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Graduate group faculty
Administration and leadership
Chair, Health Informatics Graduate Group
Director, Health Informatics Training Program
Interim Vice Provost - Information and Educational Technology
Director of Academic Information Systems
Professor of Psychiatry
Research interests: virtual reality, e-mental health, telemedicine, electronic disease management.
e-mail: peter.yellowlees@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Christine Hotz, D.V.M, M.S.
Associate Director, Health Informatics Training Program
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Health Informatics
Research interests: medical decision support, data mining, pathology informatics, health informatics and educational evaluation methods.
e-mail: cshotz@ucdavis.edu
School of Medicine
Aaron Bair, M.D.
Asst. Prof., Emergency Medicine
Research interests: discrete event simulation, flow management and decision analysis.
e-mail: aebair@ucdavis.edu
Robert Cardiff, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Center for Comp. Medicine
Research interests: anatomic pathology; oncology; immunopathology; oncogenic viruses; molecular biology; immunology; monoclonal antibodies; breast cancer; intermediate filaments; transgenic pathology.
e-mail: rdcardiff@ucdavis.edu
Tony Cheung, M.D.
Professor, Med Pathology
Research interests: relational database (breast cancer registry) and tracking (breast cancer early detection); telepathology.
e-mail: atcheung@ucdavis.edu
Thomas Engel, M.D.
Asst. Prof., Anesthesiology
Research interests: medicine and computer technology (including human-computer interface design), mathematical models of natural processes, and ethics and computer technology.
e-mail: tengel@ucdavis.edu
Jose Galvez, M.D.
Asst. Prof., Center for Comp. Medicine
Research interests: telepathology, image databases, virtual microscopy,
collaborative research tools.
e-mail: jjgalvez@ucdavis.edu
Professor
Director Cancer Center Specimen Repository
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Research interests: development of a clinical-pathologic database for research specimens and projects relative to medical student pathology education
e-mail: regina.gandour-edwards@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Este Geraghty, M.D., M.S., M.P.H.
Associate Physician, Division of General Medicine
Research interests: geographic information systems, spatial epidemiology,
PHIN, health services research, decision support systems.
e-mail: emgeraghty@ucdavis.edu
Glenna Gobar, D.V.M., M.P.V.M., M.S.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Health Informatics
Research interests: internet-based epidemiological surveillance studies, public health informatics, vital records system design, development, and implementation.
e-mail: ggobar@ucdavis.edu
Fred Gorin, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Med Neurology
Research interests: pH-volume regulation in the brain; brain metabolism, molecular neuropharmacology, brain edema and gliomas; drug discovery; neuroinformatics.
e-mail: fagorin@ucdavis.edu
Donald Hilty, M.D.
Assoc. Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
email: don.hilty@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Mike Hogarth, M.D.
Associate Professor, Clinical Pathology and Internal Medicine
Research interests: knowledge-based terminological systems, decision support systems, distributed collaborative knowledge sharing environments.
e-mail: mahogarth@ucdavis.edu
Anthony Jerant, M.D.
Asst. Prof., Family & Community Medicine
Research interests: home telecare, health behavior models, chronic illness self-care, health disparities, preventive health services.
e-mail: afjerant@ucdavis.edu
Martin Leamon, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Research interests: virtual reality, medical education, educational evaluation, substance abuse
e-mail: mhleamon@ucdavis.edu
James Marcin, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor, Pediatric Critical Care
Research interests: pediatric critical care and emergency medicine telemedicine, decision support, and quality of care measures
e-mail: james.marcin@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Tom Nesbitt, M.D., M.P.H.
Assoc. Dean, Continuing Education, Telehealth & Outreach/Dir., Center for Health & Technology
Prof., Family & Community Medicine
Research interests: telehealth.
e-mail: thomas.nesbitt@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Alberto M. Odor, M.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Research interests: clinical medical informatics, open source EHRs, therapeutic virtual reality, clinical research
email: alberto.odor@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Stuart Turner, D.V.M.
Director, California Bioterrorism Laboratory Integration Project , Biomedical Informatics Research & Consulting Service, Center for Health & Technology, UC Davis Health System
Research interests: evidence-based medicine, public health informatics, knowledge engineering.
e-mail: swturner @ucdavis.edu
School of Veterinary Medicine
James T. Case, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Professor, Clinical Diagnostic Informatics,California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory.
Research interests: laboratory information systems, animal health surveillance systems, bio-surveillance, health data standards, terminology, PHIN.
e-mail: jtcase@ucdavis.edu
Mary Christopher, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Professor, Veterinary Medicine, Clinical Pathology
Research interests: clinical laboratory informatics, laboratory data mining and decision support, diagnostic testing and diagnostic probability, Health Informatics education in pathology, erythrocytes and oxidative pathology, wildlife clinical pathology.
e-mail: mmchristopher@ucdavis.edu
Janet Ilkiw, B.V.S.c, Ph..D.
Professor, Vet Med Radiology/Surgery
Associate Dean, Academic Personnel
Research interests: use of technology to enhance patient care and medical education.
e-mail: jeilkiw@ucdavis.edu
Wasyl Malyj, Ph.D.
Asst. Dir., Vet Med Genetics Lab
Research interests: computationally intelligent systems, dimensionality reduction of large datasets, parallel processing architectures, biomedical data acquisition, analysis, and visualization.
e-mail: wvmalyj@ucdavis.edu
College of Engineering
Matt Bishop, Ph.D.
Assoc. Prof., Computer Science
Research interests: computer security: vulnerabilities analysis, the design of secure systems and software, network security, formal models of access control (especially the Take-Grant Protection Model), and user authentication.
e-mail: bishop@cs.ucdavis.edu
Michael Gertz, Ph.D.
Asst. Prof., Computer Science
Research interests: the integration of heterogeneous information sources and database and information systems security, information integration and data integrity (e.g., data integrity for semi-structured data and XML) and data quality aspects.
e-mail: gertz@cs.ucdavis.edu
Bernd Hamann, Ph.D.
Assoc. Prof., Computer Science
Research interests: visualization, computer graphics, geometric modeling, virtual reality,
data and image compression.
e-mail: bhamann@cs.ucdavis.edu
Patrice Koehl, Ph.D.
Assoc. Prof. Computer Science & Genome Center
e-mail: koehl@cs.ucdavis.edu
Betram Ludascher, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Research interests: scientific data and knowledge management: data modeling, data integration, knowledge representation, scientific workflows.
e-mail: ludawsch@ucdavis.edu
Kwan-Liu Ma, Ph.D.
Asst. Prof., Computer Science
Research interests: parallel & distributed visualization; volume visualization; large-scale data visualization; vector field visualization; user interface design; irregular grid data visualization; remote and collaborative visualization; information visualization.
e-mail: ma@cs.ucdavis.edu
Oliver Staadt, Ph.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research interests: collaborative virtual environments, point-based representations and rendering, multimedia networking, and hierarchical representations.
e-mail: staadt@cs.ucdavis.edu
Dick Walters, Ph.D.
Professor, Computer Science
Research interests: database systems (especially medical), computer support of online interaction, computer support of non-English languages, distance learning.
e-mail: walters@cs.ucdavis.edu