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This page lists the faculty and staff at CCHI who develop and maintain NC DETECT with funding primarily from the NC Division of Public Health, NC DHHS. NC DPH staff who are key contacts for this funding are listed as well.

Carolina Center for Health Informatics in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Clifton Barnett, MSIS: Database Administrator
  • Amy Ising, PhD: Program Director
  • Matthew Kerber: Database Developer
  • Meichun Li, MSIS: Software Engineer
  • Shaun Mason, MSLS: Systems & Network Administrator, Privacy and Security Officer
  • Anna Waller, ScD: Principal Investigator

North Carolina Division of Public Health, NC DHHS

Communicable Disease Branch

  • Lana Deyneka, MD, MPH: Director, Statewide Enhanced Surveillance and Hospital Based Public Health Epidemiologist Programs
  • Neha Shanker, PhD, MPH: NC DETECT Epidemiologist, NSSP NC Administrator
  • Kaitlyn Lyon, MPH: Public Health Epidemiologist

Injury and Violence Prevention Branch

  • Mary Beth Cox, MPH: Substance Use Epidemiologist
  • Katie McDaniel, MPH: Injury Epidemiologist
  • Scott K. Proescholdbell, MPH: Epidemiologist and Surveillance and Informatics Unit Manage

Public Health Preparedness and Response Branch

  • Tim Davis, PharmD, BCNP, PMP: Medical Countermeasures Coordinator
  • Laura E. Fairchild: Plans, Training, Exercise & Evaluation Unit Supervisor