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: 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: Pamela Manor, DNP, RN-BC 
Title: Instructor of medicine, Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing, chief nursing informatics officer, UMMHC 
Department/Affiliations: Nursing, Medicine/Clinical Informatics  
Fellowship Role: Mentor 
Expertise: Nursing informatics

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