Meet our faculty

Faculty: Stephen Erban, MD, MPH 
Title: Associate professor of medicine and chief, Section of Clinical Informatics 
Department/Affiliations: Medicine/Divisions of Health System Science and General Medicine
Fellowship Role: Program director
Expertise: Ambulatory Informatics, Ambulatory Telehealth, Prevention 

Faculty: Prince Philip, MD 
Title: Assistant professor of medicine, associate CMIO, Inpatient 
Department/Affiliations: Medicine/Hospital Medicine  
Fellowship Role: Associate Program Director, Inpatient block rotation,  physician builder, mentor 
Expertise: Inpatient workflows, best practice advisories (BPAs), order sets

Faculty: Eric Alper, MD ​
Title: Professor of medicine, chief quality officer, chief Clinical Informatics officer, UMass Memorial Health  
Department/Affiliations: Medicine/Hospital Medicine 
Fellowship Role: Mentor, elective block rotation 
Expertise: Leadership, IS & Quality Administration, Project Management

Faculty: Allen Chang, MD
Title: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Associate Chief Clinical Informatics Officer for Artificial Intelligence
Department/Affiliations: Medicine/General Internal Medicine
Fellowship Role: AI/ML Block Rotation, Mentor 
Expertise: Artificial intelligence in healthcare, ambulatory workflows, provider wellness

Faculty: Sarah Cutrona, MD, MPH 
Title: Professor of population and quantitative health sciences    
Department/Affiliations: Population and Quantitative Health Sciences/Health Informatics and Implementation Science Division, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 
Fellowship Role: Research mentor 
Expertise: Clinical Informatics, Implementation Science/Supporting Diffusion of Innovative Practices, Medication Safety and Medication Adherence, Patient and Provider Health Communication (Patient-Centered), Supporting Hypertension Self-Management

Faculty: Ben Gerber, MD, MPH 
Title: Professor of population and quantitative health sciences   
Department/Affiliations: Population and Quantitative Health Sciences/Health Informatics and Implementation Science Division 
Fellowship Role: Mentor, elective block rotation on data science using R  
Expertise: Clinical Research, diabetes management, text messaging to improve clinical care

Faculty: Michael Hyder, MD  
Title: Assistant professor of medicine  
Department/Affiliations: Medicine/Cardiology, Office of Clinical Integration (OCI) 
Fellowship Role: Mentor 
Expertise: Population Health. Mentor/supervisor to a capstone project with a focus on "the application of digital capabilities to improve performance of disease-based outcomes in specific population cohorts"

Faculty: Honghuang Lin, PhD, FAHA  
Title: Professor of medicine  
Department/Affiliations: Medicine/Health Systems Science and Program in Digital Medicine 
Fellowship Role: Mentor, block rotation 
Expertise: Machine learning, artificial intelligence, new computational strategies for disease prevention and intervention

Faculty: Kimiyoshi Kobayashi MD, MBA 
Title: Associate professor of medicine, chief quality officer, UMass Memorial Medical Center  
Department/Affiliations: Medicine/Hospital Medicine  
Fellowship Role: Mentor, block rotation 
Expertise: Quality & patient safety

Faculty: Gordon Manning, MD 
Title: Assistant professor of medicine, associate CMIO, Ambulatory 
Department/Affiliations: Medicine/Community Internal Medicine  
Fellowship Role: Ambulatory block rotation lead, physician builder, mentor  
Expertise: Preventive service delivery, sophisticated order sets for disease management

Faculty: Alexandra Sanseverino, MD, MBA​
Title: Associate professor of emergency medicine, Director of EM Informatics for the UMMH System  
Department/Affiliations: Emergency Medicine
Fellowship Role: Mentor, block rotation 
Expertise: EHR optimization/Epic physician builder, quality improvement and lean methodology in healthcare, sepsis workflows, harnessing Epic for optimizing Substance Abuse Disorder (SUD) workflows for ED patients,  ED operations and throughput, clinical decision support that prioritizes ergonomic factors

Faculty: Adrian Zai, MD, PhD, MPH 
Title: Associate professor of population and quantitative health sciences, chief research information officer 
Department/Affiliations: Population and Quantitative Health Sciences/Health Informatics and Implementation Science Division  
Fellowship Role: Mentor
Expertise: Research, Analytics, data architecture