Speaker Bio Information
Keynote Speakers
Opening Keynote Speaker
Eduardo Sanchez, M.D., M.P.H., FAAFP
Chief Medical Officer for Prevention for the America Heart Association
Maria E. Fernández, PhD
Lorne Bain Distinguished Professor in Public Health and Medicine
Director, Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health
Maria Fernandez – people – CHPPR – UTHealth Houston School of Public Health
Panel Speakers
Dr. Monica Coley
Dr. Monica Coley completed her Doctorate in Health Informatics from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston in January of 2023. She received her Master of Public Health, with a concentration in Health Care Outcomes Management, from Emory University, in May of 2004. Dr. Coley completed her Bachelor of Science in Public Health, with a concentration in Health Policy and Administration, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May of 1996.
Dr. Coley is a Senior Business Development Manager within AWS’ state and local government healthcare provider business. She is responsible for providing guidance, initiative, and development for this new line of business. Monica joined AWS from a healthcare IT firm, Tegria Services Group, where she served as a Principal Consultant within the Hospital-at-Home business of the consulting practice. Prior to her tenure at Tegria Services Group, Monica served in a variety of consulting and operational roles for over 17 years with Cerner Corporation. Throughout her career at Cerner, her primary focus and passion was spent leading teams in the implementation and integration of healthcare systems for the clinical, revenue cycle, and interoperability arenas, as well as managing consulting operations and strategy. These opportunities leveraged Monica’s experience in the areas of informatics, strategic planning/roadmapping, sales/business development, solution development partnerships, regulatory compliance implementations, and partnerships/coordination with the application managed services and remote-hosting lines of business. Monica worked at Morehouse School of Medicine for 6.5 years prior to Cerner, where she had the opportunity to implement the school’s first Electronic Medical Record system, as well as manage an NIH-funded research center under the direction of Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. Surgeon General.
Dr. Michael Conward
Dr. Michael Conward, Chief Technology Officer and Cofounder of MyLÚA Health is an experienced tech entrepreneur and mechanical engineer with 10+ years of experience in digital health, design and manufacturing, tissue and rehabilitation engineering, micro-scale engineering, assembly and automation, mechanistic modeling, and bio-related science. Dr. Conward brings prior cutting-edge tech development skills from his time at Boeing Research & Technology and SelfArray, a semiconductor startup company, where he was CTO and Principal Investigator for their National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation & Research (SBIR) awards. He holds multiple peer-reviewed journal publications, patents, and invention disclosures. Michael has a passion for building solutions that combine technology and business to create social impact, especially for marginalized groups.
Dr. Xiaoqian Jiang
Dr. Jiang is the Associate Vice President of Medical AI of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). He is Christopher Sarofim’s family professor and serves as the center director of Secure Artificial intelligence For hEalthcare (SAFE) in the McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics (SBMI) at UTHealth. He was an associate editor of BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making and serves as an editorial board member of the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association. His expertise is primarily in health data privacy and predictive models in biomedicine. Dr. Jiang works actively in AI fairness and co-directs the Ethics core of Bridge2AI data coordination center. He won best and distinguished paper awards from American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual symposiums and the Joint Summits on Translational Science (2012, 2013, 2016, 2020)
Dr. Kirk Roberts
Kirk Roberts is an Associate Professor at the McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics. His research work includes using natural language processing to both extract structured information from unstructured free text and create interactive natural language applications, such as question-answering systems and search engines. He actively performs research in clinical information extraction, spatial information extraction, question answering, and information retrieval. His research draws inspiration from fields as diverse as medicine, linguistics, data science, and machine learning.
Focus Abstract Presenters
Ana Aleksandric
Ana Aleksandric is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering, and a graduate research assistant in Health Informatics under the supervision of Dr. Shirin Nilizadeh and Dr. Gabriela Wilson. In Fall 2021 and Spring 2022, she served as a HIMSS TIGER Scholar Intern where she worked on many health informatics-related projects under the supervision of subject matter experts. In July 2023, Ana presented a project named “Facebook Post Credibility as a Predictor of Vaccine Hesitancy in the US” at the international MedInfo 2023 conference held in Sydney, Australia. Furthermore, she obtained her undergraduate degree in computer science at Texas Wesleyan University where she also held the IT Help Desk Student Assistant position. While attending Texas Wesleyan University, she received two awards for the Outstanding Computer Science Student as well as the honor of being a student on the Dean’s list every semester.
Dr. John Robert Bautista
John Robert Bautista is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin and an editorial board member of the International Journal of Medical Informatics. His research focuses on using a sociotechnical lens in examining the use of new and emerging technologies (e.g., smartphones, social media, blockchain, and artificial intelligence) for health-related purposes. He teaches health informatics courses, such as I310M: Introduction to Health Informatics and I20M: Public Health Informatics, as part of UT iSchool’s health informatics concentration of the Undergraduate Informatics Program. He completed his PhD in Information and Communication Science at Nanyang Technological University. He holds a BS Nursing (Cum Laude) from Trinity University of Asia and a Master of Public Health from the University of the Philippines – Manila. He has published in leading health informatics journals, such as JAMIA, JAMIA Open, ACI Open, and IJMI.
Anisha Dangal
Hello, My name is Anisha Dangal, and I currently am a graduate student in Public Health with concentration in Epidemiology at University of Texas at Arlington. I am from Nepal, I was born, raised and living there right before I came to the US for my studies. Immediately after graduating high school, I was determined to steer my career trajectory towards nursing and particularly I always had great interest in the field of maternal and child health. While doing so, I completed my Undergrad nursing in my home country. Subsequently, I worked as a nursing instructor in a college run by the Association of Medical Doctors of Asia (AMDA) for a little over two and a half year. Apart from that I have been certified as a Skilled Birth Attendant after successfully completing the training as well as evaluation conducted by the Central Ministry of Health, Nepal. Also, I got an opportunity to work as a Family planning service provider for a year and a half. Later on, I would like to put my efforts as well as experience to a good use specifically in the areas covering Maternal and child health.
Serenity Fanene
Serenity Fanene is a committed University of Texas at Arlington Public Health student with an active passion for the field of health informatics. During high school, she acquired an associate degree in interdisciplinary studies from Central Texas College’s STEM program. While being an undergrad student she excelled in data visualization and analysis for distinguished research during her time in the TEx BioMed Summer internship and the GET PHIT Boot Camp. Serenity’s journey will continue with the Fall 2023 GET PHIT internship in partnership with the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, exhibiting her commitment to public health informatics growth. Her objective is to apply data science/research practices to improve the existing gaps in today’s healthcare system and advocate for minority populations.
Morgan Foreman
Morgan Foreman is a Design Research Scientist in the Hybrid Cloud division of IBM Research focused on watsonx, our Generative AI Model platform for corporate partners. Previously, she was a Research Scientist and Design Lead in the Accelerated Discovery division of IBM Research focused on user insights and metrics of a computational chemistry SaaS platform. She is also a 4th year PhD Candidate at the University of Texas Health Science Center McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics. Her dissertation research focuses on building culturally sensitive digital health solutions for Black birthing people with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. She received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology in the Spring of 2017. She has 10 years of experience in both industry and academic research with focuses on a range of topics in the Health Informatics field including Health Disparities, Artificial Intelligence applications, UX Research, Digital and Consumer Health Technologies, Social Determinants of Health and specific disease states like Autism, Diabetes, and Maternal Health.
Dr. David Gibbs
Dr. David Gibbs is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Information Management at Texas State University. He oversees a department of approximately fifteen full- and part-time faculty and staff members conducting research and delivering graduate and undergraduate degree programs online and on the Round Rock Campus. Dr. Gibbs earned a PhD in adult, professional, and community education, an MS in online teaching and learning, a BS in computer science, and a graduate certificate in applied biomedical informatics. His research targeting interprofessional health informatics education is published in scholarly journals and textbook chapters. He has served HIMSS, AHIMA, TxHIMA, IEEE, and other professional organizations on a variety of national and local committees including the HIMSS Privacy & Security Committee, Professional Development Committee, Emerging Healthcare Leaders Task Force, and the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) International Task Force. Dr. Gibbs transitioned to academia from corporate and government consulting in 2015 with over 30 years of experience in technical and leadership roles including federal healthcare information systems and solutions architecture. His consulting experience includes multi-year assignments with Hewlett Packard and Lockheed Martin in leadership roles supporting enterprise-level projects for the US Army Medical Information Technology Center, Defense Health Agency, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and National Security Complex. He previously was a visiting instructor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of the Pacific. Dr. Gibbs has been recognized as a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of HIMSS.
Dr. Parvinder Parmar is an Enterprise Business Intelligence Data Analyst in the Office of Corporate Compliance at Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) in Dallas, TX. As a member of the Corporate Compliance Operations Team, Parvinder is responsible for administering, reporting, and functioning as technology lead for the Conflicts of Interest program. He also provides analysis and reports out of the Epic EHR system in response to regulatory and operational inquiries.
Parvinder received his doctorate in astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin, and his master’s degree in business information systems from the Cameron School of Business of the University of North Carolina – Wilmington. Parvinder has also subsequently obtained credentials as a Certified Health Data Analyst (CHDA, under the auspices of American Health Information Management Association) and as an Epic Revenue Data Model certified analyst.
Parvinder began his health information management experience in 2011 as a data analyst with Baylor Health Care System (now Baylor Scott & White Health). Prior to joining BSWH, Parvinder served as a senior consultant with Deloitte, in their Data Quality & Integrity practice. Over the course of these two long-term positions, he developed and delivered technical and training workshops on database systems and data analysis tools to audiences of various levels of experience.
Dr. Jorge Rodríguez-Fernández
Dr. Rodríguez-Fernández currently serves as the Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at UTMB. Currently practices neurology. Part of his informatics role is devoted to physician wellness using EHR tracking tools, artificial intelligence for outcome prediction, value based care, documentation burden and clinical decision support.
Dr. Mari Tietze
Dr. Mari Tietze is the recipient of the Myrna R. Pickard Endowed Professorship at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) College of Nursing and Health Innovation (CONHI). In that role, she is the Affiliate, representing nursing, to the UTA Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics (MICHI), a collaboration among numerous health informaticists. She is also the director of the graduate certificate and master’s in nursing (MSN) Health Informatics at UTA CONHI.
Dr. Tietze was co-investigator in two Texas-wide multi-method studies to examine over 1,000 nurses’ experiences using their electronic health records (EHRs). She is co-author of the 3-time AJN Book of the Year, Nursing Informatics for the Advanced Practice Nurse: Patient Safety, Quality, Outcomes, and Interprofessionalism.
Dr. Tietze received her BSN from Washburn University, her MSN from Kansas University, and her PhD from Texas Woman’s University College of Nursing. She is a Fellow of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and is certified in nursing informatics from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Dr. Tietze is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
Dr. Robert Turer
Robert Turer, MD, MSE, MSACI is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency
Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
After completing his undergraduate degree in computer engineering and a Masters degree in
biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan, Dr. Turer attended Vanderbilt University
School of Medicine. He completed residency in emergency medicine at the University of
Michigan, where he served as a chief resident. He pursued fellowship training in clinical
informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Dr. Turer is a member of the UT Southwestern Clinical Informatics Center and focuses on the
integration of user-centered design and risk-communication principles into clinical decision
support and real-time predictive modeling.
Lightning Talk Abstract Presenters
Dr. Sudeepa Bhattacharyya
Dr. Bhattacharyya is an associate professor of Bioinformatics and Data Science at Arkansas State University since Fall-2019. She also holds a secondary appointment in Biomedical Informatics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Her diverse research interests and experience span from multi-omics data integration for understanding disease mechanisms to developing deep learning algorithms for healthcare applications including risk prediction, mapping social and environmental determinants of health, missing data imputation, and addressing algorithmic bias for underrepresented populations in EHR. Additionally, her lab develops spatial machine-learning models to identify high-risk disease clusters like the rising colorectal cancer rates in Arkansas. They also perform big-data analytics on claims databases and EHRs to elucidate maternal risk factors and disparities underlying increasing infant mortality in the state. Dr. Bhattacharyya actively participates in three large, NIH-funded international consortia on neuropsychiatric disorders. She serves in leadership roles in premier professional societies including the American Public Health Association, American Statistical Association, and ASA’s Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Task Force. Dr. Bhattacharyya has co-facilitated NIH think tanks, served in review panels for NSF and OAH grants, sits on editorial boards, filed patent applications, and obtained continuous NIH, NSF, and USDA funding.
Dr. Prerna Dua
Dr. Prerna Dua is a Professor of Health Informatics and Information Management and Program Director for the Masters in Health Informatics at Louisiana Tech University. Her research focuses on areas of Translational Healthcare Informatics, Bioinformatics, and Data Mining. She has co-authored/edited a book, five book chapters, and has over 100 journals, conference publications
and abstracts. Her research has been funded by the NIH, DHHS, and LA-BOR. She primarily teaches graduate-level courses in Health Informatics. She is a member of CAHIIM’s Health Informatics Accreditation Council (HIAC). She is also active in the American Medical Informatics
Association (AMIA) and serves on various committees.
Elizabeth Gonzalez
Lizzie Gonzalez is a Vocera Systems Administrator in the Nursing Informatics department at UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) and integrates systems, analyzes data, and optimizes the nursing units’ workflows. Lizzie is a recent graduate of the Master of Science in Health Informatics program at UTSW where she completed her capstone research under the mentorship of Dr. Robert Turer. As a master’s student, Lizzie completed a summer traineeship in Nursing Informatics at UTSW under the supervision of Emily Flahaven, Director of Nursing Informatics. Lizzie graduated from Texas Christian University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and a minor in Anthropology. Lizzie uses her informatics background to implement change in health systems, keep the focus of medicine patient centric, and create more equitable opportunities for all through the removal of barriers.
Tanvi Ingle
Tanvi Ingle is a second-year medical student at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She earned a B.S. in Biochemistry Honors at the University of Texas at Austin in May 2022. Tanvi is passionate about harnessing clinical informatics to improve health outcomes in underserved communities.
Dr. Shakera Moreland
Dr. Shakera Moreland, also known as “The HIM Concierge,” is the Founder of Health Information Management (HIM) Concierge Services. Her mission is to address the external factors that impact health, including socioeconomic factors, patient access, and literacy. Driven by a passion for leveraging technology advancements, she aims to improve provider satisfaction and develop the next generation of health information and informatics professionals.
Currently, Dr. Moreland is an active member of the THIA Workforce Development and Education Committees. She has been voted as a Board Member to the Texas Health Information Management Association, a state affiliate of the national American Health Information Management Association. Additionally, she serves on multiple academic advisory boards and institutions across the country.
One of Dr. Moreland’s notable achievements is the creation of the HIM Career Assessment. This assessment, along with various subdomain assessments, helps new and existing health information and informatics professionals identify their niche and pair them with optimal career and advancement opportunities.
With a wide range of experience in health information management, spanning from the front end to the back end, Dr. Moreland offers a unique perspective on how AI/ML applications can enhance patient outcomes, improve patient and provider satisfaction, and optimize the revenue cycle.
Dr. Moreland obtained her B.S. degree in Health Informatics and MBA with a concentration in Healthcare Management from Western Governors University in 2012 and 2014, respectively. She pursued her doctoral coursework in Health Sciences with a concentration in Leadership and Organizational Behavior at A. T. Still University, completing it in 2020. Her research focused on finding ways to alleviate the administrative burden on healthcare providers.
Furthermore, Dr. Moreland has earned various certifications, including Registered Health Information Administrator and Certified Coding Associate from the American Health Information Management Association, Certified Professional Coder from the American Academy of Professional Coders, A+ IT Professional certification from CompTIA, Certified Revenue Cycle Representative and Certified Specialist in Business Intelligence from the Healthcare Financial Management Association, and Certified Scrum Master through Scrum Alliance.
Shannon Shiffer
Shannon Shiffer works as a Software System Specialist at UT Southwestern Medical Center. As a recent graduate of UT Southwestern’s Master of Science in Health Informatics program, the topics that this conference will address are particularly fascinating to her. She thinks it is important to explore how health informatics can help achieve health care equity. With an undergraduate background in Child Development and Spanish, she has an appreciation for how different groups access health care and what barriers they may face. She studied who receives weight loss surgery and how they are affected post-operation in her master’s capstone project. This investigation led her to think about the inequalities certain groups face when accessing that type of health care. In her free time she enjoys spending time with my past classmates and friends, drawing, and walking.
Dr. Mari Tietze
Dr. Mari Tietze is the recipient of the Myrna R. Pickard Endowed Professorship at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) College of Nursing and Health Innovation (CONHI). In that role, she is the Affiliate, representing nursing, to the UTA Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics (MICHI), a collaboration among numerous health informaticists. She is also the director of the graduate certificate and master’s in nursing (MSN) Health Informatics at UTA CONHI.
Dr. Tietze was co-investigator in two Texas-wide multi-method studies to examine over 1,000 nurses’ experiences using their electronic health records (EHRs). She is co-author of the 3-time AJN Book of the Year, Nursing Informatics for the Advanced Practice Nurse: Patient Safety, Quality, Outcomes, and Interprofessionalism.
Dr. Tietze received her BSN from Washburn University, her MSN from Kansas University, and her PhD from Texas Woman’s University College of Nursing. She is a Fellow of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and is certified in nursing informatics from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Dr. Tietze is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
Jorge Zamora
Jorge Zamora is a Quality Analyst on the Clinical Outcomes team for Methodist Healthcare San Antonio and is using his Informatics background to bring digital transformation to the frontlines. In his current role, he supports their 9 hospitals to provide quality and safe patient care while meeting our core measures. Some of his most recent projects include the development of reports/dashboards, electronic tools, process improvement, data literacy education, and implementation of policy and recall management programs.
Jorge is the co-program chair for the Young Professionals Colleague Network at Methodist Healthcare System where he and his team organize events offering networking, skill development, and community engagement opportunities for members. He is also the co-chair of Professional Development for the South Texas HIMSS chapter and has presented at HIMSS Global Conference. He most recently presented his work on preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections using a Microsoft Forms QR code to collect Bundle Audit data. He has a BS in Biology from UT Austin and a MS in Biomedical Informatics form UT Health -McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics. Jorge has South Texas roots and enjoys spending his time outdoors with his dogs and visiting family.
Poster Abstract Presenters
Hannah Affleck
Hannah Affleck is currently a graduate student at the University of Texas at Arlington, pursuing a Master of Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology. She has an undergraduate background in Public Health with experience in working with chronic health diseases and contact tracing during the Covid-19 pandemic. She is employed as an Operations Specialist at Apple and as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Physical Activity and Wearable Sensors Lab (PAWS) at UTA. She is currently working on three research projects with the PAWS lab with a primary focus on cancer research and minority populations.
Aarti Darji
Aarti Darji is an undergraduate student at The University of Texas at Arlington majoring in Data Science. This summer she worked on creating a Multimodal Pathology Search Engine as part of her participation in the TExBioMed program. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Public Health and Machine Learning. She hopes to utilize artificial intelligence algorithms and apply them to healthcare data to gain better insights. Her future goals include pursuing graduate school for bioinformatics.
Dr. Estefanie Garduno-Rapp
Building and Deploying a Cloud Environment for Hosting Custom Application Development Services within an Academic Tertiary Center
Estefanie Garduno Rapp is originally from Mexico City where she attended medical school at Westhill University and the National Institute of Fine Arts. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Health Informatics at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UT Southwestern where she works as a research project manager for the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
She is a member of the student and early career editorial board for Applied Clinical Informatics the official e-journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA).
Estefanie’s goal is to consistently improve patients’ quality of life through optimization of health care processes. Therefore, she has participated in multiple global healthcare projects in which her interventions have been judged as innovative and appealing.
As an artist and a woman advocate, Estefanie founded: “Women in Art” at UTSW, a group dedicated to empowering women through art to promote creative thinking that leads to concrete outcomes. Her illustrations have been seen in advertisements and children’s books and her surrealist-anatomical artwork has been displayed at multiple art venues.
Dr. Melody Greer
Dr. Greer is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Her research is focused on social determinants of health data enhancement and interoperability in healthcare, as well as clinical trial data management. She is a faculty member for the UAMS Clinical Informatics Fellowship and a mentor for Health Sciences Innovation and Entrepreneurship postdoctoral fellows. Dr. Greer works to collect and manage clinical trial data as part of the Data Coordinating Center of the ECHO IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network. She also serves on the Translational Research Institutes Team Science Committee.
Rakshita Kota
Rakshita Kota is a junior at the University of Texas at Austin, pursuing a degree in Health Informatics with minors in Computer Science and Business Administration. She plays a pivotal role as the President and Founder of the Health Informatics Organization at UT Austin, which is the first undergraduate health informatics student organization nationwide. Rakshita is also actively involved in promoting gender equality and inclusion in the technology field as the Co-founder and Vice President of Women in Informatics. Her research interests lie in leveraging technology to address pressing social and health-related challenges, aiming to contribute positively to society.
Sun Won (Hannah) Min
Sun Won Min is currently a master’s student in the Master of Science in Health Informatics program at the University of Texas Southwestern. She obtained her B.S. in Biology and Minor in Neuroscience at Texas A&M University. From 2019 to 2022, she performed research on CLARITY (PACT) clearing and Light-sheet Fluorescence Imaging to characterize neural circuity and secondary inflammation following acute spinal cord injury of the intact, murine spinal cord under the supervision of Dr. Dylan McCreedy. Now, she intends to combine her interests in health informatics and data analytics with her biological education.
Jhoceline Moza
Jhoceline Moza is a graduate research assistant for the Physical Activity and Wearable Sensors (PAWS) lab under Dr. Yue Liao at the University of Texas at Arlington. Initially, she started volunteering for the
Health Survey Research (HSR) lab for Dr. Tiffany Kindratt conducting secondary research and obtaining data from the National Health Nutrition and Examination Survey. It was then that it sparked her interest in health informatics and data analytics. During her time in the HSR lab, she completed literature reviews, input STATA outputs to tables and wrote the first draft for the manuscript, “How do people spend their day? Sociodemographic disparities in the 24-hour movement guidelines among adults in the United States” which was recently published. In addition, she co-authored and received acceptance for the abstract which was presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in 2022. At the PAWS lab, she has helped translate survey responses for Spanish-speaking participants along with collecting and managing data. Her current project, Project GEMS (Geospatial, E-/M-Health and Social Determinants of Health) focuses on geolocations and interventions to help improve the digital divide gap in Hispanic women. She co-authored and received acceptance for the abstract, “Do you want your smartwatch to tell you what to do? Perspectives from Hispanic women” which will be presented in this year’s American Public Health Association annual meeting. This fall she will begin her Master of Science in Business Analytics and Marketing Research at UT Arlington.
Jorge Zamora
Jorge Zamora is a Quality Analyst on the Clinical Outcomes team for Methodist Healthcare San Antonio and is using his Informatics background to bring digital transformation to the frontlines. In his current role, he supports their 9 hospitals to provide quality and safe patient care while meeting our core measures. Some of his most recent projects include the development of reports/dashboards, electronic tools, process improvement, data literacy education, and implementation of policy and recall management programs.
Jorge is the co-program chair for the Young Professionals Colleague Network at Methodist Healthcare System where he and his team organize events offering networking, skill development, and community engagement opportunities for members. He is also the co-chair of Professional Development for the South Texas HIMSS chapter and has presented at HIMSS Global Conference. He most recently presented his work on preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections using a Microsoft Forms QR code to collect Bundle Audit data. He has a BS in Biology from UT Austin and a MS in Biomedical Informatics form UT Health -McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics. Jorge has South Texas roots and enjoys spending his time outdoors with his dogs and visiting family.