NCCD & SHARPC Personnel

NCCD

DIRECTOR

• Jiajie Zhang, PhD - Principal Investigator, Dean and Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics, UTHealth

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

• Muhammad Walji, PhD- Associate Dean for Technology Services and Informatics and Associate Professor of Diagnostic Sciences, School of Dentistry

FACULTY and OPERATIONS DIRECTOR

Executive Operations Director

• Krisanne Graves, PhD, RN, CPHQ - SBMI

Faculty

Professors

• David Robinson, MD - Medical School/Emergency Medicine
• Dean Sittig, PhD - SBMI
• Todd Johnson, PhD - SBMI

Associate Professors

• Trevor Cohen, MBChB, PhD - SBMI
• Yang Gong, PhD - SBMI
• Bela Patel, MD, DABSM, FCCP - Medical School/Division Director of Critical Care Medicine
• Muhammad Walji, PhD - School of Dentistry/Associate Dean for Technology Services and Informatics

Assistant Professors

• Khalid F. Almoosa, MD, MS - Medical School/Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
• Amy Franklin, PhD - SBMI
• Kevin Hwang, MD, MPH - Medical School/Center for Healthcare Quality and Safety
• John Joe, MD MPH - Adjunct Assistant Professor
• Peter Killoran, MD, MS - SBMI and Medical School/Anesthesiology

STUDENTS

Post Docs

• Erel Joffe, MD, MSc

PhD Students

• Franck Diaz
• Lei Hua
• Eliz Markowitz
• Vickie Nguyen, MA, MS
• Deevakar Rogith
• Ning Shang
• Zhen (June) Zhang, MD

MS Students

• Ruiling Liu
• Adriana Stanley

COLLABORATING MEMBERS

• Keith Butler, PhD
• Kim Dunn, MD, PhD
• Robert Greenes, MD, PhD
• Mark Hasselkorn PhD
• Todd Johnson, PhD
• Elsbeth Kalenderian, DDS
• Nnaemeka Okafor, MD, MS
• Rachel Ramoni, DDS, PhD
• Roger Schvaneveldt, PhD
• Ben Shneiderman, PhD
• Hardeep Singh, MD
• Min Zhu, MD, PhD

SHARPC

LEADERSHIP

• Jiajie Zhang, PhD - Principal Investigator,Dean and Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics, UTHealth
• Muhammad Walji, PhD - Associate Director and Co-Investigator, Associate Dean for Technology Services and Informatics, Associate Professor, School of Dentistry, UT Health
• Krisanne Graves, PhD, RN, CPHQ, Executive Operations Director

PROJECT ADVISORY COMMITTEE

• Jack Smith, MD, PhD - Chair
• Sameer Bhat - Vendor and Co-Founder and VP of eClinicalWorks
• Ralph Farr - Hospitals/Providers and VP of Information Services, UTMB at Galveston
• Douglas Fridsma, MD, PhD - ONC Liaison, Director, Office of Standards and Interoperability, ONC
• Melanie True Hills - Patient Groups Founder and CEO, StopAfib.org
• James Ingram, MD - Vendor, Chief Medical Officer, Greenway Medical Technologies
• John Joe, MD, MPH - Professional Associations President, Harris County Academy of Family Physicians; Baylor College of Medicine
• David McCallie Jr., MD - Vendor, VP for Medical Informatics, Director of the Cerner Medical Informatics Institute, Cerner Corporation
• W. Paul Nichol, MD - Vendor National Director of Medical Informatics, Patient Care Services, Veterans Health Administration (listed under Vendors for VA's development efforts
• Donald A. Norman, PhD - Visiting Distinguished Professor, KAIST (Daejeon, South Korea), Nielsen Norman Group
• Thomas Payne, MD - Committee Medical Director, Information Technology Services, University of Washington Medical Center
• Jacob Reider, MD - ONC Liaison, Program Manager, ONC
• Tobias C. Samo, MD, FACP - Vendor Chief Medical Officer, Allscripts
• Michael Shabot, MD - Hospital/Providers, Sr. VP and System Chief Medical Officer, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
• Debora Simmons, PhD, RN - Sr. VP and Chief Quality Officer, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital System
• Michael Speer, MD - Professional Associations Representative for Texas Medical Association, Baylor College of Medicine
• James Spohrer, PhD - Vendor, Director, IBM Almaden Services Research
• Laura Batz Townsend - Patient Groups, Founder and Director, Lousie H. Batz Hospital Awareness Fund
• Charlotte Weaver, RN, PhD - Hospitals/Providers, Sr. VP and Chief Clinical Officer, Gentiva Health Services
• Patricia B. Wise, RN, MS, MS, FHISS - Professional Associations Vice President, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
• David Woods, PhD - Professor, Department of Integrated Systems Engineering and Director, Center for Complexity in Natural, Social, and Engineered Systems, Ohio State University; Past President, Human Factors; Ergonomics Society of Washington Medical Center

KEY PERSONNEL

• Khalid Almoosa, MD - Associate Professor SBMI
• Joan S. Ash, PhD., M.L.S., MS., M.B.A - Oregon Health and Science University
• Ellen Bass, PhD, MS - University of Virginia
• Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSE - UTHealth
• Tim Buchman, PhD, MD - Emory University
• Keith Butler, PhD, MS - University of Washington
• Trevor Cohen, MBChB, PhD - UTHealth
• Robert Dismukes - NASA
• Kim Dunn, MD, PhD - UTHealth
• Chris Esposito - Boeing
• Amy Franklin, PhD - UTHealth
• Emory Fry, MD - Navy Health Research
• Mary Goldstein, MD, MSc - Stanford University/VA-Palo Alto Health Care System
• Robert Greenes, MD, PhD - Arizona State University
• Mark Haselkorn, PhD - University of Washington
• Peter Haug, MD - Intermountain Healthcare
• Jorge Herskovic, MD, PhD - UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Nathan Hulse, PhD - Intermountain Healthcare
• M. Sriram Iyengar, PhD - UTHealth
• Robert Jenders, MD, MS, FACP, FACMI - National Library of Medicine, NIH Georgetown University Hospital
• John Joe, MD, MPH - President, Harris County Academy of Family Physicians; Baylor College of Medicine
• Todd Johnson, PhD- UTHealth
• David Kieras, PhD - University of Michigan
• Andre Kushniruk, PhD, MSc - University of Victoria
• Ali Mokdad, PhD - University of Washington
• Mark Musen, MD, PhD - Stanford University
• Bela Patel, MD - UTHealth
• Thomas Payne, MD - Medical Director, Information Technology Services, University of Washington Medical Center
• Catherine Plaisant, PhD - University of Maryland at College Park
• David Robinson, MD, MS - UTHealth
• Axel Roessler, PhD -University of Washington
• Michael Shabot, MD - Sr. VP and System Chief Medical Officer, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
• Ben Shneiderman, PhD, MS - University of Maryland at College Park
• Hardeep Singh, MD, MPH - Baylor College of Medicine
• Dean Sittig, PhD - UTHealth
• Eric Thomas, MD, MPH - UTHealth
• Samson Tu, MS - Stanford University
• David Woods, PhD, MS - Professor, Department of Integrated Systems Engineering and Director, Center for Complexity in Natural, Social, and Engineered Systems, Ohio State University
• Adam Wright, PhD - Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Yan Xiao, PhD, MS - Baylor Health Care System

STAFF

• Swaroop Gantela - UTHealth
• Min Zhu - UTHealth