Past Trainees
2008-2009
Jean-Paul Chretien, MD, PhD
Email:
jpchretien@gmail.com
Jean-Paul coordinated the international programs of the Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DOD-GEIS) from 2004-2008 and is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He graduated from the US Naval Academy (BS, Political Science; Truman Scholar) and remains on active duty in the Navy, received an MD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and PhD (Epidemiology) and MHS (Biostatistics) from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and completed an Internal Medicine internship at the National Naval Medical Center. His research and programmatic experience have focused on climate-based early warning systems for public health emergencies and public health surveillance systems, and he serves on the scientific program committees for the annual conferences of the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and the International Society for Disease Surveillance. Jean-Paul received the Defense Meritorious Service Medal for his work at DOD-GEIS and is a term member in the Council on Foreign Relations.
Jean-Paul and his wife Katherine (a medical school classmate) have 2 children. He enjoys running and cooking with fire.
2007-2009
Jacob Aaronson, DO, MAJ, MC
Email: jaarons3@jhmi.edu
Dr. Jacob Aaronson graduated from NOVA Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1999 and completed his residency in Family Medicine at University of Texas Southwestern, Parkland where he was chief resident in 1999. He is board certified in Family Medicine. Upon completion of his residency Dr. Aaronson resumed active duty in the United States Army, stationed at Fort Belvoir Virginia where he served as a staff physician for three years, full time Family Medicine residency faculty for one year – receiving the Family Medicine faculty of the year award, and one year as chief of clinical informatics. Next assigned to the Office of the AMEDD Surgeon General, he served as the principal clinical and functional advisor to the CIO as the lead for clinical systems integration and requirements during the world-wide deployment and sustainment of AHLTA, the DoD global electronic health record. He was awarded the Mercury Award for recognition as the AMEDD IM/IT Officer of the year in 2006. He has gained significant experience in systems integration, functional requirements definition and iterative development a global EHR, and process automation. His areas of interest include service oriented architecture approach to managing distributed systems and databases, EHR optimization to improve point of care data visualization, decision support tools and clinical workflow, automation of clinical practice guidelines, applying the principals of informatics to understand and fully automate processes that potentially span multiple systems and domains, and improving the gap between clinical practice and public health needs for useful, accurate and timely data. He has continued to maintain a clinical practice and lives locally with his wife and children.
Olayinka Ajayi, MBBS, MMed, MPH
Email: oajayi1@jhmi.edu
Dr. Olayinka Ajayi completed his basic medical training at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and also earned a Master of Medicine degree from the National University of Singapore in General Public Health with a focus on the Evaluation of Malaria Control Programs. He has significant experience in Primary Health Care, Occupational Health, and OBGYN in Nigeria and in Vanuatu, S.W. Pacific. In the United States, he worked extensively with community mental health agencies at the intersection of health administration, public mental health, and information systems.
Dr. Ajayi is passionate about sustainable initiatives in low resource settings. During his Nigerian National Youth Service, he successfully managed various health projects that mobilized community leaders and stakeholders to utilize local resources and manpower in solving their health problems, for which he received a State Honorary Award for outstanding performance and meritorious services. He held various leadership positions in Vanuatu including Directorship of Vila Central Hospital which is the country’s main tertiary hospital, and worked with donor agencies, missions and NGOs to setup sustainable competency/technology transfer projects such as the Vanuatu Ear Nose and Throat (VENT) program.
To further his career goals, he completed the Hopkins Tropical Medicine Certificate in 2005, and recently, the Hopkins MPH degree. As part of his response to challenges in sharing health information, he has acquired LAN and WAN networking competences including MCSE and CCNA certifications. Also, he is about to complete a Master of Science in Information Assurance at the Capitol College, Laurel, Maryland which is a National Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Education. He has a strong commitment to International Health, and Maternal and Child Health. His informatics research interests are Infectious Diseases Surveillance; Emergency Preparedness Response and Recovery, particularly Disaster Mental Health; and Clinical-Public Health Information Exchange and Integration.
Robert Borotkanics, MPH
Email: rborotk@jhsph.edu
Robert J. Borotkanics is a doctoral student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is also a Health Sciences Informatics Research Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He received his MPH from Johns Hopkins in 2006.
Robert’s research to date has focused on the use of inpatient administrative data to derive information on severe lead poisoning in the United States, which he has given numerous presentations on. His interests are to expand this work by better using existing risk, exposure and health systems data to better characterize the epidemiology of select neurotoxins. Present environmental health surveillance programs lack a consistent and systematic framework to coordinate health effects, exposure, risk and geographic information in a reliable, repeatable manner. The intent is to improve environmental health surveillance capabilities by better coordinating and systematizing existing systems where possible.
Professionally, Robert has worked in numerous professional capacities over the past 17 years, including health services research and chemical-biological defense. Robert is a former US Marine.
Recreationally, he is an avid outdoors person. Robert enjoys the mountains: climbing skiing and biking. Robert works intermittently with numerous federal agencies and related stakeholder groups to better balance recreational use of lands with the need to protect natural resources and historical assets.
Octavis Lampkin
Email: olampki1@jhmi.edu
Octavis received her MA from George Washington University in Health Services Administration and her BA from Tougaloo College where her major was Psychology. In her position as the Assistant Director of Information Technology for the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC), her goal was to bring seamless system integration and support the clinical staff in identifying their needs to improve healthcare instead of forcing another complicated technology on her staff. Her most significant accomplishment was the Single Sign On (SSO) project which was designed to meet two of the common deficiencies identified in a survey given to the clinical staff at the (NNMC).
Following this training program, Octavis will be a full-time DrPh student in Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Melonie Nance
Email: mnance4@jhmi.edu
Melonie recently finished her residency in Otolaryngology at University of Pittsburgh. She comes to the DHSI at the same time as starting a fellowship in Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery here at Hopkins. During residency she became interested in informatics while investigating the electronic health record and its role in medical error. She was also involved in the development of data visualization software for clinical cancer outcomes. Melonie is excited to learn more about informatics in a a formal way through the DHSI program. She is interested in continuing to optimize cancer treament through better management and analysis of cancer information with data visualization and other methodologies.
Paula Soper, MPH
Email: psoper1@jhmi.edu
Paula Soper received her MPH from the George Washington University in Maternal and Child Health and a Biology and Human Relations from Trinity College. Paula joined the National Association of County and City Health Officials in January 2005, where she serves as the Senior Analyst for Public Health Informatics. Paula is focused primarily on ensuring public health involvement in national health information technology efforts. She serves as a Senior Advisor to the American Health Information Community’s (AHIC) Population Health and Clinical Connections Workgroup. Paula is also involved in research to identify model practices for public health involvement with Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) and Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), and evaluation programs concerning biosurveillance systems.
Prior to joining NACCHO, Paula was the Senior Manager of the Health Consulting Group at Scientific Technologies Corporation (STC), a technology firm specializing in public health informatics. While at STC, she managed projects ranging from local community health assessments to statewide planning for disease surveillance systems and immunization registries. She was responsible for monitoring policies and standards issues such as the National Health Information Network initiative and the Public Health Information Network. Prior to joining STC Paula also worked as an epidemiologist and Director of the statewide immunization registry for Maryland, and served as the founding President of the American Immunization Registry Association.
2006-2008
Patricia Abbott, PhD
525 North Wolfe Street, Room 432
Phone: 410-502-5402
Email: pabbott2@son.jhmi.edu
Dr. Patricia Abbott is Associate Professor and the Co-Director of the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing Knowledge, Information Management and Sharing at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Abbott is a member of the Board of Directors for the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and also serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). Patricia is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Abbott’s primary area of research is in connectionist machine learning techniques/data mining. Additionally, Dr. Abbott serves as the Secretariat for the Global Alliance of Nurses and Midwives Communities of Practice effort; a WHO initiative to address the crisis in the global health workforce.
Katherine Ball, MD, MS
Email: kball6@jhmi.edu
Dr. Katherine L. Ball attended the Six-Year combined BA/MD program at Lehigh University, earning a BA in Medical Sciences and an MD from The Medical College of Pennsylvania. She performed her residency in the combined five-year EM/IM program at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh where she served as Chief Resident, and is board-certified by the ABEM and ABIM. She has held positions of progressive clinical and administrative responsibility in clinical medicine on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast and then on Maryland’s Eastern Shore for more than ten years. She has significant experience in collaborative healthcare information initiatives, working with her medical centers’ senior executive teams and IT personnel in capacity planning, quality assurance, and performance improvement measures. Regional facility Informatics projects she has participated in have included expert clinical liaison support for Emergency Department Patient Tracking Systems, EMR and CPOE, clinical content development and QA, corporate compliance policy development, quality metric query, and disaster planning for newly developed health IT applications. She is also CEO of a Maryland company she founded providing applied informatics consulting to national medical organizations in process redesign, implementation and training for EMR and integrated applications to improve health care delivery in hospital and outpatient clinical settings. Her areas of interest include informatics initiatives that facilitate data-driven redesign of clinical processes and workflow, process improvements to advance healthcare quality, affordability and accessibility, and support clinical operations and efficient practice management. She plans to enhance her informatics knowledge as well as research skills, looking towards future cross-disciplinary roles in healthcare IT in the governmental, academic and private sectors. She resides on the Maryland section of the Delmarva Peninsula with her family.Dr. Ball currently serves as Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) for Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, MD.
Gregary Butchy, DO, MS
Email: gbutchy2@jhmi.edu
Greg completed his undergraduate education at Carnegie Mellon University where he earned a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Psychology. During his undergraduate years he developed interests in cognitive psychology and human-computer interaction. At the time of his graduation, he earned a commission as a Communications Computer Systems Officer in the United States Air Force. He served as the Executive Officer of a Communications Flight in the New Jersey National Guard for eight years. Concomitantly, he accepted a position in the Information Technology division of an investment bank where he worked as an Associate Programmer Analyst before his interest in a humanitarian career lead him to pursue medical education. Over the next year, he completed his pre-medical coursework at the University of Pittsburgh and then started an information technology consulting business. He chose to attend the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - School of Osteopathic Medicine for his medical education and earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. In medical school, Greg's interest in medical informatics deepened, and although his first thought was to make a career in family medicine, his excitement at the possibility of uniting his two domains of knowledge drew him to the Health Sciences Informatics program at Johns Hopkins career in family medicine, his excitement at the possibility of uniting his two domains of knowledge drew him to the Health Sciences Informatics program at Johns Hopkins.
Greg found DHSI to be an excellent interdisciplinary learning environment. While establishing the requisite broad foundation of informatics knowledge, he developed specific skills in decision modeling, health economic evaluation, and data analysis. He earned his Master of Science in Health Sciences Informatics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with a thesis entitled "Decision and Cost-Effectiveness Analyses to Determine the Performance Requirements for a Potential Diagnostic Decision Support System." In addition, he earned Certificates from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in both Health Finance and Management and Public Health Economics. After completing his fellowship with DHSI, Greg joined the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School where he is completing his post-graduate medical education..
Naima Carter-Monroe, MD
Email: ncarte13@jhmi.edu
Dr. Naima Carter-Monroe, native Baltimorean, recieved her BSE in chemical engineering from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and her MD from the Howard University College of Medicine. As of June 2006, she has completed her residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the University of Maryland Medical Center. During her residency and tenure as Chief Resident, Dr. Carter-Monroe has developed interests including the improvement and implementation of telepathology as an adjuvant to standard Pathology practice, improvement of Anatomic Pathology workflow through optimization of LIS infrastructure and its integration into day to day Pathology practices, and training residents in Pathology Informatics. She is currently completing a Cardiovascular Fellowship at CVPath Institute Inc,in Gaithersburg, MD, and will then take up a position as a Cardiovascular Pathologist.
Yakubu Owolabi, DVM
Email: yowolab1@jhmi.edu
Dr. Owolabi received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 1994. He practiced as a public health Veterinarian for some years prior to coming to the United States. Recognizing the need for better and effective management of public health information and data using Information Technology tools, he enrolled and obtained a Bachelors degree in Information Technology from DeVry University and has been working in same field since. The fellowship program provides the opportunity to leverage the skills set in Public Health Informatics.
His research interest is in public health information systems development life cycle and evaluation.
Paulina Sockolow, MBA
Email: psockol2@jhmi.edu
Paulina Sockolow earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Pennsylvania, where she combined an M.B.A. in Health Care Systems and Decision Sciences from The Wharton School with Masters of Science in Engineering coursework at Penn's Engineering School. She has been responsible for information system design and implementation in over a dozen hospital information system implementations in her 20 years of direct line experience in a variety of health care settings. For the past three years she has developed and taught informatics courses for graduate students in the Health Informatics Minor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She is also a member of the Rand/Harford Interdisciplinary Geriatric Research Center and the Transitions In Health Interest Group. As a Robert Wood Johnson Public Health Informatics fellow, Paulina's area of interest is health services research and health IT, specifically assessing the impact on health outcomes of patient access to their electronic health record for patients with specific chronic conditions. She plans to integrate informatics post doctoral study in the Division of Health Sciences Informatics with study towards a DrPH in Health Policy and Management in the School of Public Health.
2005-2007
Guy Amir, MD, MPH
Dr. Guy J. Amir is a graduate of FMSFI (Fatima College of Medicine), University of Southern California, and Nova Southeastern University. His interests include Bioimaging Informatics, AIM (Artificial Intelligence in Medicine), and related engineering topics. He was born in Petach-Tikva, Israel, and went to high school in Kfar-Saba. His hobbies include languages, Korean and Japanese martial arts, and skiing.
Prudence Dalrymple, PhD, MS
Prudence Dalrymple received her Ph.D. in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where her research focused on a cognitive model of electronic database searching. She has been on the faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana –Champaign, and was dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University from 1997-2005. She also directed the Office for Accreditation at the American Library Association form 1992-1997 and has practiced as a health sciences librarian in both clinical and academic settings.
Her informatics activities include appointment to the Biomedical Library Review Committee, (now the Biomedical Library and Informatics Committee) a study section at the National Library of Medicine from 1998-2002, and to advisory boards of several grant projects. In addition to her professional activities, she has served on several editorial boards. A list of publications is available.
Her research focus for the Health Informatics Fellowship is the dissemination of research evidence for improving clinical practice.
Dwayne Grant, MS
Dwayne Grant has more than 10 years of health care experience, which spans both private and public sectors. He has always focused his efforts on using technology to improve patient care delivery. Mr. Grant desires to gain a better understanding of how to improve patient safety through the use of Personal Health Records and Clinical Based-Systems. Dwayne Grant holds a Bachelor's of Art in Health Science and Policy and Master's Degree in Management Information System.
Sule L. Mohammed, DVM, MS
Sule Mohammed graduated in 1985 with the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. In Nigeria, he practiced as a public health veterinarian initially, and later as a veterinary clinician specializing in canine practice. He rose to the rank of Director of Veterinary Services in a private practice. He immigrated to the United States in late 1999 and lived in Columbus, OH before moving to Baltimore for the fellowship program. While in Columbus, he obtained the BS degree in Information Technology from DeVry University in 2003. He is also an Oracle 9i Certified DBA. He worked at the department of Pharmacy, OSU Medical Center as a senior technician and recently as a faculty at the Columbus State Community College.
He is in the public health track of the health sciences informatics program. Researchinterest includes information needs of zoonoses, and public health data management including data mining.
Patricia Swartz, MPH, MS
Patricia Swartz originally came from Singapore to complete her Bachelor of Science in Biology and Medical Technology at Pacific Union College in northern California. She then went on to do a Medical Technology internship at Florida Hospital in Orlando, thereafter moving to Michigan where she worked as a Medical Technologist for eight years before completing her Master of Public Health at the University of Michigan. Before her matriculation with DHSI, she spent three years at the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as an epidemiologist in Communicable Disease Surveillance and in Public Health Preparedness and Response. Her interest in public health informatics stems from a desire to help improve and strengthen the nation’s public health information infrastructure with the contribution of informatics to state and local public health agencies.She currently serves as Public Health Informationist for the Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene in Baltimore.
Suji Xie
Graduated from Shanghai Medical University in China with a Master of Medicine in Immunology in1993. And received her Master of Science in Information Science and Technology from Johns Hopkins School of Engineering in 2002. She has worked as a laboratory researcher for more then a decade in the areas of drug development and drug discovery, including 8 years working in Division of Clinical Pharmacology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
2004-2006
Nkossi Dambita, MS, MPH, MD
Research Assoiciate, Division of Health Sciences Informatics
Nkossi Dambita is a public health physician import from the Central African Republic who received epidemiology training at SUNY at Buffalo (MS) and Tulane University (MPH). He achieved senior level positions at both the local and state health agencies in Maryland: Director of the Office of Grants Research Surveillance and Evaluation, concurrently with the title of HIPAA Officer and Chairman of the IRB at the Baltimore City Health Department; and Chief of the Division of Seroepidemiology in the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He has successfully managed major public health projects, including the serological surveillance of HIV in Maryland and bioterrorism in Baltimore. His informatics calling came while he was designing the multi-facetted “Baltimore Bioterrorism Surveillance System”, a syndromic surveillance system, augmented with multiple other innovative indicators to provide early warnings. He became acutely aware of the need for decision support systems (DSS) to promote better decision making and policy formulation in Public Health. His current research activity involves the study of diffusion of synchronous mobile communication technology in the clinical space of Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is a passionate advocate of knowledge management systems as a means of delivering knowledge at the point of need.
Jonathan Gold, MHA, MD
drjgold@yahoo.com
During his Fellowship Dr. Gold focused on the development of a consumer oriented electronic health record banking system, the practical needs of the health care provider, and the considered goals of a comprehensive health care strategy.
Background: Summary--Pediatrician with a combination of training and experience in medical informatics, medical quality assurance, and primary care practice.
In 1990 Dr. Gold completed an MD from Ben-Gurion University (Beer Sheva, ISRAEL). Over the next number of years he certified as a pediatrician and also worked in the hospital's quality assurance unit. Upon completion, he worked for Maccabi Health Services (the second largest Israeli HMO) in a dual capacity-both as a primary care pediatrician in the Mitzpe Ramon clinic and as the director of the Medical Quality Assurance Unit for Maccabi's Negev region. (The Negev region includes the southern one-third of Israel; the Negev region has 150,000 members.) His responsibilities for this unit varied and included: (1) directing focused programs (e.g., adult diabetes follow-up, cardiac disease screening, pediatric asthma patient education, winter influenza vaccines for targeted audiences, smoking cessation); (2) risk management for the region; (3) monitoring physician quality indicators in the region (e.g., diabetic patient management, appropriate drug and imaging usage); and (4) serving on the HMO's national Advisory Committee for Pediatric Quality Indicators and Maccabi's Clinical Practice Guideline Committee. In 2002, he completed a Master of Health Administration. Dr Gold is currently working as a consultant for Champions in Healthcare (http://www.championsinhealthcare.com/about).
Sonia Klemperer-Johnson, MPH, MS
Sonia has both a masters in public health and a master’s degree in information management and systems. Her goal for his fellowship is to research how informatics can be used in public health. Having spent 2 years in West Africa with the Peace Corps, she is especially interested in public health informatics in developing countries. Lately she has also become interested in architecture, and one of her current projects is to make recommendations for learning technology in a new medical education building for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. This project is giving her the opportunity to see how architects assess requirements for a new building. Her major research is in developing a decision model for choosing the ideal formula for oral rehydration solution, the standard treatment for diarrhea around the world.
Subsequently she was Senior Analyst at Kaiser Permanente, in the Management Information and Analysis Department. Previous experience includes Peace Corps work in West Africa.
Laurent Laor, BA
Laurent received his BA in Computer Science from New York University. Subsequently he consulted for New York Presbyterian Hospital. His most recent position was Chief Technology Officer for the Department of Urology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Other work includes technology and management consulting for small and mid-size companies. Laurent has worked for a number of medical device manufacturers and helped develop an artificial vision system for the blind at The Dobelle Institute. His primary research interest is in the cognitive burden of record sets in Electronic Healthcare Records.
Mary White, MS
Graduate Student
2024 East Monument St., room 1-207
Phone: 443-287-2665 mwhite43@jhmi.edu
Received her BA with Distinction in Psychology in 2001, and MS in Library Science in 2004 from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Was teaching assistant for a health informatics course and graduate assistant with the Get Kids in Action project. Has worked with libraries in South Africa and Honduras with the World Library Partnership.
Strong interest in health promotion and disease prevention. Her current research is the DISCO project, which involves physical activity promotion through video games with youth in east Baltimore.
2003-2005
Ed Bunker, MPH
Graduate Student
ebunker1@jhmi.edu
After receiving his BS in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1987, Ed worked for 5 years in a clinical research laboratory of NIDA creating systems for data capture and analysis. Since earning his MPH from Hopkins in 1994, he has worked as a freelance-programming consultant and as an epidemiologist with the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. From 1997 to 2002, Ed was the Program Coordinator -- and then an Instructor -- with the MPH Program at Hopkins. Ed's areas of interest are information visualization, decision support for public health practice, and data capture for behavioral and qualitative research.
Cupid Gascon, MD, MBA
Post-doc Fellow
cupid@jhmi.edu
Dr. Gascon graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Medicine and completed an Emergency Medicine Residency program sponsored by the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Soon after, he volunteered to practice in a medically underserved area in Upstate New York where he tended to the healthcare needs of a rural community. During this time, he realized the relevance of optimal business practice in a healthcare organization and the need for medical informatics in the community and rural healthcare settings. Prompted by this, he finished his MBA with a concentration in management information systems at Binghamton University (SUNY) and served in leadership and strategic planning positions at his community hospital and various EMS organizations where he advocated for systems improvements, patient safety and information technology adoption. His interests include the organizational issues of technology acquisition and implementation, change management, knowledge management and the strategic use of medical logic modules (MLM). He is currently involved with MLM development of the Provider Order Entry implementation project at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Paul Law, MD MPH
Post-doc Fellow
plaw@jhmi.edu
Paul Law is a pediatrician who became interested in the informatics of research in autismpartly because of his son's mild autism. He developed a system that is currently being used bynumerous researcherscalled the Internet System for Assessing Autistic Children (ISAAC, www.autismtools.org ). This system allows researchers tomanage, and share clinical research data. In addition to his contributions in autism, Dr. Law has had a life long commitmentto international public health. He was faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in the Department of InternationalHealth from 2000 until 2003. During this timehe worked with a large pediatric hospital inBangladesh to organize and utilize clinical and laboratory data. He also participated in the design of ahealthmanagement information system foracommunity-based intervention to reduce neonatal mortality. Lastly, heworked with the CDC to create an information system for aNeonatal Unitin Cairo, Egypt todetect nosocomial infections. He plans to continue his work on ISAAC and to helpin the developmentofhealth management information systems particularly intheDemocratic Republic of the Congo where he grew up.
Malinda Peeples, RN, MS, CDE
Trainee / Special Student
mpeeples@jhmi.edu
Malinda Peeples, RN, MS, CDE is a clinical nurse specialist and certified diabetes educator with a MS in Nursing Informatics from the University of Maryland at Baltimore. Most recently she worked with a multi-site diabetes education program providing clinical and information management support, including outcomes reporting and management. Additionally she has been involved in the development of the AADE National Diabetes Education Outcomes System - a comprehensive web-based, reporting service for diabetes outcomes at the patient, program, and national levels. Currently her informatics interest is focused on classification of diabetes program characteristics for benchmarking, evaluation and building the evidence base for diabetes education. She is also interested in gaining expertise in workflow analysis and technology integration.
| Trainee | Mark Adler, MD |
| Mentor | Kevin Johnson, MD, MS |
| Project | Adler MD, Johnson KB. An analysis of the literature pertaining to CAI in the medical literature. Academic Medicine 2000; 75; 1025-28. |
| Product | The Virtual Preceptor: Computer-assisted Instruction for the Pediatric Emergency Department |
| Inclusive Dates | 1998-2000 |
| Trainee | Soraya Assar, MLS |
| Mentor | Kevin Johnson, MD, MS |
| Project | Adler MD, Johnson KB. An analysis of the literature pertaining to CAI in the medical literature. Academic Medicine 2000; 75; 1025-28. |
| Product | The Virtual Preceptor: Computer-assisted Instruction for the Pediatric Emergency Department |
| Inclusive Dates | 1998-2000 |
| Trainee | Susan Barned |
| Mentor | Harold Lehmann |
| Project | |
| Product | |
| Inclusive Dates | 1998-2000 |
| Trainee | Mike Beynon |
| Mentor | Robert Miller, MD |
| Project | Virtual Microscope |
| Product | PhD Candidate at the University of Maryland |
| Inclusive Dates | Summer 1995-1999 |
| Trainee | Christopher Bouton |
| Mentor | Jonathan Pevsner, PhD |
| Project | Effects of Lead Poisoning on Gene Expression |
| Product | PhD Boulton CM and Pevsner J (2000) DRAGON: Database referencing of array genes online. Bioinformatics 16:1038-1039. |
| Inclusive Dates | 1996-2001 |
| Trainee | Pascal Calarco |
| Mentor | Nancy Roderer, MLS |
| Project | IAIMS Library Assistant |
| Product | New Haven Health |
| Inclusive Dates | 1997-1999 |
| Trainee | Umit Catalyurek |
| Mentor | Robert Miller, MD |
| Project | HUBS Project, Virtual Microscope |
| Product | Post-Doctoral Fellow |
| Inclusive Dates | 1999-2001 |
| Trainee | Daniel Chudnow, MLIS |
| Mentor | Nancy Roderer, MLS |
| Project | IAIMS Library Assistant |
| Product | Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment (JAKE), Open Source Systems for Libraries (oss4lib.org) |
| Inclusive Dates | 1997-1999 |
| Trainee | John Co, MD |
| Mentor | Kevin Johnson, MD, MS |
| Project | Critical Pathways for Sickle Cell Disease |
| Product | Co JPT, Johnson KB, Duggan AK, Casella JF, Wilson M. Effect of a clinical pathway for pediatric vaso-occlusive crisis hospitalization on physician practice patterns and outcomes. |
| Inclusive Dates | 2000-2002 |
| Trainee | Carlo Colantuoni |
| Mentor | Jonathan Pevsner, PhD |
| Project | Molecular basis of Rett Syndrome |
| Product | PhD Colantuoni C, Zeger S, Pevsner J. NOMAD (Normalization of Microarray Data): Computational tools for the normalization and standardization of diverse gene expression datasets. |
| Inclusive Dates | 1996-2001 |
| Trainee | Dr. Ludmila Danilchenko |
| Mentor | Anna Orlova, PhD |
| Project | Development & Exploitation of Info. System on Industrial Wastes of Mining, Rock-Chemical & Coal Industries, & Non-Ferrous Metallurgy & Technologies of Wastes Utilization. |
| Product | Specifications for the Information System on Industrial Wastes of and Technologies of Wastes Utilization. |
| Inclusive Dates | 1989-1992 |
| Trainee | John Davis |
| Mentor | Robert Miller, MD |
| Project | Point of Care, Data Browser |
| Product | Graduate Degree |
| Inclusive Dates | 1997 - 1999 |
| Trainee | Renato Ferrara |
| Mentor | Robert Miller, MD |
| Project | Virtual Microscope |
| Product | |
| Inclusive Dates | 1996 - present |
| Trainee | Jorge A. Ferrer, M.D., M.B.A. |
| Mentor | Lee Fleisher, M.D. and Harold Lehmann, M.D., Ph.D |
| Project |
Abstract, Safety of Outpatient Surgery in Hospitals Versus Free-Standing Facilities in the Elderly, Lee A. Fleisher M.D., Jorge A. Ferrer M.D., Lawrence R. Pasternak M.D. and Paul G. Barash M.D., American Society of Anesthesiology, Annual Meeting, Dallas Texas, 2000. Device to decrease the time needed to perform microsurgery, Johns Hopkins University Engineering Research Center for Computer- Integrated Surgical Systems & Technologies, Faculty Advisor- Jorge A. Ferrer M.D., and Louis Whitcomb Ph.D. Preventing Medical Errors: Communicating a Role for Medicare Beneficiaries, Elaine K. Swift Ph.D., Christopher P. Koepke Ph.D., Jorge A. Ferrer, M.D., and David Miranda Ph.D, Health Care Financing Review, Consumer Information, Fall 2001, Volume 23, Number 1. |
| Product | Post Doctorate Fellowship |
| Inclusive Dates | Inclusive Dates 1999-2000 |
| Trainee | Alison Friedman, MD |
| Mentor | Harold P. Lehmann, MD, PhD |
| Project | Threshold for Transfusing Patients with Thrombocytopenia |
| Product | Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation (PhD) |
| Inclusive Dates | 1996-1999 |
| Trainee | Nicole Jenkins |
| Mentor | Anna Orlova, PhD |
| Project | Evaluation of Maryland’s Reduction of Lead Risk in Housing Law |
| Product | Data Management Procedures for the Evaluation of Maryland’s Reduction of Lead Risk in Housing Law (under development) |
| Inclusive Dates | 1999-current |
| Trainee | George Kim, MD |
| Mentor | Kevin Johnson, MD, MS |
| Project | Adler MD, Johnson KB. An analysis of the literature pertaining to CAI in the medical literature. Academic Medicine 2000; 75; 1025-28. |
| Product | The Virtual Preceptor: Computer-assisted Instruction for the Pediatric Emergency Department |
| Inclusive Dates | 1998-2000 |
| Trainee | Tahsin Kurc |
| Mentor | Robert Miller, MD |
| Project | Virtual Microscope |
| Product | PhD |
| Inclusive Dates | 1999-2001 |
| Trainee | Christoph Lehmann, MD |
| Mentor | Harold P. Lehmann, MD, PhD |
| Project | Web-based Case Simulation for Education |
| Product | Post-Doctorate Fellowship (NLM NRSA) |
| Inclusive Dates | 1998-2000 |
| Trainee | Christoph Lehmann, MD |
| Mentor | Kevin Johnson, MD, MS |
| Product | Lehmann CU, Wang DJ, Kim GR, Johnson KB. Utilization of a pediatric link collection by physicians and physicians-in-training. Pediatrics 1997; 100(3):442. |
| Inclusive Dates | 1997-present |
| Trainee | Sydney Moss-Dy, MD |
| Mentor | Harold P. Lehmann, MD, PhD |
| Project | Perceptions Regarding Patient Transfers to Tertiary Care |
| Product | Robert Wood Johnson Fellowship |
| Inclusive Dates | 1999-2001 |
| Trainee | Amy Purcell |
| Mentor | Jonathan Pevsner, PhD |
| Project | Molecular Basis Autism |
| Product | PhD Purcell AE, Jeon O, Zimmerman AW, Blue ME and Pevsner J. Postmortem brain abnormalities of the glutamate neurotransmitter system in autism. |
| Inclusive Dates | 1996-2001 |
| Trainee | Adam Rothschild, MD |
| Mentor | Kevin Johnson, MD, MS |
| Project | Adler MD, Johnson KB. An analysis of the literature pertaining to CAI in the medical literature. Academic Medicine 2000; 75; 1025-28. |
| Product | The Virtual Preceptor: Computer-assisted Instruction for the Pediatric Emergency Department |
| Inclusive Dates | 1998-2000 |
| Trainee | Jerry Rottman |
| Mentor | Robert Miller, MD |
| Project | Clinical Data Repository |
| Product | |
| Inclusive Dates | 1998-2000 |
| Trainee | J. Robert Sapp |
| Mentor | Harold P. Lehmann, MD, PhD |
| Project | Evaluation of Web-Based Continuing Medical Education |
| Product | Ed.D. |
| Inclusive Dates | 1998-2001 |
| Trainee | Dr. Olga Shabanova |
| Mentor | Anna Orlova, PhD |
| Project | Development and Exploitation of Information System on Industrial Wastes of Mining, Rock-Chemical and Coal Industries, and Non-Ferrous Metallurgy and Technologies of Wastes Utilization |
| Product | Specifications for the Information System on Industrial Wastes of and Technologies of Wastes Utilization |
| Inclusive Dates | 1989-1992 |
| Trainee | Corey Smith, PhD |
| Mentor | Harold P. Lehmann, MD, PhD |
| Project | Information Barriers in the Psychiatric Emergency Department |
| Product | None |
| Inclusive Dates | 2002-2003 |
| Trainee | Varda Shalev, MD |
| Mentor | Harold P. Lehmann, MD, PhD |
| Project | Management of Outpatient Cultures |
| Product | Post-Doctorate Fellowship (employer-funded) |
| Inclusive Dates | 1998-2000 |
| Trainee | Killian Stoeffel |
| Mentor | Robert Miller, MD |
| Project | Data Browser, Ontology Query Tool |
| Product | Post-Doctoral |
| Inclusive Dates | 1995-1997 |
| Trainee | Merwyn Taylor |
| Mentor | Robert Miller, MD |
| Project | Point of Care Database, Repository, Moss Replacement System |
| Product | PhD |
| Inclusive Dates | 1996-present |
| Trainee | Pat Tracey |
| Mentor | Anna Orlova, PhD |
| Project | Evaluation of Maryland’s Reduction of Lead Risk in Housing Law |
| Product | Data Management Procedures for the Evaluation of Maryland’s Reduction of Lead Risk in Housing Law (under development) |
| Inclusive Dates | 1999-present |
| Trainee | Michele Twilley |
| Mentor | Anna Orlova, PhD |
| Project | Evaluation of Maryland’s Reduction of Lead Risk in Housing Law |
| Product | Data Management Procedures for the Evaluation of Maryland’s Reduction of Lead Risk in Housing Law (under development). |
| Inclusive Dates | 1999-present |
| Trainee | Matthew Weed |
| Mentor | Nancy Roderer, MLS |
| Project | PhD Genetics, 2003 |
| Product | Accessible PubMed |
| Inclusive Dates | 1998- |
| Trainee | Jessica Zeaske |
| Mentor | Kevin Johnson, MD, MS. |
| Project | Structured Reporting Tools and Provider-Patient Interaction |
| Product | Dr.PH Zeaske JA, Johnson KB, Serwint JR, Gielen AC, Roter DL. Impact of Communication Style on the Adoptionof Computer-based Documentation Tools. |
| Inclusive Dates | 1999-present |
| Trainee | 15 NLM Associate Fellows |
| Mentor | Nancy Roderer, MLS |
| Project | One — two year training program at NLM |
| Product | Multiple Projects within NLM |
| Inclusive Dates | 1999-2000 |