FREE Welcomes New Faculty Members

FREE is happy to welcome Dr. Clott, Prof. Klatka & Dr. Valle to the College of Health and Business Administration. We hope that you will experience a great semester. Welcome!!!

Dr. Christopher Clott

Associate Professor of Management and Logistics

Chris Clott received his Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studiesfrom Fordham University, his Masters of Business Administration (Marketing)from St. Xavier University, and his Ph.D. in Policy Studies from University ofIllinois Chicago.

Chris currently teaches classes in Management andLogistics. He has also taught graduateand undergraduate courses in Global Supply Chain Management, InternationalMarketing, International Business and Human Resources. His published research is in the areas ofoffshore outsourcing, maritime port policy, non-vessel owning common carriers,ocean shipping deregulation and organizational effectiveness.

Chris has taught at the California Maritime Academy, St.Xavier University, the Indian Institute of Management, and Elmhurst Collegeprior to coming to the University of St. Francis. In addition, Chris has taken numerous studenttravel/study groups to cities throughout the world. Chris is strongly committed to developinginternational education opportunities for students. Prior to academia, Chris was an accountexecutive for OOCL and Lykes Lines in the ocean transportation field.

Chris and his wife Emily live in downtown Chicago and havefour grown children. Chris likes to run,bike ride, hike, play golf, and above all travel in his free time.

Stanley Klatka

Visiting Professor, Management and Leadership

Stan has over 25 years experience ininternational commerce and has had the opportunity to travel to over 40 U.S.states. Additionally he has traveled to over 30 countries and has conductedbusiness in over 70 countries spanning six continents. He is a graduate of St.Joseph’s College, Rensselaer, IN, with a BBA in Management and holds a MBA fromDominican University, River Forest, IL, in General Management. Stan is alsoworking towards his PhD in Business with an emphasis in International Businessat Northcentral University.

Stan has held international sales andmarketing managerial positions at leading U.S. consumer goods companies,including Ram Golf Corporation and The Coleman Company. He has also owned orco-owned 3 entrepreneurial businesses, which include an importer and distributorof Italian footwear, retail franchised sporting goods store,sales/marketing/product development consultancy for the product categories offashion footwear, apparel and accessories, all of which were start ups.

Stan has been happily married for 25years to his wife Chris, and has two daughters 23 & 20, and a son who is16. Stan's family has primarily resided in the Chicago area, but has also residedin Wichita, KS.

Stan has been an adjunct instructor(both classroom and online) in Management and Marketing at various colleges anduniversities for over the past 15 years. Stan is always open to help studentsin any way he can, and in his classes he encourages each student to beopen-minded and to share from their personal and work experiences, which helpsmake his classes more fun and interesting and allows everyone to learn fromeach other.

Dr. Maribel Valle

Assistant Professor, Health Administration

After completing an undergraduate degree in psychology at Northwestern University,Mari began her professional life in Chicago as a child protection worker,working with families where there had been allegations of abuse andneglect. At the height of the crackepidemic, approximately 70 percent of her caseload was drug and alcoholimpacted. Frustrated with the lack ofprogress in child custody cases, she decided to address what she saw as theroot cause of the familial problems and completed a training program at GrantHospital in Addictions. She then workedfor 5 years as an Addictions Counselor in a program for addicted pregnant andpost-partum women at a federally qualified community health center. She earned a Master in Public Health inMaternal and Child Health in 1998, and a Ph.D. in Community Health Sciences in2002, both from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her doctoral dissertation was a mixed methodsstudy of injection drug users which examined the psychosocial impacts of HIVtesting, including the impact of testing positive on subsequent drug use andother risk behavior. She then completeda two year fellowship in Public Health Informatics at the Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention during which she evaluated information systems at Medical Examiner and Coroner offices and established procedures for public health surveillance for possible bioterrorism threats.

Prior tojoining the faculty at USF, she was an Assistant Professor of Public Health atNorthern Illinois University from 2003 to 2011. She has experience teaching a variety of courses including programplanning, research methods, public health informatics, social and behavioralaspects of public health, and a capstone course for students completing the MPH.

Mari has two distinct research interests. First, she is interested in the use ofcomputer and information science to improve public health theory, research andpractice. She believes we are at acritical juncture in terms of the uses and abuses of technology and goodscience is necessary to guide management information systems planning andhealth care delivery systems. Publichealth surveillance, electronic medical records, and tele-health care deliveryare only a few of the areas that are in need of serious examination todetermine best practices and establish standard guidelines.

Secondly, she is interested in the psychosocial determinants of healthstatus. In particular, she would like to further explore how individuals manage adversity and the consequences of thosemanagement strategies on health. Although her work has primarily concerned itself with HIV/AIDS in the African American injection drug user population, she is also interested in the issues of homelessness and drug addiction.