National Center for Cognitive Informatics & Decision Making

Personnel

• NCCD

• Director

• Jiajie Zhang, PhD

• Associate Director

• Muhammad Walji, PhD

• Faculty

  • Professors
    • Brent King, MD
    • Hongbin Wang, PhD
  • Associate Professors
    • Bela Patel, MD, DABSM, FCCP - Associate Professor, Division Director of Critical Care Medicine
    • David Robinson, MD
    • Dean Sittig, PhD
    • James Turley, PhD, RN
    • Muhammad Walji, PhD - Associate Professor of Diagnostic Sciences, Dental Branch
  • Assistant Professors
    • Khalid F. Almoosa, MD, MS - Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
    • Trevor Cohen, MBChB, PhD
    • Amy Franklin, PhD
    • Kevin Hwang, MD, MPH - Assistant Professor of Medicine
    • John Joe, MD MPH - Adjunct Assistant Professor

• Post Docs

• Erel Joffe, MD, MSc
• Peter Killoran, MD
• Velma Payne, PhD, MBA, MS, MS
• Min Zhu, BCM, PhD

• PhD Students

• Dinesh Gottipati
• Zhe (Eric) Li
• Claire Loe
• Eliz Markowitz
• Sahiti Myneni, MSE
• Vickie Nguyen, MA, MS
• Ning Shang
• Zhen (June) Zhang, MD

• MS Students

• Ying Liu
• Ram Vedam

• Collaborating Members

• Keith Butler, PhD
• Kim Dunn, MD, PhD (UTHealth)
• Robert Greenes, MD, PhD, Arizona State University
• Mark Hasselkorn, PhD
• Todd Johnson, PhD
• Elsbeth Kalenderian, DDS
• Nnaemeka Okafor, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, UTHealth
• Rachel Ramoni, DDS, PhD
• Roger Schvaneveldt, Professor, Applied Psychology, ASU
• Ben Shneiderman, PhD
• Hardeep Singh, MD

• SHARPC

• Leadership

• Jiajie Zhang, PhD Principal Investigator UTHealth
• Muhammad Walji, PhD Associate Director and Co-Investigator UT Health
• Jack W. Smith, MD, PhD Chair of Project Advisory Committee Dean and Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics, UTHealth
• Cheryl Chinen, Executive Operations Director UTHealth

• Project Advisory Committee

  • Sameer Bhat Project Advisory Committee, Vendor Co-Founder, Vice President, eClinicalWorks
  • Ralph Farr Project Advisory Committee, Hospitals/Providers Vice President for Information Services, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
  • Douglas Fridsma, MD, PhD Project Advisory Committee, ONC Liaison Director, Office of Standards and Interoperability, ONC
  • James Ingram, MD Project Advisory Committee, Vendor Chief Medical Officer, Greenway Medical Technologies
  • John Joe, MD, MPH Project Advisory Committee, Professional Associations President, Harris County Academy of Family Physicians; Baylor College of Medicine
  • David McCallie, Jr., MD Project Advisory Committee, Vendor Vice President for Medical Informatics, Director of the Cerner Medical Informatics Institute, Cerner Corporation
  • W. Paul Nichol, MD Project Advisory Committee, Vendor National Director of Medical Informatics, Patient Care Services, Veterans Health Administration (listed under Vendors for VA’s development effort)
  • Donald A. Norman, PhD Project Advisory Committee Visiting Distinguished Professor, KAIST (Daejeon, South Korea), Nielsen Norman Group
  • Thomas Payne, MD Project Advisory Committee Medical Director, Information Technology Services, University of Washington Medical Center
  • Tobias C. Samo, MD, FACP Project Advisory Committee, Vendor Chief Medical Officer, Allscripts
  • Michael Shabot, MD Project Advisory Committee, Hospitals/Providers Senior Vice President & System Chief Medical Officer, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
  • Jack W. Smith, MD, PhD Project Advisory Committee, Chair Dean and Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics, UTHealth
  • Michael Speer, MD Project Advisory Committee, Professional Associations Representative for Texas Medical Association, Baylor College of Medicine
  • James Spohrer, PhD Project Advisory Committee, Vendor Director, IBM Almaden Services Research
  • Laura Batz Townsend Project Advisory Committee, Patient Groups Founder & Director, Lousie H. Batz Hospital Awareness Fund
  • Charlotte Weaver, RN, PhD Project Advisory Committee, Hospitals/Providers Senior Vice President & Chief Clinical Officer, Gentiva Health Services
  • Patricia B. Wise, RN, MS, MS, FHISS Project Advisory Committee, Professional Associations Vice President, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
  • David Woods, PhD, MS Project Advisory Committee 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
  • Wil Yu Project Advisory Committee, ONC Liaison Program Manager, ONC

• Key Personnel

• Khalid Almoosa, MD UTHealth
• Joan S. Ash, Ph.D., M.L.S., M.S., 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 UTHealth
• 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 Project Advisory Committee, Professional Associations President, Harris County Academy of Family Physicians; Baylor College of Medicine
• Todd Johnson, PhD University of Kentucky
• David Kieras, PhD University of Michigan
• Brent King, MD UTHealth
• 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 Project Advisory Committee 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 Project Advisory Committee, Hospitals/Providers Senior Vice President & System Chief Medical Officer, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
• Ben Shneiderman, PhD, MS, PhD 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
• James Turley, PhD, RN UTHealth
• Hongbin Wang, PhD, MS UTHealth
• David Woods, PhD, MS Project Advisory Committee 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
• Adam Wright, PhD Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Yan Xiao, PhD, MS Baylor Health Care System