About Emphron Informatics Personnel

Dr. Mervyn Thomas

Founder and partner - Biostatistics

Before founding Emphron Informatics in 2003, Mervyn managed the Bioinformatics Research Programme of CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences. He had previously established the research programme. As programme manager, Mervyn was responsible for developing and integrating research and commercialisation strategies. The programme remains a viable and successful research activity within CSIRO. Its main focus is on developing and commercialising new techniques for massively multivariate data mining.

Before joining CSIRO in 1991, Mervyn managed the Mathematics and Statistics group of Shell's Sittingbourne Research Centre. He was Shell's most senior Biostatistician. Under his direction, the statistics research group targeted advanced chemometric methods for molecular design.

Before joining Shell, Mervyn was a senior statistician working in pre-clinical pharmaceutical development and agrochemical development for ICI (now Zeneca).

Dr. Allan Rae

Partner - Information Systems

Allan has a PhD in Electrical Engineering (Computer Systems) from The University of Queensland. He has many years experience in information engineering and information systems management. He has made significant contributions to open source projects, in particular: LyX (1997 to 2003).

Allan leads Emphron's software development and clinical database activities.

Michael Cheng

Consultant and Applications Developer

Michael is an experienced software developer with strong SAS, Ruby and Python skills. He is our lead web application developer.

Ms Susan Crook

Medical Information Specialist

Susan holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Information Science from Queensland University of Technology. She undertakes all of Emphron's medical coding work.