big data and machine learning. Later, he held senior executive positions in population health-management companies, and recently co-founded several new startups in the health care space.
Ridinger has lectured and written extensively on topics as diverse as the nature and enhancement of creativity, the intersection and impact of health care policy on the adoption of technology, and the future of work and education in an increasingly automated and algorithmically driven world. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University, and a medical degree from the University of Illinois.
Kaylen Auer is a PBN contributing writer.
