Biomedical Informatics Staff

Alma Martinez, MA

Project Manager

Research Interest: 
Pediatric Neuropsychological Research, specializing in infant brain development and traumatic brain injuries; project coordination in recruitment, retention and data collection; human dubjects research community education and outreach with underrepresented populations; streamlined workflows for projects and fostered collaborations with community partners; and developing standardized operating procedures for research teams to ensure quality data collection for valid results

Education:
Master of Arts. Education – UCLA
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology – Occidental College

Research Project:
All of Us Research Project (NIH)

Contact:
aam019@health.ucsd.edu

Angelina Cordaro, MS

Technical Project Manager

Research Interests:
Health Information Technology; Precision Medicine; Mental Health; OpenNotes

Education:
Bachelor of Arts (BA), English – Ashford University
Master of Science in Health Informatics (MSHI), National University

Projects:
CalIVRS, Maryland Electronic Vital Records

Contact:
acordaro@health.ucsd.edu

Jamie Le

Consortium Communications Manager

Research Interests:
Public Relations; Communication; Marketing; Strategic Initiatives

Education:
Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, San Diego State University

Research Project:
All of Us Research Project (NIH)

Contact:
jjln006@health.ucsd.edu

Kaci Marques

Financial Analyst

Projects:
CalIVRS

Contact:
kmarques@health.ucsd.edu

Kevin Kunkel

Technical Project Manager

Research Interests:
State and federal NCHS data products.

Projects:
CalIVRS

Contact:
kkunkel@health.ucsd.edu

Mathi Ganapathi

Research Associate

Research Interests:
Health Data Management

Education:
Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology, Bharathidasan University

Research Project:
All of Us Research Project

Contact:
mvganapathi@health.ucsd.edu 

Maria Triplett, MPH

Academic and Research Coordinator 

Education:
Bachelor of Science in Public Health, University of California San Diego

Projects:
RADx-rad DCC, NLM Fellowship Program, DBMI Summer Internship

Contact:
m1triplett@health.ucsd.edu

Michael Darion Fontenot

Technical Project Manager

Research Interests:
Predictive & Preventive Medicine, Health Information Technology, Infection Control, System Design and Development, Project Planning, Implementation and Support.

Education:
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, University of Houston

Projects:
CalIVRS

Contact:
mdfontenot@health.ucsd.edu

Morgan Conrad

All of Us Consortium Retention and Engagement Manager

Research Interests:
Cancer, genetics, enzymatic chemistry, and precision medicine

Education:
Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California Santz Cruz

Projects:
All of Us Research Project (NIH)

Contact:
mconrad@health.ucsd.edu

Nancy Herbst, MBA

Director

Education:
Masters of Business Administration, National University
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with a minor in legal studies, National University
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, UCSD and Rath & Strong

Publications:
Contributing author and book editor for the College and School Law: Analysis, Prevention, and Forms published by the American Bar Association (978-1-61632-008-9).

Service Work
Chair, Committee on the 2018 UCSD Women’s Conference (2017 – 2018)
Member, Supervising Committee, USE Credit Union (2016 – 2021)
Site Coordinator, WACUBO (Western Association of College and University Business Officers) (2015 – present)
Chair, Citizens' Bond Oversight Committee, Grossmont Union High School District (2011 – 2017)
Board Member, San Diego Future’s Foundation (Chair of the Audit and Education Subcommittees) (2010 – 2013)

Contact:
858-822-2903; nherbst@health.ucsd.edu

Tracy Layton, MS

Consortium Program Manager

Research Interests:
Health research, especially focused on screening, prevention and treatment; patient/participant outreach and recruitment; screening and prevention education; implementation of clinical care improvement, including improving clinical decision making in the clinical setting; and integrations with electronic health record systems and research systems

Education:
Master of Science in Biology, Northern Arizona University
Bachelor of Science in Microbiology, University of Arizona

Projects:
All of Us Research Project (NIH)

Contact:
tlayton@health.ucsd.edu

Vira Danak Bhatt, MS

Senior Technical Project Manager

Research Interests:
Health Information Exchange & Interoperability, Preventive Medicine, Data Science

Education:
Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry, Gujarat University
Master of Science in Bioinformatics, Gujarat University
Master of Science in Health Informatics, University of California Davis

Projects: CalIVRS

Contact:
vdanakbhatt@health.ucsd.edu

Alexander Matthews Reyes

QA Release Management Analyst

Education:
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, San Diego State University

Projects: 
CalIVRS

Contact
amr013@health.ucsd.edu

Adrianne Agsolid

Bioinformatics Programmer

Research Interest:
Software development in biomedical research and publich health.

Skills:
Implementation of large-scale JEE applications and infrastructure using Spring, JSF, AngularJS and Model-View-Controller (MVC) design.

Projects:
CalIVRS

Contact:
aagsolid@health.ucsd.edu

Brian Fox

Information Systems Analyst

Research Interests:
Machine Learning, health information technology

Education:
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, San Diego State University

Projects:
All of Us Research Project (NIH)

Contact
Befox@health.ucsd.edu

Edward O’Neill

Applications Programmer

Research Interests:
Data quality.

Projects:
CalIVRS

Contact:
edoneill@health.ucsd.edu

Edwin (Ed) Bean, MS

Senior Applications Programmer

Research Interests:
DevOps, Observability, CI/CD, Process Automation and Process Improvement.

Education:
Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, University of California at Santa Barbara
Master of Science in Health Informatics, University of California Davis

Projects:
CalIVRS

Contact:
ebean@health.ucsd.edu

Gary Kean, MS

Bioinformatics Programmer

Research Interests:
Health Data Anonymization techniques; No SQL databases; Health care network adequacy

Education:
Masters of Science in Health Informatics, University of California, Davis
Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design, Illinois Institute of Technology

Projects:
CalIVRS, DHCS

Contact:
gkean@health.ucsd.edu

Jesse King

Geographic Info Systems Programmer

Research Interests:
Health Data Anonymization techniques; Data Visualization; Data Science

Education:
Geographic Information Systems Certificate, American River College
Bachelor of Science in Geography, Portland State University

Projects:
CalIVRS

Contact:
j8king@health.ucsd.edu

John William Claypool

Senior Applications Programmer

Research Interest:
DBMS Kernel, application development tools, and Object Request Broker implementations.

Education:
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Cal State University Sacramento.

Projects:
CalIVRS

Contact:
jclaypool@health.ucsd.edu

Kai Post, MS

Bioinformatics Programmer

Research Interests:
Bioinformatics; Electronic Medicine; Data Management and Analysis

Education:
Masters of Science in Biology, University of Virginia

Select Publications:
Pauthner M, Havenar-Daughton C, Sok D, Nkolola JP, Bastidas R, Boopathy AV, Carnathan DG, Chandrashekar A, Cirelli KM, Cottrell CA, Eroshkin AM, Guenaga J, Kaushik K, Kulp DW, Liu J, McCoy LE, Oom AL, Ozorowski G, Post KW, Sharma SK, Steichen JM, de Taeye SW, Tokatlian T, Torrents de la Peña A, Butera ST, LaBranche CC15, Montefiori DC, Silvestri G, Wilson IA, Irvine DJ, Sanders RW, Schief WR, Ward AB, Wyatt RT, Barouch DH, Crotty S, Burton DR  Elicitation of Robust Tier 2 Neutralizing Antibody Responses in Nonhuman Primates by HIV Envelope Trimer Immunization Using Optimized Approaches. Immunity. 2017; 46(6):1073-1088.e6.

Eroshkin AM, LeBlanc A, Weekes D, Post K, Li Z, Rajput A, Butera ST, Burton DR and Godzik Al. bNAber: database of broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies. Nucleic Acids Res. 2014; 42(Database issue):D1133-9.

Mayya Sedova, Mallika Iyer, Zhanwen Li, Lukasz Jaroszewski, Kai W Post, Thomas Hrabe, Eduard Porta-Pardo, Adam Godzik; Cancer3D 2.0: interactive analysis of 3D patterns of cancer mutations in cancer subsets, Nucleic Acids Research. 2018; gky1098

Projects:
CalIVRS

Contact
k1post@health.ucsd.edu

Kevin J. Delaney, PhD

Database Administrator

Research Interests:
Data Visualization and Analysis; Sensor Fusion

Education:
PhD in Electrical Engineering, US Naval Postgraduate School

Contact
kjdelaney@health.ucsd.edu

Marco Gonzales

Bioinformatics Programmer

Contact:
m7gonzales@health.ucsd.edu

Patrick Mao

Senior Applications Programmer

Education: 
Bachelor of Science in Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Research interests:
Data processing, frameworks and architectures, frontend technologies etc.

Projects:
CalIVRS

Contact:
pmao@health.ucsd.edu

Ravinder Atwal

Chief Technology Officer
Chief Architect and Deputy Director, CalIVRS

Education:
Bachelors of Science in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, Western Governor's University, Salt Lake City, UT
Masters of Science in Health Informatics (pending)

Skills:
Systems and network administration, cloud management, cybersecurity, and IT service management.

Projects:
CalIVRS

Contact:
ratwal@health.ucsd.edu

Rob Anderson

Applications Programmer

Research Interest:
Financial and legal support software, system integration, and tool creation.

Education:
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, California State University, Stanislaus.

Skills:
DevOps and full stack developer in Javascript, Java, SQL, et al on POSIX server and desktop environments. 

Projects:
CalIVRS, Maryland Electronic Vital Records

Contact:
roanderson@health.ucsd.edu

Elizabeth Pecoraro

Clinical Research Coordinator - Phlebotomist

Research Interests:
Precision Medicine, Cancer, Clinical Trials, Public Health, and Child Development

Research Projects:
All of Us Research Project (NIH)

Contact:
epecoraro@health.ucsd.edu

Emily Nunez

Clinical Research Coordinator - Phlebotomist

Research Interests:
Precision medicine and genetics ,Child Development, and Clinical Trials

Research Projects:
All of Us Research Project (NIH)

Contact:
emnunez@health.ucsd.edu

Oriana Aguilar

Lead Clinical Research Coordinator - Phlebotomist

Research Interests:
Precision medicine and genetics

Education:
Associate of Science, Biological Sciences
Certified Phlebotomy Technician
Certified Emergency Medical Technician

Research Projects:
All of Us Research Project (NIH)

Contact:
oaguilar@health.ucsd.edu

Sharon Vizcarra Ham

Clinical Research Coordinator - Phlebotomist

Research Interests:
Genetics, public health, clinical trials, precision medicine and cancer

Education:
BBA Business Administration - Universidad Autonoma de Baja California
Project Management - Cetys Universidad
Lean and Six Sigma for Phlebotomist - National Center for Competency Testing
Certified Phlebotomy Technician - Universal Schools & Colleges of Health & Human Services

Research Projects:
All of Us Research Project (NIH)

Contact:
svizcarra@health.ucsd.edu