Diaa Alqusairi, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Lead Project Manager – National Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation & Improvement Center – Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine

Focus Area: Emergency telehealth. Building innovative models and collaborations for efficient and effective delivery of care. Leveraging data for decision making.

Shervin Assassi, MD, MS
Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor - Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, UT McGovern Medical School

Focus Area: Bioinformatics and genomic analysis approaches to conduct rigorous translational research in Rheumatology

Suresh Bhavnani, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Institute of Translational Sciences - UT Medical Branch-Galveston

Focus Area: Translational bioinformatics, network visualization and analysis of biomedical data, with translation to the design of decision-­-support systems.

Eric Boerwinkle, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Professor, Human Genetics - UTHealth School of Public Health

Focus Area: Genetic analysis of common chronic diseases in humans including coronary heart disease, hypertension and Type II diabetes.

Jeffrey Chang, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology & Pharmacology - McGovern Medical School

Focus Area: Cell Signaling Programs in Cancer

Jung-Wei Chen, DDS, MS, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Pediatric Dentistry - Loma Linda University

Focus Area: Pediatric Dentistry

Benjamin K. Chu, MD, MPH, MACP
Adjunct Professor

Chair of the Board of Directors –The Commonwealth Fund

Focus Area: Accomplishments in implementing a fully integrated electronic health record system and population health management tools for improving outcomes for patient care.

Kim Dunn, MD, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Practicing Physician, Healthquilt

Focus Area: Telemedicine, outcomes management, adoption of IT in healthcare

Mary Edgerton, MD, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Department of Pathology - UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Focus Area: Mechanisms in cancer genesis and progression, development of mathematical models for computer simulations, methods for the analysis of gene expression array data for pathway discovery.

Adol Esquivel, MD, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Assistant Vice President, Performance, Measurement Systems and Comparative, Effectiveness Research
CHI St. Luke’s Health

Focus Area: Meaningful Use of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Quality Measures, Health Systems Analysis, Implementing and evaluating Health Information Systems. Designing qualitative and quantitative interventions to improve the delivery of care to patients using information technology.

Jorge A. Ferrer, MD, MBA, LSA
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Physician Health Informatician, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Health Informatics, Adjunct Assistant Professor - UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics

Focus Area: user-centered design, usability and applied clinical informatics for VA’s Electronic Health Record. Dr. Ferrer is a federal participant in the Office of the National Coordinator SHARP federal steering subcommittee dedicated to patient centered cognitive support which addresses usability of EHRs.

Kevin Fickenscher, MD, CPE, FACPE
Adjunct Professor

Consultant, Creostrategic Solutions

Focus Area: Healthcare Policy, Informatics

John Frenzel, MD, MS
Adjunct Professor

Chief Medical Information Officer, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Peri-operative Medicine
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Focus Area: Use of electronic medical records related to cost effectiveness and quality of care, big data analysis

Kayo Fujimoto, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Division of Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences
UTHealth School of Public Health

Focus Area: Biostatistics and public health informatics

John P. Glaser, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Senior Vice President - Cerner

Focus Area: Federal/state policy and government regulation development, global healthcare information technology solutions, informatics innovation strategies

Michael G. Gonzalez, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Deputy Medical Director - Houston Fire Department
Assistant Professor – Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine

Focus Area: Mobile technologies, physician/patient workflow, improved outcomes

James Griffiths, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Executive Director, Clinical Technology - UT Physicians
UTHealth

Focus Area: Clinical technology for clinical practice

Jeffrey Helton, PhD, CMA, CFE, FHFMA
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor - Metropolitan State University of Denver
Focus Area: Operations and financing of safety net delivery systems including community health clinics and FQHC/look-alike providers, critical access hospitals and rural health care delivery systems, health care fraud, impact of technology on operational efficiency in health care, and market variations in the costs and utilization of health care services.

Chiehwen Hsu, MS, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Dr. Hsu is currently completing his juris prudence degree.

Focus Area: Public Health Informatics

Robert Hunter, MD, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Professor and Chair, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - McGovern Medical School

Focus Area: Pathology information systems, data analytics, telepathology systems

John Joe, MD, MPH
Adjunct Professor

Chief Medical Information Officer - CHI St. Luke’s Health

Focus Area: Health information system design and development, clinical process redesign and systems implementation, HIE design and implementation

Ioannis Kakadiaris, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Professor of Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
University of Houston
Focus Area: Cardiovascular informatics, biomedical image analysis, biometrics, computer vision and pattern recognition

Curtis E. Kennedy, MD, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine - Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children’s Hospital

Focus Area: Clinical decision support, prediction modeling, time series analysis, cardiac arrest, pediatric ICU

Brent King, MD, MMM
Adjunct Professor

Professor, Emergency Medicine – University of Maryland Medical Center

Focus Area: Health and wellness strategy, patient safety, and quality improvement

Joseph Kunisch, PhD, RN
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Director, Clinical Quality Review & Electronic Clinical Quality Measures
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System Department of Quality Patient Safety & Infection Control

Focus Area: Clinical quality informatics for regulatory performance

Helen Li, MD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Full Member, Cancer Research Program - Houston Methodist Research Institute

Focus Area: Ophthalmology, ocular oncology, teleophthalmology

Yin Liu, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Adjunct Associate Professor

Focus Area: Statistical models to reconstruct biological networks, signal transduction pathway reconstruction, Bayesian inference and bioinformatics

Allison McCoy, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics - Tulane University School of Public Health
Focus Area: Biomedical informatics, clinical informatics, public health informatics, health information technology, electronic health records, clinical decision support, computerized provider order entry, healthcare quality improvement, patient safety

Patrick McGinnis, MD, MS, MBA
Adjunct Professor

Humana - Medical Director

Focus Area: Patient safety, medical technology systems, EMRs

Qun Meng, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Director, Center for Health Statistics and Information - National Health & Family Planning Commission
People’s Republic of China

Focus Area: Health care reform, health information standards, national health statistics

Parsa Mirhaji, MD, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Research Associate Professor, Director of Clinical Research Informatics - Baylor College of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Focus Area: http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Parsa_Mirhaji

Shoko Miyagawa, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Nursing and Medical Care - Keio University, Japan

Focus Area: Health informatics, network community, information security
http://aisnet.org/members/?id=17882976

Koichi Nobutomo, MD, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Professor Emeritus, Kyushu University - Fukuoka, Japan

CHORD-J, Center for Health Services, Outcomes
Research and Development – Japan

Sachiko Ohta, MD, MS, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Director and Chief Contents Officer - CHORD-J
Center for Health Services, Outcomes Research and Development – Japan
Focus Area: Health informatics, network community, information security
http://aisnet.org/members/?id=17882976

Nnaemeka G. Okafor, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine – McGovern Medical School
Director of Medical Informatics – Acute Care Services, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System

Focus Area: Clinical informatics, patient safety and healthcare quality improvement

Velma Payne, PhD, MBA
Instructor
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety
LeTourneau University
Focus Area: Diagnostic Errors in Medicine – Enhancing Patient Safety – Reducing Medical Errors, Cognitive Aspects of Medical Decision Making, Impact of Cognitive Heuristics and Biases on Clinical Reasoning. How Cognitive Processes Impact Medical Errors, Use of Metacognition and Feedback to Improve Clinical Reasoning

John Riggs, MD, MS
Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology - McGovern Medical School
Vice Chair, Obstetrics & Gynecology - LBJ Hospital

Focus Area: Clinical informatics, gynecologic surgery

V. Gail Roberson Rose, MBA, BSN, RN-BC
Adjunct Instructor

Director, Clinical Solutions - Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Information Systems Division


Focus Area: Clinical informatics

Mano Selvan, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Research Scientist, Pharmacy Outcomes
Research, Humana
UT Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
Quality and Safety
Focus Area: Clinical Informatics, Biostatistics

Munseok Seo, Dr. P.H.
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Senior Health Researcher, ECONOMETRICA, Inc – Bethesda, MD

Focus Area: Health Services Research, Outcomes Research

Michael Shabot, MD, FCS, FCCM, FACMI
Adjunct Professor

Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
Focus Areas: Clinical indicators, patient safety, quality of care
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelshabot

Ross Shegog, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor - UT Health School of Public Health
Associate Director -Prevention Research Center
Focus Area: Understanding and reducing diagnostic errors, patient safety related to electronic health record implementation and use

Hardeep Singh, MD
Adjunct Associate Professor
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine - Baylor College of Medicine
Chief, Health Policy, Quality and Informatics - Center for Innovations in Quality Effectiveness and Safety, DeBakey VA Medical Center
Focus Area: Use of health information technology to reduce diagnostic errors, patient safety, electronic health record implementation and use.

Anwar Sirajuddin, MBBS, MS, CPHIMS
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Director of Clinical Informatics - Knowledge & Content, Quality and Clinical Decision Support
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System

Focus Areas: Clinical Decision Support, Clinical Outcomes, Content Development, Healthcare Quality & Performance Improvement, Patient Safety, Infection Control, Data Analytics

James Turley, RN, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Former Associate Professor - UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics
Retired

Focus Area: Nursing, bioinformatics

Carl V. Vartian, MD, MS
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Chief Medical Information Officer
HCA – Gulf Coast Division

Focus Area: EHR Implementation, Quality, Safety and Meaningful Use

Muhammad Walji, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Professor, Dean for Technology Services & Informatics
UTHealth School of Dentistry

Focus Area: Patient care quality, safety and efficiency, data analysis, electronic health records

Jing Wang, PhD, MPH, RN
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Adjunct Associate Professor

Focus Area: Nursing systems, informatics

William Weems, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor
Assistant Vice President of Academic Technology - UTHealth
Associate Dean of Information Technology - McGovern Medical School
Focus Area: Informatics as a research tool in the study, characterization and management of complex systems. Useful computational solutions suitable for biomedical applications require a globally integrated set of information systems

Alan M. Weiss, MD, MBA, FACP
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Chief Ambulatory Medical Informatics Officer,
Associate Vice President for Ambulatory Services - Memorial Hermann Healthcare System

Focus Area: Clinical informatics

Irmgard Willcockson, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

E-Learning Consultant

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/irmgard-willcockson/10/813/276

Stephen Wong, PhD, PE
Adjunct Professor

Professor and Department Chair, Systems Medicine and Bioengineering - Houston Methodist Research Institute
Focus Area: Biological and medical imaging, bioinformatics and systems biology, drug repositioning and combinations, image-guided therapy, translational bio-photonics, molecular imaging and diagnosis, and mechanisms of cancer and neurological disorders