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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.

View the CTSI Organization Chart (BMIC Org Chart Embedded)

 

  Name Title Expertise Area Email
Venessa Amburgey
Vanessa Amburgey Data Navigation Engineer Research Data Networks, Data Navigation, national and local data source exploration and consultation Vanessa.Amburgey@utah.edu
 
Sumon Chattopadhyay	Sr. Software Developer
Sumon Chattopadhyay Senior Web 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 Senior Software Architect 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
  Monika Gunasekhar Web Dev (Full Stack) II Middleware, microservices, data modeling, application design and services architecture  
  Matias Lee Research Assistant Data Wrangling, Data Mining, Machine Learning  
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 Business Systems Analyst II Helpdesk and Service Management, SOP and Knowledge Article Management, REDCap Support
 
alyssa.hill@utah.edu
 
Donna Housley, PhD BioSpecimen Navigator
Donna Housley, PhD Biospecimen Solution Architect Biorepository Services, OpenSpecimen donna.housley@hsc.utah.edu
  Mary Irion Sr Mgr, Bioinformatics Project Management, Design and Implementation, REDCap EDC, OpenSpecimen, Jira Atlassian Service / Work Management mary.irion@utah.edu
  Nidhi Loni IT Programmer/Analyst OpenSpecimen support, implementation, data wrangling and analysis nidhi.loni@utah.edu
 
  Matias Lee Research Assistant Data Wrangling, Data Mining, Machine Learning  
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 Dir Biomedical Informatics Enterprise, Architecture, Systems Operations, Process Management, Product Management randy.madsen@utah.edu
Pavan Motagi, BMIC
Pavan Motagi Technical Project Manager II Project Management, SDLC and Engineering DevOp process integration, ETL and domain content management. pavan.motagi@utah.edu
 
Ashley O'Connor Application Analyst
Ashley O'Connor
 
Data Integration Specialist EDC application systems management, SOP and Knowledge Article Management, REDCap Project Support, Clinical Data Interoperability Services and Research Recruitment support.
 
ashley.farr@utah.edu
 
  TBD Software Design Engineer, Sr Full stack web development, CI/CD, Python, Javascript, React, Flask,  AWS Cloud Practitioner   
Rob Smart
Rob Smart Principal Software Architect Exposome Health Informatics Ecosystem, Software Architecture and Engineering rob.smart@utah.edu
  Brandon Sorenson Senior DevOps Engineer

Systems engineering, management and deployment

 

 
  Marcus Stucki Application Systems Analyst Data management, REDCap support, data wrangling  
  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