RIDE Faculty & Staff

Dr. Anjum Khurshid, MD, PhD is a Member of the Faculty at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. He is the Chief Data Scientist for the Sentinel Operations Center. Dr. Khurshid was previously the Co-Chief, Health Informatics, Data Science and Epidemiology Division, Department of Population Health and the inaugural Director of Data Integration at Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin. He is the co-principal investigator on community-wide projects for integrating social determinants of health in electronic health records and developing patient engagement platforms for health data. He received the Health Informatics Innovator Award in 2013, as the principal investigator of the $13.5 million Crescent City Beacon Community Program in New Orleans. He also established the Louisiana Clinical Data Research Network (now REACHnet) as part of PCORnet. 

Dr. Khurshid is a pioneer in research on blockchain applications for healthcare and was voted by peers for the University Blockchain Research Institute’s Visionary Award, 2021. He has served on the Federal Advisory Committee for Health Information Technology, a congressionally mandated advisory body, and as a patient engagement advisor to the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Washington DC. Dr. Khurshid earned his medical degree from King Edward Medical University, Lahore and his Masters in Public Affairs and PhD in Public Policy from the University of Texas at Austin.

Matti Hautala is a Senior Technical Project Manager in TIDE with a decade of experience as a behavioral health case manager, evaluation coordinator, director of operations and project manager specializing in data and health informatics research. He blends his past work in clinical care and program evaluation with his current research areas to create community-based and community-led solutions to inform patient decision-making and health outcomes by making health data more visual, accessible, and integrated into clinical and personal contexts. Current interests involve the feasibility of using health information exchanges as a rich source of equitable and representative patient data to enhance public health research and interventions.