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BioMedical Informatics Core Facility
1318 Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Staff:

David Fenstermacher, PhD
Director
1318 Blockley Hall
215-746-8680
dfenster@mail.med.upenn.edu

David Fenstermacher, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, has over five years of experience as director of bioinformatics core facility at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Fenstermacher is responsible for the overall management of the Core, including the supervision of staff, as well as increasing utilization, ensuring user satisfaction, budgeting and maintaining a state-of-the-art facility.

John Quigley
Systems Architect
1317 Blockley Hall
215-746-5146
johnq@mail.med.upenn.edu

John received his Bachelor's in Computer Science from Rhodes College and is completing his MS in Computer Science at Villanova University. He has 5 years industry experience as a programmer and systems administrator. Mr. Quigley assists investigators in identifying data resources and devising methods for automated data transfer and sharing. He is responsible for the overall system architecture with a special focus on interoperability and security.

David Birtwell
Programmer Analyst
1317 Blockley Hall
215-746-8679
birtwell@mail.med.upenn.edu

David received his Bachelor's in Computer Science from Drexel University and has worked in the bioinformatics domain for more than four years. In addition to creating and managing the core facility's website, David codes and makes available custom software tools to support investigator research.

Craig R. Street, M. Biot
Biomedical Informatics Scientist
1401B Blockley Hall
215-746-8686
street@mail.med.upenn.edu

Mr. Street received his master's degree in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics from the University of Pennsylvania. Craig serves as the project leader for several biomedical informatics projects, interacting with researchers and IT professionals to achieve research project goals. He also has primary responsibility for providing bioinformatics and biomedical informatics data analysis through consultation and training. In addition, he oversees the design of biomedical informatics-related technical training courses, workshops, and e-learning, and provides computer and data analysis training for researchers using facility resources.

David Wang
Database Administrator
1401B Blockley Hall
215-746-7783
zhengw@mail.med.upenn.edu

David Wang received his bachelor's degree in Information Science and Technology from Drexel University and has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for five years. Mr. Wang designs and modifies databases to integrate data from numerous sources in support of investigator-initiated projects. Duties include consultations with users to determine the data required and how it will be used, and the user interfaces needed to allow querying and retrieval of data. He also assists cancer researchers develop querying strategies and SQL programming. A key role for Mr. Wang is working as a part of a team to develop novel data management system and methods for data integration.

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