Data and AI Ecosystem

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PURPOSE

  • To serve as a strategic asset across the UT Health Enterprise that unites processes, technology, and data into a dynamic health intelligence ecosystem 
  • To accelerate the integration and application of advanced data and artificial intelligence capabilities  
  • To enable strategic priorities, for example, Texas Pharmaceutical Initiative, UT System and Microsoft Strategic Partnership, UT REAL HEALTH AI, etc. 

GOALS

  • Establish a shared health data and AI platform 
  • Integrate data from all Health-Related Institutions (HRIs) into the platform 
  • Drive adoption of the platform for data and AI initiatives 
  • Implement governance for UT System data and AI technologies 

 

UT-HIP DATA AND AI ECOSYSTEM STRATEGY 

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DATA AND AI LEADERSHIP 

UT Health Intelligence Platform: 

  • Quamishia ShuRon Green, Executive Director 

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 

  • DuWayne Willett, Chief Medical Informatics Officer and Professor of Internal Medicine 
  • Brian Evans, Associate Vice President & Chief Enterprise Architect 
  • Tammye Garrett, Associate Vice President & Chief Data Officer 

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston 

  • Hongfang Liu, Co-Chair, Vice President of Learning Health System for Translational AI Excellence and Applications in Medicine (TEAM-AI) 
  • Amar Yousif, Vice President and Chief Information Officer 
  • Xiaoqian Jiang, Chair, Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; Director, Center for Secure Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare (SAFE) 

The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School 

  • Claus Jensen, Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer 
  • Ramesh Pandey, Principal Data Architect 
  • Patrick Boswell, Director, Enterprise Data Intelligence and Decision Support 
  • James D. “Jim” Buntrock, M.S., Chief Data Officer 

The University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center 

  • Susan McBride, Associate Dean of Research; Jacqueline M. Braithwaite Endowed Chair 

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 

  • Ed Sankary, Chief Health Information Officer 

The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston 

  • Peter McCaffrey, Director, Division of Bioinformatics and Artificial Intelligence 
  • Kirk Hinson, VP Decision Support & Chief Data Analytics Officer 

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center 

  • David Jaffray, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology and Digital Officer (CTDO) 
  • Jay Patel, Executive director of Data Integration & Software Architecture 
  • Shawn Stapleton, Director of Model Management 
  • Caroline Chung, MD, MSc., FRCPC, CIP, Vice President and Chief Data & Analytics Officer and Co-Director of the Institute for Data Science in Oncology 

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine 

  • Seth Pheasant, Deputy Chief Info Security Officer 

 

WORKGROUPS

“Enabling UT projects to transition from an idea to realization” 

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WORKGROUP LEADS:

Workgroup #1: 

  • Technology Foundation: Platform, Workspaces, ML & AI Tooling and Microsoft Partnership 
  • Lead: Patrick Boswell 

Workgroup #2: 

  • Data Acquisition/Data Foundation 
  • Leads: Ramesh Pandey and ShuRon Green 

Workgroup #3: 

  • Data & AI Governance 
  • Lead: Jim Buntrock and Caroline Chung 

Workgroup #4: 

  • Curation and Adoption of Non-Microsoft Technology  
  • Lead: Ramesh Pandey 

Workgroup #5: 

  • Data and Technology Enablement for UT-HIP Associated Projects Workgroup  
  • Leads: Ed Sankary and Hongfang Liu