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Neil Abernethy BS (NC State University); PhD (2005)
Professional interests: Public health informatics.

 

Aneel Advani MD, MPH (Johns Hopkins) MS (2007)
Current: Instructor In Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School
Professional interests: Medical knowledge modeling. public health and preventive medicine; disease and outbreak management; quality of medical care.

 

David Almassian BS (Stanford University); MS (2004)
Current: Senior Software Engineer, Tetracore, Inc., Washington, DC
Professional interests: Developing computational and statistical methods for the analysis of data intensive biomedical problems.

 

Russ Altman AB (Harvard); PhD (1989), MD (1990)
Current: Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics and Medicine (and Computer Science, by courtesy), Stanford University.
Professional interests: Application of computer technology to problems in macromolecular structure prediction and sequence analysis. The uses of probabilistic constraint satisfaction paradigms in biology.

 

 

Suzanne Bakken RN, DNSc (UCSF); Postdoctoral fellow (1991-92)
Current: Professor of Nursing and of Medical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY
Professional interests: Concept representation, decision support, evidence-based practice, web-based educational and behavioral interventions.

 

 

Theirry Barsalou MD (Paris); PhD (1990)
Current: Vice President, R&D Informatics, Ipsen (French pharmaceutical company)
Professional interests: To exploit database and knowledge-based techniques for developing biomedical information systems. Basic research in database systems.

 

 

Ingo Beinlich MD (West Germany); MS (1993)
Current: Partner, CIDAR, San Mateo, CA
Professional interests: Process anlaysis, software development, and strategic consulting for clinical research in the pharmaceutical industry. Emphasis on remote data entry, quality assurance and pharmaco-economic modelling.

 

 

Elmer Bernstam MD(Univ Michigan); MSE (Univ Michigan;) MS (2001); Board Certified, American Board of Internal Medicine
Current: Clinical Assistant Professor of Health Informatics and Internal Medicine, University of Texas at Houston
Professional interests: Clinical information systems, knowledge representation and data visualization.

 

 

Daniel Berrios MD(UCSF); MPH (UC Berkeley); PhD (2001); Completed residency in Clinical pathology (UCSF)
Current: Computer Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center (through University of California, Santa Cruz)
Professional interests: Development of sophisticated web-based information indexing tools and semantic web technologies.

 

David L. Buckeridge MD (Queen's University); MSc (Univ Toronto); PhD (2005); Completed residency in Community Medicine (Univ Toronto)
Current: Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health; McGill University
Professional interests: Public health informatics. The development and evaluation of informatics methods for use in public health surveillance systems.

 

 
Elizabeth Burnside MD(Tufts) MPH (Tufts) MS (2000) - Board Certified, Radiology
Current: Assistant Professor of Radiology , Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, and Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin Hospital
Professional interests: Clinical informatics, decision support, and probabilistic reasoning to improve breast cancer screening.
 
 
Carol Cheng Cain BS(Stanford); PhD (2003)
Current: Practice Leader, Incubation; KP Care Management Institute, Oakland
Professional interests: Accelerating the use of information technology in healthcare and organizations, paying particular attention to how IT fits into communicatioin, coordination, and workflow.
 
 
Keith Campbell MD (Univ. Southern California); PhD (1997)
Current: Chief Technology Officer, Inoveon
Professional interests: Management of controlled terminologies.
 
 
Michael Cantor BA (Wesleyan Univ) MS (2007)
Current: Computer Scientist, Joint Genome Institute
Professional interests: Applications of computer science to biology
 
Albert Chan BS (Stanford); MD (UC San Diego), MS (2004) Board Certified Family Physician; Concurrently completed research fellowship in Department of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF (2002-2004)
Current:Physician and Electronic Medical Record Team, Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Professional Interests: Clinical informatics including clinical information systems, clinical decision support, and patient/physician education.
 
Jeffrey Chang BS (Stanford), PhD (2003)
Current: Postdoc, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University
Professional interests: Computational and statistical algorithms for biology, functional genomics, machine Learning, text mining, and software development.
 
Martin Chavez BS and SM (Harvard); PhD (1990)
Current: Managing Director, Goldman Sachs, New York
Professional interests: Basic research in knowledge representation, acquisition, and fusion.
 
Richard Chen BS/MS (Stanford); MS (1998), MD (2007)
Current: Resident in Dermatology, Stanford
Professional interests: Academics/research/translational medicine.
 
Phillip Cheng MD (Yale); MS (2002); Completed residency in Medicine (Hospital of University of Pennsylvania)
Current: Fellow in Abdominal Radiology, UCLA
Professional interests: Clinical information systems, decision support, knowledge representation.
 
Homer Chin MD (Dartmouth); MS (1988)
Current: Medical Director for Clinical Information Systems (Kaiser Permanente Northwest Division)
Professional interests: Development and implementation of clinical information systems.

Samantha Chui MS, 2007

Greg Cooper BS (MIT); PhD (1984), MD (1986)
Current: Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Professional interests: Addressing medical informatics problems using probability and decision theory.
 
Russ Cucina MD (UC Davis); BA (UC Berkeley); MS (2004), Board Certified Internist
Current: Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, UC San Francisco
Professional Interests: Clinical informatics, including computerized provider order entry systems, decision support systems, knowledge
modeling, and information storage and retrieval.
 
Amar Das BA (Northwestern), MD (1997); PhD (2002); completed residency in Psychiatry (Columbia)
Current: Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
Professional interests: Developing temporal database methods and modular decision-support systems, and using informatics in mental health services research.
 
H. Christian Davidson MD (University of Utah); MS (1993)
Current: Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Utah; Chief of Neuroimaging, VA Salt Lake City
Professional interests: Radiological Informatics, digital imaging and PACS, computer-based education, head & neck radiology.
 
Rob DeConde BS (Stanford); MS (2004)
Current: MSTP student (MD,PhD) at UC San Diego
Professional interests: Immunology, Oncology, and genetics and the application of math and engineering to these fields.
 
William Detmer MD (UCSF); MS (1996)
Current: Clinical Assistant Professor in Department of Health Evaluations Sciences, University of Virginia. President, Unbound Medicine, Inc., Charlottesville
Professional interests: Medical information retrieval; electronic medical publishing; integration of data and knowledge systems.
 
Joan Differding BA (Swarthmore); MS (1988)
Current: Computer Scientist, NASA
Professional interests: Technologies for the distribution, integration and coordination of science and engineering data and information.
 
Nhan Do BS (Baylor University); MD (George Washington University); MS (2005)
Current: Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) Information Management, Technology and Reengineering
Professional interests: Clinical decision support systems, handheld computer applications, effective use of quality indicators, automation tools including the Internet for disease management.
 
Stephen Downs BA (Colorado); MD (1985), MS (1986)
Current: Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Director, General and Community Pediatrics, Indiana University; Director, Children's Health Services Research, Indiana University; Associate Director for Decision Sciences, Regenstrief Institute
Professional interests: Decision analytic clinical guideline and decision support systems. Cost-effectiveness and decision making in pediatrics. Expected utility theory.
 
Jonathan Dugan BA (Bowdoin College); MS (University of Texas); PhD (2002)
Current: Founder, Matson Systems
Professional interests: Data integration and knowledge modeling; non-linear numerical optimization; community communication.
 
John Egar MD (Case Western); PhD (1994)
Current: Physician, Internal Medicine, Salem Clinic, Salem, Oregon
Professional interests: Developing and building data-conversion and distributed-architecture software.
 
Brad Farr MD (University of Utah); PhD (1991)
Current: Physician Information Systems Director, Intermountain Health Care Inc., Salt Lake City Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Informatics, University of Utah
Professional interests: Development of medical expert systems and psychology of decision making.
 
Ramon Felciano BA, BS (Stanford); PhD (2001)
Current: Chief Technology Officer & Chief Architect, InGenuity Systems, Inc.
Professional interests: Development of systems to integrate information filtering and retrieval tools with conventional visual design and story-telling techniques, in order to build cohesive, interactive narratives that are easy to understand, scan and access.
 
Todd Ferris MD (University of Michigan); MS (2003)
Current: Director of Privacy and Data Security, IRT, Stanford University School of Medicine
Professional interests: Biomedical Informatics
 
Chris Flowers BA (Stanford); MD/MS (1997)
Current: Assistant Professor, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta
Professional interests: Current informatics work centers around developing integrated databases of cancer registry, clinical, and genetic information to facilitate investigation in oncology outcomes research, bioinformatics, and pharmacogenomics.
 
Doug Fridsma BS, MD (University of Michigan) PhD (2003)
Current: Associate Professor of Medicine,Department of Biomedical Informatics, Arizona State University
Professional interests: Development of computational tools based on formal organization theory to study technology introduction, clinical work processes, and collaboration between healthcare providers.
Mark Frisse MD, MBA (Washington Univ.); MS (1987)
Current: Director, Regional Informatics Programs and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University
Professional interests: Clinical information services for managed care clients.
 
Adam Galper BA (Yale); MS (1994)
Current: CTO and Vice President, Engineering; Xtime, Inc., Burlingame, California
Professional interests: Modeling biological processes; intelligent instructional simulations; CAI.
 
Greg Garrison MD (University of Minnesota); MS (2003) Board Certified, American Board of Family Practice
Current:Senior Associate Consultant, Mayo Clinic, Department of Family Medicine and Laboratory of Medical Informatics
Professional interests: Focusing on ways to leverage an exisiting electronic medical record system for new initiatives in population based care. Also, providing mentorship for medical students and residents interested in primary care research and informatics.
 
David Gilbertson BBA (University of Georgia); MS (1993)
Current: Office of the Secretary of Defense in the Clinical Information Technology Program Office, Fall Church, VA
Professional interests: Tele-health, large-scale systems implementation.
 
Michael Goldbaum MD (Tulane); MS (1988)
Current: Professor of Ophthalmology, Co-director Retina and Vitreous Service, University of California at San Diego.
Professional interests: Relate MIS to eye research and surgery, use machine learning to improve diagnosis, management, and knowledge of ophthalmic diseases, and apply image analysis and image understanding to medical images.
 
Justin Graham MD (UCSF) MS (2002); Board Certified Infectious Disease Specialist
Current: Chief Medical Information Officer, California Prision Healthcare Receivership Corporation
Professional interests: Electronic health record implementation in inpatient and outpatient settings; utilization of clinical information systems for quality improvement in healthcare delivery, including decision support and data mining; development of ontologies and vocabulary to support measures of halthcare quality; comparisons of healthcare quality measures between paper-based and electronic health records for pay-for-performance and public reporting; health data exchange and interoperability in regional health information organizations and other entities.
 
Michelle Green BS (Purdue), PhD (UCSF); MS (2003)
Current: Senior Associate, Strategic Consulting Services, Pharsight Corporation
Professional interests: Using pharmacodynamic modeling and simulation within a decision analysis framework to optimiza clinical trial designs. Identifying opportunities to bridge the worlds of bioinformatics and clinical drug development.
 
David Heckerman BS and MS (UCLA); PhD (1990); MD (1992)
Current: Manager, Machine Learning and Applied Statistics Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
Professional interests: Bayesian statistics, machine learning, and graphical models.
 
Genaro Hernandez BS (San Diego State Univ); MS (2008)
Current: Staff Scientist, National Library of Medicine, Bethseda, MD
Professional interests: Bayesian statistics, machine learning, and graphical models.
 
Eddie Herkovits MD (UCLA); PhD (1991)
Current: Associate Professor of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania
Professional interests: The application of artificial intelligence techniques to problems in patient management, speech comprehension, visual perception.
 
Eric Horvitz BA (Binghamton University); PhD (1990), MD (1993)
Current: Senior Researcher, Decision Theory Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA.
Professional interests: Interested in endowing systems with the ability to reason about problem-solving tradeoffs; decision making under bounded resources, exploring techniques for optimizing performance through analysis of available computational resources and decision-support needs.
 
Cecil Huang BS (Carnegie Mellon); PhD (1999), MD (2000)
Current: Staff Anesthesiologist and Pain Management Specialist, Loudoun Hospital Center, Leesburg, Virginia
Professional interests: Anesthesia; Medical Informatics; Operating Room management.
 
Kurt Huang AB (Harvard) MD (2002), MS (2007)
Current: CEO and Co-Founder, Peerspin, Inc.
Professional interests: AI, statistics, entrepreneurship, innovation, internet, micropayments, social networks
 

Yang Huang BS (Peking Univ.); MS (Northwestern); MS (Stanford), PhD
Current: Electronic Medical Informatics Leader, Southern California Permanente Medical group.
Professional Interests: Biomedical information retrieval, natural language processing, statistical learning, clinical information systems, electronic health record systems.

 

Runa Islam BA, MS (Harvard); MS (2008)                  Professional interests: Decision sciences and other analytic methods.

 

Holly Jimison BS (Illinois); PhD (1990)
Current: Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Informatics at Oregon Health & Science University
Research interests: Consumer Health Informatics, with an emphasis on in-home monitoring and technology for successful aging. 
Professional interests: patient utility assessment, risk communication, medical ethics, computer generated explanation of decision models, cognitive monitoring through computer interactions.
 
Kevin Johnson MD (Johns Hopkins); MS (1992)
Current: Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University
Professional interests: Continuation of work evaluating advanced technologies and the ramifications of their use at the point of care. Also working on development of novel interfaces to improve the adoption of structured reporting tools, and an evaluation of handheld electronic prescribing in ambulatory pediatrics.
 
Michael Kahn MD (UC San Diego); PhD UCSF (1988)
Current: Director of Research, Rodeer Systems, Boulder, CO
Professional interests: Intelligent interfaces between medical databases and medical decision support systems with special interest in improving temporal reasoning and temporal representation capabilities of medical decision support.
 
Tod Klingler BS (Stanford); PhD (1996)
Current: Vice President, Information Science, XDx, Inc.
Professinal interests: Application of advanced techniques in computer science and information science in biotechnology and drug development, particularly in the uses of protein structure to design novel drugs.
 

Nikesh Kotecha BS (Boston University); PhD (2008)     Current: Postdoctoral Scholar in Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford                                                              Professional interests: Applying computational and statistical techniques to address biological problems and providing these in a usable way to biologists; integrating heterogenous data (images, text, etc.) in ways to better understand complex systems.

 
Manon Kuilboer MD (Univ. of Utrecht), PhD (Erasmus University), MS (1993) Current: Product Manager Medical Systems at Microbais Automatisering, BV, Amsterdam
Professional interests: Decision support systems and their integration into users' daily workflow. Human-computer interface issues. Critiquing systems. Family practice, nursing home care, and pediatrics.
 
Curt Langlotz AB, MS (Stanford); MD/PhD (1989)
Current: Active board-certified radiologist, Vice Chair for Informatics, Dept of Radiology, and Medical Director for Information Services, Univ of Penn Health System
Professional interests: Development and evaluation of standard medical vocabularies, image reporting systems, decision support tools to enhance the quality of radiology practice.
 
Harold Lehmann MD (Columbia); PhD (1991) Board Certified Pediatrician
Current: Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Joint with Biomedical Information Sciences and Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University.
Professional interests: Intelligent processing of medical literature; Bayesian belief networks.
 
Leslie Lenert MD (UCLA); MS (1990)
Current: Director of the CDC's National Center for Public Health Informatics
Professional interests: Preference assessment and its applications in decision analysis and assessment of the effectiveness of pharmaceuticals. Applications of medical informatics in quality assessment and improvement.
 
Mike Liang BS (UC San Diego); PhD 2005
Current: International Product Manager, Google
Professional interests: Expanding Google's worlwide product offerings by identifying new market needs and initiating projects to address them.
 
Richard Lin MD and MPH (UCSF); MS (1990)
Current: Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology, SUNY Stony Brook
Professional interests: Molecular mechanisms that regulate cell growth.
 
Zhen Lin MB (Peking Union Medical College, China), MS (UC San Francisco), PhD 2005, Registered Nurse
Current: Assistant Professor of Nursing and Biostatistics, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill
Profession interests: Application of computational methods to manage and analyze the increasing amount of information in biomedicine, machine learning, genetic/genomic privacy.
 
Irene Liu BS (China); MS (Duke University); PhD (2005)
Current: Medical Student, Stanford University School of Medicine
Professional interests: Computational biology, sequence analysis, decision-support systems, management of biomedical data.
 
Xiaole Shirley Liu BA (Smith College); PhD (2002)
Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
Professional Interests: Computational biology, modeling of transcription and post-transcriptional regulation, sequence analysis, ChIP-chip on genome tiling microarrays and ChIP-seq, genome annotation.
 
Shuo Liu BS (China); MS (UCLA); PhD (2005)
Current: Senior Informatics Scientist, Pharmix Corp
Professional interests: Bioinformatics, biological databases and biological data analysis.
 
Janet McLaughlin MS (UC Davis); MS (1987)
Current: Principal, Videre Design
Professional interests: Clinical data collection and decision tools on protable devices for specialized medical applications.
 
John Michon MD (Univ. Illinois); MS (2001) Diplomate, American board of Ophthalmology
Current: Private practice in Hoffman Estates, IL
Professional interests: Medical imaging and image databases, ophthalmic genomics and bioinformatics.
 
David Millis MD (Howard); MS (1992)
Current: Fellow in Administrative Psychiatry, University of Maryland Medical Center
Professional interests: Case-based reasoning, hypertext, computer applications in medical education.
 
Mark Musen MD (Brown); PhD (1988) Board-Certified Internist
Current: Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
Professional interests: Medical data base and knowledge base applications, emphasizing intractive environments for knowledge base entry and maintenance.
 
Brian Naughton BS (Trinity College of Dublin); PhD (2006)
Current: Product Manager, 23andMe, Mountain View, CA
Professional interests: Bioinformatics, SNP analysis, human genetics, sequence analysis, genomics, machine learning.
John Nguyen BS (UC Davis); MS (2000), MD (Stanford)
Current: Resident in Anesthesia, Stanford
Professional interests: Developing decision support and clinical information systems and studying how these might be integrated into the health care delivery process.
Joseph Norman AB (Harvard); PhD (2002)
Current: Clinical Lecturer, Dept of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor
Professional interests: Application of medical informatics to health-care policy.
 
Lucila Ohno-Machado MD, MHA (Univ. of Sao Paulo); PhD (1996)
Current: Associate Professor of Radiology and Health Sciences & Technology, Harvard Medical School and MIT
Professional interests: Development of neural networks and other classification systems for diagnostic and prognostic purposes. Design and evaluation of decision-support systems.
 
Diane Oliver MD (Vanderbilt); PhD (2000) Board Certified, American Board of Internal Medicine
Current: manager, Information Systems, Roche, Palo Alto, CA
Professional Interests: Health care and technology trends and forecasts, consumer informatics, nutrigenomics, text processing of biomedical texts, terminology standards
 
David Paik BS/MS (Stanford); PhD (2002)
Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Stanford University.
Professional interests: Medical imaging and image processing with special interest in 3D visualization of MR and CT data.
 
Kevin (Kung-Huang) Pan, BSEE (Taiwan); MSEE (Stanford), PhD (2007)
Professional interests: Create and develop innovative informatics methodologies for solving fundamental biomedical questions.
 
John Park AB (Harvard) MS (2007)
Professional interests: Researcher, Computer Science department, University of Maryland, College Park
Professional interests: Probabilistic reasoning systems.
 
Leslie Perreault BA (Stanford); MS (1987)
Current: Writer and independant consultant, California.
Professional interests: Information technology strategic planning for integrated health care delivery systems; computer-based patient records; integrated information systems for clinical, managed care, and strategic decision making.
 
Ricardo Peverini MD (Loma Linda); MS (1992)
Current: Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Chief, Division of Neonatology, Loma Linda University
Professional interests: Decision support in neonatal intensive care unit, alert and alarm methodologies, documentation tools.
 
Ramani Pichumani MSEE, EngrD (Stanford); PhD (1996)
Current: Senior Member of Consulting Staff, Analog Mixed Signal Solutions R&D, Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Professional interests: Design of algorithms and knowledge-based techniques for visualization of medical data and for modeling and analysis of human anatomy (in particular, the CNS).
 
Zach Pincus BS, MS (Stanford); PhD (2007)
Current: Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, lab of Dr. Frank Slack
Professional interests: Image analysis, especially using imaging and other observational tools to measure populations of cells or developing organisms, to understand patterns of variation within those populations.
Jeanette Polaschek BSN and MS (Boston University); MS (1990)
Current: Hospital Management Consultant
Professional interests: Design and development of applications that assist clinicians with direct patient care activities.
 
Alex Poon BA (Stanford); PhD (1996)
Current: Co-Founder, Bonfire Media (provides remote information access via mobile phones)
Professional interests: Development of patient interviewing systems using medical expert systems and speech recognition. Also interested in human-computer interaction, pen-based computing.
 
Malcolm Pradhan MDBS (Australia); PhD (1997)
Current: Director of Medical Informatics, Adelaide University
Professional interests: Exploration of decision theoretic methods to medical decision making and computer-aided instruction. Academic medical informatics and medical education.
 
Wanda Pratt MS (Univ. of Texas); PhD (1999)
Current: Chair, PhD Program in Information Science, Associate Professor Information School and Biomedical & Health Informatics, School of Medicine University of Washington
Professional interests: Understanding and improving the way patients, clinicians, and biomedical researchers search for, manage, and use information.
 
Gretchen Purcell BS (Stanford); MD/PhD (1996)
Current: Assistant Professor of Surgery and Bioemedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University
Professional interests: Utility assessment and decision models for pancreatic cancer therapy,information architectures for electronic publishing, evidence-based practice in surgery, nutrition and bariatric surgery.
 
Soumya Raychaudhuri BA/BS (SUNY Buffalo); PhD (2002)
Current: Resident in Internal Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston
Professional Interests: Applying computational and mathematical paradigms to problems in biology and medicine.
 
John Reed BS, MBA (University of Michigan); MS (1989)
Current: Managing Director, Risk Management Solutions, Inc, Newark CA.
Professional interests: Use modelling techniques to identify and predict trends of disease; design of decision-making tools for critical settings (such as the ICU).
 
Glenn Rennels MD (Dartmouth); PhD (1986)
Current: Chief Technology Officer and senior physician (Anesthesiology), Permanente Medical Group; Consulting assistant professor (Medicine), Stanford University
Professional interests: Computational models of the clinical literature; controlled medical terminology development; clinical databases.
 
Daniel Rubin MD (Stanford); MS (2000) Board Certified Radiology
Current: Research Scientist, Stanford Biomedical Informatics, and Clinical Assistant Professor, Radiology
Professional interests: Linking anatomic, physiologic, and molecular data to understand the properties of tissues in space and time using medical imaging, produce integrated computer representations that can be simulated and visualized, and discover image features that predict molecular events in tissues being imaged. Natural language processing in free text radiology reports to discover new image findings predictive of disease. Developing decision support applications to interpret medical images for biologic, physiologic, and pathologic information and clinical diagnosis.
 
Don Rucker MD (Univ.of Pennsylvania); MBA(1987), MS(1988)
Current: Vice President/Chief Medical Officer, Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Corp.
Professional interests: Using Medical Informatics and AI program design skills to develop clinical software with a focus on managing volumes of clinical data rather than diagnosis. Speech recognition and graphical user interfaces.
 
Geoffrey Rutledge MD and CM (McGill); PhD (1995)Board-Certified in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine
Current: Chief Medical Information Officer, San Mateo Medical Center
Professional interests: Computer-assisted medical decision making, especially computer assisted diagnostic evaluation tools for information and reference management.
 
Gillian Sanders AB (Princeton); PhD (1998)
Current: Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Duke University
Professional interests: Medical decision making and automated development of clinical-practice guidelines from evidence-based decision models.

 

 

Serge Saxonov AB (Harvard); PhD (2006)
Current: Product Manager, 23andME, Mountain View, CA
Professional interests: Bioinformatics: analysis of genomics sequences, analysis of protein structures, analysis of expression data.
Scott Schmidler BA (UC Berkeley) PhD (2002)
Current: Assistant Professor, Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University
Professional Interests: Bioinformatics; methodological research in computational molecular biology and statistical genomics. Development of computational and statistical models for protein sequence, structure, and dynamics.
 

Diane Schroeder BS (Iowa State University); PhD (2008) Current: job search in progress (9/08)

Professional interests: working with protein structure/function prediction.

 
George C. Scott BS (Carnegie Mellon); PhD (2002)
Current: Hospitalist and informatics project leader, St. Mary's Hospital, Grand Junction, CO
Professional interests: Decision support frameworks: issues involved in design and integration with electronic medical record systems and knowledge bases, impact on quality, cost-effectiveness, and delivery of health care, and acceptance in the practice of medicine.
 
Yuval Shahar MD (Hebrew Univ., Israel), MS (Yale); PhD (1994)
Current: Associate Professor, Head, Medical Informatics Research Center Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Professional interests: Medical computer science research. Emphasis on AI techniques, in particular planning and knowledge acquisition, as well as computer- theoretical considerations.
 
Eric Sherman MD (NYU); MS (1990)
Current: Private practice, New York City
Professional interests: Developing and applying decision support tools in the Arden Syntax, vocabulary design and development, and using the medical dictionary to advance decision support.
 
Jing Shi MB (Beijing Medical University); MA (Univ of Maryland); PhD (2007)
Current: Senior Research Scientist: Data Analyst, Sirna Therapeutics, San Francisco
Professional interests: Statistical analysis, nutritional aspects of aging
 
Smadar Shiffman MS (Tel Aviv Univ., Israel); PhD (1999)
Current: Senior Applications Engineer and Staff Imaging Specialist, Agility Design Solutions
Professional interests: Optimal implementation of image analysis algorithms
 
John Shon AB (Harvard); MD (Stanford); MS (2000) Board Certified, American Board of Internal Medicine
Current: Senior Director, Roche, Palo Alto, CA
Professional interests: Production of applications to support genetics, genomics, and clinical research and practice. Biomedical database integration, pharmacogenetics, tissue repositories, gene expression analysis and clinical decision support.
 
Edward H. Shortliffe AB (Harvard, 1970); PhD (1975), MD (1976)
Current: Professor of Basic Medical Sciences and Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine) University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix; Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Arizona State University, Phoenix;
President and CEO Designée (effective July 1, 2009), American Medical Informatics Association, Bethesda, Maryland; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
Professional interests: Clinical decision support, automation of clinical practice guidelines, Internet-supported health-care and information delivery; Federal health information technology policy, informatics in health-science education.
 
Michael Shwe BS (Stanford); MS (1990)
Current: Development Manager, Automation Strategies at Kana Communications
Professional interests: Development of decision-theoretic decision-support tools.
 
Ida Sim MD (Stanford); PhD (1997)
Current: Associate Professor of Medicine; Associate Director for Medical Informatics, Program in Biological and Medical Informatics, UCSF
Professional interests: Knowledge representation of clinical trials; clinical trial registration and reporting, policies and informatics; electronic knowledge-based publication; computing infrastructures for evidence-based decision making; use of electronic medical records in small physician practices.
 
Amit Singh BS (Univ Texas, Austin); PhD (2003)
Current: Co-Founder and CTO, Peribit Networks, Inc.
Professional interests: Computational molecular biology and the analysis of protein sequences and their structure and function.
 
Howard Strasberg MD (University of Western Ontario); MS (2000)
Current: VP Medical Informatics, Wolters Kluwer Health - Clinical Solutions
Professional interests: Infobuttons, clinical decision support, order sets, CME, computable guidelines.
 
Josh Stuart BA/BS (University of Colorado), PhD (2003)
Current:Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
Professional interests: Computational approaches to biological sequence analysis-protein folding, gene identification, RNA folding.
 
Jaap Suermondt BS and MS (Stanford); PhD (1992)
Current: Director, Business Optimization lab, HP Labs
Professional interests: Data mining, machine learning, information services
 
Walter Sujansky AB (Harvard); PhD (1996)
Current: Sujansky & Associates, LLC, San Carlos, CA
Professional interests: Consulting in healthcare informatics and software development.
 

Andres Telez BSC, MS (MIT); PhD (2007)

Current: Fair Isaac Corporation, San Rafael, CA

Professional interests: analytic consulting

 
Jessica D. Tenenbaum BA (Harvard); PhD (2007)
Current: Project Leader for DTMI (Duke's Translational Medicine Institute) Biomedical Informatics Core
and the Duke Translational Research Institute (DTRI) "Omics" Technology Core"
Professional interests:  Knowledge representation and data analysis in the areas of genomics, gene expression, and regulatory pathways
 
George Thomsen MD (Loma Linda); MS (1989)
Current: Private practice Pulmonary Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah

Professional interests: Studies in pulmonary and critical care medicine. Clinical outcomes and protocol-based control of clinical care.

 
Rhea Tombropolous BA (Harvard); PhD (1997)
Current: Software engineer, Stentor, Inc.
Professional interests: Computer modelling of biological processes.
 
Maria Tovar MS in EES (Stanford); MS (1992), PhD (1999)
Current: Computer Graphics Technologist and SW Manager at Apple Computer
Professional interests: Performance analysis of graphics hardware and algorithms, tuning image-processing algorithms for computer-graphics applications.
 
Olga Troyanskaya BS (University of Richmond); PhD (2003)
Current: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Lewis-Singer Institute of Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
Professional interests: Computational analysis of genomes to interpret genomic sequence and to study relationships among sequence, structure, and function. Automated genome annotation. Use of compuatational and biological lab techniques studying genetic diseases.
 
Michael Walker BS (Queen's Univ); PhD (1992)
Current: Consulting biostatistician, Sunnyvale, California
Professional interests: Statistical applications in MIS, molecular biology, and clinical trials.
 
James Ze Wang BS (Univ. Minnesota); MS, MSCS (1997), PhD (2000)
Current: Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State School of Information Sciences and Technology
Professional Interests: Multimedia database and medical database management, indexing and retrieval.
 
Liping Wei BS, China ; MS, Brown University; PhD (1999)
Current: Professor and Director, Center of Bioinformatics, Peking Univ., Beijing
Professional interests: Informatics algorithms, applications, infrastructure, and biological discoveries in sequence analysis, gene expression analysis, and protein structure modeling.
 
Thomas Wu BS, MS (Stanford), MD (Harvard), PhD (MIT)
Current: Senior Scientist, Dept. of Bioinformatics, Genentech
Professional interests: Algorithms for genomic mapping and alignment, gene expression analysis, identification of targets for cancer therapy .
 
Iwei Yeh BA (Harvard); PhD (2006)
Current: Resident in Anesthesiology, University of Washington
Professional interests: The use of bioinformatics to interpret biological data from a medical standpoint. Basic biological research.
Isabelle de Zegher-Geets MD, MS (Belgium); MS (1987)
Current: Chief Data Officer, Development, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
Professional interests: Integration of KBS, hypertext and graphic techniques on top of medical databases. Distributed databases: integration of syntactically and semantically different databases.
Roni Zeiger BS (UC Los Angeles); MD (Stanford); Board Certified Internist; MS (2006)
Current: Product Manager, Google
Professional interests: Clinical decision support and information retrieval, particularly in the context of electronic health records.
Dan Zisook BA (UC Berkeley); MD (Loyola University); MPH (San Diego State Univ); MS (2005)
Current: EPIc Implementation Consultant, Medical Informatics, Healthlink, Inc.
Professional interests: Clinical informatics including decision support, electronic guideline implementation, outcome analysis, and education.

Updated 10/09/2008