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People
Project Coordination
Surajit Nundy - Project Lead. "Shuro" is a doctor and IT enthusiast who lived in America for a long time where he was trained in Internal Medicine, Computational Neuroscience research and Public Health before moving back to India. He has been a fan and supporter of JSS for many years and travels there frequently from his home in Delhi.
Daniel Pepper - Project Manager. Daniel studied philosophy at the University of Chicago and then worked as a journalist for eight years covering conflict, humanitarian issues and the environment. Along the way he became hooked on clinical medicine and will be heading to medical school in late 2012. Daniel is based at JSS in Chhattisgarh.
Design
Reza Yazdi Director of User Interface Design at ICG (http://www.icgcreative.com), Creative Director - recent projects include Antiterrorism touchscreen software for Titan, MET Classroom Capture for Gates Foundation, and Siemens Soarian Medical Suite.
Sidharth Saxena Silicon Valley based User Experience Designer, currently working for Oracle Corporation. Graduate of IIT Guwahati and Indiana University. Been designing complex enterprise software for more than 6 years, and now want to contribute towards this noble effort in his free time over the weekends. Experienced with UI design for both web and mobile, and both consumer and enterprise domains.
Eli Papa PhD candidate in biomedical engineering (Harvard/MIT) and medical student (Imperial College), with experience in user interface design, software development and the logistics of health-care delivery in the developing-world.
Michael Martinez Mobile developer & designer based in Arizona. Full-time firefighter/emergency medical tech with a large metro fire department, Michael is no stranger to medical based teamwork. Big time UI/UX and code nerd with a passion to learn.
Ken Seragaki Expert in Health Information Technology with an emphasis in Implementation Management from Santa Monica College as part of the HITECH Workforce program. Interested in applying knowledge and experience in workflow re-design and software training for the implementation of electronic health records in the Health industry.
Avinash Tripathi New Delhi-based UI/UX expert.
JSS Computer Staff
Bhuwneshwar Sahu Computer operator at the JSS Ganyari hospital with responsibilities that include data entry, computer maintenance, network maintenance, troubleshooting.
AI/Analytics
Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan PhD candidate, UT Austin
Technology Advisor
Saptarshi Purkayastha Research Fellow at NTNU, Norway. Part of OpenMRS's Core Development Team. He has been implementing OpenMRS at private clinics and nursing home since 2008. Formerly, in the role of Director, R&D, was involved as part of HISP India's team of OpenMRS implementation. He researches through design, development and implementation of global health information systems ranging from country-level information system to clinical systems and mobile health systems in India and other African countries.
Implementation
Sharath Hangal Bangalore based volunteer, and Fellow at IIM-Bangalore. As a consultant and has worked in healthcare with experience in implementation of Clinical, Non Clinical and PACS systems for a Cancer Hospital. Contributes in the areas of Change Management, Project Management, Business Process Re-engineering and Application Architecture.
Dr Judy Wawira Medical doctor and graduate student in health Informatics at IUPUI, Indianapolis. Worked with medical records mainly on OpenMRS, with implementations in Kibera (Nairobi) for primary health care. Now a part of a joint medical records initiative called Kibera Medical Records Initiative to promote Health Information exchange in the slum region.
Dr Richard Gavin K Rumnong Gavin is an Indian doctor and is now working in the feild Medical and health informatics. He has experience with developemennt and implementation of Hospital Information System, based on OpenMRS, for Indian health care settings.
Roger Friedman Center for Disease Control, Atlanta & OpenMRS contributor.
Database
Matt Adams Matt is the founder of Radical Dynamic, an applied solutions company based in Canada. Matt's background relevant to this project includes systems integration, information & asset management and hands-on experience with non-profit organizations including Mercy Ships. Matt is currently working with CouchDB/Couchbase on mobile and server platforms and Open Data Kit.
Manor Lev-Tov A New York-based programmer, with a strong background in database architecture and development. Along with databases, Manor is experienced in designing highly scalable machine learning algorithms, with particular experience developing a large scale text analysis platform currently in use in the legal industry, and data analytics. Starting in late October to work full time.
David Martin U.K.-based, retired, computer professional. Experience with Erlang-based Couchbeam to populate Couchdb clusters. Aim to produce a low cost highly decentralized cluster of self replicating cheap open source commodity hardware data stores that can serve scaleably to clients equipped only with cheap browser capable hardware.
Sreekanth Vadagiri
Clinical Advisors
Kristian Olson Dr. Kristian Olson is on staff at the Massachusetts General Hospital as an Inpatient Clinical Educator in the Department of Medicine. He trained in the Harvard Combined Program in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and is a faculty member of Harvard Medical School. He is on the MGH Executive Committee for Global Health and is a Faculty member of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
Rajnish Juneja JSS Liaison. Dr. R. Juneja, trained in Cardiology at AIIMS has been working as a faculty at AIIMS since 1995. With links to JSS since its very beginning and a part of its general body, Dr. Juneja is among one of the people deeply involved in clinical work at Ganiyari but not residing in Bilaspur, as yet (hoping to join full time by 2015). Has been a very active member of the committee entrusted to implement EMR at AIIMS (unfortunately limited success till now) and is well verse with most of the lingo associated with it. Knows in details about the exact JSS clinical working and therefore provides the interface between clinical work and EMR at JSS.
Megan Coffee
Scientific Advisory Group
Jeannette Wing President's Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Computer Science Department (CSD) within Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science (SCS). As a researcher, Wing is an international leader in the area of formal methods — the use of mathematical models and logics to specify and reason about computing systems — and in trustworthy computing, with a focus on software security and privacy.
Manuela Veloso Herbert A. Simon Professor, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Manuela Veloso's long-term research goal is the effective construction of autonomous agents where cognition, perception, and action are combined to address planning, execution, and learning tasks. Her vision is that multiple intelligent robots with different sets of complementary capabilities will provide a seamless synergy of intelligence. As of 2010, she has ten PhD students and has graduated other twenty one PhD students, whose theses are available at her website www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv
Leo Anthony Celi Dr. Leo Anthony Celi, MD, MPH, MS is an internist, an intensive care unit doctor, and an infectious disease specialist. After working in New Zealand for 5 years, Leo returned to Boston to pursue a master's degree in biomedical informatics at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology and a master's degree in public health at Harvard University, and a research post-doctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His current research projects are in the field of artificial intelligence in medicine and strengthening health care systems in resource-constrained settings. He is now on staff at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ICU and the Laboratory of Computational Physiology at MIT.
Trishan Panch A medical doctor from the UK with an interest in the application of technology to strengthen health systems. He gained his medical degree from Imperial College, London and has completed specialist qualifications in Primary Care (MRCGP) and Obstetrics and Gynaecology (DRCOG) He has a Masters in Public Health in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health. For more information see www.hybridvigour.net.
Pramod Upadhyaya M.Sc., Ph.D. is a research chemist and a tenure faculty member at the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi where he is working on antigen delivery systems. He is also actively involved with the Center for Science Education and Communication, University of Delhi. Among other things, he has developed a low-cost personal air sampler for monitoring air pollution and simple microbiological tests for checking potability of drinking water. As a member of JSS he is actively involved in developing low cost health care technology.
Development
Nathan Leiby Seattle-based Harvard computer science graduate. Interested in mobile development. Currently working at Microsoft on Windows Phone. Also working on developing infant-HIV medical records database in a side project. Wanted to get involved with this significantly larger scale, more ambitious (and organized) effort!
Sahil Kapoor CEO, Director of Novo Informatics Pvt. Ltd; spin-off company from IIT Delhi. Responsible for advancing portfolio on Target Discovery & Developing Lead drugs against widespread diseases. Computational programmer by training with previous experience in detecting mutations in diseases like Diabetes, Obesity.
Bhushan Mohan Doctoral candidate in the Department of Computer Science in University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Experience in building native and browser based applications for Windows mobile phone. Interested in building software that can directly help the under-privileged sections of our society. Able to work within a team and to think through complex problems.
Bisakha Ray Los Angeles-based software engineer. Graduate from Johns Hopkins University. Has experience as a developer in medical informatics and PACS based systems.
Suhas Deshpande Currently pursing Masters degree in Computer Science at The George Washington University, 15 months of Lab experience in C, C++, Java SE, Unix Administration and teaching experience in Algorithms, Operating Systems, Advanced Microprocessors at Pillai's Institute of Information Technology, New Panvel, Maharashtra, India. Holds BE in Computer Engineering from Pune University. Programming Expertise: - C, C++, Python, Java SE/ EE. Implemented an inventory management as a final year undergrad project sponsored by Treasury Department (India), which comes under the Gov. Maharashtra, technologies used:- Java EE, JMS, JPA.
Kevin Xu Currently pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Oregon. Graduated with Diploma in Information Technology from Singapore Polytechnic, led team to develop a touch-and-stylus based system for physiotherapists in the National University Hospital of Singapore known as PEN21.
Naval Saini Currently a freelancer (mobile application, embedded software, etc). Previously, was founder of a startup EDEDAA (arts industry), which ran for an year. Also, has worked in embedded software firms on Linux kernel, Android (multimedia audio pipeline) and range of open-source tools. Other interests are writing and working on ICT and rural development related projects.
Amarjeet Singh PhD. IIT, Delhi. Experience with SANA mobile (MIT) & OpenMRS
Kevin Connor Experienced Seattle-based volunteer working with ESPN, to begin starting mid-October.
Eduardo Kezierski Director of Engineering, InSTEDD.org
Gaurav Paliwal Delhi-based OpenMRS contributor. Graduate IPU Delhi. More info can be seen here : [http://gauravpaliwal.com/|http://gauravpaliwal.com/]
Adarsh Solanki UVa 2013 Computer Science.
Manav Goel 4th year undergraduate student at IIT Delhi.
ThoughtWorks partners
Vinay Venu Bangalore-based programmer. Familiar with OpenMRS. Has implemented a thin web based workflow for a mobile clinic using OpenMRS services as back-end. Currently working full time as a consultant with ThoughtWorks, a custom software vendor.
Kishore Kumar Application Developer at ThoughtWorks Inc, Bangalore.
Lucy Kurian Application Developer with Thoughtworks Inc, Bangalore. Familiar with OpenMRS. Has implemented the info path convertor for OpenMRS.
Development
Ed Lavieri Serving as the President & CEO of three19, a Florida-based software development firm. He has an MS in Management Information Systems and is a Doctoral Candiate in Colorado Technical University's Doctor of Computer Science.
Raj Zachariah Graduate Student in Human Computer Interaction at University of Maryland - College Park. He is a Computer Science major and has an MS in Information Management. He worked in India with Wipro Technologies as a C# developer and later with an e-prescribing company called DrFirst, Inc. in Maryland.
Niranjan Ravichandran UCLA Graduate Student(MS) in Computer Science with an interest in Wireless and Mobile Health. Has spent time developing smart-phone applications focusing on prevention.
Evan Donahue Graduated from Brown University with degrees in Computer Science/Mathematics and Modern Culture & Media. Computer science interests include natural language, machine learning, and web development. Got involved with JSS because it seemed more useful than engineering new Facebook widgets.
Wenxian Yang Arizona State University Computer, with a Diploma in French and Software Engineering from the University Technology Belfort Monbeliard. Experience in Web Application Development based on language Java and Python.
Abhinav Ghai Laboratory - Module co-ordinator. Pursuing Masters in Computer Science at Purdue University. (Alumni - BITS,Pilani)
Kaiwen Xu Purdue University Computer Science 2015
Gaurav Chugh Delhi based Graduate Student(B.Tech) and contributor at OpenMRS.Interested in web application development.
Shavonne Beachum Current graduate student at George Washington University DC main campus in the (SEAS) program "School of Engineering and Applied Science". Pursuing a Masters Degree in Computer Science with an emphasis on Software Engineering. Familiar/basic knowledge with Database Management, SQL, PL/SQL, & Oracle 10g. B.S. in Informations Systems with emphasis in Oracle Database Development. This is my first project I have ever worked on before, so I am very pleased to work on this project to enhance and learn new skills, that will promote me the success in my future career. I hope to meet many lifelong friends here. Good Luck and much success to everyone!!
Khanh Nguyen PhD student at George Washington University in CS. Enthusiastic in contributing for open source community. Has experience in web and iOS app development.
Elena Petrashen NYU MS in Information Systems student. Experience in managing projects in IT for P&G, data mining & analytics, Java/.NET/SQL in academic projects. We're currently trying to define & align NYU team responsibilities in the project.
Han Tian MS student at NYU in Computer Science. Experience in graphic software development with C#, familiar with Java, and MySQL.
Jianhua Wang George Washington University student, M.S. in Computer Science. Familiar to Java EE ,Topic Crawler and interesting in Computer Graphic and Algorithm.
Zhong Xie A Washington D.C.-based programer. An active mobile developer and designer. A fan of Linux and open source. Hold a B.E. in medical informatics (Biomedical engineering). And have work experience in hospital with HIS and PACS.
K V Bapa Rao Los Angeles-based computer professional who has done research, development, and teaching over a long career. Currently employed full-time as Senior Software Engineer. Relevant technical experience in includes Java-based software development, database systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning, search, analytics, and project management support. I hope to start with a few hours per week working on this exciting and worthwhile project.
Ashish Kumar graduated from IIT-D. I am working in software industry for more than 10 years. I have technical experience to design and develope a web application (JBoss application server or Tomcat Web Server) or standalone application involving various databases (mysql,oracle ).On the integration side I have used web services and SSL to communicate between the system.
Saransh Srivastava junior undergraduate student at IIT Kanpur.Experienced in programming languages and javascript.Have worked on ExtJs.Interested in contributing to the open source community.
Harsh Mehta undergraduate student at IIT Guwahati. Worked with various web-development languages such as Javascript, PHP , JQuery and MySQL. Wants to learn and do innovative things.
Varun Sharma
Lindsay Ladd
Will Mechlenburg
Diptanu Das
Wei Zou
Roger Chen
Cam Cook
Prem Gopalan
Jason Ya
Robert Nguyen
Suraj Raju