Shervin Assassi, MD, MS
Adjunct Professor

Professor - Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, UT McGovern Medical School

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

Eric Boerwinkle, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Dean and Professor - UTHealth School of Public Health

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

Joe Mack Bridges, DHI
Adjunct Assistant Professor

President, Bridges Family Petroleum
First Doctorate of Health Informatics graduate – UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics

Focus Area: Improving Diagnostic Accuracy with Computerized Diagnostic Decision Support Systems.

Jeffrey Chang, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology & Pharmacology - McGovern Medical School

Focus Area: Cell Signaling Programs in Cancer

Martin J. Citardi, MD
Adjunct Professor

Professor and Chair - Department of Otorhinolaryngology, McGovern Medical School
Vice Dean for Clinical Technology

Focus Area: Co-Sponsor for UTHealth CONNECT, UTHealth’s EHR implementation effort

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

James Griffiths, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Executive Director, Clinical Technology - UT Physicians
UTHealth

Focus Area: Clinical technology for clinical practice

Priyatansh Gurha, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Center for Cardiovascular Genetic Research
UTHealth McGovern Medical School

Focus Area: Genomics of cardiac disease. Epigenetics and IncRNA in heart failure

Jane E. Hamilton, PhD, MPH
Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UTHealth McGovern Medical School Co-Director, Center for Behavioral Health Equity and Outcomes Research
Focus Area: mental health quality, utilization, and outcomes; program evaluation methods; early intervention in mental illness; patient engagement in mental health services; and behavioral health equity.

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

Benson Mwangi Irungu, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences UT Health

Focus Area(s): application of novel big data and machine learning tools to multimodal neuroimaging and clinical data that may help elucidate the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disorders.

Yandong Jiang, MD, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Visiting Professor, Department of Anesthesiology – McGovern Medical School
Vice Chair of Clinical Research

Focus Area: Implication of AI in perioperative medicine, EEG interpretation, and health care data transformation

John C. 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

Sophia Khan, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor of Vascular Surgery, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, UTHealth McGovern Medical School, Start up: Co-Founder and CEO, Voythos

Focus Area: Development of FHIR applications to support physician workflow and improvements in patient care

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

Joseph B. McCormick, MD
Adjunct Professor

Regional Dean and James Steele Professor, Brownsville Regional Campus, UT School of Public Health, Associate Dean, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine
Professor of Epidemiology, UTHealth San Antonio School of Medicine

Focus Area: Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences

Amit Mehta, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Section Director - Informatics, McGovern Medical School

Focus Area: implementation, maintenance and improvement of electronic data information sources; Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program

François Modave, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science
UTHealth School of Public Health El Paso Regional Campus

Focus Area: Artificial intelligence and data science, along with mobile health and telehealth to improve health

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

Bela Patel, MD, CMQ, FCCP
Adjunct Professor

Vice Dean of Healthcare Quality and Division Director of Critical Care Medicine - McGovern Medical School

Focus Area: Healthcare quality improvement and effectiveness, patient safety, error reduction

Ryan H. Rochat, MD, PhD, GEMS
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Pediatric Infectious Disease
Education, Innovation and Technology
Baylor College of Medicine

Focus Area: Clinical Informatics – improving data literacy and promoting data ownership

John Riggs, MD, MS
Adjunct Professor

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

Focus Area: Clinical informatics, gynecologic surgery

Matthew A. Rysavy, MD, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and Center for Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine, Director of Neonatal Research, Director of Learning Healthcare

Focus Area: clinical trials, clinical epidemiology, neonatal intensive care, use of routinely collected data for learning healthcare, cognitive informatics and decision support, reducing medical errors

Sean I. Savtiz, MD
Adjunct Professor

Professor in Vascular Neurology, Frank M. Yatsu, MD Chair in Neurology, Director, UTHealth Institute for Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Focus Area: Novel healthcare tools for the prediction, prevention, and treatment of stroke and neurodegenerative Disease, Remote assessment measures for stroke survivors, Biomarkers of treatment effects for stroke

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

Judith A. Smith, PharmD BCOP, CPHQ, FCCP, FISOPP
Adjunct Professor

Professor, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - OB/GYN Oncology, UT McGovern Medical School

Focus Area: Pharmacology Informatics

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

Muhammad “Tuan” Amith, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science, University of North Texas

Focus Area: Biomedical Informatics, Semantic Web and Ontologies, Intelligent Agents, Human Computer Interaction and Usabilty, Information Retrieval, Software Architecture and Engineering, and Natural Language Processing

Hussein A. Abbas, MD, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Department of Leukemia
Assistant Professor, Genomic Medicine
Division of Cancer Medicine - MD Anderson Cancer Center

Focus Area: Multidimensional genomic, transcriptomic and epigenomic data analysis

Suresh Bhavnani, PhD
Adjunct 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.

Jingcheng Du, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Lead NLP Scientist, Melax Tech

Focus Area: Biomedical natural language processing (NLP), Biomedical knowledge representation, Machine learning and its applications to healthcare

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 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, FAMIA, FHIMSS
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Physician Informaticist, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Adjunct Assistant Professor - UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics
Focus Area: Has practiced health informatics since 2000 within the U.S. federal government with expertise in health informatics policy, perioperative care informatics, innovations, interoperability and applied clinical informatics.

Kevin Fickenscher, MD, CPE, FACPE
Adjunct Professor

Consultant, Creostrategic Solutions

Focus Area: Healthcare Policy, Informatics

John P. Glaser, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Former Senior VP - Cerner

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

Jeffrey Helton, PhD, CMA, CFE, FHFMA
Adjunct 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.

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

John C. Kilburn, Jr., PhD
Adjunct Professor

Associate Vice President for Research
Texas A&M International University in Laredo

Focus Area: Healthcare Policy, Population Health Informatics

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-Informatics, CPHQ
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Harris Health-VP Quality Programs
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

H. Stephen Lieber, MA, CAE
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Principal, AVISOS Partners, LLC

Focus Area: Transformational change, Business development, Global positioning, Strategic Planning & Execution

Sina Madani, MD, PhD, FAMIA
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Clinical Informatician – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Focus Area: Clinical Terminologies, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Engineering, Clinical Informatics

Chris McCord, MBA
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Managing Director, Healthcare Growth Partners

Focus Area: Commercialization of health informatics, strategy and go-to-market planning for applied health informatics

Patrick McGinnis, MD, MS, MBA
Adjunct Professor

Humana - Medical Director

Focus Area: Patient safety, medical technology systems, EMRs

Shoko Miyagawa, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

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

Focus Area: Health informatics, network community, information security

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

Shayan Shams, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor of Data Science - San Jose State University, California

Focus Area: Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Big Data, Edge and High-Performance Computing

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

Anwar Sirajuddin, MBBS, MS, CPHIMS
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Senior VP, Chief Health Informatics Officer - Harris Health System

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

Ergin Soysal, MD, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Senior Research Scientist - Eli Lilly and Company

Focus Area: Clinical Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, Medical Terminologies and Ontologies, Translational Medicine

V. Gail Turner, DNP, MBA, RN-BC
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Associate Chief Informatics Officer – Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Information Systems Division


Focus Area: Clinical informatics

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

Ryan Walsh, MD
Adjunct Professor

Chief Medical Information Officer – Ambulatory & Population Health at Memorial Hermann Health System

Focus Area: Applied informatics, population health and informatics related to social determinations of health

Jing Wang, PhD, MPH, RN
Adjunct Associate Professor

Dean, Florida State University School of Nursing

Focus Area: Nursing systems, 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-photo1nics, molecular imaging and diagnosis, and mechanisms of cancer and neurological disorders

Hua Xu, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Professor of Biomedical and Data Science
Vice Chair for Research and Development for Section of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
Assistant Dea of Informatics, Yale School of Medicine
Focus Area: clinical natural language processing (NLP) research and application, data sciences and informatics, clinical and translational studies, electronic health records, biomedicine

Weiling Zhao, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Former SBMI Faculty, now retired
Vice Dean for Clinical Technology
Focus Area: Cellular and molecular biologist with emphasis on biomedical informatics, radiation oncology and systems biology