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Team Members

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

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Martin Citardi, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Memorial Hermann Chair
Vice Dean of Clinical Technology
McGovern Medical School
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Babatope Fatuyi
Chief Medical Information Officer, UTHealth Houston
Adjunct Professor, Clinical and Health Informatics
McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics
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Kevin Dillon, MBA, CPA
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, UTHealth Houston
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Kristi Bradley
Vice President and Chief Revenue Cycle Officer, UTHealth Houston
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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
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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
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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
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Amar Yousif, MBA
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, UTHealth Houston
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Bentley J. Bobrow, MD, FACEP
Vice President of Healthcare Innovation

Faculty

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

Clinical Builders

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

Clinical Administration

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

Staff

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

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