Members

Center members are focused on the development, evaluation, and dissemination of a broad variety of interventions that have the potential to address some of the most challenging and costly behavioral health conditions including mental health, cardiovascular disease, substance abuse, and obesity. Click here to learn more about our work.

Core Faculty Affiliate Staff

Core Faculty

Bruce L. Rollman, MD, MPH
Bruce L. Rollman, MD, MPH
  • Director, Center for Behavioral Health and Smart Technology
  • UPMC Endowed Professor of General Internal Medicine
  • Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, Biomedical Informatics, and Clinical and Translational Science
  • University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • President, American Psychosomatic Society, 2018-2019
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Dmitriy Babichenko, PhD
Dmitriy Babichenko, PhD
Kar-Hai Chu, PhD
Kar Hai Chu, PhD
Charles Jonassaint, PhD, MHS
Charles Jonassaint, PhD, MHS
Jacob Kariuki, PHD, AGNP-BC
Jacob Kariuki, PHD, AGNP-BC
Tamar Krishnamurti, PhD
Tamar Krishnamurti, PhD
Carissa Low, PhD
Carissa Low, PhD
Jared W. Magnani, MD, MSc
Jared W. Magnani, MD, MSc
Ana Radovic, MD, MSc
Ana Radovic, MD, MSc
  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
  • Project Director, SOVAProject
  • University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine
  • Our Interview with Dr. Radovic
Armando J. Rotondi, PhD
Armando J. Rotondi, PhD
  • Associate Professor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Clinical and Translational Science Institute
  • Department of Critical Care Medicine
  • Department of Health Policy and Management
  • Our Interview with Dr. Rotondi
Jaime Sidani, PhD
Jaime Sidani, PhD
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine
  • Assistant Director of the Center for Research on Media, Technology, and Health
Stephen F. Smagula, PhD
Stephen F. Smagula, PhD
Brian Suffoletto, MD, MS
Brian Suffoletto, MD, MS

Affiliate

Michael J. Becich, MD, PhD
Michael J. Becich, MD, PhD
  • Chairman, Department of Biomedical Informatics
  • Professor of Pathology, Information Sciences, Telecommunication, and Clinical/Translational Sciences
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Informatics in the Health Sciences
  • Director, Center for Commercial Application (CCA) of Healthcare Data
  • University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Ellen Beckjord, PhD, MPH
Ellen Beckjord, PhD, MPH
  • Director, Population Health Program Design and Engagement Optimization
  • UPMC Health Plan
Daniel J. Buysse, MD
Daniel J. Buysse, MD
  • UPMC Endowed Chair in Sleep Medicine
  • Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science
  • UPMC
Rosta Farzan, PhD
Rosta Farzan, PhD
  • Assistant Professor of Information Sciences
  • University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences
Williams S. Evans PhD, CCC-SLP
Williams S. Evans PhD, CCC-SLP
  • Assistant Professor
  • University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Bea Herbeck Belnap, Dr Biol Hum
Bea Herbeck Belnap, Dr Biol Hum
  • Program Coordinator
  • CER Scholars Program
  • University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Steven Handler, MD, PhD, CMD
Steven Handler, MD, PhD, CMD
  • Associate Professor
  • University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • Division of Geriatric Medicine
  • Department of Biomedical Informatics
  • Director, Geriatric Telemedicine Programs
  • Chief Medical Informatics Officer
  • UPMC Community Provider Services
Jordan Karp, MD
Joardan Karp, MD
  • Professor of Psychiatry, Anesthesiology, and Clinical and Translational Science
Michael J. Madison
Michael J. Madison
  • Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
  • Senior Scholar, University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security
  • Governing Knowledge Commons
John S. Maier, MD, PhD
John S. Maier, MD, PhD
  • Director of Research and Development
  • Department of Family Medicine
  • University of Pittsburgh
Louis-Philippe Morency, PhD, MS
Louis-Philippe Morency, PhD, MS
  • Assistant Professor
  • Language Technologies Institute
  • Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Bambang Parmanto, PhD, MS
Bambang Parmanto, PhD, MS
  • Professor of Health Information Management and Biomedical Informatics
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Neal D. Ryan, MD
Neal D. Ryan, MD
  • Joaquim Puig-Antich Professor
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Professor of Clinical and Translational Science
  • Department of Psychiatry
  • UPMC

Staff

Amy Anderson, MS, LPC
Amy Anderson, MS LPC
  • Associate Director, Clinical Trials Core
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Jason Colditz, MEd
Jason Colditz, MEd
  • Research Project Manager
  • PhD Candidate & Instructor at the Institute for Clinical Research Education in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Sarah Crowe, BS
Sarah Crowe, BS
  • Program Administrator
Interviews ETUDES
Beth Hoffman, MPH
Beth Hoffman, MPH
  • Research Assistant
  • PhD Student, Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
Ariel Shensa, MA
Ariel Shensa, MA
  • Statistician and Research Scientist
  • PhD Student, Clinical & Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine