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With the combined strength of UTHealth Houston's seven schools, two hospitals, and multiple clinical practices, the Center for Digital Healthcare Innovation is on the forefront of clinical technology. Goals will focus on charge capture, patient access, documentation enhancements, clinic workflow optimization, revenue cycle efficiency, and end user experience. The center will also invest in our faculty and staff to promote continuing education in the digital space.

Center for Digital Healthcare Innovation Vision Statement

Sustenance of an end-to-end, integrated, patient-centric EHR for support of care delivery, education, and research.

Steering Committee

 Martin Citardi
MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery|Memorial Hermann Chair|Vice Dean of Clinical Technology|McGovern Medical School
 Babatope Fatuyi
Chief Medical Information Officer, UTHealth Houston|Adjunct Professor, Clinical and Health Informatics|McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics
 Kevin Dillon
MBA, CPA
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, UTHealth Houston
 Kristi Bradley
Vice President and Chief Revenue Cycle Officer, UTHealth Houston
 Xiaoqian Jiang
PhD
Associate Vice President for Medical AI|Christopher Sarofim Professor|CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research|Center Director of Secure Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare (SAFE)| McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics
 Bela Patel
MD
Professor and Director of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine|Vice Dean, Healthcare Quality|Graham Distinguished University Chair|McGovern Medical School
 Jair Soares
MD, PhD
Vice President, Behavioral Sciences, UTHealth Houston|Executive Director, UTHealth Houston Behavioral Sciences Campus|Professor and Chair, Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences|Pat R. Rutherford Jr. Chair|McGovern Medical School
 Amar Yousif
MBA
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, UTHealth Houston
 Bentley Bobrow
MD, FACEP
Vice President of Healthcare Innovation

Faculty

 Olasunkanmi Adeyinka
MD
Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, McGovern Medical School|Chief Medical Information Officer, UT Physicians
 Julie Bortolotti
MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine|Medical Director, UTP Bayshore Family Practice
 Sarah Cavenaugh
MD
Assistant Professor, Community and General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics|McGovern Medical School
 Jeremy Hill
DO
Fellow, Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School|Fellow, Clinical Informatics, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics
 Kevin Hwang
MD, MPH
Professor, General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine|McGovern Medical School
 Kimberly Monday
MD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology|McGovern Medical School
 Bobby Nix
MD
Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, Louis A. Faillace, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences|McGovern Medical School
 Michelle Scerbo
MD, MS, FACS
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery|McGovern Medical School
 Reiri Sono
MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine|McGovern Medical School
 Susan Spence
MD
Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging|McGovern Medical School

Clinical Builders

 Nancy Nguyen-Vu
DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, RN-BC, CPN
Family Nurse Practitioner, UT Physicians Bayshore Family Practice
 Joe Spooner
PA
Family Medicine, UT Physicians Community-Based Clinics
 Andrea Taylor
PhD
Psychiatry, UT Physicians

Clinical Administration

 Yen-Chi Le
PhD
Executive Director, Innovation & Quality|Quality Council
 Rahil Tai
MD, MBA
Director, Quality & Performance Improvement|Clinical Informatics and Technology, Neurosciences & Visual Sciences

Staff

 Kristen Bachman
PMP
Manager, Enterprise IT Project Manager
 Krystal Goff
PMP
Enterprise IT Project Manager
 Abayomi Adegunlehin
MS
AI/ML Programmer
 Namees Albayati
Programmer Analyst III
 Omer Anjum
PhD
Assistant Professor
 Elliot Herring
MS
AI/ML Programmer
 Tracy Asibu
MS
Graduate Scientific Programmer
 Mario Laiseca-Ruiz
Graduate Scientific Programmer
 Hernan Razo
MS
AI/ML Programmer
 Alexander Cantrell
MS
AI/ML Programmer
 Dennis Batiste
MBA
Enterprise IT Project Manager
 Bridget Olaniyi
DHA, PMP
Enterprise IT Project Manager
 Carlos Jaimes Garcia
AI/ML Programmer
 Yuning Xie
MCS
AI/ML Programmer
 Jingyi Qi
MS
Scientific Programmer
 Neha Koottumakkal Mohanan
MTech
Scientific Programmer