Ian Brooks
INDICATOR: An advanced information system for infectious disease surveillance, modeling, and response.
Ian Brooks, PhD, is the Director of the Health Sciences Group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and Associate Director-Biomedical Informatics at the University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and prior to joining NCSA worked as a research scientist at SmithKline Beecham, where he published his research in areas including HIV/AIDS, Alzheimer's, and Heart Disease. He then headed the life sciences and statistics groups at the technical software company Wolfram Research, the makers of Mathematica. Dr. Brooks has been developing software systems for biomedical data management and analysis for biomedical communities for almost 20 years and is currently working to bring high performance computing and the common computational infrastructures NCSA is building to the biomedical and public health fields. Current projects include developing cyberenvironments for infectious disease surveillance, modeling, and response; endemic disease control; patient safety; and translational research. He is a member of CDC's High Performance Computing External Advisory Committee and has recently been working with CDC to develop publicly accessible web resources to map the global risk of malaria and other endemic diseases.
