Leaf Governance Committee Members

David Bard, PhD is the Director at the Biomedical & Behavioral Methodology (BBMC) at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
David received his BA from Bethany College in Lindsborg, KS and his MS and PhD in psychology from the University of Oklahoma. In addition to his BBMC directorship, he also is principal investigator for a number of pediatric research studies. Dr. Bard’s areas of expertise include quantitative statistical analysis and methodology, pediatric epidemiology, child maltreatment prevention, judgment and decision making, and programs evaluation. He is a founder of the REDCap Governance Body, and his team has contributed to the development of REDCapR, a package of utilities integrating REDCap with R statistical computing software.

Paul Nagy, PhD, FSIIM is an Associate Professor in the Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine in the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology as well as the Division of Health Science Informatics. Dr. Nagy serves as the Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Technology Innovation Center.He serves as the program director for three year-long multidisciplinary clinical leadership programs at Johns Hopkins Medicine in clinical informatics, clinical analytics and creating commercial ventures. There have been over 100 faculty and staff that have gone through the programs since 2012. Dr. Nagy is the author of over 100 papers in the fields of informatics, analytics and quality and has delivered over 200 presentations at national conferences.

 Griffin Weber, MD, PhD directs the Biomedical Research Informatics Core (BRIC) at Harvard University. A result of his research in expertise mining and social network analysis he has lead the development of an open source social networking website for scientists called Profiles RNS, now used at dozens of universities across the country. It automatically mines large datasets such as PubMed, NIH ExPORTER, and the U.S. patent database to discover investigators’ research areas and scientific networks. It then presents these connections using temporal, geospatial, and network visualizations.

Sam Volchenboum, MD, PhD, MS is the Associate Chief Research Information Officer and the Associate Director at the Institute for Translational Medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine. Dr. Volchenboum treats pediatric cancers and blood disorders, with a specialization in treating children with neuroblastoma and other pediatric solid tumors. His research explores the use of computation to define diseases in greater detail. As a researcher and physician, Volchenboum serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics. His research methodologies include using proteomics to study pediatric solid tumors and building tools for high-throughput mass spectrometry data analysis.

Mark Beno, MSM, is Senior Director of Strategic Operations for the Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology at Case Western University. Mark received his Master’s in 2016 from the Weatherhead School of Management as part of the inaugural cohort in the Master’s of Science in Management program with a focus on healthcare. A 27-year employee of Case Western Reserve University, with a B.A. in Biochemistry (CWRU), prior to joining the CICB, Mark was the administrative and finance manager for multiple University research departments, and was involved in several multi-institutional research efforts.

Julian Solway, MD, is the Director for the Institute for Translational Medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine. Dr. Solway is an expert in pulmonary medicine with a particular interest in the management of severe and persistent asthma. Under his leadership, researchers, scientists and clinicians work to understand the causes of disease and to bring new therapies to the public. A dedicated educator and mentor, Dr. Solway trains medical, graduate, and postdoctoral students in the study respiratory biology. He is also a prolific scholar, having authored more than 150 peer-reviewed articles, as well as numerous chapters in leading textbooks on lung biology, asthma, and pulmonary pharmacology.

Sean Mooney, PhD, FACMI, is the Chief Research Information Officer at the University of Washington Medicine and a professor in the Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education. Dr. Mooney has spent his career managing the development of collaborative electronic systems supporting biomedical research. His interests focus on leading the next generation informatics tools for biomedical research and in understanding the underlying molecular causes of inherited genetic diseases and cancer. His group is funded by the National Library of Medicine and other NIH Institutes, mostly in the area of data science and translational medicine. He also has experience leading the construction of communities; he was co-founder of one of the largest nonprofits focusing on biomedical entrepreneurship in the SF Bay Area, BioE2E, and the Indiana Biomedical Entrepreneur Network.