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
Assistant Professor (Joint appointment), Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Division of Basic Science, 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
Clinical Interests
I am interested in the improvement of medication reconciliation through AI assistance and better UI/UX design
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2002 | Universidad De Chile, Santiago, CL, MD |
Licenses & Certifications
| 2002 | Medico Cirujano |
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
Editorial Activities
Editorial Committee member, 8th Annual Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium, 2011
Honors & Awards
| 2018 | Best Boss Award, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
Professional Memberships
Selected Presentations & Talks
National Presentations
- 2025. testing move without institution. Invited, US.
- 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.
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Herskovic JR. A new publication. Cancer Clin Oncol, 2026. e-Pub 2026. PMID: 12343555.
- Herskovic JR. The use of PubMed in CV system demonstrations. J Made Up Studies, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- 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 2013:1150-9, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24551399.
- Herskovic JR, Cohen T, Subramanian D, Iyengar MS, Smith JW, Bernstam EV. MEDRank: using graph-based concept ranking to index biomedical texts 80(6):431-41, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21439897.
- Markowitz E, Bernstam EV, Herskovic J, Zhang J, Shneiderman B, Plaisant C, Johnson TR. Medication Reconciliation: Work Domain Ontology, prototype development, and a predictive model 2011:878-87, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 22195146.
- 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 2010:296-300, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 21346988.
Other Articles
- Herskovic JR, Thistle V Test.
Abstracts
- 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 2013:1150-9, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24551399.
- Silva PA, Bernstam EV, Markowitz E, Johnson TR, Zhang J, Herskovic JR. Automated medication reconciliation and complexity of care transitions 2011:1252-60, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 22195186.
- Herskovic JR, Bernstam EV. Using incomplete citation data for MEDLINE results ranking 2005:316-20, 2005. e-Pub 2005. PMID: 16779053.
- Herskovic JR, Helm B, Karout L, Group CW, Kalra MK. Testing.
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.
Patents
- Herskovic JR. Testing CV.
Patient Reviews
CV information above last modified January 14, 2026