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BMIC Staff

If you need to contact staff about issues or with any questions about BMIC services or supported applications, the best way to contact us is to submit a Help Desk Ticket.   All staff monitor the desk and can respond if a particular staff member is unavailable.  You may email CTSI BMIC staff directly, if you prefer, but you will get the best response by submitting a Help Desk Ticket.

If you have an emergency, you may call the CTSI BMIC Helpline at 801-213-1550 between 9 AM and 5 PM.

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  Name Title Expertise Area Email
Sumon Chattopadhyay	Sr. Software Developer
Sumon Chattopadhyay Sr. Software Developer REDCap Design Management, External Module Software Development, Data Management, Software Engineering, Front End Development sumon.chattopadhyay@utah.edu
Terrance Davis Software Design Engineer, Sr.
Terrance Davis Software Design Engineer, Sr. Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Systems Design terrance.davis@utah.edu
Julio-Facelli CTSI Associate Director for Biomedical Informatics
Julio Facelli Associate Director for Biomedical Informatics, Utah Clinical and Translational Science Institute Parallel and distributed computing applications to biomedical informatics, grid computing in biomedicine, parallel genetic algorithms for crystal structure prediction of drugs, novel application of data mining algorithms to biomedical problems, nanoinformatics julio.facelli@utah.edu
  Tayler Fearn Research Assistant Data Wrangling, Data Mining, Machine Learning tayler.fearn@utah.edu
Ram Gouripeddi Assistant Director of Informatics
Ram Gouripeddi Assistant Director of Informatics, Utah Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Machine learning, data mining and data wrangling for translational research, exposure health informatics, clinical research informatics, big data ecosystems for research, biomedical terminologies and ontologies, metadata discovery and semantic data federation and integration, biomedical terminologies and ontologies, computational modeling.

ram.gouripeddi@utah.edu
Alyssa Hill Application Analyst
Alyssa Hill Application Analyst Helpdesk and Service Management, SOP and Knowledge Article Management, REDCap Support
 
alyssa.hill@utah.edu
 
Donna Housley, PhD BioSpecimen Navigator
Donna Housley, PhD BioSpecimen Navigator Biorepository Services, OpenSpecimen donna.housley@hsc.utah.edu
  Mary Irion IT Project Manager, Sr. Project Management, Design and Implementation, REDCap EDC, OpenSpecimen, Jira Atlassian Service / Work Management mary.irion@utah.edu
  TBD Sr. Systems Engineer

Systems engineering, management and deployment

 

 
Alexander Millar - Doctoral Student
Alexander Millar Doctoral Student Data mining, Uncertainty in AI, Conformal learning alexander.millar@utah.edu
Randy Madsen - BMIC Director of Operations
Randy Madsen Director of Operations Enterprise, Architecture, Systems Operations, Process Management, Product Management randy.madsen@utah.edu
Ashley O'Connor Application Analyst
Ashley O'Connor
 
Application Analyst
 
EDC application systems management, SOP and Knowledge Article Management, REDCap Support
 
ashley.farr@utah.edu
 
  Akhil Potla Software Design Engineer, Sr Full stack web development, CI/CD, Python, Javascript, React, Flask,  AWS Cloud Practitioner  akhil.potla@utah.edu
Rob Smart
Rob Smart Principal Software Design Engineer Exposome Health Informatics Ecosystem, Software Architecture and Engineering rob.smart@utah.edu
  TBD Research Associate Data mining, Temporal machine learning, Conformal learning  
Dr. Kathy Sward
Katherine Sward Assistant Director of Informatics,
Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Informatics for clinical trials and recruitment; biomedical terminology/vocabulary management; data/information standards; design, development, and implementation of decision support systems and databases; Informatics education, and administration; Informatics to support exposure science, sensor monitoring; user centered design. kathy.sward@nurs.utah.edu
VICTORIA L. TIASE, PHD, RN-BC, FAMIA, FNAP, FAAN
Victoria L. Tiase Assistant Director of Informatics,
Clinical and Translational Science Institute
EHR data structures, system implementation, change management, device integration, health system governance, design thinking victoria.tiase@utah.edu