Faculty Forum with Prof. Harold Hastings

 A timely talk on "Sharing the Burden of Healthcare: Providing Care to Our Sickest Patients" by Prof. Harold Hastings. It's our 4th faculty forum for the semester.

Dr. Hastings teaches in the Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing; most recently the Climate Change Lab and courses in Scientific Computing and Artificial Intelligence. He holds a B.S. in mathematics from Yale University and an MA and Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University, where he was both a National Science Foundation Fellow and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Princeton. He joined the faculty at Bard College at Simon’s Rock following a 43-year career at Hofstra University, where he retired as Professor Emeritus after a 43 year career, the last 12 years as Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Professor of Mathematics. Dr. Hastings also served as Associate Dean for Planning and Budget, Chairperson of the Mathematics Department, chairperson of the Computer Science Department, Director and Principal Investigator of Hofstra’s Center for Condensed Matter Research, co-director of Hofstra's Center for Arrhythmia Research, and founding academic director of the Hofstra’s MS in Medical Physics.

 Dr. Hastings serves on the Executive Committee of the New York State section of the American Physical Society and its outreach committee. He had also previously served as co-founder and Chief Technological Officer of ImaCor, Inc., a medical device manufacturer. Dr. Hastings has directed grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. He holds 10 patents in the medical device field and has published over 100 articles and three books in the fields of mathematics, physics, biology, and medicine.

Ace Credit