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
Data and AI Ecosystem Leaders
Chair: Claus Jensen, Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer, The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School
Vice Chair: Hongfang Liu, Chief Translational AI and Informatics Officer, The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School
The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School
- Claus Jensen, Chair, Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer
- Hongfang Liu, Chief Translational AI and Informatics Officer
- Ramesh Pandey, Principal Data Architect
- Patrick Boswell, Director, Enterprise Data Intelligence and Decision Support
- Jim Buntrock, Chief Data Officer
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
- ShuRon Green, Executive Director, UT Health Intelligence Platform
- 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 Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Ed Sankary, Chief Health Information Officer
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine
- Seth Pheasant, Deputy Chief Info Security Officer
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- David Jaffray, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology and Digital Officer
- Jay Patel, Executive Director of Data Integration & Software Architecture
- Shawn Stapleton, Director of Model Management
- Caroline Chung, Vice President and Chief Data & Analytics Officer and Co-Director of the Institute for Data Science in Oncology
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
- Peter McCaffrey, Vice President & Chief AI and Digital Officer, UT-REAL Health AI Chair
- Kirk Hinson, VP Decision Support & Chief Data Analytics Officer
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
The University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center
- Susan McBride, Associate Dean of Research; Jacqueline M. Braithwaite Endowed Chair
Work Groups
“Enabling UT projects to transition from an idea to realization”
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: Hongfang Liu and Ed Sankary
