Rate My Professor Tonia San Nicolas-Rocca

Dr. San Nicolas-Rocca earned her Ph.D. in Information Systems and Technology from Claremont Graduate University. Her research and teaching focus on cybersecurity education, information assurance, health informatics, knowledge management, and technology applications in health and community contexts. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings on these topics. Key publications include "Patient-provider communications in outpatient clinic settings: a clinic-based evaluation of mobile device and multimedia mediated communications for patient education" (2015, with B. Schooley and R. Burkhard), "Information security in libraries: Examining the effects of knowledge transfer" (2019, with R.J. Burkhard), "Design and development of a patient-centered e-health system to improve patient understanding at discharge" (2014, with B. Schooley and S.J. Joo), "Application level security in a public library: A case study" (2018, with R. Thomchick), and "Capturing and conveying Chamorro cultural knowledge using social media" (2014, with J. Parrish). Before academia, she worked in the telecommunications industry designing and managing secure network solutions for multinational organizations. She held prior faculty appointments at Colorado State University Pueblo and California State University San Bernardino, and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in computer information systems for over 18 years. She contributes to SJSU's interdisciplinary cybersecurity initiatives and teaches cybersecurity and networking to iSchool graduate students.