Michael Blum, MD
Associate Clinical Professor
michael.blum@ucsfmedctr.org

Karen Butter, MS
University Librarian and Assistant Vice Chancellor, Library Services and Instructional Technology
karen.butter@library.ucsf.edu
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Design and prototype systems that optimize the way in which knowledge is captured, retrieved and displayed; Prototype and evaluate collaborative technologies for education and research.

Maurice Cohen, PhD
Professor of Radiology
mcohen@fresno.ucsf.edu

Complex analysis of biosignals, medical decision support systems, neural network modeling of biological data, and intelligent agent diagnostic systems.

Russ Cucina, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Hospital Medicine, Associate Medical Director of IT, UCSF Medical Center
rcucina@medicine.ucsf.edu

Clinical human-computer interaction science, decision support systems, automated clinical inference, knowledge management, health information technology public policy, and the sociotechnical and leadership challenges in clinical information technology.

Laura Esserman, MD
Professor of Surgery and Radiology
laura.esserman@ucsfmedctr.org

Developing and evaluating a point-of-care clinical information system to allow entry of structured data during patient visits; establishing telemammography networks

Donna Hudson, MS, PhD
Professor, Family and Community Medicine, Director, Academic Research and Technology, UCSF Fresno
dhudson@fresno.ucsf.edu

Informatics techniques for healthcare delivery, including medical decision support models for diagnosis and prognosis, analysis of long-term trends in electronic medical records, and complex analysis applied to medical data. Techniques include symbolic reasoning paradigms, neural network models, intelligent agents, consequential reasoning, and signal analysis methods.

C. Anthony Hunt, PhD
Professor of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
a.hunt@ucsf.edu
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Development and use of computational systems biology methods to gain deeper insights into complex biological systems, and to more effectively translate the results of laboratory based, wet-lab research into improved, individualized treatments.

James Kahn
Professor of Clinical Medicine
jkahn@php.ucsf.edu

Integrating HIV Resistance Data into the CNICS Cohort (CNICS)

Helene Lipton, PhD
Professor of Health Policy and Pharmacy
liptonh@pharmacy.ucsf.edu

Social, behavioral, and practical aspects of client-provider transactions, increasing efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and outcomes quality using emerging informatics technologies.

Geoffrey Manley, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Surgery, Chief of Neurotrauma, San Francisco General Hospital
manleyg@neurosurg.ucsf.edu

Specialty interests lie in the repair of injury to the central nervous system. Among Dr. Manley's research interests are investigations of brain oxygenation during hemorrhagic shock, the role of aquaporin water channels in cerebral water transport, direct measurement of oxygenation and metabolic, cellular, and molecular responses in clinically relevant animal models of brain injury, and metabolic monitoring of severely injured patients during resuscitation and critical care.

Robert Miller, PhD
Professor in Residence
robert.miller@ucsf.edu

Economic, organizational, and health policy issues affecting health information technology (HIT) use, with a focus on electronic health records (EHRs), chronic disease management systems, and regional health information organizations (RHIOs).

Jonathan Showstack, PhD, MPH
Assistant Vice Chancellor and Co-Chief Information Officer, Office of Academic and Administrative Information Systems.
jon.showstack@ucsf.edu
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Cost of illness and cost-effectiveness, organizational change, health professions education, evidence-based medicine, health care delivery systems.

Ida Sim, MD, PhD, FACMI
Associate Professor of Medicine, Director Center for Clinical and Translational Informatics
ida.sim@ucsf.edu
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Clinical trial knowledge systems, ontologies, decision support systems, new forms of scientific publication, informatics for quality improvement, methods for evidence-based medicine, global trial registration and reporting policy.

Jeremy Durack, MD, MS
Assistant Professor ofClinical Radiology
Advisors: Kathy Andriole and Parvati Dev
Year Graduated and Degree: 2002, MD/MS
Current Affiliation: University of California, San Francisco
Conduct research in clinical interventional radiology and biomedical informatics. Interested indeveloping new medical training applications from radiographic imaging studies. Clinical interests include interventional oncology and medical device development.

Martha Michel, Ph.D
Research Health Science Specialist
Advisor: Lisa Bero
Year Graduated and Degree: 2005, Ph.D
Current Affiliation: VA Palo Alto
Research focus is to create guideline-based decision support systems using the ATHENA DSS for different conditions, such as hypertension and diabetes.

Marco Sorani, Ph.D
Advisors: Kathy Giacomini and Geoff Manley
Year Graduated and Degree: 2007, PhD
Current Affiliation: Immunology Diagnostics Department, Genetech
Involved in biomarker discovery for auto-immune and neurodegenerative diseases, which include setting up research collaborations, developing technical infrastructure, and analyzing clinical, genomic, gene expression, and protein data from human traits.

Wyatt Tellis, Ph.D
Project Leader
Advisors: Katherine P. Andriole
Year Graduated and Degree: 2004, PhD
Current Affiliation: University of California, San Francisco
Involvement in the creation of a caBIG compatible, imaging centric research management system for the UCSF Department of Radiology.