About the Project Team

The Community Disaster Information Systems (CDIS) project is based in Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. The project team is led by professors Anne Carson and Jean Vanderbeek, both of the Nursing Department, and Douglas Troy, of the Computer Science & Systems Analysis Department. Both departments are a part of the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Anne Carson, MSN, RN, CPNP is a board certified pediatric nurse practitioner and an Associate Professor with the Department of Nursing. She has been on the faculty of Miami University for over 13 years. She is a former school nurse in Cincinnati. Carson has been an American Red Cross volunteer in the Cincinnati Area Chapter for over 20 years as chair of nursing and in youth services. She has been part of Disaster Mental Health Services since 1987, serving on numerous local disasters and on national disasters, including two assignments in New York City for the 9/11 terrorist attack.

Jean Vanderbeek, MS APRN, BC is a board certified advanced practice RN and an Associate Professor with the Department of Nursing. She has been on the faculty of Miami University for over 20 years. She has published several articles dealing with technology and health care and received the Miami University Middletown technological award in 1999. She has been a volunteer in the Dayton Area Chapter in Disaster Health Services, has served as a function leader at the chapter, and on numerous local and national disasters.

Dr. Douglas A. Troy is Professor and Chair of the Computer Science and Systems Analysis Department. He has over 10 years experience in developing software in commercial environments, and has taught computer science courses at Miami for over 20 years.

Dr. Scott Campbell is Director of Computer Labs in the Computer Science and Systems Analysis Department at Miami. He is leading the software development work on the project.

Dan Janosik is a computer science student completing requirements for his BS degree at Miami. He also develops an open-source 3-D game engine Firestorm.

Previous Project Personnel

Tony Chang was one the original software developers of the system. He designed and developed the original database and the web-based database management system. Upon graduating from Miami with his BS degree in Computer Science, Tony received a master’s degree and is currently employed in the computer field.

Tom Knoblaugh. Tom was one of the original members of the project's software development team. He completed his BS in Computer Science at Miami and is currently studying in China.

Alex Argo recently graduated from the Computer Science department at Miami and is employed in the computer field.

Raj Doshi is a student completing requirements for his BS(in Mathematics) & MS(in Computer Science) at Miami. He develops Taco HTML Edit for Mac OS X in his spare time.

Michael D. Jones, RN, and Jaime L. Kist, RN were on the original project team. They graduated from Miami with their BS degrees in nursing. Michael and Jaime contributed to the requirements for the database and the user interface on the handheld PocketPCs.

Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056