RTI International

Expert Profiles

Linda Dimitropoulos, PhD, Director, RTI Center for the Advancement of Health IT

Contact Info: lld@rti.org

Linda leads and manages the efforts of all initiatives and projects within RTI's health IT portfolio, which encompasses a wide range of substantive areas related to the use of technologies to improve the quality and efficiency of health care delivery. Dr. Dimitropoulos has a strong background in social psychology as well as qualitative and survey research methods. For the past five years, she has focused primarily on health information privacy policy issues, patient engagement, and electronic health information exchange policy, and has provided support to various state-level programs related to health IT and health information exchange. She also specializes in large, complex project management.

Jonathan Wald, M.D., MPH, Director, RTI Patient-Center Health Technologies

Contact Info: jwald@rti.org

Jonathan has 18 years of experience in the adoption and use of electronic health records. His work focuses on engaging patients as direct users of health technology for self care and to improve quality and safety. Dr. Wald has appointments at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His current work focuses on pediatric assessment tools to engage parents in providing observations about their child with asthma or attention deficit disorder, advice to radiation-exposed Hodgkin's Lymphoma patients about subsequent risk for developing cancer, and identifying enablers and barriers to patient portal adoption by physician offices. Dr. Wald has served on national advisory committees for eHealth initiatives with the Markle Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is a local and national speaker on patient-centered technologies, and publishes on patient-centered health IT.

Barbara Massoudi, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, RTI Center for the Advancement of Health IT

Contact Info: bmassoudi@rti.org

Barbara has 25 years of experience in health, public health, and informatics, with specialized skills in epidemiology and environmental and occupational health. She is an alumna of CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service, where she served with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. She is also scientific program chair for the American Medical Informatics Association's PHI2011 conference, which is focused on setting the public health informatics research agenda for the next decade. Dr. Massoudi is an adjunct professor of informatics at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University where she teaches coursework in management of informatics projects and programs and mentors students in the MSPH program. Her current research interests include prevention effectiveness, knowledge management, clinical decision support, personal health records, user-centered design, and public health informatics training and competencies.