When COVID-19 began to impact Western New York in March 2020, local leaders tasked Peter Winkelstein, executive director of UB’s Institute for Healthcare Informatics and a member of the board and Steering Committee of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, with leading analytics and modeling efforts to project the path of the pandemic. While the analytics workgroup included representatives from multiple entities across the region, including health systems and health information exchange providers, the
modeling workgroup was a team comprised of UB researchers.