Quantitative Health Sciences

Cleveland Clinic

9500 Euclid Avenue, JJN3-01

Cleveland, Ohio 44195

www.lerner.ccf.org/qhs/informatics

Dr. DiLaura is the Co-Director Biomedical Informatics Section at the

Cleveland Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative

at Case Western Reserve University, Center for Clinical Investigation

Bob was elected in October 2008 to a two-year term by his peer

Informatics Directors at the 37 other CTSAs to help lead the national

Consortium (Biomedical Informatics Key Function Committee Operations

Group). casemed.case.edu/ctsc/bioinformatics/robert_dilaura.cfm

Bob is a member of the AMIA board appointed Clinical Research

Informatics Steering Task Force, helping to bring changes to that

organization consistent with the interests of research informaticians

and technologists. He is also a member of the AMIA membership

committee. He was a member of the 2008 Office of the National

Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) records work

group project for health IT terminology. He was the 2004-2005 national

president of the NIH/NCRR General Clinical Research Center's

Association for Information Technology Professionals, representing 80

Centers around the country. He was a founding member of the GCRC

Informatics Working Group, a national collaborative application

development and support initiative. His undergraduate degree is from

Michigan State University. His Masters degree is in International

Business, and his doctorate is in Information Systems.

Ms. Bi is a Systems Analyst in the Department of Quantitative Health

Sciences at Cleveland Clinic. www.lerner.ccf.org/qhs/informatics. She received her Bachelor of Medical

Science at West-China University of Medical Science in 1989 and her

Master of Computer Information Science at Cleveland State University

in 1999. She has more than ten years of experience working on computer

application development using Oracle Database. After joining Cleveland

Clinic in 2001, she began working on development, enhancement and

maintenance of AASK (African American study of Kidney Disease and

Hypertension) Trial system. Since then, she has been a key member for

developing many NIH funded projects, including web-based AASK Cohort

computing system, DAC (Dialysis Access Consortium) computing system,

LAM computing system and FSGS (Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis)

Clinical Trial computing system. She is currently involved as a

database manager in Advanced Imaging for Glaucoma Study (AIGS). She

has also been involved in developing Oracle Pharmaceutical Application

of Myeloma Study for Cancer Center and Vascular Surgery research at

Cleveland Clinic.