MALONE CENTER - Key Persons

Alan Ravitz

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Member of the Executive Committee
Chief Engineer, National Health Mission Area, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Alejandro Martin-Gomez

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Assistant Research Professor
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Computer Science

Alejandro Martin-Gomez is an assistant research professor in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR). His research interests include the study of fundamental concepts of visual perception and their transferability to medical applications that involve using augmented and virtual reality. His work has been published in some of the most prestigious journals and at conferences in these fields, including at the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, at the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, and in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. He also has served as a mentor and adviser to several students and scholars at the Technical University of Munich, Johns Hopkins University, and more recently, at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. In addition, his is involved in professional editorial activities and has been a program committee member for the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality in 2016, 2018, and 2021. Before joining Johns Hopkins, Martin-Gomez completed his PhD in Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich, from which he graduated summa cum laude.

Alexis Battle

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Member of the Leadership Board
Director of the Malone Center for Engineering
Director, Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare

Alexis Battle is the director of the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, the deputy director of the university's new Data Science and AI Institute, a 2016 Searle Scholar, and a professor of biomedical engineering, computer science, and genetic medicine. She specializes in unlocking the secrets of the human genome by analyzing large-scale genomic sequencing data to understand the impact of genetic variation on the human body. Battle's research is concentrated on the development of computational biology tools and machine learning strategies to examine genetic differences on gene regulation and disease. A leading member of the National Institutes of Health Common Fund's Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Consortium, she focuses on predicting the effects of variation in noncoding DNA sequences. Findings of her work on a GTEx project, which studied how genetic patterns lead to molecular changes within specific tissues, were published in the journal Nature in 2017. At the Battle Lab, her research also includes the development of new methods to evaluate and predict the impact of personal genomics and rare genetic variants that may significantly impact an individual's health. These methods are helping improve our understanding of how genes work together and how their interconnected pathways may influence complex traits. Battle is additionally involved in a host of ongoing research initiatives, from building integrative networks for genomic analysis of autism, supported by the NIH, to predicting rare Mendelian disease variants using genomic data, funded by her Searle award and a 2017 Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award. Battle is also the recipient of a 2019 Johns Hopkins Discovery Award for studying the genetics of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Battle received her formal education from Stanford University, where she earned a BS in 2003, an MS in 2013, and a PhD in computer science in 2013. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford before joining Johns Hopkins in 2014. Prior to her career in academia, Battle was a staff software engineer and manager for Google.

Aly T. Strauss

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Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Aly T. Strauss graduated summa cum laude from Emory University's Department of Economics. She then completed her Master's in Industrial Engineering (MIE) and Medical Degree at the University of South Florida. This was also where she trained for Internal Medicine residency and served as Chief Resident. More recently, she completed Gastroenterology fellowship followed by Transplant Hepatology fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. As a fellow on the research track, she completed a PhD in Clinical Investigation at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in Transplant Hepatology at Johns Hopkins University. Aly's research is on the intersection of data science-driven interventions and health disparities to promote equity for minority populations with liver disease. Dr. Strauss's background in human factors engineering, social epidemiology, and medicine will help her to communicate and collaborate easily in diverse interdisciplinary teams. She has applied these skills with inpatient bowel preparation for colonoscopies and the liver transplant evaluation process.

Anna Lublin

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Professor of Geriatric Medicine

Dr. Jeremy Walston is the Raymond and Anna Lublin Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, the deputy director of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, the principal investigator of the Johns Hopkins Older Americans Independence Center, and the co-director of the Biology of Healthy Aging program. His research focus is on determining the biological characteristics that promote resiliency and healthy aging, and on the translation of that knowledge into diagnostic, preventive and treatment strategies that promote a long and healthy life. He has previously helped to define the most commonly utilized frailty measurement in older adults and has identified dysregulated energy metabolism and stress response pathways as characteristics of frailty. Ongoing efforts include studies that are informing how age-related changes in inflammation, mitochondria, and the renin-angiotensin system influence both resiliency and frailty in older adults. His clinical focus is in Geriatric Medicine and Rehabilitation, in developing care management pathways that better protect older adults, and in developing and promoting guidelines that help to promote a long and healthy life. He received his M.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and completed residency in general internal medicine and a fellowship in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Anton Dahbura

an..@jhu.edu

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Executive Director, Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute ( JHUISI )

Anton Deguet

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Associate Research Engineer

Antony Rosen

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Member of the Executive Committee
Vice Dean for Research, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Axel Krieger

ax..@jhu.edu

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Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Ayah Zirikly

ay..@gmail.com

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Assistant
Research Scientist
Assistant Research Scientist, CLSP

Ayah Zirikly is an assistant research scientist in the Center for Language and Speech Processing. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and holds a PhD in computer science from Dr. Mona Diab's NLP lab at the George Washington University.

Ayse P. Gurses

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Director, Armstrong Institute Center for Health Care Human Factors
Professor in the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety

Ayse P. Gurses, PhD, MS, MPH, is a professor in the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is the founding Director of the Center for Health Care Human Factors at Johns Hopkins Medicine. She has joint appointments in the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Whiting School of Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University. Ayse is passionate about three critical and related public health topics: patient safety, health IT design and implementation, and occupational health and safety of healthcare workers. Formally trained in industrial and systems engineering and public health, she uses a combination of engineering and public health methodologies in her work. Ayse has been a principal or co-principal investigator on several federally funded research grants and contracts, totaling over $7M. Her current research efforts focus on improving patient-centered care and medication safety among elderly, health information technology design and implementation, improving coordination and teamwork in pediatric trauma, patient safety in the cardiac operating room, improving safety of transitions of care, increasing compliance with evidence-based guidelines to reduce infections, and clinician working conditions. Ayse is the author of 50 peer-reviewed articles and 10 book chapters, and gave over 65 invited talks. She serves as the Scientific Editor of Applied Ergonomics, a top-level journal in the field of human factors engineering. She is also the Editor for the Sociotechnical Systems Analysis Department of the IIE Transactions in Healthcare Systems Engineering. Ayse is the recipient of multiple awards including the Liberty Mutual Award for the Best Paper in the journal ‘Ergonomics,' the International Ergonomics Association/ Liberty Mutual Best Paper Award in Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Forward under 40 award. Nominated by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Ayse is also a recipient of an Early Career Impact Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS). Affiliations: Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Health Sciences Informatics, School of Medicine Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, Whiting School of Engineering

Brian Caffo

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Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health

Carmen Kiss

ck..@jhu.edu

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Member of the Administrative Team
Senior Administrative Coordinator

Carmen brings over a decade of administrative experience to the Johns Hopkins University's Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare. She is a senior administrative coordinator to Malone Center Director Alexis Battle and supports the Center's trainees, faculty, and chaired members. She is more than happy to lend a helping hand to anyone who visits Malone Hall. When not working at the university, Carmen enjoys spending time with her family and getting outdoors.

Casey Overby Taylor

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Associate Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering

Catherine Graham

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Communications Specialist

Cheryl Dennison Himmelfarb

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Member of the Executive Committee
Associate Dean Research, Office for Science and Innovation at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Chien-Ming Huang

Chien-Ming Huang, a John C. Malone Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, studies human-machine teaming and creates innovative, intuitive, personalized technologies to provide social, physical, and behavioral support for people with a variety of abilities and characteristics, including children with autism spectrum disorders. Huang directs Johns Hopkins' interdisciplinary Intuitive Computing Laboratory and is a member of JHU's Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare and the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics. An expert in human-robot and human-computer interaction, Huang is particularly passionate about using novel technologies to help special-needs populations. Drawing on human-computer interaction (HCI), robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI), Huang's research has significant applications in healthcare, education, and manufacturing. His lab develops interactive robot systems that work cooperatively with people to increase task performance and enhance user experience. Specifically, Huang's team focuses on deciphering human behavioral cues (e.g., eye gaze) for recognizing task intent, synthesizing intuitive robot behaviors to facilitate collaborative activities, and developing interfaces and methods for people to re-skill robots to perform custom tasks. Huang, who joined the Hopkins faculty in 2017, has received several awards, including being named a prestigious John C. Malone Assistant Professor at JHU. In 2018, he was selected for the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (referred to as CHI) Early Career Symposium and its New Educators Workshop for the ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education. As a PhD candidate, Huang received "Best Paper Runner-up" and "Best Student Poster Runner-up" honors at the 2013 Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference and was named a 2012 Human Robot Interaction (HRI) Pioneer.

Christopher G. Chute

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Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics

Research Interests: Clinical Data Representation Ontology Dr. Chute is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics, Professor of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing at Johns Hopkins University, and Chief Research Information Officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine. He received his undergraduate and medical training at Brown University, internal medicine residency at Dartmouth, and doctoral training in Epidemiology at Harvard. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics, and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Epidemiology, and the American College of Medical Informatics. His career has focused on how we can represent clinical information to support analyses and inferencing, including comparative effectiveness analyses, decision support, best evidence discovery, and translational research. He has had a deep interest in semantic consistency, harmonized information models, and ontology. He became founding Chair of Biomedical Informatics at Mayo in 1988, retiring from Mayo in 2014, where he remains an emeritus Professor of Biomedical Informatics. He has been PI on a large portfolio of research including the HHS/Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) SHARP (Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects) on Secondary EHR Data Use, the ONC Beacon Community (Co-PI), the LexGrid projects, Mayo's CTSA Informatics, and several NIH grants including one of the eMERGE centers from NGHRI, which focus upon genome wide association studies against shared phenotypes derived from electronic medical records. He has been active on many HIT standards efforts and currently chairs the World Health Organization (WHO) ICD-11 Revision.

Craig Jones

cr..@jhu.edu

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Assistant Research Professor, Department of Computer Science

Craig Jones is interested in medical image processing and the creation and application of computer science to medical imaging. Jones began his career in Magnetic Resonance Imaging and created automated algorithms for MS lesion segmentation. His degree work focused on extending numerical optimization algorithms for myelin water quantification from MRI images. Later, he worked on the creation of CEST MRI pulse sequences and the fitting of the data to quantify glycogen and amid protons. He also worked for a short time at the Space Telescope Science Institute creating and implementing image processing algorithms for Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope images. His current work is in artificial intelligence and neural network image processing of MRI, CT, OCT datasets (both 2D and 3D), and Ultrasound with classification, regression, anomaly detection, and segmentation projects. He is on the JHU PMAP Imaging and Data Science Sub-Committees. Jones holds a BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics from Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC, Canada), and MSc in Medical Biophysics from the University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario, Canada) and a PhD in Physics from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada).

Diego A. Martinez

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Assistant Professor
Department of Emergency

Diego A. Martinez is an assistant professor of emergency medicine and health sciences informatics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Martinez's research focuses on systems design and optimization, with applications in medical decision-making, infectious disease dynamics, healthcare operations, and health policy. The guiding principle for his research is that a well-designed health system must be based on a sound mathematical model. His research utilizes a wide range of techniques including statistical and machine learning, Markov models, Bayesian inference, network science, optimization, and game theory. Dr. Martinez obtained his BS (2010) in industrial engineering, summa cum laude, at the University of La Frontera, Chile, and his MS (2011) and PhD (2015) at the University of South Florida, where he worked with Jose Zayas-Castro in operations research and health systems. From 2015 to 2017, Dr. Martinez was a postdoctoral research fellow with the Johns Hopkins Center for Data Science in Emergency Medicine. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2017.

Dr. Jeremiah Hinson

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Associate Professor
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director of Research for the Emergency Medicine Residency at Johns Hopkins

Dr. Jeremiah Hinson is an associate professor of emergency medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He earned his MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York and completed an emergency medicine residency at Johns Hopkins. He also holds a PhD in molecular and cellular pathology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hinson is an active emergency medicine clinician, serving as an attending physician in the Emergency Departments of both Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. His research interests include emergency department operations, acute kidney injury, and infectious disease. He is particularly focused on the improvement of patient outcomes using data-driven methods. Hinson is a co-director of the Center for Data Science in Emergency Medicine, which includes experts from the fields of biomedical engineering, data science, and mathematical ecology-all focused on the common goal of improving care delivery for emergency department patients. Their team has created important cross-disciplinary partnerships and has developed novel tools that enhance the practice of emergency medicine, including an improved approach to emergency department triage and more accurate identification of risk factors for acute kidney injury. Their team is currently focused on using similar methods to improve infectious disease management in the ED and to predict and prevent acute kidney injury, work for which Hinson has been awarded grants from the Emergency Medicine Foundation and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr. Hinson is also the director of research for the Emergency Medicine Residency at Johns Hopkins. In this role he oversees research education for emergency physicians in training and has developed a unique longitudinal curriculum that builds skills in evidence-based medicine and research methodology over four years of residency training.

Dr. John Krakauer

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Member of the Leadership Board
Neurologist

Emad M. Boctor

eb..@jhmi.edu

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Assistant Professor in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Division of Medical Imaging Physics
Director, Medical UltraSound Imaging and Intervention Collaboration

Emad M. Boctor, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Division of Medical Imaging Physics within the Department of Radiology and Radiological Science. He holds a joint appointment in the Whiting School of Engineering's Department of Computer Science. Dr. Boctor earned a B.Sc. in biomedical engineering from Egypt's Cairo University before earning master's and doctoral degrees in computer science from Johns Hopkins University. After joining the Hopkins faculty, he launched the Medical UltraSound Imaging and Intervention Collaboration (MUSiiC) Research Laboratory, which develops innovative ultrasound technologies for medical applications. He is also affiliated with the JHU Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) and Computer Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology (CISST) Engineering Research Center, a National Science Foundation-designated center. Dr. Boctor has authored and co-authored more than 25 journal articles, as well as the book, Enabling Technologies for Ultrasound Imaging in Computer-Assisted Intervention. He holds several patents, with more pending.

Ferdinand Hui

fe..@jhu.edu

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Certified Neurointerventional Surgeon
Co - Director, Radiology Artificial Intelligence Lab ( RAIL )

Ferdinand Hui is a CAST certified neurointerventional surgeon who trained with Dr. Jacques Dion at Emory University, one of the pioneers in the field of neuroendovascular surgery. Dr. Hui received undergraduate and medical training at the University of Virginia, and is an internationally recognized expert in the treatment of stroke with over 110 peer reviewed publications and book chapters. He joins Hopkins after seven years on faculty at the Cleveland Clinic, and has a strong interest in both technology and business development. As of 2018, Dr. Hui has focused his energies towards artificial intelligence, recognizing the centrality of data science in the next phase of healthcare development, leading to the foundation of the RAIL group with colleagues Dr. Haris Sair and Dr. Paul Yi.

Gina Adrales

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Director of the Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery
Director of the Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Department of Surgery

Gina Adrales is the director of the Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery, the director of the Minimally Invasive Surgery Training and Innovation Center, and the co-director of the Johns Hopkins Bariatric Surgery Fellowship at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include gastroesophageal reflux disease, gallbladder disease, achalasia, spleen removal, benign gastric and intestinal surgery, bariatric surgery, and open and laparoscopic hernia repair. Her research interests include health services research, clinical outcomes and quality improvement in minimally invasive foregut surgery, bariatric and metabolic surgery, and study of the abdominal wall.

Gregory D. Hager

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Mandell Bellmore Professor of Computer Science

Haris Sair

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Co - Director, Radiology Artificial Intelligence Lab ( RAIL )

Harold P. Lehmann

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Director and Professor, Division of Health Sciences Informatics
Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics
Professor

Dr. Harold Lehmann is a professor of health sciences informatics and of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds joint appointments in health policy and management and in international health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His areas of clinical expertise include adolescent medicine and general pediatrics. Dr. Lehmann serves as the director of research and training for the Division of Health Sciences Informatics. He received his B.A. from Columbia College. He earned his M.D. from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Dr. Lehmann's research interests include medical informatics, evidence-based medicine and decision making, biostatics, decision analysis and Bayesian communications. Dr. Lehmann is a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is a member of the Society for Medical Decision Making and the American Medical Informatics Association.

Ilya Shpitser

il..@cs.jhu.edu

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Associate Editor of the Journal of Causal Inference

Shpitser serves as associate editor of the Journal of Causal Inference. He is a member of the research advisory board at Arnold Ventures, a limited liability company for research and evidence-based methods, and a senior program committee member for the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). Additionally, he reviews articles for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), and the Journal of Machine Learning Research, among others.

Israel Gannot

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Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Jaimie Patterson

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Communications Specialist
Member of the Administrative Team

A graduate of the university's Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Jaimie is excited to return to her alma mater after working for several years in marketing. Utilizing her background in computer science, her primary goal is to disseminate the exciting research taking place in the Department of Computer Science and the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare to a wider audience and to showcase the strengths of the Whiting School's faculty and students. In her free time, Jaimie enjoys yoga, baking, video games, and reading.

James "Jim" Fackler

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Director of Safety, Quality, and Logistics, Johns Hopkins Pediatric Intensive Care Unit ( PICU )
Director of Safety, Quality, and Logistics, Johns Hopkins Pediatric Intensive Care Unit ( PICU ) Director of Safety, Quality, and Logistics, Johns Hopkins Pediatric Intensive Care Unit ( PICU )

After completing his training at Johns Hopkins, Jim Fackler left the hospital in 1986, only to return again 10 years later as an attending physician. He currently is the Director of Safety, Quality, and Logistics in the PICU. In the Safety role, he holds multidisciplinary meetings weekly to discuss a broad array of safety issues. Based on their discussions, the safety team has made a number of system-wide changes. For example, they have initiated a comprehensive strategy to fight central line-associated bloodstream infections. Working on communication, the group scripted family-centered bedside rounds and continuously revises the script. They are also beginning an effort to look at the relationship between unit acuity (severity of all patient illness) and unit workload to see its effect on patient safety. In the Quality role, Dr. Fackler has begun an effort to report severity of illness-adjusted outcomes and to benchmark the results against those in the rest of the country. The quality team has also begun a multidisciplinary research project to identify and track novel quality indicators, such as by routinely collecting and reporting antibiotic administration for children with sepsis. In the Logistics role, Dr. Fackler manages PICU bed availability. In his research, Dr. Fackler is analyzing the tasks that are performed in the PICU and building computer models that could better organize them. The practice of medicine has changed little in the last 150 years, but technology has changed tremendously. He hopes that his research will make medicine more efficient and more effective by identifying new tasks and new ways to use technologies. He thinks that by revolutionizing the practice of medicine, hospitals can achieve a 10-fold improvement in patient safety in 5 years, and a 50% improvement in clinician productivity in 10 years. He is also trying to get a telemonitoring system established in the PICU. This system, together with vital sign data from the monitors, would be very valuable for future research analysis. Additionally, Dr. Fackler has funding from Virtual PICU System, LLC to collect data from ventilators that can be used to improve compliance with guidelines for mechanical ventilation of children with severe lung disease. Research indicates that in critically ill patients with lung disease, giving ventilator breaths that are too big causes damage to the lung. His research will take the data from the ventilator and run it through a computer algorithm to help support clinical decisions regarding breath sizes. He also has funding from a small company to take the physiologic data and correlate it with poor outcomes. The results could potentially be used to help predict which patients are at high risk for problems.

Janet Dipietro

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Member of the Executive Committee
Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Jithin Yohannan

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Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute

Jithin Yohannan, M.D., M.P.H. is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His practice specializes in medical, laser, and surgical treatment of glaucoma with a focus on minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) and new glaucoma surgical devices. He also performs both routine and complex cataract surgery. Dr. Yohannan also specializes in the surgical management of complex problems of the anterior segment (front of the eye). These problems include issues that arise after trauma or prior surgery gone wrong such as dislocated intraocular lenses (IOL) or iris and pupil defects. Dr. Yohannan earned his bachelor's degree in biochemistry from New York University where he graduated summa cum laude. He then received his medical and master of public health degrees from Johns Hopkins University and completed an ophthalmology residency at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. From there, he served as a fellow in glaucoma and advanced anterior segment surgery at the University of Toronto with Ike Ahmed. Dr. Yohannan's research focuses on using artificial intelligence algorithms to improve the tests that are used to diagnose and monitor glaucoma. He has a background in biostatistics, epidemiology, and mathematics which enables this effort. The ultimate goal of this research is to detect glaucoma and determine when it is worsening more accurately. The results of this work will ultimately help guide doctors who are managing glaucoma to make better treatment decisions. Dr. Yohannan also has a clinical and research interest in novel surgical devices used to treat glaucoma. These devices hold the promise of making glaucoma surgery safer and easier to recover from.

Joel S. Bader

jo..@jhu.edu

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Interim Director of the Whiting School of Engineering 's Institute for Computational Medicine and of the High - Throughput Biology Center
Interim Director, Institute for Computational Medicine
Professor

Joel S. Bader, a professor of biomedical engineering, is a leading innovator in genomics and biotechnology. His research explores the connection between genotype and phenotype, relating an organism's genetic material to its observable characteristics. Bader serves as interim director of the Whiting School of Engineering's Institute for Computational Medicine and of the High-Throughput Biology Center at the School of Medicine. He also leads the Johns Hopkins Cancer Target Discovery and Development Center, which was funded by the National Cancer Institute to identify new targets for metastatic breast cancer by revealing the molecular drivers of tumor metastasis, the main cause of breast cancer mortality.

John C. Malone

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Assistant Professor of Civil and Systems Engineering
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chairman of Liberty Media Corporation
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Radiology and Neurosurgery
Professor of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, & Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Dr. John Krakauer is a neurologist and neuroscientist with an interest in the healthy and damaged motor system. He was an Associate Professor of Neurology and Co-Director of the Motor Performance Laboratory at Columbia University up until 2010. He is now the Director of the Center for Motor Learning and Brain Repair at Johns Hopkins University where he studies motor learning and control in patients after stroke and their relationship to functional recovery. There is a critical need to establish whether motor learning itself is affected after stroke and to determine which forms of motor learning should be the focus of rehabilitation strategies. He has made a number of observations/contributions to the study of motor learning in healthy subjects and motor recovery after stroke that suggest new directions for the treatment of impairment early after stroke. JOHN C. MALONE earned a Master of Science degree in industrial management from The Johns Hopkins University in 1964, followed by a doctorate in operations research five years later, both from the School of Engineering. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale University in1963. Widely recognized as a pioneer in communications and media, Dr. Malone is chairman of Liberty Media Corporation and Liberty Global Inc. The interests of Liberty Media include QVC, the Atlanta Braves, and Sirius XM Radio Inc. Liberty Global provides broadband distribution services and video programming services to subscribers in Europe, Latin America, and Australia. Dr. Malone is chairman emeritus of Cable Labs and a member of the boards of Ascent Media, the Cato Institute, Discovery Communications, Expedia Inc., and Live Nation Entertainment. He was chief executive officer of Tele-Communications Inc. from 1973 to 1999, when TCI merged with AT&T. In 2010, Dr. Malone donated $30 million to the G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering for the construction of Malone Hall. In 2016, the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare was established to promote the use of engineering methods to improve healthcare. The Malone Center is a visionary effort to bring together engineers and clinicians from Whiting School of Engineering and Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health, so they can produce new technologies that will have a significant impact in real healthcare settings. Dr. Malone has long believed in the promise of improving health care by connecting engineering technologies with medical advances and has made a commitment to providing endowed professorships to faculty members who are improving healthcare.

John P. Toscano

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Vice Dean for Natural Sciences, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

Johns Hopkins

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Executive Director

Kathryn McDonald

km..@jhu.edu

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Leader
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Systems, Quality, and Safety

Kathryn McDonald is an international thought leader who focuses on bringing an evidence-based, patient-centered approach to the study of health care delivery. She explores what makes for safe, affordable, and high-quality health care delivery systems and the factors that prevent health organizations from achieving this standard of care. McDonald develops tools for measuring patient safety and quality that are used by private and public care providers alike. McDonald created a set of standardized health care quality measurements called Quality Indicators, which are used to analyze administrative data from hospitals-including Johns Hopkins-to identify potential quality concerns and track changes over time. She is currently working on an ongoing study that examines the ways that a patient's age, race, and sex may contribute to errors in medical diagnoses and disparities in patient outcomes. McDonald hopes to understand how "visible factors" put young people, women, and African American people at risk for misdiagnoses of infections, cancer, and cardiovascular issues. McDonald joined Johns Hopkins University as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in 2020 from Stanford University.

Kelly Vermandere

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Member of the Administrative Team
Program Manager

As the Malone Center's program manager, Kelly coordinates and facilitates collaborations among engineers, clinicians, and care providers to speed the deployment of research-based innovations in health care. Kelly has previously worked as a health scientist across a wide range of research areas, including genetic and molecular epidemiology, birth defects and developmental disabilities prevention, cancer prevention, health care reform, and pandemic preparedness and response. She is passionate about the potential for data science and machine learning to accelerate numerous population-wide health improvements and to transform health care. In her free time, Kelly enjoys running, playing soccer, and writing music.

Larry Nagahara

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Member of the Executive Committee
Associate Dean of Research at Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering

Laura Henneman

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Administrator
Member of the Administrative Team

Leslie Tung

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Professor, Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering

Mandell Bellmore

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Professor of Computer Science

Gregory D. Hager is the Mandell Bellmore Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and Founding Director of the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare. Professor Hager received his BA in Mathematics and Computer Science Summa Cum Laude at Luther College (1983), and his MS (1986) and PhD (1988) from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Karlsruhe, and was on the faculty of Yale University prior to joining Johns Hopkins. Professor Hager's research interests include collaborative and vision-based robotics, time-series analysis of image data, and medical applications of image analysis and robotics. He is also the former Chair of the Computing Community Consortium, a board member of the Computing Research Association, and is a member of the governing board of the International Federation of Robotics Research. Professor Hager has served on the editorial boards of IEEE TRO, IEEE PAMI, and IJCV. He is a fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to Vision-Based Robotics and a Fellow of the MICCAI Society for his contributions to imaging and his work on the analysis of surgical technical skill.