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
Charles Jonassaint, PhD, MHS
Charles Jonassaint, PhD, MHS
Tamar Krishnamurti, PhD
Tamar Krishnamurti, PhD
Carissa Low, PhD
Carissa Low, PhD
Jared W. Magnani, MD, MSc
Jared W. Magnani, MD, MSc
  • Visiting Associate Professor of Medicine
  • University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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
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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
Stephen F. Smagula, PhD
Stephen F. Smagula, PhD
Brian Suffoletto, MD, MS
Brian Suffoletto, MD, MS
  • Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
  • Department of Emergency Medicine
  • University of Pittsburgh

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
Lora E. Burke, PhD, MPH
Lora E. Burke, PhD, MPH
  • Director, HUB for Excellence in eHealth Research
Daniel J. Buysse, MD
Daniel J. Buysse, MD
  • UPMC Endowed Chair in Sleep Medicine
  • Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science
  • UPMC
Robert J. Ferguson PhD
Robert J. Ferguson PhD
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine
  • UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
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
Robert Kraut, PhD
Robert Kraut, PhD
  • Herbert A. Simon Professor of Human-Computer Interaction
  • Human-Computer Interaction Institute
  • Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
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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Julia Holber, BA
Julia Holber, BA