BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
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NAME
James Mark Conde
eRA COMMONS USER NAME
JMCONDE
POSITION TITLE
Director, Information Technology
Assoc Director, CMPH Informatics Track
Emory/Rollins School of Public Health
EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION
Hiram College, OH
DEGREE
(if applicable)
B.A.
MM/YY
05/80
FIELD OF STUDY
CHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY
A.
Personal Statement
With my involvement with informatics programs and research in public health, I recognize the need to engage
technology to meet many of the challenges of field data collection, laboratory data and specimen tracking, and
driving efficient information collection from cohorts of participants as well as support complex analytics. As we
collect more sensitive and private data, we have a responsibility to ensure that the data is secure but available to
drive the program goals. I have worked with CDC, state and local organizations and specialize in laboratory
informatics as well as supporting the Rollins School of Public Health with informatics needs on global projects. As
the Director of IS for RSPH I am responsible for all the secure data systems we provide for our research
community. We have a number of systems that contain data collected from international locations, Federal
government sources, as well as many forms of Private Health Information (PHI) secure data. All of the
development of these systems follows the HIPAA standards for access control and in a few cases we have
systems that are FISMA moderate compliant. With a couple of the programs we have adjusted our handling of
data that is sourced from sensitive countries to make sure we are following the jurisdictional policies of that
country. That may mean that we cannot move the data from that country and have to create analytical systems
that can work on the data remotely. We also work with the researchers to extract data at appropriate levels of
anonymization or de-identified based on the country or jurisdictional policies. Often working with sensitive and
secure data has to balance environment, computing, and localization parameters set by the owners of the data
while still being useful to the intent of the research. This means that we work through variances of how the data is
used throughout a program to meet the need and protect the sensitive information. With my role as the Associate
Director of our CMPH Applied Public Health Informatics I am building a program to expand the work force capacity
with training in informatics.
B. Positions and Honors
Positions and Employment
1980-83 Research Chemist/Lab Informatician, Wright/Zimmite Chemical, Cleveland, OH/Chicago, IL
1983-88 Principal Consultant/LIMS Product Specialist, Perkin-Elmer, Chicago, IL/Atlanta, GA
1988-92 AVP IT Operations/ Mgr Applications Development, Management Decision Systems, Atlanta, GA
1992-95 Principal Consultant, Oracle Corporation, Atlanta, GA
1995-01 Solution Line Mgr/Principal in Company, Tactics Inc, Atlanta, GA
2001-01 CTO/Chief Architect, Stonebridge Technologies (Acquired Tactics), Atlanta, GA
2001-02 Program Mgr/Systems Analyst, TRW (Contracted to CDC) , Atlanta, GA
2002-07 Senior Program Mgr, Northrop Grumman Acquired TRW) (Contracted to CDC) , Atlanta, GA
2007-Current Director, Information Services, Emory/Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA
2011-Current Associate Director- CMPH Applied Informatics Track, Emory/ Rollins School of Public Health,
Atlanta, GA
Consultancies
CDC – Laboratory Efficiencies Initiate (LEI) – Panel member developing assessment tool lab informatics –
2/12-current
APHL (Association of Public health Laboratories) Chair: Informatics Committee – Member 2007-current
JPHIT (Joint Public Health Informatics Taskforce) Executive Board (APHL rep) – Member 2009-current
Applied Public Health Informatics Curriculum Project (Advisory Board member) 2009-2010
CSTE EDSS Workgroup for Electronic Disease Surveillance systems capacity 2009
NBPHE 2010 Item writing committee - focus Informatics and Systems Thinking
Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Center (SBSRC) – Executive Board member- 2009-current
CDC PHIN/ PH Informatics Conference Advisory Group (2010, 2011)
RSPH Research Advisory Council, Exofficio technology advisor, (2011-current)
RSPH Leadership Team, Member, ( 2007-current)
CDC Laboratory Efficiency Initiative (LEI), SME panel member, 12/2011
CDC Special Emphasis Panel, CADDRE Grant review panel, 02/2012
Honors/Scholarships/Fellowships/Awards
N/A
Reviewer (selected scholarly journals, presses, and funding agencies)
N/A
C . Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
N/A
D . Research Support
Ongoing Research Support
Vicki Hertzberg (PI)
10/07-current
National Institute of Health
The Influenza Pathogenesis & Immunology Research Center (IPIRC)
The study required a centralized research data handling system and specimen tracking biorepository. I advised
and designed a system that the informatics team implemented to meet the requirements.
Role: Informatics Advisor
RSPH Research faculty
8/2007 - Current
All organizations engaged with RSPH research endeavors
General Informatics Advice and Program support
Many of the research studies at RSPH require informatics advice through the full life cycle of the programs
from the formulation of the grant submission though the award and execution of he programs. I provide support
and advice on all aspects of informatics needs on these projects. I those cases where I engage fully on a
project through the lifecycle of the program I have specifically listed these engagements.
Completed Research Support
Julie Gazmararian (PI)
01/08-10/2010
Centers for Disease Control (National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion)
Creating an Integrated, Flexible System for Systematic Reviews on Nutrition and Physical Activity
The cooperative agreement is to enhance an existing system to create an integrated, flexible system for
systematic reviews on Nutrition and physical activity
I am providing advice in the systems development process and design approaches to advance and program
the system.
Role: Technical /Informatics Advisor
Jim Buehler/Ruth Berkelman (PI)
11/08-12/2010
Centers for Disease Control (COTPER)
Emory Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Center (ePERRC)
Incident Command Systems and Emergency Operation Centers in Public Health Crises
The goal of the study is to investigate the deployment of Public Health emergency operations centers across
various
Emergency response situations. I am concentrating on the information and data flow aspects of the
investigation.
Role: Co-Investigator