David is a third-year emergency medicine resident who grew up in San Jose, CA and graduated from UCLA with a degree in Bioengineering. He has had a passion for all things tech for many years, and helped run an IT discussion and support forum as a lead moderator for many years prior to medical school. He is particularly interested in using technology to improve the workflow for clinicians bridging the gap between the ED and the inpatient wards.

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Stephen's interests in the intersection of technology and healthcare began during his undergraduate degree at Princeton University, where he majored in electrical engineering with minors in computer science and biomedical engineering.  His research projects have focused on the development of optoelectronic systems and computational software for the study of biological systems.  During his MD/PhD program at Columbia University, he applied these same skillsets to a wide range of projects including engineering cardiac tissues, modeling the neuromuscular junction, modulating mesenchymal stem cells for immunosuppression, and building systems for pre-transplant extracorporeal lung support.  While he continues to be interested in basic research, his experiences during residency have convinced him that clinical informatics is critical for implementing scalable solutions to the biggest challenges in healthcare. Stephen is interested in addressing mutliple issues in clinical informatics including improving equity of access to healthcare and the flow of patients through the healthcare system via telemedicine and home-based primary care, optimizing clinician education, efficiency, and throughput by optimizing the EMR, preventing medication errors in both the inpatient and outpatient settings, and advancing patient outcomes via AI-assisted clinical decision making.

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Ivana completed her Internal Medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston where she led the initiative to reduce burnout by improving the resident call schedule and was a member of the Resident Information Services Council. She works on using electronic health record data to improve healthcare quality and efficiency as well as physician wellness.

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Christy graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with an AB in economics. There she became interested in health care issues while taking a course taught by the nation's leading health economist Professor David Cutler, with whom she wrote her honors senior thesis. She went on to analyze large data sets to help improve cancer care at the Massachusetts General Hospital. This role opened her eyes to the power of data science and the need for physicians to shepherd the application of analytic capabilities in health care. She thus pursued post-baccalaureate premedical studies, and completed her MD at Perelman School of Medicine and MBA at The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania. She is dedicated to creating a platform that connects motivated individuals with the right resources to responsibly make a data-driven decision or difference in health care.

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Ben grew up in the Bay Area of California and moved to Houston, Texas, to study bioengineering at Rice University, where he was exposed to health technology through the neighboring Texas Medical Center. His bioengineering degree was focused on medical device design, and when he transitioned to medical school, he found quality improvement projects to be an avenue for applying engineering design principles to patient care. As an internal medicine resident, he is interested in how to improve electronic health records for clinician workflows and patient outcomes. With HITEC, he works to facilitate ways for housestaff to contribute their ideas and expertise to the health information systems they work within.

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Jared is committed to collaboratively developing digitally-enabled innovations for surgical care delivery. With HITEC, he led efforts to streamline secure text messaging use across the hospital. He completed his residency in Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery at Stanford, and is currently a fellow in Head & Neck / Endocrine Surgical Oncology at MD Anderson. During medical school at Vanderbilt University, he co-founded the Student Technology Committee, dedicated to advancing student interests and research on medical education IT. He has been recognized locally and nationally for his innovations in digital health and medical education.

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Lee White grew up in Eugene, Oregon, and moved to New Orleans to attend Tulane University and study Biomedical Engineering. He went on to complete a PhD in robotic surgery and surgical education at the University of Washington. He was a co-founder of C-SATS, Inc, a medical technology startup based on crowd-sourced surgical performance assessment. He attended Stanford Medical School and is now a Urology resident.

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Jason is originally from Utah, he graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in Microbiology. During his time as an undergraduate he also worked as an IT project manager, designing enterprise software solutions for a multinational online and retail sales company. He went to The George Washington University for medical school. Now an Emergency Medicine resident at Stanford, Jason’s interests include quality improvement, EMR workflow optimization, and medical education. He also spent time as a consultant fellow for a bay area investment firm.

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Mugdha graduated from the University of Georgia with bachelor’s degrees in Anthropology and Biology. She then went on to graduate from Harvard Medical School where she discovered an interest in the role that technology can play in the improvement of patient safety, healthcare quality, physician satisfaction, and the creation of a more patient centered care environment. She also found a deep interest in the way that people interact with technology and a desire to improve how technology serves patient care. She is currently an internal medicine resident at Stanford. 

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Garrison Carlos grew up in Mobile, Alabama before moving to Baton Rouge to attend undergrad at Louisiana State University. After graduating with a degree in Biology and a minor in business administration, he returned to Mobile to complete medical school at the University of South Alabama. Now a General Surgery resident at Stanford, Garrison became drawn to improving communication and patient safety by optimizing the systems tasked with hospital wide communication. His work is focused on interplay between new tech applications and their place at the bedside improving high value care.

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Arjun is a second year clinical informatics fellow who is trained in Internal Medicine and currently practices as a hospitalist. Prior to medical school, he spent two years working as a project manager at Epic implementing clinical applications at multiple hospitals. He currently serves as a liaison between the Order Set Cycle and Review (OSCaR) committee and Housestaff to help incorporate meaningful feedback into Order Set improvement. He is part of HITEC's initiative to help improve correct provider identification during the 21-22 academic year.

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