Project Organization

Team members: Michael Kaminsky, Christine Kucera, Angelika Nosek

The RMT will manage and oversee the nine project teams that are responsible for the completion of CDSC research projects, tasks, and evaluation efforts. The RMT will facilitate the execution of this project using project management best practices to control and monitor daily research activities.

Team members: Joan Ash, Arwen Bunce, Michael Kaminsky, Christine Kucera, Vishnu Mohan, Angelika Nosek, Adam Wright

The KMLA team will conduct surveys and site visits at the CDSC member institutions to assess their clinical decision support activities and practices both before and after the CDSC activities.

Team members: Adela Grando, Greg Hagerty, Michael Kaminsky, Christine Kucera, Janet Lewis, Saverio Maviglia, Angelika Nosek, Adam Wright

The KTS team is charged with selecting guidelines to use in consortium activities and translating these guidelines into the multi-layered knowledge representation format for use in the service and demonstration projects.

Team members: Dan Bogaty, Janet Lewis, Saverio Maviglia, Roberto Rocha, Paul Rapoza, Mahesh Shanmugaham, Alex Kheyfets, Kira Tsivkin

The KM Portal team will develop and implement collaborative knowledge management tools for use in the development, review, publication, cataloging and archival of knowledge specifications in human and machine readable forms.

Team members: Joan Ash, Michael Kaminsky, Christine Kucera, Blackford Middleton, Lana Tsurikova, Adam Wright

The Recommendations team will assess state-of-the-art methods for clinical decision system support and the results from CDSC best practices development, and make a series of recommendations to vendors, content vendors, and regulatory and certification authorities, about best practices and capabilities for decision support.

Team members: Frank Chang, Joseph Mediros, Angelika Nosek, Marilyn Paterno, Deepika Pabbathi, Dorothy Rifai, Beatriz Rocha, Molly Schaeffer, Eugene Shilmayster, Cheryl Van Putten, Mike Vashevko

The Services team will take the decision support knowledge representation and knowledge prepared by the KTS team and develop publicly available web services that implement the content for use in information systems among the CDS Consortium.

Team members: Brian Dixon, Greg Fraser, Michael Kaminsky, Christine Kucera, Andrew Martin, Angelika Nosek, Amanda Nyhuis, Linas Simonaitis, Frank Sonnenberg

The Demonstration team, in conjunction with site demonstration teams, will perform analysis, development and implementation of decision support interventions using the content and services developed in the CDS Consortium.

Team members: Esteban Hebel, Brian Horwitiz, Christine Kucera, Adam Wright

The Dashboards team will develop performance reporting tools and clinical decision support dashboards so that providers and site clinical quality staff can review adherence to Consortium guidelines.

Team members: Julie Fiskio, Michael Kaminsky, Christine Kucera, Stuart Lipsitiz, Angelika Nosek, Lana Tsurikova, Adam Wright

The Evaluation team will lead and coordinate evaluation activities across all projects performed by the CDS Consortium.

Team members: Matt Burton, David Dubois, Greg Fraser, Michael Kaminsky, Mathew Kim, Christine Kucera, Michael Krall, Angelika Nosek, Jason Saleem, Linas Simonaitis, Frank Sonnenberg

The Content Governance Committee is a group of subject matter experts from the member institutions who make policy decisions regarding decision support content development, use and sharing.