Colene Byrne, PhD is a CITL Senior Analyst, where she researches and develops value models around specific health information technologies (IT). Most recently she has been serving as lead analyst on several IT value assessment, benchmarking, and evaluation studies for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Dr. Byrne has over 20 years of healthcare evaluation, outcomes and policy research experience in the private sector and government, with and has successfully written and managed several large research grants. She received a Ph.D. in Information Science from SUNY at Albany, where she also held a faculty appointment. Dr. Byrne is an Instructor of Medicine in the Harvard Medical School. Her research experience and interests include quality and outcomes measurement research, and health IT adoption, evaluation, and related metrics.

Jane Farrow is the Operations Assistant for CITL and CIRD. Jane's key responsibilities are to support senior management and staff in the areas of Finance, Facilities, Contracts and other operations activities. Prior to joining Partners, Jane’s roles included: Office Manager, Executive Assistant and Human Resource Manager at various companies within the software and manufacturing industries.

Douglas Johnston is the Executive Director of CITL, where he leads the development and execution of research strategy and operations. Mr. Johnston has a diverse background in health care IT research and public policy. Prior to CITL, he served as the Director of Research at the New England Healthcare Institute; an analyst at Forrester Research; and a Senior Consultant with Ernst & Young, LLP.

Lauren Mercincavage, MHS is a Research Analyst at CITL. Her work focuses on the assessment of clinical and economic value of health information technology. Most recently, she has worked on value assessments for the Veterans Health Administration’s ongoing health information technology and health information exchange projects. Ms. Mercincavage received her Master of Health Science with a concentration in Health Policy from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to joining CITL, she was a research coordinator for the Health Information Technology Evaluation Collaborative at Weill Cornell Medical College where she helped develop evaluations of New York State’s health information technology initiatives. Additionally, she was a research assistant at Massachusetts General Hospital where she conducted cost-effectiveness analyses of HIV/AIDS therapy in the United States and developing nations.

Eric Pan, MD is the CITL Senior Scientist who develops value modeling, assessment, and projection methodologies for CITL. He is also the associate fellowship director for CITL’s medical informatics program, which is a part of the Boston-area Biomedical Informatics Research Training Program (BIRT) sponsored by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). He is an Internist and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Prior to joining CITL, Dr. Pan completed an National Library of Medicine Medical Informatics fellowship at the Children's Hospital Informatics Program, and a Master of Science in Informatics degree at Harvard/MIT. His research focuses on HIT value assessment, interoperability, telemedicine, patient privacy and confidentiality, healthcare information system security, and patient-controlled electronic medical record systems (PHRs).

Ellen Rosenblatt, Manager of Operations is the Manager of Operations at CITL. She is responsible for managing the ongoing business activities for CITL including financial management, program management and grant/contract administration. Previously, she managed the Project Management Office for VideoShare, an application service provider offering streaming media solutions to top tier clients; and Vice President at BankBoston, where she spent 10 years working as a Project Manager on key technology initiatives, including Y2K and a multi-million dollar financial accounting conversion within its Private Bank. Prior to BankBoston, Ellen spent many years in financial services.

Adam Vincent, MPP is an Associate Senior Analyst at CITL. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University and his Master of Public Policy with a concentration in Health Policy from the Georgetown Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University. Mr. Vincent's master's project was on practice variation predictors in the treatment of asthma, finding that practice guidelines do not appear to be followed in the United States, with patients rarely receiving the adequate medication for prevention of their exacerbations. Mr. Vincent is currently working a valuation of health care IT for the Veterans Health Administration and has worked on the Value of Provider-to-Provider Telehealth and Value of Personal Health Records projects. Prior to joining CITL, Mr. Vincent was an associate at the Cadmus Group where he primarily worked on contracts with the Environmental Protection Agency