Dr. Jason Shapiro is Professor and Chief of the Division of Informatics in the Department of Emergency Medicine, and Program Co-director of the Masters of Science in Biomedical Informatics in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Dr. Shapiro received his bachelors in English from the University of Iowa, completed the post-bac premedical program at Columbia University’s School of General Studies, received his MD from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, completed residency in emergency medicine at Mount Sinai including a year as chief resident, and then completed a master’s degree and a postdoctoral fellowship in biomedical informatics at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Shapiro’s research focuses on evaluating health information technology, with a specific focus on health information exchange, investigating its impact on quality measurement, care coordination, resource utilization, health care costs, and provider satisfaction. Other areas of active interest include ED information system implementation evaluation, terminology services, workflow integration strategies for health IT, public health, and biosurveillance.
Tina Lowry, MS is a Senior Data Analyst at Dr. Shapiro’s lab.
Dr. Oscar Beitia is a board/CAQ certified neuroradiologist and informatician currently working as a researcher in Dr. Shapiro’s laboratory. Dr. Beitia received is bachelors in Chemistry from New York University, received his MD from and completed his residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the State University of New York- Downstate Medical Center, completed fellowship in Neuroradiology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, and then completed a master’s degree in biomedical informatics at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
His current research interests include the study of terminology standards to assess their coverage of radiology exam types in multiple institutions across a health information exchange (HIE) , comparison of standards-based anatomic ontologies to support categorization of imaging exams, and envelopment of an anatomic framework for proximity or similarity (SANOPS) as the basis for a future HIE-based duplicate CT alerting system.
Dr. Daniel Vreeman is an Associate Research Professor and the Regenstrief-McDonald Scholar in Data Standards at the Indiana University School of Medicine and a Research Scientist at the Regenstrief Institute, Inc.
Dr. Vreeman serves as a consultant to the Shapiro laboratory, helping to ensure the consistency and compatibility with national and international standardization efforts, and providing content expertise on the use standardized terminologies.
Dr. Vreeman’s primary research focus is on the role of standardized clinical vocabularies and standards to support electronic health information exchange. As Director of LOINC and Health Data Standards at the Regenstrief Center for Biomedical Informatics he leads the development of LOINC, a freely available international standard for identifying health measurements, observations, and documents. He also provides leadership to the terminology services that underpin the Indiana Network for Patient Care, one of the longest tenured and most comprehensive health information exchanges in the United States. He is the author of the book LOINC Essentials: A step-by-step guide for getting your local codes mapped to LOINC. Dr. Vreeman also teaches medical informatics at Indiana University.