Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Division of Emergency Preparedness and Response
2400 Century Center
Mailstop E51
Atlanta,
GA
USA
30329
Email:
mbr1@cdc.gov
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Barry Rhodes is the Acting Director in the Division of Emergency Preparedness and Response, National Center for Public Health Informatics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. He also serves as the chief technical architect for the Public Health Information Network Messaging System (PHINMS). The PHINMS includes state-of-the-art standards based secure message transport, routing, and parsing of HL7 messages in support of public health. Dr. Rhodes has served as the co-lead and chief technical architect for BioSense, an early event detection and situational awareness initiative for bioterrorism events and naturally occurring outbreaks. He has served as a senior technical advisor for many current PHIN systems at CDC such as:
• National Electronic Disease Surveillance System
• Public Health Image Library
• Secure Data Network, a PKI based portal providing authentication and authorization services for CDC applications
• Data warehousing and brokering services
Dr Rhodes has served at CDC for over 15 years as a Computer Scientist. Prior to his CDC appointment, Dr. Rhodes was a faculty member in the Department of Physics at Clark Atlanta University and received his doctorate in Computational Physics from Emory University in 1983.