Faculty and Staff

iTEQC — short for our research program in Translational Technology Enabling High Quality Care — is a multidisciplinary team comprised of experts from across UC Irvine as well as national affiliates.

iTEQC Leadership

• Dana B. Mukamel, PhD — director
  Professor of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing,
  Department of Medicine
• Alpesh N. Amin, MD, MBA, MACP, SFHM, FACC — associate director
  Thomas and Mary Cesario endowed chair and professor,
  Department of Medicine
• Dara H. Sorkin, PhD — Associate Director
  Associate professor, Department of Medicine

iTEQC Academic Personnel and Staff

• Tracy L. Case — executive assistant
• Heather Ladd, MS — senior statistician
• Bessie Mathew, MPH - CalMHSA Strategic Project Manager
• Judith Borghouts, PhD – Postdoctoral Researcher
• Cinthia De Leon, MPH – User Experience Core Project Manager
• Rachel Varisco, MPH - Research Data Analyst II

iTEQC Research Fellows

• Emilie L. Chow, MD
  Associate professor, Division of General Internal Medicine & Primary Care, Department of Medicine
• Nickolas M. Jones, MS
  Doctoral candidate, Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, UC Irvine School of Social Ecology

iTEQC Affiliated Faculty

• Kerry Burnight, PhD, Department of Family Medicine
• Yunan Chen, PhD — Department of Informatics
• Ralph Cygan, MD — Department of Medicine
• Lorraine S. Evangelista, PhD, RN — Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing
• Lisa M. Gibbs, MD — chief, Division of Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology, Department of Family Medicine
• Mireille Jacobson, PhD — Paul Merage School of Business
• Alfred Kobsa, PhD — Department of Informatics
• Jung-Ah Lee, PhD, RN — Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing
• Shaista Malik, MD — Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine
• Edward L. Nelson, MD — chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine
• Connie Pechmann — Paul Merage School of Business
• Charles Podesta — chief information officer, UC Irvine Health
• Katherine Porter, JD — School of Law
• Andrew Reikes, MD — chief, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine
• Karen S. Rook, PhD — School of Social Ecology
• Lari Wenzel, PhD — Department of Medicine

iTEQC National Affiliates

• Charlene Harrington, RN, PhD — University of California, San Francisco
• Yue Li, PhD — University of Rochester
• Helena Temkin-Greener, PhD — University of Rochester
• David Weimer, PhD — University of Minnesota
• Ellen Olshansky, RN, PhD — Department of Nursing, USC