Jessica Pourian

President

Pediatrician, UCSF

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Jessica is an attending pediatrician and fellow in clinical informatics at UCSF. She works clinically in acute care and in the ER. She completed her undergraduate studies at MIT and worked in healthcare consulting before attending medical school at UCSD and pediatric residency at Brown. As a fellow, she is particularly focused on data privacy for sensitive health informatics as well as operational applications of AI in healthcare such as with inbasket management and scribing. Her research focuses on antibiotic stewardship in pediatrics. In her spare time she enjoys reading and playing music.

Michael Albrecht

Vice President

Internal Medicine, University of Kansas

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Michael Albrecht is a general Internal Medicine specialist.  Dr. Albrecht started his career by practicing in rural Western Kansas for nearly 8 years in different roles: primary care physician, hospitalist, wound care provider, and hospice medical director.  Dr. Albrecht pursued a Clinical Informatics fellowship in 2023 at the University of Kansas Medical Center due to his interest in improving processes in healthcare with the use of technology.   Dr. Albrecht lives in Shawnee, KS with his wife and 3 children.  He is a Kansas City Chiefs fan, and otherwise enjoys long-distance running and working on his own software projects in his spare time.  He plans on starting his own tech- and innovation-driven primary care Internal Medicine practice in the Kansas City metro following completion of his fellowship in 2025.

Alex Plattner

AMIA Representative &  CIPD Policy Representative​

Pediatric Infectious Disease, University of Washington

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Alex Plattner is a Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Clinical Informatics fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Plattner is a graduate of the University of Florida for undergraduate and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he completed a combined MD/MBA program. Dr. Plattner completed his pediatrics residency at St. Louis Children’s Hospital/Washington University before staying for fellowship. His scholarly work primarily focuses on antimicrobial stewardship and clinical decision support. Dr. Plattner lives in St. Louis with his wife, son, and dog. In his free time, he enjoys traveling, hiking, and trying new restaurants in the area.

Adrian Romero

CIPD Match Representative

Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina

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Adrian Romero is an Emergency Medicine physician who is completing a Clinical Informatics fellowship at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. Prior to his fellowship Dr. Romero worked as an attending for Emergency Physicians of Tidewater (EPT) a democratic emergency medicine group in Virginia. Prior to completing his Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago he attended medical school at New York Medical College. Dr. Romero’s clinical informatics interests are in IT governance, implementation and vetting of artificial intelligence in healthcare settings as well as interoperability. His main project at UNC is focused on improving access to patients suffering from opioid use disorder (OUD) from UNC’s emergency departments. s

April Liang

Chair of Networking & CIPD Curriculum Representative

Internal Medicine, Stanford University 

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April Shichu Liang, MD, is a fellow in the Stanford University Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program. Dr. Liang holds a BSE in Computer Science from Princeton University and an MD from UCSF School of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at UCSF and currently practices as a hospitalist. Dr. Liang’s informatics interests are in implementation of machine learning tools in healthcare, clinical decision support, and data-driven quality improvement. Her past work includes the development of a machine learning model to predict incident delirium in hospitalized patients and EHR-based interventions to increase guideline-recommended public health screening. Currently, Dr. Liang is working on designing and implementing smarter CDS tools including a machine learning-driven alert targeting lab overutilization.

Kevin Smith

Chair of Communications

Pediatric Critical Care, University of Chicago

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Kevin Smith is a Clinical Informatics Fellow and Pediatric Intensivist at the University of Chicago. He obtained his BA in History from the University of Pennsylvania, MS in Physiology from Georgetown University, and MD from the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Dr. Smith completed his Pediatrics residency at the University of Colorado/Children's Hospital Colorado and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine fellowship at Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware. His interests include streamlining clinical workflows, improving clinician efficiency in the electronic health record (EHR), developing clinical decision support tools to serve as cognitive aids, and finding innovative ways to utilize the vast troves of data captured by the EHR. 

Margaret Soulen

Chair of Education

Pediatrics, Kettering

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Margaret Soulen is a clinical informatics fellow at Kettering Health and pediatrician at Dayton Children’s Hospital in Dayton, OH. She has a degree from the University of Notre Dame in Anthropology and received her MD from Tulane University. She came back to Ohio for residency in pediatrics at Dayton Children’s Hospital and stayed in the area, working in the ER there for the past decade. Her fellowship work is focused on quality improvement of pediatric care within general hospital systems and interoperability within EHR systems. She believes in leveraging the EHR to make hospitals safer for children no matter where they are seen.  In her free time she enjoys exploring the world with her husband and daughter as well as running, swimming and tennis. 

Isabella Slaby

Chair of Community Outreach

Internal Medicine, Thomas Jefferson/Christiana

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Isabella Slaby is a clinical informatics fellow at the ChristianaCare/Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University program, based in Delaware and Philadelphia. She is also currently a hospitalist at ChristianaCare, where she had previously completed her internal medicine residency. She earned her medical degree from Rowan University School of Medicine in New Jersey. Prior to that, she earned her BS in Engineering Psychology and Biomedical Sciences from Tufts University. Dr. Slaby’s informatics interests include optimizing clinical decision support and physician workflows, cybersecurity, analytics, and the practical implementation of AI in healthcare. In her free time, she enjoys gardening, reading, traveling to far-off places with her husband, and spoiling their two dogs. 

Thalia Nguyen

Chair of Marketing & CIPD Marketing Representative

Family Medicine, UCLA

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Thalia Nguyen, MD is a SoCal UC lifer, having completed undergraduate training at UCLA, medical school training at UC Irvine, her Family Medicine residency at UCLA, and is now a current UCLA Health Informatics fellow. She currently works as an outpatient primary care provider for patients of all ages as well as an Immediate/Urgent Care Physician for both UCLA and County (DHS) clinics. Her clinical informatics interests include clinical documentation improvement, leveraging generative AI and EHR optimizations to decrease outpatient provider burnout, and maintaining digital health equity through informatics. Outside of the computer, she can be found backpacking in the Eastern Sierras or taking pictures of her 2 cats, Fred and Gus. 

Livingston Martin

Chair of Industry and Entrepreneurship

Family Medicine, University of Washington

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Dr. Martin is a board-certified family medicine physician and clinical informatics fellow at the University of Washington. He completed his residency at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health in Kitsap County, WA, just across Puget Sound from Seattle. Dr. Martin served as a chief resident and was involved with various informatics and health systems improvement projects during his residency. He attended medical school at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, TX, and got his undergraduate degree in biology from Whitman College, WA.

Dong-Han Yao

Chair of Events and Symposia

Emergency Medicine, Stanford

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Dong-han Yao, MD is a fellow at the Stanford University Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program. Dr. Yao holds a BA in Molecular & Cell Biology and Immunology from UC Berkeley, and an MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at UCLA before moving back to the bay to pursue fellowship and clinical practice. As a fellow, his scholarly interests include the study and implementation of novel care models for delivering urgent and emergent care via telemedicine, leveraging generative AI solutions to improve clinical throughput and operations in the ED, and precision emergency medicine. 

Thomas Wodja

Member at Large

Family Medicine, UPMC