Meet the Team
Heather Evans, MD, MS
Principal Investigator
Vice Chair of Clinical Research and Applied Informatics, Professor, Department of Surgery at Medical University of South Carolina
Heather has been studying surgical infections since 1999, and as a faculty member in the Department of Surgery at the University of Washington, she developed a novel line of research inquiry with a multidisciplinary team, investigating the role of mobile health interventions for the early detection and treatment of surgical site infections. Together with co-PI Bill Lober, Heather has created mPOWEr, the mobile Post-Operative Wound Evaluator, a mHealth platform with a smartphone app for patients and a web-based dashboard for providers to facilitate improved post-discharge data sharing of surgical wound symptoms and wound photography.
Bill Lober, MD, MS
Principal Investigator
Professor, Health Informatics and Global Health, School of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health, University of Washington
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Bill’s background includes Emergency Medicine, Electrical/Computer
Engineering, and two decades leading health informatics research. He enjoys applying his clinical and technology backgrounds to address information management problems in clinical care, public health, and global health. Bill likes building systems that get deployed and used effectively. His research team develops applications for use both within academics, where they are used to understand and evaluate new approaches and methods, and outside of academics, where they deliver real world value in health care. He values clinician-technologist collaborations, such as his work with co-PI with Heather Evans.
Danielle Lavallee, PharmD, PhD
Co-Investigator
Research Associate Professor, Department of Surgery at University of Washington
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Danielle Lavallee is a patient-centered outcomes researcher whose work focuses on developing novel processes for collecting and reporting
patient-reported data in a manner to support both clinical and patient
decision-making. She is also Director of CERTAIN Patient Voices and the
CERTAIN Patient Advisory Network, through which she works to assess
novel processes for engaging patients and caregivers as collaborators in research.
Jenney Lee, MA
Qualitative Research Coordinator,
ASSIST Project Manager
Qualitative Research Coordinator, Department of Surgery at University of Washington
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Jenney is a Qualitative Research Coordinator at the Surgical Outcomes Research Center, with a background in Applied Medical Anthropology and Public Health. She is a qualitative health researcher, focusing on the use of mHealth and patient-generated health data (PGHD) in monitoring and treating health conditions. She provides broad support for all ASSIST activities, including project management