Alemayehu Gorfe Abebe, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Associate Professor, Integrative Biology & Pharmacology - UTHealth Medical School

Focus Area: Use of experimental microbial populations to study interactions between individuals to determine the evolutionary dynamics of population.

Jonas Almeida, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Professor, Department of Pathology - University of Alabama

Focus Area: Computational infrastructure for integrative bioinformatics - specifically, seeking to articulate the computational statistics aspects of data analysis with the data representation and management of its acquisition.

J. Robert Beck, MD
Adjunct Professor

Sr. Vice President - West & Wilke Chair in Cancer Research
Fox Chase Cancer Center

Focus Area: Patient Safety, Clinical Outcomes, Population Science

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 - UTHealth 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

Wah Chiu, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Distinguished Service Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology - Baylor College of Medicine

Focus Area: Bioinformatics, nano medicine, drug design, cryo-electron microscopy and tomography, biophysics and computational biology

Zhigang Deng, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Computer Science Department - University of Houston

Focus Area: Computer graphics, computer animation, human computer interaction, virtual human modeling and animation, and visual computing for biomedical applications.

Kim Dunn, MD, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Practicing Internal Medicine Physician, K Dunn & Associates - Houston

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.

Oliver Esch, MD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Executive Director and Senior VP - EndoStim

Focus Area: Biotechnology, Healthcare Information Technology, Public Health

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 Ferrer, MD, MBA
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Informatician and Health Systems Specialist - Veteran’s Health Administration
Focus Area: Documentation, user experience, terminologies and health data dictionary requirements for iEHR. 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

Chief Medical Officer and President, Healthcare Division - AMC Health

Focus Area: Healthcare Policy, Informatics

Jose Florez-Arango, MD, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Associated Professor, Department of Medical Education - University de Antioquia

Health Informatics Lead, Hospital Pablo Tabon Uribe - Medellin, Colombia

Yuriy Fofanov, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology - UT Medical Branch - Galveston

Focus Area: Bioinformatics, Applied Statistics, Mathematical Modeling and Information Theory. Special interest in environmental meta-genomics and the analysis of human DNA

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

David Gorenstein, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Deputy Director - The Brown Institute of Molecular Medicine
James T. Willerson Distinguished Chair - UTHealth Medical School

Focus Area: Proteomics, drug design, nanotechnology & computational chemistry

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 - UTHealth 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

Constance Johnson, RN, MS, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor - Duke University School of Nursing

Focus Area: Human-computer interaction, representation and visualization of information, disease prevention and health promotion

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

Brent King, MD, MMM
Adjunct Professor

Chief Medical Officer, Physician in Chief - Nemours/Alfred DuPont Hospital for Children
Wilmington, Delaware

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

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

Assistant Professor, Neurobiology & Anatomy - UTHealth Medical School

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

Rodger Marion, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Professor Emeritus
Humanities and Basic Sciences

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

Director of Medical Informatics - Memorial Healthcare System

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

Aleksander Milosavljevic, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Professor, Molecular & Human Genetics - Baylor College of Medicine

Focus Area: Genomics, cancer genomics, epigenomincs and bioinformatics

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

Kevin Montgomery, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Senior Researcher, Center for Innovation in Global Health
Stanford University School of Medicine

Focus Area: http://globalhealth.stanford.edu/

Robert Murphy, MD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Chief Medical Information Officer - Memorial Hermann Healthcare System

Focus Area: Medical information systems, EMRs, patient safety, clinical outcomes

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

Velma Payne, PhD, MBA
Adjunct Instructor
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety
DeBakey VA Medical Center
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

Jagannatha Rao, MD, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Director, Institute for Scientific Research & Technology Services (INDCASAT)
Panama Distinguished Scientist, National Science System, Government of Panama
Focus Area: Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease, mechanisms of proteins and DNA conformations in neurodengerative disorders, neuronnutraceuticals

John Riggs, MD, MS
Adjunct Associate Professor

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

Focus Area: Clinical informatics, gynecologic surgery

Doris Ross, PhD
Dean Emerita

Former Dean - UTHealth Medical School
UT School of Allied Health
UT School of Health Information Sciences
Retired

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

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

Debora Simmons, PhD, RN, CCNS
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer
CHI St. Luke’s Health

Focus Area: Patient safety, clinical outcomes, clinical data analysis

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 Instructor

Manager, Clinical Solutions, Quality and Clinical, Decision Support
Memorial Healthcare System

Focus Area: Clinical decision support, clinical outcomes

Elizabeth Souther, RN, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Former Senior Systems Analyst, Epic Certified - Texas Children’s Hospital
Memorial Healthcare System

Focus Area: Nursing audits

James Turley, RN, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Former Associate Professor - UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics
Retired

Focus Area: Nursing, bioinformatics

Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Attending Physician, Hope Bridge and Cambridge Hospitals
Founder, Exec Director – Harris County Health
Information Cooperative
Focus Area: Clinical practice and informatics

Carl V. Vartian, MD, MS
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Chief Medical Information Officer
HCA - Gulf Coast Region

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

Muhammad Walji, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Associate 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

Assistant Professor, Nursing Systems
UTHealth School of Nursing

Focus Area: Nursing systems, informatics

William Weems, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor
Assistant Vice President of Academic Technology - UTHealth
Associate Dean of Information Technology - UTHealth 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

Olivier Wenker, MD, DEAA
Adjunct Professor

Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Director of Technology Discovery, Office of Translational Research
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

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

Kevin Wooten, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor
Professor, Chair, Administrative Services, School of Business
University of Houston - Clear Lake
Focus Area: Organizational development, job loss reactions, organizational justice, ethics and change resistance and readiness
http://prtl.uhcl.edu/portal/page/portal/BUS/School-of-Business/Faculty/Our-Faculty

Rui Zeng, PhD
Adjunct Instructor

Instructor Designer, College of Education - UT Austin

Focus Area: technology integration in classroom and online learning environments and instructional design, development, and evaluation.

Ming Zhan, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Chief of Bioinformatics, Department of Systems Medicine & Bioengineering
Houston Methodist Research Institute

Focus Area: Stem cells, cancer, bioinformatics, systems biology, synthetic biology

Shuxing Zhang, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Department of Experimental Therapeutics - UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Focus Area: new computational methods for drug discovery, mainly in three areas: ligand-based drug design, structure-based drug design, and protein structural bioinformatics. Also, ADME/Tox modeling, poly-pharmacology design, and systems chemical biology