Curriculum Vitae

Mailing Address

Loyola Marymount University
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
1 LMU Drive, MS 8145
Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659

Education

May 1993 to December 1996

Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science
Dissertation: “An Integrated Data Model, Language, and User Interface for Knowledge, Multimedia, and Simulations”
Major: Database and Knowledge Base Management
Minors: Computer System Architecture, Scientific Computing
University of California, Los Angeles

September 1991 to May 1993

Master of Science, Computer Science
Major: Database and Knowledge Base Management
University of California, Los Angeles

September 1987 to May 1991

Bachelor of Science, Summa Cum Laude, Computer Science
Minors: Music, Mathematics
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

Positions

August 2010 to present

Associate Professor, Computer Science
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

February 2001 to present

Developer
Medaxis Corporation, Santa Monica

August 2004 to July 2010

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

July 2004 to June 2010

Assistant Clinical Professor Voluntary, Medical Informatics
University of California, Los Angeles

July 2000 to June 2004

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Medical Informatics
University of California, Los Angeles

August to December 2002; August to December 2003

Part-Time Instructor, Computer Graphics
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

January 1997 to June 2000

Assistant Professor, Telemedicine Division
Department of Radiological Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles

August to December 1998

Part-Time Instructor, Human-Computer Interaction
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

Honors/Awards

December 2003

infoRAD 2003 Magna Cum Laude
“A Gesture-Driven User Interface for Medical Image Viewing”
Radiological Society of North America

November 1999

Nominee, Best Paper Award (first author)
“Initial Experiences with Building a Health Care Infrastructure Based on Java and Object-Oriented Database Technology”
American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium

November 1999

Nominee, Best Paper Award (co-author)
“Creating and Indexing Teaching Files from Free-Text Patient Reports”
American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium

December 1998

infoRAD 1998 Certificate of Merit
“An Integrated and Customized System for a Teleradiology Environment”
Radiological Society of North America

January 1998

Cardinal’s Service Award
Archdiocese of Los Angeles

Professional

2005 to 2008

Assistant Editor/Chair of Editorial Subcommittee on Informatics, American Journal of Roentgenology

2003 to present

Technical reviewer, American Journal of Roentgenology

1997 to 2003

Technical reviewer, American Journal of Neuroradiology