Olasunkanmi Adeyinka, MD
Adjunct Professor

Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) for Ambulatory Care at UT Physicians

Focus Area: Dr. Olasunkanmi W. Adeyinka, MD, FAAFP, FHM, has a distinguished career marked by extensive clinical responsibilities, administrative leadership, and contributions to medical informatics. My current clinical service responsibilities encompass a range of roles that highlight my clinical expertise and dedication to patient care in conjunction with clinical informatics focusing on clinical workflow improvement and documentation.

Shervin Assassi, MD, MS
Adjunct Professor

Professor - Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, UT McGovern Medical School

Focus Area: Bioinformatics and genomic analysis approaches to conduct rigorous translational research in Rheumatology

Eric Boerwinkle, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Dean and Professor - UTHealth School of Public Health

Focus Area: Genetic analysis of common chronic diseases in humans including coronary heart disease, hypertension and Type II diabetes.

Joe Mack Bridges, DHI
Adjunct Assistant Professor

President, Bridges Family Petroleum
First Doctorate of Health Informatics graduate – UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics

Focus Area: Improving Diagnostic Accuracy with Computerized Diagnostic Decision Support Systems.

Jeffrey Chang, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology & Pharmacology - McGovern Medical School

Focus Area: Cell Signaling Programs in Cancer

Venkat Chivukula, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Associate Professor, UTHealth-Houston, McGovern Medical School

Focus Area: Virtual patient modeling, health digital twins, virtual surgery, hemodynamic optimization, data driven predictive modeling, patient and therapy risk assessment, patient-specific and patient-derived framework for quantifying and assessing hemodynamic phenomena for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease.

Martin J. Citardi, MD
Adjunct Professor

Professor and Chair - Department of Otorhinolaryngology, McGovern Medical School
Vice Dean for Clinical Technology

Focus Area: Co-Sponsor for UTHealth CONNECT, UTHealth’s EHR implementation effort

Kayo Fujimoto, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Division of Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences
UTHealth School of Public Health

Focus Area: Biostatistics and public health informatics

James Griffiths, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Executive Director, Clinical Technology - UT Physicians
UTHealth

Focus Area: Clinical technology for clinical practice

Jane E. Hamilton, PhD, MPH
Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UTHealth McGovern Medical School Co-Director, Center for Behavioral Health Equity and Outcomes Research
Focus Area: mental health quality, utilization, and outcomes; program evaluation methods; early intervention in mental illness; patient engagement in mental health services; and behavioral health equity.

Ying Huang, MD, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor of Surgery (Research), Department of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery, McGovern Medical School
Assistant Director, Advanced Endovascular Aortic Research Program

Focus: Population-based and AI-based clinical research within the field of cardiovascular disease

Benson Mwangi Irungu, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences UT Health

Focus Area(s): application of novel big data and machine learning tools to multimodal neuroimaging and clinical data that may help elucidate the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disorders.

Yandong Jiang, MD, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Visiting Professor, Department of Anesthesiology – McGovern Medical School
Vice Chair of Clinical Research

Focus Area: Implication of AI in perioperative medicine, EEG interpretation, and health care data transformation

Sudarat Kiat-Amnuay, DDS, MS
Adjunct Professor

Professor (Tenured), The University of Texas School of Dentistry at Houston

Focus Area: Application of dental informatics to tackle some of dentistry’s most pressing challenges, which include using electronic health records and advanced data science skills to support decision-making and improve the overall quality of oral care.

Sophia Khan, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor of Vascular Surgery, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, UTHealth McGovern Medical School, Start up: Co-Founder and CEO, Voythos

Focus Area: Development of FHIR applications to support physician workflow and improvements in patient care

Tomilola Kolade, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Chief Medical Information Officer (ACMIO), UTHealth-Houston, McGovern Medical School

Focus Area: Application of clinical informatics and implementation science to improve provider experience, healthcare quality, and operational performance across academic health systems. My work centers on EHR optimization, ambient AI integration, clinical workflow redesign, governance frameworks for digital health innovation, and the translation of health data into actionable insights that enhance patient outcomes and reduce clinician burden.

Min Ji Kwak, MD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Joan and Stanford Alexander Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine Department of Internal Medicine, UTHealth-Houston, McGovern Medical School

Focus Area: Conducting health services research utilizing diverse data sources—including administrative, claims, EHR, and survey data—by applying advanced methodologies in machine learning, causal inference, and artificial intelligence to evaluate the impact of geriatric syndromes on clinical outcomes among older adults.

Yen-Chi Le, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Executive Director of Innovation & Quality - Practice Plan Founding Director, UT Physicians Center for Population Health Management & Quality, UTHealth-Houston, UT Physicians

Focus Area: My focus is on integrating clinical care insights from ambulatory outpatient practice into health and clinical informatics research, with a strong emphasis on advancing population health management through data-driven, evidence-based, patient-centered innovation.

Nnaemeka G. Okafor, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine – McGovern Medical School
Director of Medical Informatics – Acute Care Services, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System

Focus Area: Clinical informatics, patient safety and healthcare quality improvement

Bela Patel, MD, CMQ, FCCP
Adjunct Professor

Vice Dean of Healthcare Quality and Division Director of Critical Care Medicine - McGovern Medical School

Focus Area: Healthcare quality improvement and effectiveness, patient safety, error reduction

Roy Riascos, MD
Adjunct Professor

Professor of Radiology and Neurosurgery
UTHealth Science Center at Houston

Focus Area: Research partnerships, mentorship, and cross-disciplinary education in AI, neuroimaging, and translational science

Ryan H. Rochat, MD, PhD, GEMS
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Pediatric Infectious Disease
Education, Innovation and Technology
Baylor College of Medicine

Focus Area: Clinical Informatics – improving data literacy and promoting data ownership

Matthew A. Rysavy, MD, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and Center for Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine, Director of Neonatal Research, Director of Learning Healthcare

Focus Area: clinical trials, clinical epidemiology, neonatal intensive care, use of routinely collected data for learning healthcare, cognitive informatics and decision support, reducing medical errors

Sean I. Savtiz, MD
Adjunct Professor

Professor in Vascular Neurology, Frank M. Yatsu, MD Chair in Neurology, Director, UTHealth Institute for Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Focus Area: Novel healthcare tools for the prediction, prevention, and treatment of stroke and neurodegenerative Disease, Remote assessment measures for stroke survivors, Biomarkers of treatment effects for stroke

Ross Shegog, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor - UT Health School of Public Health
Associate Director -Prevention Research Center

Focus Area: Understanding and reducing diagnostic errors, patient safety related to electronic health record implementation and use

Judith A. Smith, PharmD BCOP, CPHQ, FCCP, FISOPP
Adjunct Professor

Professor, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - OB/GYN Oncology, UT McGovern Medical School

Focus Area: Pharmacology Informatics

Cui Tao, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Nancy Peretsman and Robert Scully Chair of Artificial Intelligence & Informatics, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics - Mayo Clinic

Focus: Ontologies/ Standard terminologies, Information and knowledge extraction and integration, AI-based clinical and translational studies.

Gustavo Vilchez Lagos, MD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor within the Division of Fetal Intervention at McGovern Medical School
Focus: With a robust foundation in biomedical informatics and fetal medicine, my primary focus is to integrate the expertise of the School of Biomedical Informatics and the Fetal Center at UTHealth Houston to leverage advancements in artificial intelligence, explore complex aspects of maternal-fetal health, enhance the analysis of fetal imaging for the diagnosis and management of fetal diseases, and foster collaborations with other leading institutions. By driving innovative research, my objective is to advance the application of AI in fetal medicine to improve outcomes for mothers and their babies.

Hussein A. Abbas, MD, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Department of Leukemia
Assistant Professor, Genomic Medicine
Division of Cancer Medicine - MD Anderson Cancer Center

Focus Area: Multidimensional genomic, transcriptomic and epigenomic data analysis

Feby Abraham, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Memorial Hermann Health System (MHHS)

Focus Area:Healthcare strategy and innovation, including transformation, adoption of emerging technologies, and development of new care delivery models to improve patient access and affordability; investment and business formation in healthcare, including mergers & acquisitions, partnerships, strategic investments, and pilot programs to assess scalability; artificial intelligence and digital health.

Muhammad “Tuan” Amith, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science, University of North Texas

Focus Area: Biomedical Informatics, Semantic Web and Ontologies, Intelligent Agents, Human Computer Interaction and Usabilty, Information Retrieval, Software Architecture and Engineering, and Natural Language Processing

Suresh Bhavnani, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Institute of Translational Sciences - UT Medical Branch-Galveston

Focus Area: Translational bioinformatics, network visualization and analysis of biomedical data, with translation to the design of decision-­-support systems.

Kathy De Figueiredo, DHI, BSN, RN, NI-BC, CPHIMS, CPHQ, CPPS
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Director of Strategic Analytics, Baylor Scott & White Health

Focus Area: Health informatics at the intersection of quality measurement, patient safety, and patient experience — with focus on digital engagement strategies, enterprise analytics leadership, and preparing the next generation of health informatics professionals.

Adol Esquivel, MD, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Vice President, Performance, Measurement Systems and Comparative, Effectiveness Research CHI St. Luke’s Health
Focus Area: Meaningful Use of EHR and Quality Measures, Health Systems Analysis, Implementing and evaluating Health Information Systems. Designing qualitative and quantitative interventions to improve the delivery of care to patients using information technology.

Kevin Fickenscher, MD, CPE, FACPE
Adjunct Professor

Consultant, Creostrategic Solutions

Focus Area: Healthcare Policy, Informatics

Ruihong Huang, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A & M University – College Station

Focus Area: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence

John C. Kilburn, Jr., PhD
Adjunct Professor

Associate Vice President for Research
Texas A&M International University in Laredo

Focus Area: Healthcare Policy, Population Health Informatics

Brent King, MD, MMM
Adjunct Professor

Professor, Emergency Medicine – University of Maryland Medical Center

Focus Area: Health and wellness strategy, patient safety, and quality improvement

Joseph Kunisch PhD, RN-Informatics, CPHQ
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Harris Health-VP Quality Programs
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System Department of Quality Patient Safety & Infection Control

Focus Area: Clinical quality informatics for regulatory performance

Helen Li, MD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Full Member, Cancer Research Program - Houston Methodist Research Institute

Focus Area: Ophthalmology, ocular oncology, teleophthalmology

Sina Madani, MD, PhD, FAMIA
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Clinical Informatician – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Focus Area: Clinical Terminologies, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Engineering, Clinical Informatics

Peter McCaffrey, MD
Adjunct Professor

Chief AI Officer at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)

Focus Area: Peter focuses on techniques for searching and retrieving clinical data from structured and unstructured sources and how content-aware retrieval systems can make this information useful to AI applications. Peter's interests also include protein structure prediction and peptide optimization. Peter has also worked across both academic and startup settings stewarding or building novel applications for clinical use.

Chris McCord, MBA
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Managing Director, Healthcare Growth Partners

Focus Area: Commercialization of health informatics, strategy and go-to-market planning for applied health informatics

Patrick McGinnis, MD, MS, MBA
Adjunct Professor

Humana - Medical Director

Focus Area: Patient safety, medical technology systems, EMRs

Kelly Merriman, MPH, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Director - Cancer Registry, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Focus Area: Epidemiology, Clinical Informatics, Data Analytics, and Public Health Informatics

Shoko Miyagawa, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Nursing and Medical Care - Keio University, Japan

Focus Area: Health informatics, network community, information security

Masayuki Nigo, MD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Houston Methodist Academic Institute

Focus Area: Using EHR data to create artificial intelligence prediction models to answer the clinical questions.

Felix Nguyen, PharmD, MS
Adjunct Associate Professor

Principal Consultant - Clinical and Pharmacy Informatics

Focus Area: Pharmacy Informatics and Clinical Process Improvement, Workflow Optimization and Strategic Planning, Technology Integration and Vendor Management

Sachiko Ohta, MD, MS, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Director and Chief Contents Officer - CHORD-J
Center for Health Services, Outcomes Research and Development – Japan
Focus Area: Health informatics, network community, information security

Richard M. Peters Jr., MD
Adjunct Professor

Assistant Professor
Department of Health Economics, Systems, and Policy, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Focus Area: Application of advanced data modeling, analytics, and AI/ML to health care clinical and claims data for health plan design, population health management, evidence-based clinical decision support, clinical outcomes, and clinical quality improvement.

Vinod Ravi, MD, MS, MBA
Adjunct Professor

Professor, Department of Sarcoma Medical Oncology – MD Anderson Cancer Center
Director of Research, University of Texas Health Intelligence Platform, UT System Office of Health Affairs

Focus Area: Rare cancers, Angiosarcoma, cardiac sarcomas

Sheena Rogers, DHI, MBA, PMP
Adjunct Professor

Founder & Principal Consultant
Probity Professional Consulting LLC

Focus Area: Application of health informatics principles in data governance and management, interoperability, healthcare policies, and project management.

Michael Shabot, MD, FCS, FCCM, FACMI
Adjunct Professor

Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System

Focus Areas: Clinical indicators, patient safety, quality of care
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelshabot

Ergin Soysal, MD, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Senior Research Scientist - Eli Lilly and Company

Focus Area: Clinical Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, Medical Terminologies and Ontologies, Translational Medicine

Peter R. Stout, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

President & CEO, Houston Forensic Science Center

Focus Areas: Forensic practitioner in a large urban crime lab, reporting thousands of results annually. My interests are part applied and part research, data visualization and data analysis for operational management and optimization. We also run a large robust blind quality control program with the potential for statistical evaluation of many aspects of forensic practice.

Jing Wang, PhD, MPH, RN
Adjunct Associate Professor

Dean, Florida State University School of Nursing

Focus Area: Nursing systems, informatics

Tao Wang, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Associate Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Focus Area: Dr. Wang leads an AI-for-science lab, specializing in the development and deployment of AI-driven solutions for immunology discovery. Our interdisciplinary research integrates machine learning, statistics, medicine, and biology to extract meaningful insights from high-dimensional biomedical data.

Stacy Weil, DHI
Adjunct Associate Professor

Senior Vice President, Business Operations and Patient Centricity – Premier Research

Focus Area: Drug development industry - Project Operations, Health Technology and Health Data functions that supports clinical trials. Focus is on the management and use of patient, clinical trial, and business data along with the systems that process that data to provide information that enables optimal decision making.

Stephen Wong, PhD, PE
Adjunct Professor

Professor and Department Chair, Systems Medicine and Bioengineering - Houston Methodist Research Institute
Focus Area: Biological and medical imaging, bioinformatics and systems biology, drug repositioning and combinations, image-guided therapy, translational bio-photo1nics, molecular imaging and diagnosis, and mechanisms of cancer and neurological disorders

Stephen Wu, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Saraya Hamra University, Director of the Center for Research & Innovation, Head of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Focus Area: Innovation studies in North Africa, informatics in developing and complex global contexts, AI ethics, minority digital language resources, computational semantics; clinical natural language processing, electronic health records, medical information retrieval

Hua Xu, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Professor of Biomedical and Data Science
Vice Chair for Research and Development for Section of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
Assistant Dea of Informatics, Yale School of Medicine
Focus Area: clinical natural language processing (NLP) research and application, data sciences and informatics, clinical and translational studies, electronic health records, biomedicine

Weiling Zhao, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Former SBMI Faculty, now retired
Vice Dean for Clinical Technology
Focus Area: Cellular and molecular biologist with emphasis on biomedical informatics, radiation oncology and systems biology

Na Zou, PhD
Assistant Adjunct Professor

Assistant Professor, Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution – Texas A&M University
Focus Area: fair and interpretable machine learning, transfer learning, network modeling and inference