Associate Professor
Healthcare Management
spauldingtj@appstate.edu
(828) 262-8993
Trent Spaulding, PhD


Achievements
- Worked as an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system as a software architect and engineer
- Led the development and implementation of a decision support system for distribution of vaccine during a pandemic
- Consulted on database development, management reporting, and website development

Areas of Specialty
- Data Analytics
- Health Informatics
- U.S. Healthcare System
- Research Methods

Research Interests
- The impact of information technology in healthcare settings
- Student success in higher education
- CNA and RN staffing challenges

Publications
- Dalton, J.C., Spaulding, T.J., Berghammer, A., Keerthana, B., Cazier, J. (2024). The impact of future employment prospects on the graduation rates of upper-class university stop-out students. Journal of Higher Education Management, 39(1).
- Dalton, J., Spaulding, T., Berghammer, A., Bandlamudi, K., & Cazier, J. (2024, October). Empowering Student Success: Understanding Economic Influences in Higher Education. Concurrent in-person session accepted to American Association of University Administrators National Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
- Cazier, J.A., Spaulding, T.J., and Hassler, E.E. (2024) Sandwich Analytics: Transactional, Socioeconomic, and Weather Data for 25 United States Based Quick Serve Sandwich Locations. Data for Good Analytics Journal.
- Lane, S. J., Sugg, M. Spaulding, T., Iyer, L., and Hege, A. (2022). Self-Reported Resilience of North Carolina Long-Term Care Organizations and Public Health Agencies in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 82(10337).
- Lane, S.J., Sugg, M., Spaulding, T., Hege, A., and Iyer, L. (2022). Southeastern United States Predictors of COVID-19 in Nursing Homes. Journal of Applied Geronotology, 41(7).
- Lane, S.J. Spaulding, T.J., and McSweeney-Feld, M.H. (2022). Direct Care Worker Job Dissatisfaction in North Carolina Nursing Homes: A Case Study. Journal of Health & Human Services Administration, 45(1).
- Iyer, L., Gopika, M., Lane, S., & Spaulding, T. A Dashboard for nursing home COVID-19 impact: A design science approach. 24th Proceedings of the Southern Association for Information Systems Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC, USA March 18th–19th, 2022.
- Iyer, L.S., Malik, G., Lane, S.J., Spaulding, T.J., Hege, A., Sugg, M. (2022). A Dashboard for nursing home COVID-19 impact: A Design science approach (manuscript). 2022 Southern AIS Conference. Myrtle Beach, SC, Mar 18-19, 2022.
- Ratcliff, A., Spaulding, T.J., Lee, J. (2021) Impacts of Vendor Turnover in Hospital Information Systems (abstract). Annual meeting of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS). Online, Apr 21-22, 2022.
- Sugg, M., Lane, S.J., Spaulding, T.J., Hege, A., and Iyer, L.S. (2021). Southeastern US Predictors of COVID-19 in Nursing Homes During Three Different Time Periods. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 41(7).
- Hege, A., Lane, S.J., Spaulding, T.J., Sugg, M. and Iyer, L. (2021). County-Level Social Determinants of Health and COVID-19 in Nursing Homes, United States, June 1, 2020–January 31, 2021. Public Health Reports, 137(1): 137-148.
- Sugg, M., Spaulding, T.J., Lane, S.J., Runkle, J., Harden, S., Hege, A. and Iyer, L. (2021). Mapping Community-Level Determinants of COVID-19 Transmission in Nursing Homes: A multi-scale approach. Science of the Total Environment, 752(15 January).
- Hege, A., Lane, S.J., Sugg, M., Minor, T., Spaulding, T.J. and Iyer, L.S. (2021). Predictors of COVID-19 cases and deaths in nursing homes in the southeastern U.S. (poster). Annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. Online, Oct 24-27, 2021.
- Iyer, L.S., Malik, G., Lane, S.J., Spaulding, T.J., Hege, A., Sugg, M. (2021). Nursing Home COVID-19 Impact Analysis Dashboard: A Prototype (manuscript). 2021 Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium on Analytics and AI for a Sustainable Future. Austin, TX, Dec 11-12, 2021.
- Spaulding, T.J., Hassler, E.E., Edwards, C.H.L., and Cazier, J.A. 2019. “Sandwich Analytics: A Dataset Comprising One Year’s Weekly Sales Data Correlated with Crime, Demographics, and Weather.” Data in Brief, 25(2019), 1-7.
- Cech, T.G., Spaulding, T.J. & Cazier, J.A. 2018. “Data competence maturity: developing data driven decision making”. Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning, 11(2), 139-158.
- Williams, D.R. & Spaulding, T.J. 2018. “An empirical study of the determinants of location of hospital mergers and acquisitions announcements: 1997-2016”. Journal of Health Care Finance, 24, 1-20.
- Williams, D.R. & Spaulding, T.J. 2018. “The inherent risk associated with newly traded biopharmaceutical firms”. Drug Discovery Today, 23, 1680-1688.
- McArthur, L.H., Riggs, A., Uribe, F. & Spaulding, T.J. 2018. “Health Belief Model offers opportunities for designing weight management interventions for college students”. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 5, 485-493.
- Williams, D.R. and Spaulding T.J. 2018. “An Empirical Study of the Determinants of Location of Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions: 1997-2016.” Annual Meeting of the Southern Management Association. Lexington, KY, Nov 6-10, 2018. *Received the Best Paper Award for the Health Care Management, Hospitality Management, and Public Administration track.

Courses Taught
- HCM 2110 - Introduction to the US Healthcare System
- HCM 3700 - Health Information Systems
- HCM 5700 - Health Care Informatics
- HCM 5720 - Data Analytics in Healthcare