Course Faculty

Tom Horan serves as founding Director of the Kay Center for E-Health Research. Horan is Associate Professor at the School of Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University (CGU). Horan has twenty years experience in applying advanced technologies to societal and governmental issues.

Blackford Middleton is the Director of Clinical Informatics Research and Development. He is also the Chairman for the Center for Information Technology Leadership at Harvard Medical School. Middleton received an M.D. from SUNY-Buffalo, and trained in internal medicine at the University of Connecticut. He earned an M.P.H. in Epidemiology, and Health Services Administration, from Yale University School of Medicine, and an M.Sc. in Health Services Research, focusing on medical informatics, from Stanford University.

Karen Bell is a board certified internist with extensive experience in office practice, public health, academic medicine, physician support, and the commercial health insurance sector. She joined the Federal Government in October, 2004 after developing multiple successful payer contracting models which provided financial support for the adoption of clinical health information technologies in the delivery system.

Edward Shortliffe is the founding dean of the Phoenix campus of the University of Arizona's College of Medicine, where he is also appointed Professor of Basic Medical Sciences, Professor of Medicine, and, at Arizona State University, Professor of Biomedical Informatics. Until March 2007 he was the Rolf A. Scholdager Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. Previously he was Professor of Medicine and of Computer Science at Stanford University.

William Crawford has been developing web-based enterprise applications since 1995, including one of the first web-based electronic medical record systems (at Children's Hospital in Boston) and some of the first enterprise-level uses of the Java programming language. He has consulted for a variety of institutional clients, including Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical Center, numerous startups and several Fortune 500 companies. Prior to an acquisition he was CTO of Invantage, Incorporated in Cambridge, MA. He received a degree in history and economics from Yale University.

Susan Daniels is a nationally recognized expert and spokesperson on employment and disability policy. She has 25 years of executive experience in leading Federal agencies, academic institutions and philanthropic organizations through development, change and innovation.

Don Detmer is President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Medical Informatics Association. He is also Professor Emeritus and Professor of Medical Education in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia, and Senior Associate of the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

Bill Hersh is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon. He also has academic appointments in the Division of General Internal Medicine of the Department of Medicine and in the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Robert Jenders is a staff physician in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He also serves Cedars-Sinai as an informatician in Enterprise Information Services and as a teacher in the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program. He participates in software development and deployment related to electronic medical records and clinical decision support systems. His research program focuses on knowledge representation in the domain of clinical decision support.

Holly Jimison received her Ph.D. in Medical Information Sciences at Stanford University, with dissertation work on using computer decision models to tailor patient education materials to individuals. As a faculty member at Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) from 1992-1998, she served as Director of the Informed Patient Decisions Group, conducting research on methods to enable patients to be active and informed participants in their medical care decisions.

Kim Nazi is a Management Analyst for the Department of Veterans Affairs, where she has worked for almost 24 years. She is a Board-Certified Healthcare Executive and a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Kim previously served as the Director of eHealth for the VA Healthcare Network Upstate New York, focusing on the use of technology to improve and expand the delivery of health care services.

Ms. Solomon is founder of Medical Management Resources, a Technical Assistance firm, specializing in systems management of medical practices and health care facilities. In 1994, services were expanded to include research development and implementation of special projects, which focus on systems of health care for indigent and at-risk populations.

Paul Torrens is Professor of Health Services at the UCLA School of Public Health, he teaches courses in health services organization and financing, health services organization and theory, managerial processes in health service organizations and managed care. Torrens received his M.D. from Georgetown University and his M.P.H. from Harvard University. A physician by initial training, he has had a long career in the two areas of health care management and health care policy.