Jorge R Herskovic, MD, PhD
Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Division of Discovery Science
About Dr. Jorge R Herskovic
Dr. Herskovic is the Director of Academic Analytics and Technology at MD Anderson and an Assistant Professor with the Department of Bioinformatics.
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Director, Department of Academic Analytics and Technology, Division of Office of the Chief Academic Officer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Assistant Professor (Joint appointment), Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Division of Basic Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Research Interests
My research interests include researching interesting Rorschach research, which I am interested in
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2008 | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, US, Health Informatics, Ph.D |
| 2005 | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, US, Health Informatics, M.S |
| 2002 | Universidad De Chile, Santiago, CL, MD |
Experience & Service
Faculty Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor, Department of School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 2008 - 2012
Administrative Appointments/Responsibilities
Director, Department of Academic Analytics and Technology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2015 - Present
Director ad interim, Department of Academic Technology Services, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2015 - 2015
Director, Department of Institutional Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2014 - 2015
Lead, Joint Faculty-Administration Salary Working Group, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2013 - 2015
Academic Intelligence Analyst, Department of Academic Affairs, Sr VP Office, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2012 - 2015
Other Professional Positions
Software Engineering Intern, Google Inc, Mountain View, CA, 2006 - 2006
Institutional Committee Activities
Voting member, Research and Education IT Steering committee, 2019 - Present
Honors & Awards
| 2018 | Best Boss Award, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
Professional Memberships
Selected Presentations & Talks
National Presentations
- 2013. The Team Score: a network metric for identifying strong collaborators at MD Anderson. Conference. Northwestern University. Chicago, IL, US.
- 2012. Medication Reconciliation and the Pan-SHARP project. Conference. Mayo Clinic. Rochester, MN, US.
International Presentations
- 2013. Twinlist: Novel User Interface Designs for Medication Reconciliation. Conference. AMIA. Washington, US.
- 2013. Optimized Dual Threshold Entity Resolution For Electronic Health Record Databases – Training Set Size And Active Learning. Conference. AMIA. Washington, US.
- 2012. Deterministic Binary Vectors for Efficient Automated Indexing of MEDLINE/PubMed Abstracts. Conference. AMIA. Chicago, US.
- 2012. The Pan-SHARP Project: An Interdisciplinary approach to Medication Reconciliation. Conference. AMIA. Chicago, US.
- 2011. Automated medication reconciliation and complexity of care transitions. Conference. AMIA. Washington, US.
- 2011. Medication Reconciliation: Work Domain Ontology, Prototype Development, and a Predictive Model. Conference. AMIA. Washington, US.
- 2011. Probabilistic databases for estimating patient counts in Clinical Data Warehouses. Conference. AMIA. San Francisco, US.
- 2010. Sequential incoherence in a multi-party synchronous computer mediated communication for an introductory Health Informatics course. Conference. AMIA. Washington, US.
- 2005. Using incomplete citation data for MEDLINE results ranking. Invited. AMIA. Washington, US.
Formal Peers
- 2012. Academic Intelligence. Invited. Houston, TX, US.
- 2012. Medication Reconciliation: When, Why, and How. Invited. Houston, TX, US.
- 2012. Medication Reconciliation: When, Why, and How. Invited. Lexington, KY, US.
- 2012. Medication Reconciliation: When, Why, and How. Invited. San Jose, CA, US.
- 2011. The new Foundations of Health Informatics. Invited. Houston, TX, US.
- 2010. Metadata: What, Why, & How?. Invited. Houston, TX, US.
- 2009. The future of Biomedical IT. Invited. Houston, TX, US.
- 2007. Informática Médica: más allá de los computadores. Invited. Santiago, CL.
Grant & Contract Support
| Date: | 2012 - 2014 |
| Title: | National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare- SHARP |
| Funding Source: | UTHSC Houston |
| Role: | PI |
| ID: | 0007512 |
| Date: | 2010 - 2011 |
| Title: | University of Kentucky i2b2 Data Warehouse Development Plan |
| Funding Source: | University of Kentucky |
| Role: | PI |
| Title: | Encoding semantic knowledge in vector space for biomedical information |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NLM |
| Role: | Co-I |
| ID: | 5-R21-LM010826-02 |
| Title: | Concept-level methods for comparative effectiveness research |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NLM |
| Role: | Co-I |
| ID: | 5-RC1-RR028254-02 |
| Title: | UTHSC CCTS Program Planning Grant |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCRR |
| Role: | Investigator |
| ID: | 1-UL1-RR-024148 |
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Joffe E, Pettigrew EJ, Herskovic JR, Bearden CF, Bernstam EV. Expert guided natural language processing using one-class classification. J Am Med Inform Assoc 22(5):962-6, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26063744.
- Joffe E, Byrne MJ, Reeder P, Herskovic JR, Johnson CW, McCoy AB, Sittig DF, Bernstam EV. A benchmark comparison of deterministic and probabilistic methods for defining manual review datasets in duplicate records reconciliation. J Am Med Inform Assoc 21(1):97-104, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 23703827.
- Johnson TR, Markowitz E, Bernstam EV, Herskovic JR, Thimbleby H. SYFSA: a framework for systematic yet flexible systems analysis. J Biomed Inform 46(4):665-75, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23727053.
- Joffe E, Byrne MJ, Reeder P, Herskovic JR, Johnson CW, McCoy AB, Bernstam EV. Optimized dual threshold entity resolution for electronic health record databases--training set size and active learning. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2013:721-30, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24551372.
- Plaisant C, Chao T, Wu J, Hettinger AZ, Herskovic JR, Johnson TR, Bernstam EV, Markowitz E, Powsner S, Shneiderman B. Twinlist: novel user interface designs for medication reconciliation. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2013:1150-9, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24551399.
- Joffe E, Havakuk O, Herskovic JR, Patel VL, Bernstam EV. Collaborative knowledge acquisition for the design of context-aware alert systems. J Am Med Inform Assoc 19(6):988-94, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22744961.
- Goodwin JC, Johnson TR, Cohen T, Herskovic JR, Bernstam EV. Predicting biomedical document access as a function of past use. J Am Med Inform Assoc 19(3):473-8, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 21917645.
- Wahle M, Widdows D, Herskovic JR, Bernstam EV, Cohen T. Deterministic binary vectors for efficient automated indexing of MEDLINE/PubMed abstracts. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2012:940-9, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 23304369.
- Herskovic JR, Subramanian D, Cohen T, Bozzo-Silva PA, Bearden CF, Bernstam EV. Graph-based signal integration for high-throughput phenotyping. BMC Bioinformatics 13 Suppl 13(Suppl 13):S2, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 23320851.
- Myers RB, Herskovic JR. Probabilistic techniques for obtaining accurate patient counts in Clinical Data Warehouses. J Biomed Inform 44 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S69-S77, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21986292.
- Herskovic JR, Cohen T, Subramanian D, Iyengar MS, Smith JW, Bernstam EV. MEDRank: using graph-based concept ranking to index biomedical texts. Int J Med Inform 80(6):431-41, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21439897.
- Silva PA, Bernstam EV, Markowitz E, Johnson TR, Zhang J, Herskovic JR. Automated medication reconciliation and complexity of care transitions. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2011:1252-60, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 22195186.
- Herskovic JR, Goodwin JC, Bozzo Silva PA, Willcockson I, Franklin A. Sequential incoherence in a multi-party synchronous computer mediated communication for an introductory Health Informatics course. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2010:296-300, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 21346988.
- Tanaka LY, Herskovic JR, Iyengar MS, Bernstam EV. Sequential result refinement for searching the biomedical literature. J Biomed Inform 42(4):678-84, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19272463.
- Herskovic JR, Iyengar MS, Bernstam EV. Using hit curves to compare search algorithm performance. J Biomed Inform 40(2):93-9, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 16469545.
- Herskovic JR, Tanaka LY, Hersh W, Bernstam EV. A day in the life of PubMed: analysis of a typical day's query log. J Am Med Inform Assoc 14(2):212-20, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 17213501.
- Bernstam EV, Herskovic JR, Aphinyanaphongs Y, Aliferis CF, Sriram MG, Hersh WR. Using citation data to improve retrieval from MEDLINE. J Am Med Inform Assoc 13(1):96-105, 2006. e-Pub 2006. PMID: 16221938.
- Herskovic JR, Bernstam EV. Using incomplete citation data for MEDLINE results ranking. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2005:316-20, 2005. e-Pub 2005. PMID: 16779053.
Abstracts
- Capurro D, Soto M, Vivent M, Lopetegui M, Herskovic JR. Informatica biomedica. Rev Med Chil 139(12):1611-6, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 22446710.
Book Chapters
- Bernstam, EV, Herskovic, JR, Hersh, W. Query log analysis in biomedicine, 359-377, 2008.
- Herskovic JR. Testing status. In: Methods Mol Biol. 2nd.
Books (edited and written)
- Herskovic JR. Testing. Wahoo, 2025.
- Herskovic JR. Testing 2, 2024.
Patient Reviews
CV information above last modified July 25, 2025