Domain experts will serve different roles depending on their availability, ranging from answering questions by email and in person to hosting people for a tour or shadowing. 

ON CAMPUS

Srikar Adhikari, MD, Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine

Dave Biffar, MS, ASTEC, Director of Operations

Expertise: Business Side Simulation in Healthcare; Business Plans, Systems Integration Hospital with Simulation Center; Medical Devices-Company

Zachary Cohen, PhD, Director of the Personalized Treatment Lab, Department of Psychology

Expertise: Precision and Personalized Treatment Approaches in Mental Health, Machine Learning, Digital Therapeutics, Digital Phenotyping/Passive Sensing, Clinical Decision-Making, Clinical Trials, Psychotherapy

Kate Ellingson, Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Expertise: Infectious Diseases Epidemiology; Infection Prevention; Healthcare-Associated Infections; Occupational Health

John Galgiani, MD, College of Medicine/Valley Fever Center of Excellence

Expertise: Valley Fever 

Allan Hamilton, MD, ASTEC, Executive Director

Expertise: AI in Healthcare

Brian Hilligoss, PhD, Associate Professor, Eller College of Management 

Expertise: Management and Leadership in Healthcare, Organizational Change, Coordination 

Joanna Katsanis, PhD, College of Medicine, Associate Clinical Professor, Psychiatry

Nell Maltman, PhD, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

Expertise: Autism, Speech/Language, Cognition, Genetics 

Erin McMahon, EdD, CNM, FACNM, Assistant Clinical Professor

Expertise: Midwifery, Maternal Mortality/Morbidity, Triage, Telehealth, Provider Access

Mike Myers, MBA, Eller College of Management 

Expertise: Advertising, Marketing, Consulting, Entrepreneurship, Pharma, Medical Device, Biotech, Market Access

Sudha Ram, PhD, Professor of Management Information Systems 

Expertise: Healthcare Analytics, Mechine Learning, AI Applications in Healthcare 

Sydney Rice, MD, College of Medicine/Department of Pediatrics

Expertise: Outpatient Clinical Care, Children, Disabilities, Autism 

Ritu Pandey, PhD, Associate Research Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine, Associate Director Translational Bioinformatics, Center for Biomedical Informatics and Biostatistics

Expertise: Data driven insights, Precision medicine, translational bioinformatics, connecting biomedical data points.

Jennifer Wishnie, DVM, MSc, MPH, DACVPM, Associate Professor of Practice, College of Veterinary Medicine

Expertise:  Veterinary Public Health, Zoonoses, Antimicrobial Use and Resistance, Food Safety, Policy, Climate Change

John Woolf, PT, ATC, PhD, Doctor of Physical Therapy Program

Expertise: Patient-Centered Care, Relationship-Centered Care

Seokjun Youn, PhD, Management Information Systems

Expertise: Operational Efficiency in Healthcare Delivery Systems; Patient Flow and Healthcare Resource Management; Health IT, Patient Portal, and Online Health Communities; Clinical Practice Variation; Capacity Planning and Scheduling in Healthcare. Data Analytics and Machine Learning

Beth Zerr, PharmD, Department of Pharmacy Practice at the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy

Expertise: Telehealth; Pharmacy; Diabetes; Women's Health; Primary Care; Transitions of Care

OFF CAMPUS

Zachary Brooks, PhD, CEO, UGenome

Hirsch Handmaker, MD, Research Professor of Radiology, UACOM-P, Chairman and CEO, The CACTIS Foundation 

Jared Perkins, CEO, Children's Clinics Tucson

Expertise: Healthcare Administration, Financing and Healthcare Systems 

Ramona Walls, PHD, Executive Director of Data Science, Data Collaboration Center, C-Path Institute 

Expertise: Data Science, Data Management, Standards, Clinical Data, Regulatory Standards, Public Private Partnerships 

Pre-Emergency Department projects:

• An Arizona wait times website (compare to DMV wait time for emissions testing).
• Educational chatbots that help decide whether an ED visit is needed.
• Develop app to connect patients with a telehealth provider to help screen/treat without ED visit.

In the Emergency Department projects:

• Develop AI-guided triage process. (Domain expert proposed project.
• Identifying undiagnosed cases of rare disease (e.g., valley fever, others) in the emergency room. (Domain expert proposed project)
• Screening patients who come to the ER for possible concussion. (Domain expert proposed project)
• Leverage AI to adjust interactions with doctors for patients with autism. (Domain expert proposed project)
• Design patient chatbots to guide patients in how to ask questions.
• Leverage AI to adjust interactions with doctors for patients with autism. (Domain expert proposed project)
• Develop an AI advocate for patients that explains tests ordered and results of each test as they are completed.
• Personalized Medication Service

Emergency Department Business Management projects

• Use AI for better budgeting in the ED.
• Develop AI tool to predict staffing needs by shift.  
• Compare business models with contractors in ED and university ED.