Kevin Patrick, MD, MS
Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, UCSD
Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Director, Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems, Calit2

Dr. Patrick’s research focuses on the use of information and telecommunications technology to measure and improve health-related behaviors of individuals and populations. He is a Senior Advisor to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Active Living Research program and a member of the National Advisory Committee of the RWJF Health Games Research initiative. He has served on the Secretary’s Council for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention of the US Department of Health and Human Services and on the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board. Dr. Patrick is Co-founder of Santech, Inc. of La Jolla, California, which is developing web and mobile systems for health promotion and wellness.

James Fowler, PhD
Associate Professor, Political Science Department, UCSD

Dr. Fowler's current interests include social networks, behavioral economics, evolutionary game theory, political participation, the evolution of cooperation, and genopolitics (the study of the genetic basis of political behavior). His research on genopolitics with Chris Dawes was featured in New York Times Magazine's 2008 Year in Ideas. His research on social networks with Nicholas Christakis was featured in Time's Year in Medicine in both 2007 and 2008, and in Harvard Business Review's Breakthrough Business Ideas for 2009.

William Griswold, PhD
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD

Dr. Griswold received his PhD in computer science from the University of Washington in 1991, and his BA in Mathematics from the University of Arizona in 1985. His research interests include ubiquitous computing, educational technology, aspect-oriented software development, software evolution and design, and software tools. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Linda Hill, MD, MPH
Director, UCSD/SDSU General Preventive Medicine Residency Program
Professor, Family and Preventive Medicine, UCSD
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public Health, SDSU

Dr. Hill graduated from the University of Ottawa, and obtained post-graduate training at McGill University and at UCSD. Dr. Hill has directed two community health centers in San Diego, providing direct patient care in addition to programmatic responsibilities. She continues her 30-year practice at one of these CHCs. Through several collaborative projects, she is involved in research on injury prevention, clinical preventive services, and compliance research with the Center for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health (where she is also Associate Director).

She is a past board member of the American College of Preventive Medicine and the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine, and she is currently on the physician advisory board of the county immunization program.

Jeannie Huang, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Co-Director, Fellowship Program, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Dr. Huang’s current research interests focus upon how to improve outcomes in pediatric chronic disease, including diseases such as obesity, inflammatory bowel disease, leukemia, diabetes, and cystic fibrosis. In particular, she is involved in projects aimed at improving weight management among patients at risk for metabolic complications of obesity and in studies targeting improvements in patient-physician communications. Dr. Huang is also program director of the HOPE project, which is an online curriculum for clinicians and clinicians in training on the important topic of pediatric obesity. The HOPE project was launched in August, 2009 and has received support from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, and the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Huang currently receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and the American Cancer Society for her work.

Jacqueline Kerr, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, UCSD
Adjunct Professor, Psychology Department and the Graduate School of Public Health, SDSU

Dr. Kerr works closely with Professor Jim Sallis at SDSU on three large NIH-funded studies exploring the relationship between urban form, physical activity, and obesity. She is also a coordinator for the International Physical Activity Environment Network. Dr. Kerr consults for the Active Living Research program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and for Professor Lawrence Frank, an urban planning and GIS specialist at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Kerr received her PhD in exercise and health promotion in England studying environmental prompts to stair climbing. She then worked in a cancer registry in Germany for three years looking at quality of life and treatment outcomes in breast and rectal cancer patients across different hospitals.

Dr. Kerr has extensive experience in designing surveys, media campaigns, and interview and observation tools to measure physical activity, quality of life, and health promoting environments. She has taught research methods and statistics packages and is an experienced data analyst and scientific writer. She edited the international book The ABC of Behavior Change.

Ingolf Krueger, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD
Director, Service-Oriented Software and Systems Engineering Laboratory
Director, Software & Systems Architecture & Integration (SAINT)

Dr. Krueger’s major research interests are service-oriented software and systems engineering for distributed, reactive systems, software architectures, description techniques, verification and validation, and development processes. The application domains to which he applies his research results span the range from networked embedded systems to Internet-wide business information architectures.

Dr. Krueger’s team of software professionals work on a wide variety of large-scale software and systems engineering projects involving the design and implementation of service-oriented integration architectures, infrastructures, and applications for projects in areas such as homeland security, disaster response, decision support, command and control, automotive, and telecommunications. His team members combine practical experience with cutting-edge research to develop next-generation "systems of systems" that require flexibility, security, safety, scalability, and robustness.

Simon Marshall, PhD
Researcher, Center for Wireless & Population Health Systems
Associate Professor, School of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences, SDSU

Dr. Marshall received his PhD in exercise psychology in 2001 from Loughborough University in the UK, with a focus on youth sedentary behavior and exercise behavior change theory. He has over 14 years of experience designing, implementing, and coordinating the measurement and evaluation of physical activity-related research. He served as the principal investigator (PI) on a large trial funded by the CDC examining the role of pedometers for increasing walking speed, as well as overall levels of physical activity among Latino adults. He has also served as PI in a number of technology-focused grants examining the use of PDAs and cell phones for collecting data about physical activity and diet. Dr. Marshall was the principal measurement coordinator for project M-SPAN (Middle School Physical Activity & Nutrition), a large NIH-funded trial designed to increase physical activity and reduce dietary fat among middle school students. He also served as a measurement specialist and data analyst for projects GRAD (Graduate Ready for Activity Daily) and SPARK (Sport, Play and Active Recreation for Kids)-two large NIH-funded controlled trials designed to increase levels of physical activity. Dr. Marshall has authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in the area of youth sedentary behavior and physical activity.

Gregory J. Norman, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, UCSD

Dr. Norman received his PhD in experimental psychology in 1998 from the University of Rhode Island with an emphasis in quantitative methods and health psychology. His work combines theory, intervention, measurement, and statistical analysis of multivariate data from large samples to evaluate mechanisms of health behavior change. He studies the process of health behavior change in both children and adults across a number of different behaviors (e.g., physical activity, diet, sun protection, and smoking cessation) that have implications for cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and chronic health conditions. As a co-investigator on the PACE+ studies (PAtient-entered Counseling for Exercise Plus Nutrition, funded by NIH), he is actively involved in the development and evaluation of evidence-based health interventions using interactive, computerized, and Web-based applications. Dr. Norman is currently the principal investigator on an R01 grant from NCI to systematically assess the intra-personal, inter-personal, and environmental mechanisms of physical activity behavior and sedentary behavior. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers in the areas of measurement development, intervention evaluation, and testing aspects of health behavior change theory. Dr. Norman has considerable experience using accelerometers to measure physical activity and sedentary behavior.

Fred Raab / Systems Consultant
Fred Raab is the lead systems engineer for the PACE research group and the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at UCSD. He is developing and evaluating wireless applications for collecting and analyzing data in the areas of physical activity, energy balance, and nutrition. He is the designer of e/Balance™, a smart-phone application that supports energetics and active-living research. e/Balance is both a hardware and software platform incorporating wireless sensors such as accelerometers, GPS receivers, and heart-rate monitors. In addition, Mr. Raab teaches the Qualcomm BREW software development classes for UCSD Extension’s CDMA and Embedded Engineering program.

Before relocating to San Diego in 2003, Mr. Raab was a founding member of LiveSky Solutions, a wireless developer in Boston, and was instrumental in the development of interactive multimedia and new media technologies. While in his last year of college, he founded Telematic Systems, a pioneering and award-wining videodisc development firm commercializing technologies developed at MIT's Media Lab for clients such as AT&T, Digital Equipment Corp, Ford, and General Motors. In 1987, as vice president for production at Interactive Media Communications, he led the firm's development and production teams in the creation of interactive multimedia training programs in industrial health and safety.

Tajana Šimunić Rosing, PhD
Dr. Rosing’s research interest is energy-efficient computing for embedded and wireless systems. Prior to her work in the SEE Lab (System Energy Efficient Lab) at UCSD, she was a researcher at Hewlett-Packard Labs, and at Stanford University she led the research of a number of graduate students and taught graduate-level classes. Her PhD in dynamic management of power consumption was earned in 2001 from Stanford University, concurrently with a master’s degree in engineering management. She also had a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Arizona, where her research was in high-speed interconnect and driver-receiver circuit design. Prior to pursuing her PhD, Dr. Rosing worked as a senior design engineer at Altera Corporation. She has served on a number of technical paper committees, and is currently an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.