WORKING GROUPS
TEXAS HEALTH INFORMATICS ALLIANCE
THIA Mission Statement
To collaborate on improving health informatics and health care and meet Texas’ current and future
health informatics needs.
HOW?
We build informatics ties across Texas by bringing together researchers, developers, health
professionals, information management professionals, data and information scientists, students, and
anyone interested in health informatics to collaborate, communicate, and network in the following
areas:
- Data
- Policy and Standards
- Education and Workforce Development
- Research
Data Working Group
DATA WORKING GROUP
Data Working Group Mission Statement
sharing, interoperability, and storage to facilitate best practices for researchers, developers,
practicing health professionals, information management professionals, and data and information
scientists to improve healthcare quality and safety.
Chair
Noorullah Akhtar, MD, MBI, FAAP,
Chief Medical Information Office,
Driscoll Children’s Hospital
Practicing pediatrician and clinical informaticist interested in collaborating to explore the potential of all levels of clinical data for informing and enabling practitioners to achieve better patient care.
Members
Lorrie Burkhalter, MPH, CCRC
Latasha Davis, BSN, RN, Transition nurse coordinator ACHD,
UT Southwestern
Susan McBride, PhD, RN-BC, CPHIMS, FAAN, Associate Dean of Research
University of Texas at Tyler
Mikyoung A. Lee, PhD, RN
Matthew Faatz, Business Intelligence Developer
UTHealth Science Center at Houston
Amy Wagler, PhD, Statistics; MS, Statistics; BS, Mathematics, Professor
The University of Texas at El Paso
Policy and Standards Working Group
POLICY AND STANDARDS WORKING GROUP
Policy Working Group Mission Statement
Chair
Katherine Lusk, MHSM, RHIA, FAHIMA,
Texas Health Services Authority
Katherine Lusk, MHSM, RHIA, FAHIMA is the Vice President Strategic Partnerships for the Texas Health Services Authority with a focus on cross-industry facilitation of trusted data exchange that supports innovation and data mobility. She has long championed interoperability serving in multiple local, regional and national roles.
Members
Susan Fenton, PHD, ACHIP, FAMIA
Jason Gillman, MD
John C Kilburn, Jr., Ph.D. Sociology – Louisiana State University, Associate Vice President for Research, Professor of Sociology,
Texas A&M International
Bradley Grant, MD, JD
Susan R. Bradshaw, MS, MBA, RHIA
Karen Knecht, MSN, RN, Clinical Advisor
StressPal, Inc.
Research Working Group
RESEARCH WORKING GROUP
Research Working Group Mission Statement
Chair
Mikyoung Angela Lee, PhD, RN, TWU
Dr. Lee’s research focuses on designing, building, and testing the health information technology (HIT) capacity for nursing data acquisition, nursing effectiveness measurement, big data analytics, information exchange, and consumer health informatics. She has developed an automated extraction software, using natural language processing, to transform nursing narratives into quantifiable nursing interventions and outcomes data into standardized nursing terminologies. She developed and tested a mobile app for handoff communication to enhance nurses’ and nursing students’ clinical judgment competency and nursing handoff practice. She has worked on big data nursing science projects with national research working groups and database building and analytics with an interdisciplinary informatics research team. Her research of consumer health informatics focuses on the enhancement of laypersons’ knowledge/skills of health promotion 3 management and the expansion of nurses’ roles through survey study, website evaluation, and web mining. She is also developing teaching pedagogies to improve the informatics competencies of nursing students.
Members
Zhaoli Liu, PhD, APRN,
University of Texas at Arlington
Lorrie Burkhalter, MPH, CCRC,
O’Donnell School of Public Health
Dr. Laurie C. Long, PhD,
Texas Health Resources
Latasha Davis, BSN, RN, Transition nurse coordinator ACHD,
UT Southwestern
Susan McBride, PhD, RN-BC, CPHIMS, FAAN, Associate Dean of Research
University of Texas at Tyler
Morgan Foreman, PhD Candidate, BS, Research Scientist
IBM Research
Ling Chu, MD,
UT Southwestern
Christoph U. Lehmann, MD,
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Lisa M. Sheid, MD, Assistant Professor,
UT Southwestern
Yaser ElNakieb, Ph.D, BioEngineering, Data Scientist III,
UTSW medical center
Prerna Dua, PhD, Professor and Program Director,
Louisiana Tech University
John C Kilburn, Jr., Ph.D. Sociology – Louisiana State University, Associate Vice President for Research, Professor of Sociology,
Texas A&M International
Education and Workforce Development Working Group
EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT WORKING GROUP
Workforce Development Working Group Mission Statement
Chair
Mari Tietze, PhD, RN-BC, FHIMSS, FAAN, University of Texas at Arlington
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.
Members
John Robert Bautista, RN, MPH, PhD, School of Information, UT Austin
Marion J. Ball, Marion J. Ball, EdD, FACMI, FAAN, FIAHSI, FMLA, FAHIMA, FHIMSS, FCHIME, FIMIA,
Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics (MICHI), University of Texas at Arlington
Deborah Carroll, RHIA, CCS,
Bland Garvey, CPAs & Wealth Advisors
Christoph U. Lehmann, MD,
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Mikyoung A. Lee, PhD, RN,
Texas Woman’s University
Latasha Davis, BSN, RN, Transition nurse coordinator ACHD,
UT Southwestern
Amy Wagler, PhD, Statistics; MS, Statistics; BS, Mathematics, Professor
The University of Texas at El Paso
Lauren M Hess, MD, FAAP, ABPM-CI, Associate Professor, Associate Medical Information Officer
Texas Childrens Hospital
Jorge Mario Rodríguez-Fernández, MD, UTMB
Gabriela Mustata Wilson, PhD, MSc, FHIMSS, SNAI, FIAHSI,
Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics, The University of Texas at Arlington
Parvinder S Parmar, PhD, CHDA, Baylor Scott & White Health
Maxine Adegbola, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF,
University of Texas at Arlington
David Gibbs, PhD, CPHIMS, CPHI, CHPS, CISSP, FHIMSS,
Texas State University
Stephanie H. Hoelscher, DNP, RN-BC, CPHIMS, CHISP, FHIMSS,
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Tracia M. Forman, PhD, RN-BC, CNE, Assistant Professor,
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
John C Kilburn, Jr., Ph.D. Sociology – Louisiana State University, Associate Vice President for Research, Professor of Sociology,
Texas A&M International
