Maxine L. Rockoff, Ph.D. is Adjunct Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. She specializes in the application of computer and telecommunications systems that increase worker productivity in geographically dispersed organizations.

Her professional career began at the University of Pennsylvania, where she carried out research on the mathematical modeling of physiological systems. She subsequently held academic appointments at Yale University and Washington University. As a program officer in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare from 1971 to 1978, she initiated a research program in applying telemedicine to the problems of urban and rural health care delivery. As Manager of Marketing Technologies at Merrill Lynch & Co from 1980 to 1984, she initiated and managed a contract in which PROMIS (Problem-Oriented Medical Information System) was adapted to a brokerage environment.

Dr. Rockoff was Director of the Division of Information Management at The New York Academy of Medicine from 2001 to 2005. She was jointly appointed at the Department of Biomedical Informatics and instituted several joint projects between the two institutions. She is principal investigator on a health information outreach project funded by the National Library of Medicine that aims to develop a "train-the-trainer" model for teaching participants in community-based organizations to find quality health information on the Internet. See www.cbohealth.org

Ms. Rockoff was Director of Information Technology at United Neighborhood Houses of New York from 1993 to 1996. She initiated and managed a $3.4 million project in which settlement houses in inner-city neighborhoods were "wired up" with local area networks connected to the Internet. The project included the creation of neighborhood-based family rooms with computers available for community residents' use.

As a consultant to New York City's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications in 1996 and 1997, Dr. Rockoff was responsible for the Data Coordination Project that analyzed the state of data systems in Human Services in New York City, highlighting the jumble of client record-keeping systems and Information & Referral databases that hamper coordination of services between the various City agencies and the large number of non-profit agencies they fund.

From 1990 to 1993, Dr. Rockoff was Senior Administrator of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government. Active in civic and professional organizations, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and author of numerous articles, she holds a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.