Higher Education CoP - Risk Management

Dr.  Vittal Annantatmula will be introducing risk management topic to the attendees and risk is something that has high stakes in healthcare industry. As project is a new endeavor, it is often associated with unknowns and uncertainties, which in turn, can lead to risks. As such, risk management is integral to project management by definition. Attendees will learn: 

1.  Develop a list of Risks associated with a project.

2.  Prioritize them on prabability and impact (qualitative analysis).

3.  Qualitative analysis of prioritized risks and risk mitigation strategies.

I work as a full professor at Western Carolina University, a campus of University of North Carolina. I have been teaching and publishing research on project management topics including risk management. I also worked as a project manager in petroleum industry for several years and as a consultant for a large multinational engineering company. I did masters and PhD in engineering management from the George Washington University, Washington, DC and I am a project management professional (PMP) since 2005. I have been working as a volunteer for PMI since 2012.