Purpose
To coordinate information technology activities among the schools and administrative technology to share technology, applications, tools and techniques; promote common approaches and prioritize needs, and to improve efficiency and reduce costs to UTHealth Houston as appropriate.
Scope
- Administrative systems: systems used to manage, monitor or report on the mission areas of the university and on administration itself;
- Production level systems;
- Systems that represent themselves as systems of record for the university or school;
- Systems that extract data from, or feed data to, other administrative systems as defined here.
Authority
The Administrative Technology Subcommittee derives its authority from the Information Technology Governance Committee.
Co-chairmen
- Mike Tramonte, MBA, CPA
Senior Vice President, Finance and Business Services and Chief Financial Officer
- Amar Yousif, MBA
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Subcommittee
Administration
- Kevin A. Morano, PhD
Senior Vice President, Chief Academic Officer ad interim
- Eric Fernette
Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer
- Connie Wooldridge
Executive Director, Administrative Technology
Optional/By Invitation
- Wes Stewart, MBA, MS, CEFP, FMP, PMP
Vice President, Facilities, Planning and Engineering
- Robert Emery, DrPH, CHP, CIH, CSP, CBSP, CHMM, CPP, ARM
Vice President, Safety, Health, Environment and Risk Management
- Meredith Raine
Assistant Vice President, Public Affairs
- Raymond Gerwitz
Associate Vice President, Deputy Chief Security Officer, UT Police
Schools/HCPC/UTP
Each school should be represented by their associate/assistant dean for management
- Ryan Bien, MHA
UTHealth Houston School of Biomedical Informatics
- Cynthia Bihm, MBA
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health
- Karen Weinberg
MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
- Kevin Burnett
Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston
- Andrew Casas
Chief Operating Office – UT Physicians
- Daniel Doyle
Chief Operating Officer – UTHealth Houston Behavioral Sciences Campus
- Cynthia Huehlefeld
Executive Director, Business Operations – UT Physicians
- Nancy McNiel
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
- Joe Morrow
UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry
Other Attendees
Since the range of applications across UTHealth is so large, it is expected that subject matter experts will regularly be invited to participate in meetings as appropriate to understand and discuss the topics.
Term of Membership
There are no fixed terms. The memberships will be reviewed annually by the Co-Chairmen.
Meetings
The Administrative Technology Subcommittee will meet at least quarterly. Any of the members may call a special meeting at any time. Scheduling the time, date and place of the Subcommittee meetings shall be the responsibility of the Co-Chairmen. The Co-Chairmen shall also be responsible for the minutes, and meeting minutes will be maintained in the Office of the Chief Information Officer.
Charge
The purpose of the Administrative Technology Subcommittee is to coordinate information technology activities among the schools and administrative technology to:
- Share technology, applications, tools and techniques,
- Promote common approaches and
- Prioritize needs to improve efficiency and reduce costs to UTHealth as appropriate.
To accomplish this task it is expected that members will:
- Have the authority to represent the interests of their constituency with consideration for UTHealth as a whole.
- Share information with the subcommittee on current and future capabilities and needs for administrative technology as defined above.
- Seek commonality where possible to promote resource sharing.
- Anticipate future needs to allow time for collaboration.
- Accept that some administrative technology can best serve the needs of UTHealth by being centralized while other administrative technology can best serve the needs of UTHealth by being decentralized.
- Share deliberations of the subcommittee with their constituency.
The Subcommittee will not focus on departmental concerns or day-to-day operations, and the Subcommittee is not a project steering team.
The Subcommittee will help define the strategic direction of administrative technology across all areas of UTHealth Houston. In doing so, it must:
- identify and evaluate opportunities for the application of technology to administrative functions of the university,
- recommend priorities based on the requirements and resources of the UTHealth Houston and
- recommend the allocation of resources in accordance with university priorities.
The Subcommittee may also review and adopt policies for the application of administrative information technology on an institution-wide basis.
Date modified: 03/06/2023
