Terry Smith

Terry has been with the University of Arizona’s Health Sciences Center since 2000. His first project was designing and managing the data collection system for the highly successful TuCASA sleep study project. In 2003 he became the Bioinformatics Manager for the General Clinical Research Center which became the Clinical and Translational Research Center (CaTS) in 2008.

In 2009 after viewing an exciting new piece of software at a presentation, the following day he requested and received a license to provide the electronic data collection system REDCap to the University of Arizona clinical researchers.

In 2011 he was asked to bring enterprise level space management software to the University of Arizona Real Estate Administration. After negotiating the funding from the University he managed the implementation of the Archibus space management system onto University servers and subsequently managed the roll out to the Space Management team.

In 2013 he took on the challenge of integrating the new University Medical Center (UMC) Electronic Medical Record software EPIC with the University of Arizona clinical research environment while continuing to grow the REDCap user base. After the purchase of UMC by Banner Healthcare he migrated REDCap to the new Center for Biomedical Informatics and Biostatistics (CB2) department.

In 2020 Terry and his team of Manuel Snyder, Colleen Kenost and Tanyha Zepeda began the successful design and implementation of a registration system for the state of Arizona’s 40 COVID testing sites. Along with the registration system it included a method for receiving and securely returning COVID results to patients. This included regular reporting of metrics to the University as well as the State of Arizona.

Terry has extensive experience in the implementation and integration of disparate enterprise-wide software systems. He is skilled at creating liquid teams...putting together and dissolving teams of specialists during the various phases of an enterprise project. He has significant experience in clinical software design and implementation as well as data management and retrieval. He is responsible for the REDCap data collection software for the University of Arizona and teaches classes on REDCap while he and the REDCap team provide support for system users.