Technologies Advancing Translation and Equity
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Disparities in socioeconomic status and diabetes prevention, care, and outcomes are pronounced in the Southeast, making it a key setting to address these unanswered questions on ways to optimize the reach, adoption, implementation, effectiveness, and maintenance of healthcare technologies. To advance this field, the GCDTR’s Regional Core supports research that informs the appropriate and equitable use of technologies for diabetes prevention and care.
The Core has three primary aims:


a. Diversity driven approaches
b. Patient interactive technologies
c. Wearables and automated insulin delivery
d. Artificial intelligence and Big Data
e. Electronic health records and clinical decision support with specific guidance on reducing disparities and promoting equity.

Core Leaders

Francisco Pasquel, MD, MPH
Co-Leader, Technologies Advancing Translation and Equity Core
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine,
Emory University School of Medicine

Nicoleta Serban, PhD, MS
Co-Leader, Technologies Advancing Translation and Equity Core
Peterson Professor of Pediatric Research
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Core Experts

David Baidal, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Miami
Research Interests:
Type 1 and type 2 diabetes; Insulin pump therapy; thyroid disorders

Peter Calhoun, PhD
Biostatistician, Jaeb Center for Health Research

Jon Duke, MD, MS
Director & Principal Research Scientist, Center for Health Analytics and Informatics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests:
Big data and human computer; Interaction to support medication safety

Deirdre James, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center
Research Interests:
Diabetes; Endocrinology

Daniel E. Jimenez, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Miami
Research Interests:
Geriatric mental health services; research; health promotion; multicultural mental health; mental illness prevention

Andra G. Parker, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests:
Equity-focused research in the areas of Black women’s maternal and mental health, youth civic engagement, COVID health information practices and visualization, and faith-based health interventions

Thad Starner, PhD, SM
Associate Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests:
Wearable computing; human-computer interaction

Ashby Walker, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Health, Services Research, Management & Policy, University of Florida
Research Interests:
Health disparities and diabetes; Peer mentoring;p Project ECHO