About us
Members of the CODER team are current or up-and-coming leaders from in their fields, dedicated to their roles as mentors, who will work with trainees to foster intellectually challenging discourse, a firm understanding and knowledge of the principles and applications of contemporary digital health research methods, and exciting postdoctoral research.
Our diverse team comprises faculty from across UMass Chan Medical School, including from the Departments of Medicine, Population and Quantitative Health Sciences (PQHS), Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Family Medicine, and Health Delivery and Population Sciences (UMass Chan-Baystate), as well as the interdisciplinary, interdepartmental Program in Digital Medicine. We are also fortunate that additional collaborators from UMass Amherst, UMass Lowell, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Columbia University have joined us in our efforts.
Our team
External Advisory Board
Chunyu Liu, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Boston University School of Public Health
Courtney Lyles, PhD
Associate Professor, UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Associate Director, UCSF Implementation Science Program
Co-Founder, SOLVE Health Tech
Visiting Scholar, Health Equity Team at Google
Mahasin Mujahid, PhD, MS
Associate Professor and Chair, Epidemiology Division at UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Director, MPH Program in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Founding Faculty Member of student group Black Advocates for Equity in Health
Eric Topol, MD
Professor of Molecular Medicine, Gary and Mary West Endowed Chair of Innovative Medicine, and Executive Vice President, Scripps Research
Founder and Director, Scripps Research Translational Institute
Participating faculty from UMass Chan
Daniel Amante, PhD, MPH, PQHS
Edwin Boudreaux, PhD, Emergency Medicine
Maureen Canellas, MD, MBA, Emergency Medicine
Stephanie Carreiro, MD, PhD, Emergency Medicine
Sarah Cutrona, MD, MPH, PQHS
Jamie Faro, PhD, PQHS
Arvin Garg, MD, PhD, Pediatrics
Stephenie Lemon, PhD, MS, PQHS
Honghuang Lin, PhD, Medicine
Peter Lindenauer, MD, MSc, Health Delivery and Population Sciences, UMass Chan-Baystate
Feifan Liu, PhD, PQHS
Neil Marya, MD, Medicine
Kathleen Mazor, PhD, Medicine
Suzanne Mitchell, MD, MSc, Family Medicine
Mark O’Connor, MD, Medicine
Lori Pbert, PhD, PQHS
Milagros Rosal, PhD, Medicine
Shankar Sadasivam, PhD, MS, PQHS
Apurv Soni, MD, PhD, Medicine
Mayra Tisminetzky, MD, PhD, MPH, Medicine
Bo Wang, PhD, MPH, PQHS
Kimberly Yonkers, MD, Psychiatry
Other participating faculty
Ayorkor Gaba, PsyD, Psychiatry, Columbia University
Emmanuel Onuora Agu, PhD, MS, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Benjamin Marlin, PhD, MS, Manning College of Information and Computer Science, UMass Amherst
Hong Yu, PhD, Computer Science, UMass Lowell
Leadership
David D. McManus, MD, ScM
Program Co-Director
Chair, Department of Medicine
Ben S. Gerber, MD, MPH
Program Co-Director
Chief, Health Informatics and Implementation,
Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
Alok Kapoor, MD, MSc
Mentorship Director
Department of Medicine