Luci Leykum

Luci K. Leykum, MD, MBA, MSc is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She is an investigator in the Veterans Affairs Health Service Research and Development Research-Enhancement Award Program, the Veterans Evidence-based Research Dissemination and Implementation Center. She is in year three of a Career Development Award examining relationships and sensemaking among inpatient physician teams, and their association with patient outcomes. She has authored several studies on healthcare systems using a complexity science framework.

University of Texas Health Science Center School of Medicine
Office of the Dean 373L
7703 Floyd Curl Drive
San Antonio, TX
78209
United States

Email: leykum@uthscsa.edu

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Pradeep Kumar

Pradeep Kumar is a second-year undergraduate student at the University of Texas in Austin. He is studying neuroscience and pre-medicine.

N/A
United States

Email: pradeepkumar23@ymail.com

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Michael Parchman

Michael Parchman, MD, MPH is a Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He is transitioning from being an investigator at the Veterans Evidence-based Research Dissemination and Implementation Center to becoming a program manager at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He has been the principal investigator on several studies using the framework of complexity science to understanding learning and relationships in primary care settings. He remains principal investigator on a study of practice facilitation to improve diabetes outcomes in primary care clinics in South Texas. He has authored numerous studies on improving primary care clinic performance.

University of Texas Health Science Center School of Medicine
Division of Family and Community Medicine
7703 Floyd Curl Drive
San Antonio, TX 78229
United States

Email: parchman@uthscsa.edu

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Reuben R McDaniel

Reuben R. McDaniel, Jr., EdD is a Professor at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and holds the Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Regents Chair in Health Care Management in the Department of Management Science and Information Systems. He is nationally recognized as an expert in information technology and the application of complexity science to healthcare settings, and has served as an investigator and consultant on numerous grants. He has authored several books, book chapters, and manuscripts on the topics of information management and complexity and its application to healthcare.

1 University Station, B6000
Austin, TX 78712-1178
United States

Email: reuben.mcdaniel@mccombs.utexas.edu
Web: http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/faculty/reuben.mcdaniel/

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Holly Lanham

Holly Jordan Lanham, PhD, MBA, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Departments of Medicine and Family and Community Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She is an investigator in the Veterans Affairs Health Service Research and Development Research-Enhancement Award Program, the Veterans Evidence-based Research Dissemination and Implementation Center and a visiting scholar at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin. Her primary research interests are in organizational behavior and information management topics in professional organizations. Dr. Lanham's current research is an in-depth interpretive study aimed at understanding how physicians' perspectives of uncertainty, professional values and work relationships influence how they use electronic health records. Much of Dr. Lanham's research is grounded in a complexity science perspective. She is the author of several journal articles on relationships, learning, and the application of complexity science to improving health care delivery systems.

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
School of Medicine
Division of Hospital Medicine
7703 Floyd Curl Drive San Antonio, TX 78229
United States

Email: lanham@uthscsa.edu
Web: http://hollylanham.com/

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Michael Agar

Michael Agar, PhD, is an internationally known anthropologist, and founder of Ethknoworks LLC. At the moment he is also research professor at the University of New Mexico, distinguished scholar at the International Institute of Qualitative Methods at the University of Alberta, and associate at Anthropocaos at the Universty of Buenos Aires. He previously held positions at the Universities of Hawaii, Houston, California, and Maryland, and he has worked internationally with the Universities of Mysore (India), Surrey (U.K.), and Vienna (Austria), and the Johannes Kepler University in Austria. He was principal investigator on a major NIH project to explain illicit drug epidemics. His work currently focuses on research, writing and consultation around issues in ethnography, language, ecology, complexity theory, and the organization from both theoretical and practical points of view. His many publications include articles in journals from the fields of anthropology, linguistics, folklore and oral history, sociology, organization research, psychology, psychiatry, public policy, artificial intelligence, complexity, intercultural communication, and the substance use and transportation fields.

7 Avenida Vista Grande B7
#465
Santa Fe
New Mexico
87508
United States

Email: magar@anth.umd.edu
Web: http://www.ethknoworks.com/