Bryant Thomas Karras, M.D.

Curriculum Vitae

I. Personal Information:

Bryant Thomas Karras, MD
Chief Informatics Officer, Sr. Epidemiologist,
State of Washington, Department of Health, Public Health Laboratories
1610 NE 150th Street, Seattle (Shoreline), WA 98155-7224
work phone: (206) 418-5540
bryant.karras@doh.wa.gov

Affiliate: University of Washington, Seattle, WA
bkarras@u.washington.edu

mobile phone: (206) 999-6640
bryant.karras@gmail.com

II. Academic Background:

Postgraduate

  • Yale University, School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 2000, Fellowship, Medical Informatics
  • University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Clinical Campus, Sinai Samaritan Medical Center Milwaukee, WI, 1998,  Residency and Chief Resident, Internal Medicine
  • Legacy Health Systems Hospitals, Portland, OR, 1996, Internship, Internal Medicine

 Graduate

  • University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, 1995, M.D., Doctor of Medicine

 Undergraduate

  • University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, 1990, B.A., Biomedical Engineering and Minor in Music
  • Dartmouth College, Hanover NH, 1987, Engineering

III. Licensure:

Washington State Medical License # MD00041958, 2003 - current

Wisconsin State Medical License:    # 38473, 1996 – 2007

Connecticut State Medical License: # 037699, 1999 – 2001

Boards Eligible in Internal Medicine 1998

DEA Registration Number    BKxxxxxxx

IV. Professional Positions:

  • Chief Informatics Officer, Sr. Epidemiologist, Office of the State Health Officer/Chief Science Officer, State of Washington Department of Health, Seattle/Olympia, WA, 2013 - current
  • Chief Public Health Informatics Officer, Sr. Epidemiologist, Division of Information Resource Management, State of Washington Department of Health, Seattle/Olympia, WA, 2011 - 2013
  • Public Health Informatics Officer, Sr. Epidemiologist, Epidemiology Health Statistics and Public Health Laboratory, State of Washington Department of Health, Seattle/Olympia, WA, 2007 - 2011
  • Research Scientist Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2008 - 2010
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2000 - 2007
    • Northwest Center for Public Health Practice - faculty member, 2000 - 2008
    • Fogarty International Informatics Training Program - faculty, 2000 - 2007
    • Health Promotions Research Center - faculty member, 2003 - 2007
    • Center for Public Health Informatics – founding faculty member, 2006 - 2007
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Education, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2000 - 2008
  • Division of Biomedical & Health Informatics - core faculty member for Public Health Informatics, 2000 - 2008
  • Internal Medicine Attending in Primary Care Center, Yale - New Haven Hospital, CT, 1998 - 2000
  • Honorary Associate in the Section of General Internal Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Milwaukee Clinical Campus, WI, 1996 - 1998

Additional Employment / Relevant Volunteer Experience:

  • Advisory Board to The UW Master of Health Informatics & Health Information Management program 2016 - Current
  • American Medical Informatics Association's Health Informatics Certification Commission (HICC), 2019 - 2022
  • Guest Lecturer, Tacoma Community College HIM Training Program, WA, 2018
  • Founding member and Board of Directors 2014-2016 The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 2005
  • Board of Directors Member, Community HIE Oversight Board, Foundation for Health Care Quality Seattle, WA, 2010 – 2013
  • Guest Lecturer, Bellevue College ONC Training Program, Bellvevue, WA, 2011
  • Managing Officer, Northwest Informatics LLC, Seattle, WA, 2003 – present
  • Urgent Care/Primary Care Physician, Yale Health Plan, New Haven, CT, 2000
  • House Physician, Gaylord Hospital, Wallingford, CT, 1999- 2000
  • Proctor/Staff, "Using Computer Tools to Solve Clinical Problems" Course at American College of Physicians (ACP) annual session, 1999
  • House Physician, Saint Luke’s Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI, 1997 - 1998
  • Urgent Care Physician, Marquette University, Student Health, Milwaukee, WI, 1997 - 1998
  • House Physician, Sinai Samaritan Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI, 1996 - 1998 Chief Resident 1997 - 1998
  • Proctor/Staff, "Using Computer Tools to Solve Clinical Problems" Oregon Health Sciences University, Continuing Medical Education Course, Portland, OR, 1996
  • Externship in Tropical and Family Medicine to Talamanca Region of Costa Rica, stationed in the Bribri Indigenous reserve. Amubri, Costa Rica, 1995
  • Elective rotation Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, Madison WI, 1995
  • Biomedical Engineering Technician, VA Medical Center, San Diego, CA, 1988 - 1990
  • Teaching Assistant, Genetics, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, 1987 - 1988

V. Honors, Awards, Scholarships:

  • 2021 Regional Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) prsapugetsound.org/PRSA_Puget_Sound_Summit_Awards 
    • Marketing Communications: Summit Award: WA Notify for the Washington State Department of Health and our advertising agency C+C
    • Crisis Communications > COVID-19: Summit Award: WA Notify for the Washington State Department of Health and our advertising agency C+C
    • Community Relations: Certificate of Excellence: WA Notify for the Washington State Department of Health and our advertising agency C+C
  •  2021 National Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). DOH, and C+C, won four Silver Anvil Awards for WA Notify:
    • Silver Anvil Integrated Communications > Government
    • Silver Anvil Marketing > Consumer Services > Technology
    • Silver Anvil Public Service > Partnerships (Funded jointly by businesses and other organizations, including nonprofit and government)
    • People’s Choice Award (voted on by PRSA members.)
  • 2008 CDC Public Health Information Network dedication to success award
  • 1997 - 1998 Chief Resident Internal Medicine
  • 1993 Leadership and Service Award University of Wisconsin Medical School
  • 1991 - 1992 2nd Year Medical Student Class President
  • 1985 John Philip Sousa Award  (recognizes superior musicianship, dependability, loyalty, and cooperation)

VI. Professional Activities

A. Affiliations/Memberships

  1. American Medical Informatics Association (current)
  2. Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (current)
  3. Association of State and Territorial Health Officers (current)
  4. American Public Health Association (current) WSPHA
  5. Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (current)
  6. International Society for Disease Surveillance
  7. Society for Medical Decision Making
  8. American College of Physicians, associate member
  9. American Medical Association
  10. Biomedical Engineering Society

B. Committees, Sub-Committees and Consultations

  1. Health Level 7 (HL7)  Public Health Work Group (current voting member) 2008 - current
  2. Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) Electronic Health Record (EHR) Reporting Program Task Force. 2021
  3. Public Health Data Systems Task Force in response to President Biden’s Executive Order on Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats. 2021
  4. CDC DMI Workshop Vision and Design Committee 2021
  5. CDC Meaningful Use Tiger Team and Public Health Interoperability Task Force 2012-current
  6. BioSense 2.0 Interim Governance Group October 2011-2014
  7. Spokane Health District - approved outside professional work, consultation on Common Ground 2007-2009
  8. Member of Biomedical and Health Informatics Curriculum Committee, University of Washington, Seattle 2004 - 2008
  9. Member of Distance Learning Committee, SPHCM University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2001 – 2008
  10. Invited Plenary Speaker “Detecting emerging diseases” at the Sichuan University in Chengdu, China 2006 Sept. Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
  11. Representative of Junior Faculty to the external review committee for the School of Public Health’s re-accreditation 2006
  12. Consultant to National Tuberculosis Center, University of California San Francisco – approved outside professional work, Regional Capacity Building Low Incidence States - preparing an analysis of the TB surveillance systems in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Utah, (Charles Nolan, PI) 2005
  13. Consultant to National Systems Research – assisted NSR in development of Syndromic Surveillance system plan for the state of New Hampshire, Dept of Health, 2004
  14. Member of Biomedical and Health Informatics Student Progress Committee, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2003 - 2004
  15. Member of Biomedical and Health Informatics Certificate Steering Committee 2001 - 2003
  16. Chair of Informatics Lab Committee, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2000 - 2003
  17. Member of Biomedical and Health Informatics Curriculum Committee, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2000 - 2003
  18. Member of Population Computing Committee, UWMC Clinical Computing Steering Committee, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2001 - 2002
  19. Member of Biomedical and Health Informatics Executive Committee, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2000 - 2002
  20. Kitsap County Health District – approved outside professional work, consultation on Kitsap County’s plan for bioterrorism surveillance (led to ongoing University collaboration), 2002
  21. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded PHII (then known as All Kids Count) to convene a group of public health influencers to define the informatics topics that could transform the public health field, the “W meeting.” Those attending the meeting included: Ed Coleman, Bryant Karras, Bill Lober, Bud Nicola, Mark Oberle, Patrick O’Carroll, Patricia Richmond, Dave Ross, Sue Salkowitz, and Wu Xu. January 2002
  22. Invited Consultation on Syndromic Surveillance in Canberra, Australia 2000. Funded by the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) Emerging Infections Network.

C. Reviewer

  1. Program Committee AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference in Seattle 2019-2020
  2. Study Section Reviewer, NIH AHRQ 2010
  3. Reviewer, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2007
  4. Reviewer, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2007
  5. Reviewer, Journal American Medical Informatics Association, 2004, 2007
  6. Associate Editor International Society for Disease Surveillance’s Advances in Disease Surveillance, 2006
  7. Study Section / Grant Reviewer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's InformationLinks Program, 2005
  8. Program Committee National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, Seattle, WA, 2005
  9. Grant Reviewer, American Institute of Biological Sciences Grant, 2004 and 2005
  10. Reviewer, American Medical Informatics Association AMIA Symposium, 2003, 2005
  11. Reviewer Statistics in Medicine, 2003
  12. Grant Reviewer, Royal Research Fund 2001

D. Teaching History

i. Classroom Teaching Table

Course

Title

Credits

Quarter

Years

Students

BIME590

Select Topics in Biomedical and Health Informatics

3

Fall

2019

MHIHIM 540

Consumer Health Informatics

5

Fall

2019

20

MHIHIM 552

Business Intelligence

5

Fall

2019

20

BIME498

Informatics in Healthcare

3

Winter

2019

MHIHIM 540

Consumer Health and HIE

5

Fall

2018

19

BIME590

Select Topics in Biomedical and Health Informatics

3

Spring

2018

MHIHIM 5xx

Business Intelligence

5

Spring

2018

3

NMETH526

Patient-centered technologies

Spring

2007

Meded 591B

PHI colloquium

1

Winter

2007

3

MedEd 591C

Consumer Health Informatics

1

Winter

2007

10

HServ 503

Public Health Surveillance and Informatics

3

Spring

2006

6

Meded 591

PHI colloquium

1

Winter

2006

10

Meded 598

PHI curriculum and competencies development

3

Winter

2006

3

HServ 503

Public Health Surveillance and Informatics

3

Spring

2005

12

UCONJ 445

Bio Terrorism

1

Winter

2005

Meded 535

Clinical Topics & Informatics

3

2004

15

UCONJ 445

Bio Terrorism

1

2004

10

HServ 503

Public Health Surveillance and Informatics

3

2004

10

UCONJ 501

International Focus

Fall

2004

Meded 591

BHI colloquium

1

Spring

2004

25

Meded 535

Clinical Topics & Informatics

3

2003

10

HServ 503

Public Health Surveillance and Informatics

3

2003

10

Meded 591

BHI colloquium

1

Fall

2003

25

Meded 535

Clinical Topics & Informatics

3

2002

10

HServ 503

Public Health Surveillance and Informatics

3

2002

14

Nurs505c

Chemical and bioterrorism BT class

3

2002

13

Meded599

Seminar (XML)

2

2001

10

Meded598

Special Topics: Distance Learning and Collaborative tools

2-4

2001

7

EE400B/BIOEN599D

Systems Engineering & Electronic Medicine

4

2001

15

HServ 590b Meded 598

Database Management in Health Sciences

3

2001

7

HServ 592H

Doctoral seminar

2001

8

Meded 590

Selected topics in BHI

4

2000

20-30

ii. Other Teaching – Continued Education

Course

Title

Credits

Years

Students

Percent of Responsibility

Tacoma CC HIM

HIM: Onwards and Upwards

NA

2018

Guest Lecture

WA Health Officers CME

Joint Conference “issues in surveillance”

CME

2005

15

2 sessions of a 5 hour program

Syndromic Surveillance Conference

Pre Conference Workshop Seattle 2005 Sept

CE

2005

50

2 sessions of a 8 hour workshop

NWCPHP –

Summer Inst

Informatics for Public Health Leaders

CE

2004

40

7 hours of lectures

NWCPHP –

Summer Inst

Syndromic Surveillance

CE

2003

25

2 hour lecture

Faculty Development Workshop

Palm Solutions for the Busy Academician

CE

2001

29

2 2 hour Lecture

UW Fogarty - Peru

Public Health Informatics Courses

2001

40

3 full days of lectures and public forum

University of Wisconsin

Madison

Administrative Medicine Informatics Seminar

CE

2001

35

One 2 hour lecture

ACP-ASIM - Seattle

The Future of Handheld Computing

CE

2001

30

2 hour lecture

E. Advising and Formal Mentoring

i. Advising Doctoral/Postgraduate Students

  1. Maggie Dorr Biomedical and Health Informatics 2019 (PhD fellowship advisor)
  2. Dan Bolton PhD Applied Public Health Informatics Fellow -2016-2017 (CDC/CSTE/ASTHO fellowship)
  3. Chris Baumgartner (CDC/CSTE ITIPP) 2015
  4. Koneng Lor  (CDC/CSTE HSIP fellowship) 2016
  5. Kim Peifer MPH Applied Public Health Informatics Fellow -2015-2016 (CDC/CSTE APHIF fellowship)
  6. Patric Prado MPH Applied Public Health Informatics Fellow -2014-2015 (CDC/CSTE/ASTHO APHIF fellowship)
  7. Amy Liu, PhD Applied Public Health Informatics Fellow -2012-2013 (CDC/CSTE/ASTHO APHIFfellowship)
  8. Jon DeShazo, Biomedical and Health Informatics -2005-2009 (PhD fellowship)
  9. Magaly Blas, MD  2006-2007 (PhD committee)
  10. Jim Tufano Biomedical and Health Informatics -2004-2008 (PhD fellowship advisor)
  11. David K Kwan, Biomedical and Health Informatics -2003-2004 (fellowship advisor)
  12. Atar Baer, Epi PhD 2000-2003, (mentor and TA in surveillance course) now Informatics Public Health - Seattle &King County

ii. Advising Master Students

  1. Dennis Alvin David (pending)
  2. Zachary Smithingell (pending)
  3. Amanda Higgins 2020 (University of New England, Biddeford, ME)
  4. Massa Mathis 2020
  5. Andrea Fourquet 2019
  6. Katie Sipiorski 2018
  7. Gillah Benson-Tilsen MPH (Yale University) 2018
  8. Ron Buie 2017
  9. Jeff Horsager 2015
  10. Greg Smith, EDP MPH 2003- (thesis committee  )
  11. Walter H. Curioso, Health Services 2003- (Health Services masters thesis & advisor)
  12. Anne Turner, EDP MPH 2003- (practicum faculty advisor)
  13. Franz Calvo, Biomedical and Health Informatics -2002-2004 (advisor for four quarters)
  14. Veena Arani, Health Services MPH – 2002-2004 (Health Services thesis committee member) “The Feasibility of Shared Decision Making to Improve Asthma”
  15. Syed Zia Huq, Biomedical and Health Informatics – 2001-2002 (masters thesis chair & advisor)  ‘Unanswered Questions’ : Issues in Web Surveys and their Representation”
  16. Richard Phillips, Biomedical and Health Informatics – 2000-2004 (advisor for two quarters masters committee member) Health Services 2002-2004 (thesis committee)
  17. Kenichiro Taneda, Health Services 2000-2003 (practicum faculty advisor)
  18. Jorge Candiotti, Biomedical and Health Informatics -2000-2002 (masters thesis chair and advisor) “Design and Evaluation of a Computer-Based Support System to Improve the Control of Congenital Syphilis in Peru”

iii. Other Teaching/Advising – Independent Study 

  1. Salihou Fatty (2021-22) HIM UW Undergrad
  2. Jon DeShazo Biomedical and Health Informatics ( MEBI 600 Winter 2007)
  3. Jessica Kit Chan 2006 (summer RA on CEPHI project 1)
  4. Marilyn Ostergren, Information School (independent study)
  5. Jim Tufano, Biomedical and Health Informatics  (2cr MEDED 600 Summer 2004, 2cr MEDED 600 Autumn 2004, 3cr MEBI 600 Winter 2005, 2 cr MEBI 600 Spring 2005)
  6. David Kwan, Biomedical and Health Informatics  (5cr MEDED 600 Spring 2004)
  7. Steve Wagner, Health Information Administration, (HIA 461, 462 Spring 2004)
  8. Hon Ho, PreMed Student 2003
  9. Poonam Lata, Health Information Administration, (HIA 461 462 2003)
  10. Kaity Pak, Health Information Administration, (HIA 499 2003)
  11. Michael Jackson, Epidemiology 2003  (independent study on syndromic surveillance)  
  12. Syed Zia Huq, Biomedical and Health Informatics (3cr MEDED 599 Autumn 2001, 1cr MEDED 600 Summer 2003)
  13. Jorge Candiotti, Biomedical and Health Informatics (2cr MEDED 599 Winter 2001, 6cr MEDED 600 Spring 2002)  
  14. Kenichiro Taneda, Health Services (2cr MEDED 600 Summer 2002)
  15. David Bliss, Chemistry 2001
  16. Dong Vo, PreMed 2001
  17. Lucinda Hindorff, Epidemiology – 2000-2001

VII. Bibliography

A. Refereed Journal Publications


B.Conference Proceedings and other non-journal articles


C. Books and Book Chapters


D. Reports, Blogs and Testimonies


E. Patents and other Intellectual Property

  1. Wireless 802.11 communications for disaster management
  2. Java application for J2ME cell phone to track SNS deployments
  3. SuML (Survey Markup Language) system for web based survey data collection and targeted feedback
  4. Distributed health assessment and intervention research (DHAIR) software framework
  5. ActiveOptions™ web tool for physical activity data collection and health promotion
  6. WA DOH Translations for Exposure Notification released as Creative Commons

VIII. Funding History:

Dates

Role

ID/PI

Funder

Amount

CMS Advanced Planning Document for Health Information Exchange (HITECH)

DOH development of Meaningful Use infrastructure and On-Boarding staff to support Medicaid eligible providers and hospital to comply with the EMR/EHR incentive program. I served as the DOH principle investigator. This update continued work on Electronic Lab Reporting, Immunization, Syndromic Surveillance, Cancer ,Prescription Drug Monitoring (Opioid), eCase Reporting and Newborn Screening (NBS), EMS, and Child Health BDSS, CHIF UDS.

10/1/2019 - 9/30/2021

PI

HCA-xxx (Karras, PI)

CMS

$10,000,000

CMS Advanced Planning Document for Opioid SUPPORT (Medicaid PARTNERSHIP)

Funding for DOH to recompete the PDMP vendor via RFP, including IT/Business staff costs, RFP costs for new system and required QA an IV&V services. Funding for UW to Continue PMP/EHR integration TA via Qualis/CoImagine, for R&D EHR to query PMP with CDS Hooks for Rx Rules (HL7 FHIR), and UW to evaluate and consult to improve agency Opioid Tableau Dashboard. Potential funding to CSTE or PHII for central hub for sharing best practices in analyzing data. Travel costs to attend HIMSS and related trainings/conferences. Overall funding for DOH/UW was 8,882,798. HCA also included related projects for an additional 2,330,000: total of $11,212,798.

7/11/2019 - 9/30/2020

PI

HCA-xxx (Karras, PI)

CMS

$11,212,798 (DOH 8,882,798 HCA 2,330,000)

CMS Advanced Planning Document for Health Information Exchange (HITECH)

DOH development of Meaningful Use infrastructure and On-Boarding staff to support Medicaid eligible providers and hospital to comply with the EMR/EHR incentive program. I served as the DOH principle investigator. This update continued work on Electronic Lab Reporting, Immunization, Syndromic Surveillance, Cancer and Prescription Drug Monitoring (Opioid), eCase Reporting and Newborn Screening (NBS) and added EMS, and Child Health BDSS, CHIF UDS.

10/1/2018 - 9/30/2019

PI

HCA-xxx (Karras, PI)

CMS

$4,082,000

CMS Advanced Planning Document for Health Information Exchange (HITECH)

DOH development of Meaningful Use infrastructure and On-Boarding staff to support Medicaid eligible providers and hospital to comply with the EMR/EHR incentive program. I served as the DOH principle investigator. This update continued work on Electronic Lab Reporting, Immunization, Syndromic Surveillance, Cancer and Prescription Drug Monitoring (Opioid) and added eCase Reporting and Newborn Screening (NBS).

10/1/2017 - 9/30/2018

PI

HCA-xxx (Karras, PI)

CMS

$2,950,000

CMS Advanced Planning Document for Health Information Exchange (HITECH)

DOH development of Meaningful Use infrastructure and On-Boarding staff to support Medicaid eligible providers and hospital to comply with the EMR/EHR incentive program. I served as the DOH principle investigator. This update continued work on Electronic Lab Reporting, Immunization, Syndromic Surveillance, and added Cancer and Prescription Drug Monitoring (Opioid)

10/1/2016 - 9/30/2017

PI

HCA-xxx (Karras, PI)

CMS

$1,188,000

CMS Advanced Planning Document for Health Information Exchange (HITECH)

DOH development of Meaningful Use infrastructure and On-Boarding staff to support Medicaid eligible providers and hospital to comply with the EMR/EHR incentive program. I served as the DOH principle investigator. This update continued work on Electronic Lab Reporting, and added Immunization and Syndromic Surveillance.

10/1/2015 - 9/30/2016

PI

HCA-xxx (Karras, PI)

CMS

$453,000

CMS Advanced Planning Document for Health Information Exchange (HITECH)

DOH development of Meaningful Use infrastructure and On-Boarding staff to support Medicaid eligible providers and hospital to comply with the EMR/EHR incentive program. I served as the DOH principle investigator. This update focused on Electronic Lab Reporting.

10/1/2014 - 9/30/2015

PI

CMS-xxx (Karras, PI)

CMS

$261,000

CDC Syndromic Surveillance

DOH development of state-wide syndromic surveillance using ESSENCE to replace the ODIN Project listed above. This is in response to the CDC-RFA-xxx-xxx Cooperative Agreement. I served as the DOH principle investigator for the first several years of the project. DOH then transitioned to a syndromic surveillance system using Bio-Sense NSSP.

9/1/2009 - 8/31/2013

PI

CDC-xxx (Karras, PI)

CDC

$XXX,XXX

eHealth Survey for Public Health

The goal of this project is to evaluate the usability of the an electronic version of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and evaluate it’s feasibility as a method for performing population based surveillance on large organization’s health risk behaviors

10/1/2007 - 9/30/2009

PI

R21 1R21LM008981-01A1 (Karras, PI)

National Library of Medicine

$150,000
(275,000 2 year total)

Common Ground: Transforming Public Health Information Systems Requirements Development Grant: Spokane Regional Health District

Working with Spokane Regional Health District administrator will lead a team to develop system requirements and business process analysis and redesign and requirements development methodology to define public health preparedness information systems to protect people from health problems and health hazards.

1/1/2007 - 12/31/2010

Informatics Team Lead

(Smith, PI)

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation / PHII

$600,000

Informatics Competencies - Training the Next Generation

This project will seek to find a consensus on Public Health Informatics topics and competencies that should be taught in graduate education in US schools of public health and postgraduate fellowship training such as CDC’s Public Health Informatics

10/1/2005 - 9/30/2007

PI

S3447-24/24 (Karras, PI) (S3608-24/24)

ASPH / CDC

$167,228
(208,000)

Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics

The University of Washington and partner institutions propose to establish a Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics. It will be housed in the new UW Center for Public Health Informatics whose mission is to expand public health informatics education and research in the northwestern states.

9/30/2005 - 9/29/2008

Core Investigator

PO1 CD 000261-01 (Oberle/Fuller, PIs)

CDC

$1,037,994
(1,270,432)

Collaborative Training Initiative in Public Health Informatics

This training grant funds a new Public Health Informatics (PHI) training track and the development of new curriculum. The track will have two components, MS track and PhD track, both integrated into the current Biomedical and health Informatics (BHI) graduate degree program.

7/01/2005–6/30/2009

Faculty

3T15LM007442-0451(Tarzczy-Hornoch, PI)

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/National Library of Medicine

$97,630
(793,303)

Active Options for Aging Americans

Development of Web Tool for Community Programs and Resources to Support Physical Activity in Older Adults. The aim of this project is to develop a nationally available web-based toolkit for community use that permits the development of a user friendly guide to local physical activity programs for older adults. Pilot project to be released in 3 states, and the expanded to 13 total. This system has been Trademarked by the UW as Active Options.

1/1/2005 - 8/31/2007

PI

(Karras, PI)

NCOA / The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

$82,000 (including 20k amendment)

Puget Sound Infectious Disease Tracking System (ODIN Project)

UW subcontract, US Army Medical Research Program, “Puget Sound Infectious Disease Tracking System”, Integrated public health reporting, evaluating utility of integrated surveillance, and developing capabilities for civilian/military data sharing

7/01/2004 - 2/28/2007

Investigator

W23RYX-3263-N612 (Lober, Dunbar, PI)

DOD / US Army Medical Research Program

$507,002

Uniform Medical Plan Health Risk Assessment Software License Agreement

The Health Risk Assessment HRA project is a collaborative project between the Uniform Medical Plan (UMP) and the University of Washington’s (UW) Public Health Informatics and Health Promotions Research Center. The overall goal of this project is to build and test an electronic health risk assessment survey system, “eHealth Survey.” eHealth Survey is intended to serve as a robust health promotion tool for UMP members and will inform UMP decision-makers with data about behavioral risk factors among its membership.

8/01/2005–7/01/2006

PI

#1020-001651 (Karras, PI)

Health Care Authority / TechTransfer #16719A

$109,606
(138,103)

Syndromic Surveillance Information Collection – Peninsula

This is continuation funding of a two year syndromic surveillance project. The major goals of this project are to establish an active real time surveillance system in Region 2 (Kitsap , Jefferson and Clallam Co. The University of Washington faculty, staff and students of the Public Health Informatics program will act as agents of at Bremerton and Kitsap County in developing reliable, secure systems of electronic communication between participating hospital emergency departments and Public Health.

9/01/2005 - 8/30/2006

PI

(Karras, PI)

Bremerton and Kitsap County

$22,000

Syndromic Surveillance Information Collection – Peninsula

This is 2nd year funding of the project. The major goals of this project are to have the faculty, staff and students of the Informatics program at the University of Washington assist the syndromic surveillance project at Washington State Department of Health in developing reliable, secure systems of electronic communication between participating hospital emergency departments and Public Health.

9/01/2004 - 9/30/2005

PI

N13210 (#: A12381) (Karras, PI)

WA State Department of Health

$55,467
(68,430)

Academic Center for Public Health Preparedness

The major goals of this project are to ensure that the public health workforce has the knowledge and skills necessary to identify, characterize, control and develop prevention programs that will be effective in safeguarding the residents and the six state region from current and emerging threats to their health, including the threats of bioterrorist attack.

9/1/2004 - 8/31/2005

Informatics Faculty

U90/CCU024247-01 (Thompson, PI)

CDC

$1,042,666

Computerized Assessment for Patients with Cancer

The purpose of this study is to design and evaluate the clinical integration of the web-based computerized assessment (ESRA-C) in a major, multi-disciplinary academic medical and cancer center.

6/01/2004–9/30/2005

Informatics Investigator

RO1 NR008726 01A1(Berry, PI)

NIH

$382,142

Bioterrorism Curriculum Development Program

The University of Washington proposes to establish a multi-disciplinary curriculum that provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize indications of a terrorist event or other public health emergency and meet the acute health needs of victims of such an event.

9/30/2003 - 8/31/2005

Informatics Faculty

5 T01HP01412-02--00 (Oberle, PI)

HRSA

$395,210

An evaluation framework for eHealth Survey Applications

The eHealth survey methodology and design grant developed an evaluation framework and tested an instrument for evaluating online survey authoring systems.

9/01/2003-12/30/2004

PI

RWJFID 49146 (UW GCS# 146785) (Karras, PI)

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

$98,640

Syndromic Surveillance Information Collection – Peninsula

The major goals of this project are to have the faculty, staff and students of the Medical Informatics program at the University of Washington assist the syndromic surveillance project at Bremerton and Kitsap County in developing reliable, secure systems of electronic communication between participating hospital emergency departments and Public Health.

9/01/2003 - 8/30/2004

PI

N10695-amedment1 (Karras, PI)

Bremerton and Kitsap County

$66,684
(85,000)

Denver Wireless-Colorado Electronic Disease Reporting System

Contract to extend our secure web survey infrastructure and data collection system to allow initial case reporting of communicable disease cases to the State of Colorado electronic reporting system by PDA devices over the public wireless networks.

03/2002 – 09/2004

Informatics Investigator

EO596G (Lober, PI)

CDC / Denver Public Health (Denver Health and Hospitals Agency) Contract

$53,000

Executive Training Institute for Public Health Leaders in Bioterrorism Preparedness & Response

Lead investigator on development of an executive training module for Public Health Informatics

11/01/2002-9/30/2004 (ext 10/30/2005)

Faculty and PH Informatics lead

A1214-21/21 (Thompson, PI)

CDC/ASPH

$277,778

Syndromic Surveillance Database Project

The major goals of this project are to have the faculty, staff and students of the Medical Informatics program at the University of Washington assist the syndromic surveillance project at Public Health - Seattle and King County in developing reliable, secure systems of electronic communication between participating hospital emergency departments and Public Health.

9/01/2002 - 8/30/2004

Co-Investigator

(Lober, PI)

Public Health - Seattle and King County

$360,000

Denver Wireless-Colorado Electronic Disease Reporting System

Contract to extend our secure web survey infrastructure and data collection system to allow initial case reporting of communicable disease cases to the State of Colorado electronic reporting system by PDA devices over the public wireless networks.

3/01/2002 – 9/2002

Co-PI

(Lober, PI)

Denver Public Health (Denver Health and Hospitals Agency) Contract

$60,000

Syndromic Surveillance Information Collection – King County

The major goals of this project are to assist the syndromic surveillance project at Public Health - Seattle and King County and Bremerton and Kitsap County in developing reliable, secure systems of electronic communication between participating hospital emergency departments and Public Health.

8/31/2001-8/30/2003

PI

N11264 (Karras , PI)

Washington State Dept of Health

$224,613
(235,992)

Q of L Symptom Computerized Cancer Symptom and Quality of life Assessment

The major goals of this project are the Development of a online / wireless touch screen questionnaire and database for research on symptoms assessment in Radiation oncology patients.

6/01/2001- 5/31/2002

Informatics Investigator

(Berry, PI)

Oncology Nursing Society (RFA symptom management research RE07)

 $XX,XXX

Syndromic Surveillance Database Project

The major goals of this project are to have the faculty, staff and students of the Medical Informatics program at the University of Washington assist the syndromic surveillance project at Public Health - Seattle and King County in developing reliable, secure systems of electronic communication between participating hospital emergency departments and Public Health.

4/01/2001 - 8/30/2001

PI

(Karras, PI)

Washington State Dept of Health (Public Health - Seattle and King County)

$85,456

Asthma Computerized Asthma Management System (CAMS)

The purpose of the grant is to design a web-based asthma assessment tool that patients can access from home. The design will allow users to understand specifics about their asthma status.

4/01/2001-12/31/2002

Informatics Investigator

(Zimmerman, PI)

Boeing Foundation /Child Health Institute

$200,000
(199,726)

Northwest Center for Public Health Preparedness

The major goals of this project are to ensure that the public health workforce has the knowledge and skills necessary to identify, characterize, control and develop prevention programs that will be effective in safeguarding the residents of the six state region from current and emerging threats to their health, including the threats of bioterrorist attack.

10/01/2000-9/30/2004

Faculty

S1544-20/20 (Gale, PI)

ASPH/CDC

$398,152

SurveillanceED Database Project

The major goals of this project were to have the faculty, staff and students of the Medical Informatics program at the University of Washington assist the syndromic surveillance project at Public Health - Seattle and King County in developing reliable, secure systems of electronic communication between participating hospital emergency departments and Public Health.

8/15/2000- 3/31/2001

PI

D29174D (Karras, PI)

Public Health - Seattle and King County

$29,188

IX. Conferences and Symposiums and Invited Talks:

  1. 2021 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Modernizing the Global Public Health Ecosystem Wednesday, August 11 at 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
  2. 2021 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Interoperability & HIE Breakfast Panel 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Wednesday, August 11
  3. 2021 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Invited panel presenter COVID-19: U.S. State Responses and Lessons Learned: Anne Zink MD, Bryant T Karras MD, and Melissa Lauer MPA, Wednesday, August 11 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM PDT
  4. CSTE 2021 Annual Conference June 13-17, 2021 Western States Learning Collaborative Pact for COVID-19 Exposure Notification Express Monday, June 14, 2021 1:10 PM - 1:20 PM
  5. Data Modernization: Building on Shared Services and Enterprise Technologies workshop: Bryant Karras, Sarah Tuneberg, Jenny Wanger; Leveraging public, private and nonprofit partnerships. May 19-21, 2021
  6. 2020 AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference in Seattle Virtual Panel - Opioid Informatics: Advancing the Clinical Use of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program in Washington State 3:30 PM–4:30 PM May 20, 2020
  7. 2020 AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference in Seattle Virtual 12:30 PM–1:30 PM May 19, 2020 Plenary Session - Clinical Informatics Response to COVID
  8. Karras BT , Invited panel presenter at CDC Electronic Health Records Meaningful Use & Public Health Virtual Event. Dec 18, 2012
  9. Invited panel presenter at Washington State Health Information Technology Forum: Sponsored by the Washington State Health Care Authority, eHealth Collaborative Enterprise Puget Sound Regional Council 1011 Western Ave., Suite 500 Seattle, Washington 98104 June 24, 2010
  10. Invited presenter Karras BT, Public Health: Case Reporting, Biosurveillence and Immunization Tracking. Cosponsor: Officer of National Coordinator for Health IT – NHIN, Georgia World Congress Center, Interoperability Showcase, Hall C, Booth #233 Monday, March 1, 3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
  11. Invited Tutorial, Janise Richards, MS, MPH, PhD, Bryant Thomas Karras, MD, Paul Gorman, MD, William Hersh, MD, Harmonizing biomedical health informatics competencies in curricula, sponsored by the Education Working Group. American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, Chicago, Il.. 2007
  12. Invited Expert and presenter, Public Health Informatics Network (PHIN 2007) Harmonizing PH voices in national health IT. Atlanta, GA, August 27-29, 2007 Travel support provided by CDC.
  13. Invited pre-conference Tutorial, John H. Holmes, Ph.D., Bryant Thomas Karras, MD, Introduction to Health Informatics, PHIN, Atlanta, GA, 2007 Travel support provided by AMIA.
  14. Invited Expert and presenter at 2007 annual Assessment Initiative conference. Sponsored by CDC (Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics) to promote the use of data to inform public health planning and policy. http://www.cdc.gov/epo/dphsi/AI/ai-bg_new.htm. August 22 – 24, Atlanta. Travel support will be provided by CDC.
  15. International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) Education and Training committee conference to develop a CME on Syndromic Surveillance, The George Washington University Washington DC, May 7th-8th 2007
  16. Invited panel presenter with Janise Richards, MS, MPH, PhD, Bryant T. Karras, MD, William Hersh, MD, Laverne A. Snow, MPA. Building Expertise in Public Health Informatics. Spring meeting of American Medical Informatics Association. Orlando, FL, 2007
  17. Invited presenter ASTHO/NACCHO Joint Public Health Informatics Meeting. San Diego, CA, April 2007
  18. Invited university research participant, Interoperability Showcase2007 of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) at Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), New Orleans, LA, 2007
  19. Invited panel presenter with Dr. Don Detmer, President and CEO of American Medical Informatics Association “The Convergence of Public Health and Biomedical/Health Informatics” PHIN, Atlanta, GA, 2006
  20. Panel organizer and presenter, “Development and Utilization of Competencies for Public Health Informatics” Public Health Informatics Network (PHIN 2006), Atlanta, GA 2006
  21. Invited Plenary Speaker “Detecting emerging diseases” Sichuan University, Chengdu, China 2006 Sept
  22. Invited Participant CDC wide research agenda. Seattle, WA, March 24, 2005
  23. Panel organizer and presenter, MedInfo2004 “Who Will Keep the Public Healthy?: The Public Health Informatics Community Responds”. San Francisco, CA, September 7-11th
  24. Presenter, Health e-Technologies Methodology and Design Grantees Meeting, “Framework for eHealth Survey Applications: An Ontology or a Laundry List?” Boston, MA, 2004 Oct
  25. Participant, 1st Public Health Information Network (PHIN) Stakeholders Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2003 May
  26. Delegate, APEC EI-Net , Australia Site Visit. Accompanied Vice Provost Louis Fox on visits to University of Sydney, University of Queensland, Australian National University, University New South Wales, and Commonwealth Department of Health and Aging, 2003 July
  27. Attendee, 2nd National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, NY, NY , 2003 Oct
  28. Invited Presenter “An Evaluation Framework for eHealth Survey Applications” Health e-Technologies Grantee Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2003 Oct
  29. Invited Participant, 4th annual eHealth Developers’ Summit, San Diego, CA. 2003 Nov
  30. Attendee, BioDefense Mobilization Conference, Seattle, WA, 2002
  31. New Haven, CT, 2002
  32. Invited participant, COGS, Conference on Guideline Standardizations, Yale University,
  33. Invited Plenary Presenter, Western Regional Medical Readiness Conference, SeaTac, WA, 2002
  34. Invited Presenter, SER, Society for Epidemiology Research, Palm Springs, CA, 2002
  35. Invited Presenter Electronic Collection of Surveillance Data, 1st National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, NY, NY, 2002 Sept
  36. Invited Presenter Information System Based Surveillance, (Panel Bill Lober, John Loonsk Kenneth Mandl, Marc Overhage, Michael Wagner, Bryant Karras). American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, San Antonio, TX, 2002 Nov
  37. Instructor, Faculty Development Workshop SOM “Palm Solutions for the Busy Academician”, HSC UW, Seattle, WA, 2001 Attendee Association for Computing Machinery CHI Computer - Human Interaction conference Seattle, WA, 2001
  38. UW Delegate, Infomed and MEDICC, Havana, Cuba, 2001
  39. Invited PHI Expert, Spring Congress (AMIA CDC RWJ) developing a national agenda for Public Health Informatics, Atlanta, GA, 2001
  40. Plenary Presenter, Health Administration Program, Madison, WI, 2001
  41. Presenter/Instructor, Peru Short Course on Health Informatics, 3 full days of lectures and panelist at public forum, Lima, Peru, 2001
  42. Invited inaugural participant, Open Clinical, London, England, 2001
  43. Attendee, American Public Health Association, Atlanta, GA, 2001
  44. Instructor, Short Course on Health Informatics, Welcome/Opening address and full day of lectures, Lima, Peru, 2000
  45. Attendee Edward Tufte’s Presenting Data and Information, Seattle, WA, 2000
  46. Facilitator, BioTerrorism Table Top Exercise Southwest Washington Health District, Vancouver, WA, 2000
  47. Faculty/Staff- American College of Physicians annual session of ACP-ASIM, New Orleans, LA, 1999
  48. Attendee, National Library of Medicine NLM training program conference Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and Arden House, NY, 1999
  49. Attendee, Society for Medical Decision Making 21th Meeting, Reno, NV, 1999
  50. Presenter, Connecticut Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Windsor Locks, CT, 1999
  51. Attendee, Society for Medical Decision Making 20th Anniversary Meeting, Boston, MA, 1998
  52. Attendee, American Medical Informatics Association AMIA Annual Symposium, Orlando, FL, 1998
  53. Presenter, American College of Physicians, Wisconsin Society of Internal Medicine, 42nd Annual Meeting, Madison, WI, 1997
  54. Poster Presenter, Orthopedics Research Society, New Orleans, LA, 1990