Shamel Addas is an Associate Professor & Distinguished Faculty Fellow of Management Information Systems (MIS) at the Smith School of Business, Queen’s University (Canada). Prior to that, he was Assistant Professor at IÉSEG School of Management in France. He holds a Ph.D. in Management from McGill University. Dr. Addas’ research examines the impacts of information technology (IT) use on individuals and groups in work-related and healthcare settings. His first stream of research focuses on the ambivalent consequences of IT use and specifically the impact of IT-mediated interruptions on work performance. The second stream of research investigates the use of healthcare information technologies (HIT) and its relationship with patient-related processes and outcomes.  Dr. Addas’ research has been published or is forthcoming in top-tier journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, and other leading journals. He has also presented his work at various academic conferences, including the Academy of Management, ICIS, AMCIS, HICSS, and ASAC. Shamel won the Best Paper award at the 2010 Human-Computer Interaction Workshop of the International Conference on Information Systems (SIGHCI).