Dr. Mamykina is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University. Dr. Mamykina's research areas include Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. She is interested in the design, deployment, and evaluation of intelligent systems for personal health, and specifically, for diabetes self-management.

Dr. Smaldone is a Professor of Nursing (in Dental Behavioral Sciences) (in Dental Medicine) at CUMC, Assistant Dean, Scholarship & Research and Director, PhD Program at the School of Nursing at Columbia University. Dr. Smaldone is a nurse scientist whose research involves behavioral interventions to improve self-management of youth and adults with chronic health conditions.

Dr. Albers is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Denver - Anschutz Medical Campus, and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University. His areas of interest also include nonlinear time-series analysis, learning theory, and statistical physics in combination with biomedical informatics and physiology.

Dr. Hripcsak is Vivian Beaumont Allen Professor and Chair of Columbia University’s Department of Biomedical Informatics and Director of Medical Informatics Services for New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia Campus. Dr. Hripcsak is interested in the clinical information stored in electronic health records and in the development of next-generation health record systems.

Dr. Suzanne Bakken is the Alumni Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. Dr. Bakken currently directs the Center for Evidence-based Practice in the Underserved and the Reducing Health Disparities Through Informatics (RHeaDI) predoctoral and postdoctoral training program; both funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR). The goal of Dr. Bakken’s program of research is to promote health and reduce health disparities in underserved populations through application of innovative informatics methods.

Dr. Noémie Elhadad is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Vice Chair, Research and Graduate Program Director at the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University. Dr. Elhadad is affiliated with Computer Science and the Data Science Institute. Dr. Elhadad’s research interests are at the intersection of machine learning, natural language processing, and medicine.

Dr. Jia is a Professor of Biostatistics (in Nursing) at Columbia University Medical Center. His research focuses on cost-effectiveness analysis; health-related quality-of-life: concept, measurements, estimation methods; mental health outcomes; small area estimation, temporal-spatial analysis, survival analysis: quality-adjusted survival time, and time series analysis, panel data.

Elliot Mitchell is a PhD candidate at the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. His research is at the intersection of data science, human computer interaction, and decision-making. He is particularly interested in conversational agents for diabetes self-management.

Dr. Tobin is president/CEO of Clinical Directors Network (CDN), and is adjunct professor of epidemiology and health services research at Weill Cornell Medicine and professor of epidemiology and population health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He specializes in designing and conducting studies of comparative effectiveness, dissemination, and implementation of health care interventions.

Mrs. Cassells is Vice President for Clinical Affairs at the Clinical Directors Network (CDN).