Barry Rhodes, PhD

Barry Rhodes, PhD, is the Deputy Director in the Division of Emergency Preparedness and Response as well as the acting IT Project Development and Operations Branch Chief. Within this branch, he is serving as the acting IT Strategy and Architecture Team Lead. Furthermore, Dr. Rhodes serves as the 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.

He has served as a senior technical advisor for many current PHIN systems at CDC such as National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS), the Secure Data Network, and Extract Translate and Load (ETL) Services. Dr Rhodes has served at CDC for over 14 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.