Bio
Dr. Cullen is a family physician who retired from the US Public Health Service in 2012 after over 25 years of active duty. During her tenure with the USPHS, she was a practicing family physician on multiple rural American Indian/Alaska Native reservations. She also led multiple software development and deployment initiatives within the Indian Health Service (IHS). As the CIO for Indian Health Service, RPMS (the HIT system for IHS) became the only ONC certified HIT software suite within the federal government. Between 2012 and 2015, Dr. Cullen worked as the Chief Medical Information Officer 9CMIO) for the Veterans Health Administration. She developed a new model for field/community involvement in HIT within the VHA, as well as supporting and expanding work in multiple areas of HIT, including interoperability/data sharing, standards and terminology, and informatics patient safety.
She has worked to develop population health IT software suites since 2002, including electronic clinical quality measures and expanded population health capabilities at the point of care. Her interests are in using HIT to help achieve health equity throughout the globe as well as ensure utilization of appropriate technology to meet identified clinical needs.
Key Publications
Sequist TD, Cullen T, Acton KJ. Indian health service innovations have helped reduce health disparities affecting American Indian and Alaska native people. Health Aff (Millwood). 2011 Oct:30(10):1965-73. PubMed PMID: 21976341.
Sequist TD, Cullen T, Bernard K, Shaykevich S, Orav EJ, Ayanian JZ. Trends in quality of care and barriers to improvement in the Indian Health Service. J Gen Intern Med. 2011 May;26(5):480-6. PubMed PMID 21132462; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3077488.
Reilley B, Redd JT, Giberson S, Sunde S, Cullen T. Completing the circle: follow-up screening of STD patients in three clinics of the United States Indian Health Service. Int J STD AIDS. 2011 Jan;22(1):50-1. PubMed PMID: 21364068.
Cullen TA, Helgerson SD, LaRuffa T, Natividad B. Chlamydia trachomatis infection in native American women in a southwestern tribe. J Fam Pract. 1990 Nov;31(5):552-4. PubMed PMID: 2095765.
Payne TH, Corley S, Cullen TA, Gandhi TK, Harrington L, Kuperman GJ, Mattison JE, McCallie DP, McDonald CJ, Tang PC, Tierney WM, Weaver C, Weir CR, Zaroukian MH. Report of the AMIA EHR-2020 Task Force on the status and future direction of EHRs. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015 Sep;22(5): 1102-10. PubMed PMID: 26024883; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5009932.
Botts N, Bouhaddou O, Bennett J, Pan E, Byrne C, Mercincavage L, Olinger L, Hunolt E, Cullen T. Data Quality and Interoperability Challenges for eHealth Exchange Participants: Observations from the Department of Veterans Affairs' Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record Health Pilot Phase. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2014;2014:307-14. PubMed PMID: 25954333; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4419918.
Carroll M, Cullen T, Ferguson S, Hogge N, Horton M, Kokesh J. Innovation in Indian healthcare: using health information technology to achieve health equity for American Indian and Alaska Native populations. Perspect Health Inf Manag. 2011 Jan 1;8:1d. PubMed PMID: 21307987; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3035828.
Sequist TD, Cullen T, Ayanian JZ. Information technology as a tool to improve the quality of American Indian health care. Am J Public Health. 2005 Dec;95:(12):2173-9. PubMed PMID: 16257947; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1449503.
Saleem JJ, Plew WR, Speir RC, Herout J, Wilck NR, Ryan DM, Cullen TA, Scott JM, Beene MS, Phillips T. Understanding barriers and facilitators to the use of Clinical Information Systems for intensive care units and Anesthesia Record Keeping: A rapid ethnography. Int J Med Inform. 2015 Jul;84(7):500-11. PubMed PMID: 25843931.
Titles & Appointments
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine
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