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Faculty (Phone: 713-500-3900 / Fax: 713-500-3907)

Omer Anjum, PhD

Omer Anjum, PhD
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Natural Language Processing
  » Machine learning
  » AI system design
  click for full bio

Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSE

Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSE
Associate Dean for Research and Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Information retrieval
  » Consumer informatics
  » Clinical decision support
  click for full bio

Christine Bakos-Block PhD

Christine Bakos-Block, PhD
Research Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Clinical Research
  » Mental & Behavioral Health
  » Substance Use Disorder
click for full bio

Juliana J. Brixey, PhD, MPH, RN

Juliana J. Brixey, PhD, MPH, RN
Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Patient safety
  » Interruptions in workflow
  » Social media in distance education
click for full bio

Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer, PhD

Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer, PhD
Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Healthcare management
  » Health policy
  » Health information exchange
click for full bio

Xiangning Chen, PhD, MS

Xiangning Chen, PhD, MS
Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Genetics & genomics, psychiatric disorders
  » Biomarker discovery
  » Disease risk modeling
click for full bio

Licong Cui, PhD

Licong Cui, PhD
Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Ontologies and terminologies
  » Big data analytics
  » Neuroinformatics
click for full bio

Yulin Dai, PhD

Yulin Dai, PhD
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Tissue/Cell type specificity in complex disease: methods and applications
  » Multi-Omics data integration: methods and applications...
click for full bio

Rigoberto I. Delgado, PhD, MBA

Rigoberto Delgado, PhD, MBA
Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Applied Population Health Analytics
  » Cost-effectiveness Methods
  » Health Services Research
click for full bio

Wankun Deng

Wankun Deng, PhD
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Machine Learning
  » Data Mining
  » Transcriptomics and Proteomics
click for full bio

Babatope Fatuyi

Babatope Fatuyi
Assistant Professor and Chief Medical Information Officer at UTHealth Houston

Areas of Expertise
  » Information Systems
  » Databases
  » Electronic Medical Records
click for full bio

Susan Fenton, PhD

Susan Fenton, PhD
Vice Dean for Education and Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Workforce development
  » ICD-11 Implementation
  » Optimal use of health information technology for chronic and preventive care...
click for full bio

Amy Franklin, PhD

Amy Franklin, PhD
Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Student, Faculty, and Community Affairs

Areas of Expertise
  » Psycho-linguistics
  » Conversational negotiation
  » Reduction of medical errors
click for full bio

Lex Frieden, MA

Lex Frieden, MA
Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Disability informatics
  » Health care access and costs
  » Rehabilitation technology and robotics
click for full bio

Sunyang Fu, PhD

Sunyang Fu, PhD
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Clinical Research Informatics
  » Clinical and Translational Research
  » Data Quality and Heterogeneity
click for full bio

Luca Giancardo, PhD

Luca Giancardo, PhD
Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Image/Signal Processing
  » Machine Learning
  » Translational Medicine
click for full bio

Yang Gong, MD, PhD

Yang Gong, MD, PhD
Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Clinical informatics
  » Medical incident reporting
  » Patient safety
click for full bio

Assaf Gottlieb, PhD

Assaf Gottlieb, PhD
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Pharmacogenomics
  » Machine Learning
  » Systems Medicine
click for full bio

Arif Harmanci, MS, PhD

Arif Harmanci, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Bioinformatics
  » Functional Genomics
  » Genomic Privacy
click for full bio

Dian Hu, PhD

Dian Hu, PhD
Assistant Professor

Research Interest
  » Public Health Program Evaluation
  » Big Data and Surveillance
  » Systems Architecture and Health Policy
click for full bio

Ming Huang, PhD

Ming Huang, PhD
Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Machine Learning and Deep Learning
  » Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models
  » Data Mining
click for full bio

Jonathan Ishee, JD, MPH, MS, LLM

Jonathan Ishee, JD, MPH, MS, LLM
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Health policy
  » Patient safety
  » Health information exchange
click for full bio

Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD

Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD
Chair, Department of Health Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Heathcare privacy
  » Biomedical data mining
  » Computational phenotyping
click for full bio

Constance Johnson, PhD, MS, RN, FAAN

Constance Johnson, PhD, MS, RN, FAAN
Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Human-computer interaction
  » Consumer Health Informatics
  » Games for Health
click for full bio

Todd Johnson, PhD

Todd Johnson, PhD
Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Medical device usability and safety
  » Patient safety & quality
  » Human factors engineering
click for full bio

Peter Killoran, MD, MS

Peter Killoran, MD, MS
Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Health IT and clinical decision making
  » Integrating techniques into EMRS
  » Anesthesia emergency room data
click for full bio

Pora Kim

Pora Kim, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Bioinformatics and Biological Database
  » Precision Medicine Development
  » Deep Learning Modeling of Genomics
click for full bio

Yejin Kim

Yejin Kim, PhD
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Data Mining
  » Machine Learning
  » Computational Phenotyping
click for full bio

James Langabeer, PhD, MBA

James Langabeer, PhD, MBA
Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Clinical systems of care
  » Cardiovascular quality and analytics
  » Health information exchange
click for full bio

Hui Li, PhD

Hui Li, PhD
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Image processing
  » Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
  » Biological Networks
click for full bio

Zhao Li, PhD

Zhao Li, PhD
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Biomedical data mining
  » Biomedical NLP
  » Big data analytics
click for full bio

Hongfang Liu, PhD

Hongfang Liu, PhD
Professor

Research Interests
  » Artificial Intelligence
  » Informatics in Healthcare
  » Bioinformatics
click for full bio

Robert E. Murphy, MD

Robert E. Murphy, MD
Associate Dean for Applied Informatics and Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Clinical decision support
  » Physician health IT adoption
  » Clinical system implementations
click for full bio

Sahiti Myneni, PhD, MSE

Sahiti Myneni, PhD, MSE
Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Consumer and Public Health Informatics
  » Social media health misinformation models
  » Digital equity and health disparities
click for full bio

Ardalan Naseri, PhD

Ardalan Naseri, PhD
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Algorithms
  » Computational Biology
  » Bioinformatics
  click for full bio

Laila Rasmy Bekhet, PhD

Laila Rasmy Bekhet, PhD
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Deep Learning
  » Predictive Modeling
  » Biomedical Data Mining
click for full bio

Kirk Roberts, PhDx, MS

Kirk Roberts, PhD, MS
Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Natural Language Processing
  » Question Answering
  » Clinical Information Extraction
click for full bio

Deevakar Rogith, MBBS, PhD

Deevakar Rogith, MBBS, PhD
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Healthcare Interface Design
  » Patient Safety
  » Clinical Informatics
click for full bio

Angela Ross, DNP, MPH, PMP, PHCNS-BC

Angela Ross, DNP, MPH, PMP, DASM, PHCNS-BC
Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Performance improvement
  » Project management and evaluation
  » System implementation
click for full bio

Xiaoyang Ruan, PhD

Xiaoyang Ruan, PhD
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Predictive modeling
  » Deep phenotyping
  » Explainable AI
click for full bio

Debora Simmons, PhD, RN, CCNS, FAAN

Debora Simmons, PhD, RN, FAAN
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Safety
  » Quality
  » Clinical Effectiveness
click for full bio

Dean F. Sittig, PhD

Dean F. Sittig, PhD
Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Clinical information systems
  » Design of new features and functions
  » Evaluations and monitoring
click for full bio

Shayan Shams, PhD

Shayan Shams, PhD
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Artificial Intelligence
  » Deep Learning & Machine Learning
  » Big Data
  » High Performance Computing
click for full bio

Kimberly Smith, PhD, MT(ASCP)

Kimberly Smith, PhD, MT(ASCP)
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Veterinary informatics
  » Workforce development
  » Laboratory and pathology informatics
click for full bio

Meera G Subash

Meera G. Subash, MD
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Clinical Decision Support
  » User-Centered Design & EHR
  » Chronic Disease Management
click for full bio

Toufeeq Ahmed Syed, PhD

Toufeeq Ahmed Syed, PhD
Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Education Informatics

Areas of Expertise
  » Precision Education and Innovations
  » Education Informatics and Technology
  » Online platforms and Cloud based..
  click for full bio

Yi-Ching Tang, PhD

Yi-Ching Tang, PhD
Faculty Associate

Areas of Expertise
  » Bioinformatics/Computational Biology
  » Integrative OMICS for drug discovery
  » Machine Learning
  click for full bio

V. Gail Turner, DNP, MBA, RN-BC

V. Gail Turner, DNP, MBA, NI-BC, PMP
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Clinical informatics
  » Integration of Healthcare Practice in..
  » Clinical Software and Clinical Project..
click for full bio

Muhammad Walji, PhD

Muhammad Walji, PhD
Chair, Department of Clinical and Health Informatics and Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Dental Informatics
  » Patient Safety and Quality
  » Human-centered Computing
click for full bio

Jinlian Wang, PhD

Jinlian Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Bioinformatics
  » Artificial Intelligence
click for full bio

Liwei Wang, PhD

Liwei Wang, MD, PhD
Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Information extraction and data mining
  » Cancer Informatics
  » Mental health informatics
click for full bio

Jianguo Wen, PhD

Jianguo Wen, PhD
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Cancer immunotherapy
  » Cancer nucleic acid therapy
click for full bio

Hulin Wu, PhD, MS

Hulin Wu, PhD, MS
Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Biostatistics
  » Computational Biology
  » Computational Modeling
click for full bio

Ziqian Xie, PhD

Ziqian Xie, PhD
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Deep learning
  » Imaging genetics
  » Predictive modeling
click for full bio

YungangAndrea Yatsco, PhD, CADC, LCDC

Andrea Yatsco, PhD, CADC, LCDC
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Public Health and Substance Use Disorders
  » Systematic Public Health Responses
  » Behavioral Informatics
click for full bio

Lei You, PhD

Lei You, PhD
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Image processing
  » Deep learning
  » Human-machine interaction
click for full bio

Lishan Yu, PhD

Lishan Yu, PhD
Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Data mining and analysis
  » Machine learning
  » Biomedical informatics
click for full bio

GQ Zhang, PhD, MS

GQ Zhang, PhD, MS
Vice President & Chief Data Scientist and Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Clinical Informatics
  » Health Data Science and Big Data
  » Ontologies and metadata management
click for full bio

Guangming Zhang, PhD

Guangming Zhang, PhD
Faculty Associate

Areas of Expertise
  » Medical Imaging Informatics
  » Biomechanical Analysis
  » Machine Learning and Biomedical Engineering
click for full bio

Jiajie Zhang, PhD

Jiajie Zhang, PhD
Dean and Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Biomedical informatics
  » Human-centered computing
  » Medical errors
click for full bio

Zhongming Zhao, PhD, MS

Zhongming Zhao, PhD, MS
Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Precision Medicine
  » Bioinformatics
  » Pharmacogenomics
click for full bio

W. Jim Zheng, PhD

W. Jim Zheng, PhD
Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Bioinformatics
  » Systems biology
  » Genomics
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Degui Zhi, PhD, MS

Degui Zhi, PhD, MS
Chair, Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine and Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Deep learning
  » Artificial intelligence
  » Imaging genetics
click for full bio

Xiaobo Zhou, PhD

Xiaobo Zhou, PhD
Professor

Areas of Expertise
  » Bioinformatics
  » Systems Biology
  » Imaging Informatics
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Updated: 9/19/2024

  • Faculty


    Faculty (Phone: 713-500-3900 / Fax: 713-500-3907)

    Omer Anjum, PhD

    Omer Anjum, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Natural Language Processing
      » Machine learning
      » AI system design
      click for full bio

    Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSE

    Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSE
    Associate Dean for Research and Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Information retrieval
      » Consumer informatics
      » Clinical decision support
      click for full bio

    Christine Bakos-Block PhD

    Christine Bakos-Block, PhD
    Research Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Clinical Research
      » Mental & Behavioral Health
      » Substance Use Disorder
    click for full bio

    Juliana J. Brixey, PhD, MPH, RN

    Juliana J. Brixey, PhD, MPH, RN
    Associate Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Patient safety
      » Interruptions in workflow
      » Social media in distance education
    click for full bio

    Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer, PhD

    Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer, PhD
    Associate Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Healthcare management
      » Health policy
      » Health information exchange
    click for full bio

    Xiangning Chen, PhD, MS

    Xiangning Chen, PhD, MS
    Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Genetics & genomics, psychiatric disorders
      » Biomarker discovery
      » Disease risk modeling
    click for full bio

    Licong Cui, PhD

    Licong Cui, PhD
    Associate Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Ontologies and terminologies
      » Big data analytics
      » Neuroinformatics
    click for full bio

    Yulin Dai, PhD

    Yulin Dai, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Tissue/Cell type specificity in complex disease: methods and applications
      » Multi-Omics data integration: methods and applications...
    click for full bio

    Rigoberto I. Delgado, PhD, MBA

    Rigoberto Delgado, PhD, MBA
    Associate Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Applied Population Health Analytics
      » Cost-effectiveness Methods
      » Health Services Research
    click for full bio

    Wankun Deng

    Wankun Deng, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Machine Learning
      » Data Mining
      » Transcriptomics and Proteomics
    click for full bio

    Babatope Fatuyi

    Babatope Fatuyi
    Assistant Professor and Chief Medical Information Officer at UTHealth Houston

    Areas of Expertise
      » Information Systems
      » Databases
      » Electronic Medical Records
    click for full bio

    Susan Fenton, PhD

    Susan Fenton, PhD
    Vice Dean for Education and Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Workforce development
      » ICD-11 Implementation
      » Optimal use of health information technology for chronic and preventive care...
    click for full bio

    Amy Franklin, PhD

    Amy Franklin, PhD
    Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Student, Faculty, and Community Affairs

    Areas of Expertise
      » Psycho-linguistics
      » Conversational negotiation
      » Reduction of medical errors
    click for full bio

    Lex Frieden, MA

    Lex Frieden, MA
    Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Disability informatics
      » Health care access and costs
      » Rehabilitation technology and robotics
    click for full bio

    Sunyang Fu, PhD

    Sunyang Fu, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Clinical Research Informatics
      » Clinical and Translational Research
      » Data Quality and Heterogeneity
    click for full bio

    Luca Giancardo, PhD

    Luca Giancardo, PhD
    Associate Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Image/Signal Processing
      » Machine Learning
      » Translational Medicine
    click for full bio

    Yang Gong, MD, PhD

    Yang Gong, MD, PhD
    Associate Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Clinical informatics
      » Medical incident reporting
      » Patient safety
    click for full bio

    Assaf Gottlieb, PhD

    Assaf Gottlieb, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Pharmacogenomics
      » Machine Learning
      » Systems Medicine
    click for full bio

    Arif Harmanci, MS, PhD

    Arif Harmanci, MS, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Bioinformatics
      » Functional Genomics
      » Genomic Privacy
    click for full bio

    Dian Hu, PhD

    Dian Hu, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Research Interest
      » Public Health Program Evaluation
      » Big Data and Surveillance
      » Systems Architecture and Health Policy
    click for full bio

    Ming Huang, PhD

    Ming Huang, PhD
    Associate Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Machine Learning and Deep Learning
      » Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models
      » Data Mining
    click for full bio

    Jonathan Ishee, JD, MPH, MS, LLM

    Jonathan Ishee, JD, MPH, MS, LLM
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Health policy
      » Patient safety
      » Health information exchange
    click for full bio

    Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD

    Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD
    Chair, Department of Health Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Heathcare privacy
      » Biomedical data mining
      » Computational phenotyping
    click for full bio

    Constance Johnson, PhD, MS, RN, FAAN

    Constance Johnson, PhD, MS, RN, FAAN
    Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Human-computer interaction
      » Consumer Health Informatics
      » Games for Health
    click for full bio

    Todd Johnson, PhD

    Todd Johnson, PhD
    Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Medical device usability and safety
      » Patient safety & quality
      » Human factors engineering
    click for full bio

    Peter Killoran, MD, MS

    Peter Killoran, MD, MS
    Associate Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Health IT and clinical decision making
      » Integrating techniques into EMRS
      » Anesthesia emergency room data
    click for full bio

    Pora Kim

    Pora Kim, PhD, MS
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Bioinformatics and Biological Database
      » Precision Medicine Development
      » Deep Learning Modeling of Genomics
    click for full bio

    Yejin Kim

    Yejin Kim, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Data Mining
      » Machine Learning
      » Computational Phenotyping
    click for full bio

    James Langabeer, PhD, MBA

    James Langabeer, PhD, MBA
    Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Clinical systems of care
      » Cardiovascular quality and analytics
      » Health information exchange
    click for full bio

    Hui Li, PhD

    Hui Li, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Image processing
      » Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
      » Biological Networks
    click for full bio

    Zhao Li, PhD

    Zhao Li, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Biomedical data mining
      » Biomedical NLP
      » Big data analytics
    click for full bio

    Hongfang Liu, PhD

    Hongfang Liu, PhD
    Professor

    Research Interests
      » Artificial Intelligence
      » Informatics in Healthcare
      » Bioinformatics
    click for full bio

    Robert E. Murphy, MD

    Robert E. Murphy, MD
    Associate Dean for Applied Informatics and Associate Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Clinical decision support
      » Physician health IT adoption
      » Clinical system implementations
    click for full bio

    Sahiti Myneni, PhD, MSE

    Sahiti Myneni, PhD, MSE
    Associate Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Consumer and Public Health Informatics
      » Social media health misinformation models
      » Digital equity and health disparities
    click for full bio

    Ardalan Naseri, PhD

    Ardalan Naseri, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Algorithms
      » Computational Biology
      » Bioinformatics
      click for full bio

    Laila Rasmy Bekhet, PhD

    Laila Rasmy Bekhet, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Deep Learning
      » Predictive Modeling
      » Biomedical Data Mining
    click for full bio

    Kirk Roberts, PhDx, MS

    Kirk Roberts, PhD, MS
    Associate Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Natural Language Processing
      » Question Answering
      » Clinical Information Extraction
    click for full bio

    Deevakar Rogith, MBBS, PhD

    Deevakar Rogith, MBBS, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Healthcare Interface Design
      » Patient Safety
      » Clinical Informatics
    click for full bio

    Angela Ross, DNP, MPH, PMP, PHCNS-BC

    Angela Ross, DNP, MPH, PMP, DASM, PHCNS-BC
    Associate Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Performance improvement
      » Project management and evaluation
      » System implementation
    click for full bio

    Xiaoyang Ruan, PhD

    Xiaoyang Ruan, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Predictive modeling
      » Deep phenotyping
      » Explainable AI
    click for full bio

    Debora Simmons, PhD, RN, CCNS, FAAN

    Debora Simmons, PhD, RN, FAAN
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Safety
      » Quality
      » Clinical Effectiveness
    click for full bio

    Dean F. Sittig, PhD

    Dean F. Sittig, PhD
    Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Clinical information systems
      » Design of new features and functions
      » Evaluations and monitoring
    click for full bio

    Shayan Shams, PhD

    Shayan Shams, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Artificial Intelligence
      » Deep Learning & Machine Learning
      » Big Data
      » High Performance Computing
    click for full bio

    Kimberly Smith, PhD, MT(ASCP)

    Kimberly Smith, PhD, MT(ASCP)
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Veterinary informatics
      » Workforce development
      » Laboratory and pathology informatics
    click for full bio

    Meera G Subash

    Meera G. Subash, MD
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Clinical Decision Support
      » User-Centered Design & EHR
      » Chronic Disease Management
    click for full bio

    Toufeeq Ahmed Syed, PhD

    Toufeeq Ahmed Syed, PhD
    Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Education Informatics

    Areas of Expertise
      » Precision Education and Innovations
      » Education Informatics and Technology
      » Online platforms and Cloud based..
      click for full bio

    Yi-Ching Tang, PhD

    Yi-Ching Tang, PhD
    Faculty Associate

    Areas of Expertise
      » Bioinformatics/Computational Biology
      » Integrative OMICS for drug discovery
      » Machine Learning
      click for full bio

    V. Gail Turner, DNP, MBA, RN-BC

    V. Gail Turner, DNP, MBA, NI-BC, PMP
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Clinical informatics
      » Integration of Healthcare Practice in..
      » Clinical Software and Clinical Project..
    click for full bio

    Muhammad Walji, PhD

    Muhammad Walji, PhD
    Chair, Department of Clinical and Health Informatics and Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Dental Informatics
      » Patient Safety and Quality
      » Human-centered Computing
    click for full bio

    Jinlian Wang, PhD

    Jinlian Wang, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Bioinformatics
      » Artificial Intelligence
    click for full bio

    Liwei Wang, PhD

    Liwei Wang, MD, PhD
    Associate Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Information extraction and data mining
      » Cancer Informatics
      » Mental health informatics
    click for full bio

    Jianguo Wen, PhD

    Jianguo Wen, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Cancer immunotherapy
      » Cancer nucleic acid therapy
    click for full bio

    Hulin Wu, PhD, MS

    Hulin Wu, PhD, MS
    Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Biostatistics
      » Computational Biology
      » Computational Modeling
    click for full bio

    Ziqian Xie, PhD

    Ziqian Xie, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Deep learning
      » Imaging genetics
      » Predictive modeling
    click for full bio

    YungangAndrea Yatsco, PhD, CADC, LCDC

    Andrea Yatsco, PhD, CADC, LCDC
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Public Health and Substance Use Disorders
      » Systematic Public Health Responses
      » Behavioral Informatics
    click for full bio

    Lei You, PhD

    Lei You, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Image processing
      » Deep learning
      » Human-machine interaction
    click for full bio

    Lishan Yu, PhD

    Lishan Yu, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Data mining and analysis
      » Machine learning
      » Biomedical informatics
    click for full bio

    GQ Zhang, PhD, MS

    GQ Zhang, PhD, MS
    Vice President & Chief Data Scientist and Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Clinical Informatics
      » Health Data Science and Big Data
      » Ontologies and metadata management
    click for full bio

    Guangming Zhang, PhD

    Guangming Zhang, PhD
    Faculty Associate

    Areas of Expertise
      » Medical Imaging Informatics
      » Biomechanical Analysis
      » Machine Learning and Biomedical Engineering
    click for full bio

    Jiajie Zhang, PhD

    Jiajie Zhang, PhD
    Dean and Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Biomedical informatics
      » Human-centered computing
      » Medical errors
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    Zhongming Zhao, PhD, MS

    Zhongming Zhao, PhD, MS
    Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Precision Medicine
      » Bioinformatics
      » Pharmacogenomics
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    W. Jim Zheng, PhD

    W. Jim Zheng, PhD
    Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Bioinformatics
      » Systems biology
      » Genomics
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    Degui Zhi, PhD, MS

    Degui Zhi, PhD, MS
    Chair, Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine and Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Deep learning
      » Artificial intelligence
      » Imaging genetics
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    Xiaobo Zhou, PhD

    Xiaobo Zhou, PhD
    Professor

    Areas of Expertise
      » Bioinformatics
      » Systems Biology
      » Imaging Informatics
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    Updated: 9/19/2024

  • Adjunct Faculty within UTHealth Houston
    Shervin Assassi, MD, MS

    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

    Bentley J. Bobrow, MD

    Bentley J. Bobrow, MD
    Adjunct Professor

    Chair & Professor, Emergency Medicine at McGovern Medical at UTHealth Houston

    Focus: Emergency Care, Prehospital Care & Space Medicine

    Eric Boerwinkle, PhD

    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

    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

    Jeffrey Chang, PhD
    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology & Pharmacology - McGovern Medical School

    Focus Area: Cell Signaling Programs in Cancer

    Martin J. Citardi, MD

    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

    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

    James Griffiths, MD
    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Executive Director, Clinical Technology - UT Physicians
    UTHealth

    Focus Area: Clinical technology for clinical practice

    Jane E. Hamilton PhD

    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

    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

    Robert Hunter, MD, PhD

    Robert Hunter, MD, PhD
    Adjunct Professor

    Professor and Chair, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - McGovern Medical School

    Focus Area: Pathology information systems, data analytics, telepathology systems

    Benson Mwangi Irungu PhD

    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

    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

    John C. Joe, MD, MPH

    John C. Joe, MD, MPH
    Adjunct Professor

    Chief Medical Information Officer - CHI St. Luke’s Health

    Focus Area: Health information system design and development, clinical process redesign and systems implementation, HIE design and implementation

    Sophia Khan, MD

    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

    Yin Liu, PhD

    Yin Liu, PhD
    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Focus Area: Computational systems biology and bioinformatics, statistical modeling for biological networks reconstruction

    Joseph B. McCormick, MD

    Joseph B. McCormick, MD
    Adjunct Professor

    James H. Steele Professor of Epidemiology Brownsville Campus, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health

    Focus Area: Cardiometabolic disease, human genetics, infectious diseases, Epidemiology

    Carl V. Vartian, MD, MS

    Amit Mehta, MD
    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, McGovern Medical School
    Chief Medical Information Officer, Harris Health System

    Focus Area: implementation, maintenance and improvement of electronic data information sources; Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program

    François Modave, PhD

    François Modave, PhD
    Adjunct Professor

    Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science
    UTHealth School of Public Health El Paso Regional Campus

    Focus Area: Artificial intelligence and data science, along with mobile health and telehealth to improve health

    Nnaemeka G. Okafor, MD

    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

    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

    Ryan H. Rochat, MD, PhD, GEMS

    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

    John Riggs, MD, MS

    John Riggs, MD, MS
    Adjunct Professor

    Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology - McGovern Medical School
    Vice Chair, Obstetrics & Gynecology - LBJ Hospital

    Focus Area: Clinical informatics, gynecologic surgery

    Matthew A. Rysavy, MD, PhD

    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

    Matthew A. Rysavy, MD, PhD

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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.

    Arlo Weltge, MD

    Arlo Weltge, MD
    Adjunct Professor (SBMI – Behavioral Division)

    Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at McGovern Medical School

    Focus: Interested in clinical care and research related to addiction, substance use and recovery (HEROES) along with social issues contributing including mental health and homelessness; clinical research and program outreach (HEROES). I see my most immediate focus on the expansion of the HEROES project, specifically interaction with prehospital and medical care in communities that are part of the ICON outreach.


    Updated: 9/24/2024

  • Adjunct Faculty Outside UTHealth Houston
    Muhammad “Tuan” Amith, PhD

    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

    Hussein A. Abbas, MD, PhD

    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

    Suresh Bhavnani, PhD

    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.

    Monica Coley, DHI, MPH

    Monica Coley, DHI, MPH
    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Senior Business Development Manager, AMAZON Web Services - Worldwide Public Sector

    Focus Area: works with hospitals and health systems to envision goals, objectives, and innovative strategies on the AWS cloud in order to host 1) electronic health records and the application ecosystem, 2) medical imaging, 3) AI/ML/GenAI, 4) health data/big data systems, 5) population health, and 6) revenue cycle.

    Jingcheng Du PhD

    Jingcheng Du, PhD
    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Lead NLP Scientist, Melax Tech


    Focus Area: Biomedical natural language processing (NLP), Biomedical knowledge representation, Machine learning and its applications to healthcare

    Kim Dunn, MD, PhD

    Kim Dunn, MD, PhD
    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Practicing Physician, Healthquilt

    Focus Area: Telemedicine, outcomes management, adoption of IT in healthcare

    Mary Edgerton, MD, PhD

    Mary Edgerton, MD, PhD
    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Associate Professor, Department of Pathology - UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Focus Area: Mechanisms in cancer genesis and progression, development of mathematical models for computer simulations, methods for the analysis of gene expression array data for pathway discovery.

    Adol Esquivel, MD, PhD

    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

    Kevin Fickenscher, MD, CPE, FACPE
    Adjunct Professor

    Consultant, Creostrategic Solutions

    Focus Area: Healthcare Policy, Informatics

    John P. Glaser, PhD

    John P. Glaser, PhD
    Adjunct Professor

    Former Senior VP - Cerner

    Focus Area: Federal/state policy and government regulation development, global healthcare information technology solutions, informatics innovation strategies

    Jeffrey Helton, PhD, CMA, CFE, FHFMA

    Jeffrey Helton, PhD, CMA, CFE, FHFMA
    Adjunct Professor

    Assistant Professor - Metropolitan State University of Denver
    Focus Area: Operations and financing of safety net delivery systems including community health clinics and FQHC/look-alike providers, critical access hospitals and rural health care delivery systems, health care fraud, impact of technology on operational efficiency in health care, and market variations in the costs and utilization of health care services.

    Ruihong Huang, PhD

    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

    Curtis E. Kennedy, MD, PhD

    Curtis E. Kennedy, MD, PhD
    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine - Baylor College of Medicine
    Texas Children’s Hospital

    Focus Area: Clinical decision support, prediction modeling, time series analysis, cardiac arrest, pediatric ICU

    John C. Kilburn, Jr., PhD

    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

    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

    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

    Karima Lalani, PhD

    Karima Lalani, PhD
    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Program Director, Health Informatics and Health Information, Management (HIHIM), Assistant Teaching Professor, University of Washington School of Public Health

    Focus: I am a seasoned researcher and professional, with over 15 years of experience in healthcare workforce education and training, strategic planning and digital health. My research interests include applied health informatics, workforce development, interprofessional education, COVID-19’s impact on mental health of first responders, healthcare workers and teaching hospitals.

    Helen Li, MD

    Helen Li, MD
    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Full Member, Cancer Research Program - Houston Methodist Research Institute

    Focus Area: Ophthalmology, ocular oncology, teleophthalmology

    H. Stephen Lieber, MA, CAE

    H. Stephen Lieber, MA, CAE
    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Principal, AVISOS Partners, LLC

    Focus Area: Transformational change, Business development, Global positioning, Strategic Planning & Execution

    Sina Madani, MD, PhD, FAMIA

    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

    Chris McCord, MBA

    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

    Patrick McGinnis, MD, MS, MBA
    Adjunct Professor

    Humana - Medical Director

    Focus Area: Patient safety, medical technology systems, EMRs

    Kelly Merriman, MPH, PhD

    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

    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

    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

    Felix Nguyen, PharmD, MS
    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Senior Director of Digital Health and Strategy at Revive RX

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

    Sachiko Ohta, MD, MS, PhD

    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

    Vinod Ravi, MD, MS, MBA

    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

    Hamisu M. Salihu, MD, PhD

    Hamisu M. Salihu, MD, PhD
    Adjunct Professor

    CEO and Director-General of the Kano Independent Research Centre Trust, Nigeria

    Focus Area: Utility and application of AI tools to solve public health challenges

    Michael Shabot, MD, FCS, FCCM, FACMI

    Munseok Seo, Dr. P.H.
    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    SSurvey Statistician, RELI GROUP, Inc – Maryland
    Working as a contractor for the CDC National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD

    Michael Shabot, MD, FCS, FCCM, FACMI

    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

    Anwar Sirajuddin, MBBS, MS, CPHIMS

    Anwar Sirajuddin, MBBS, MS, CPHIMS
    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Senior VP, Chief Health Informatics Officer - Harris Health System

    Focus Areas: Clinical Decision Support, Clinical Outcomes, Content Development, Healthcare Quality & Performance Improvement, Patient Safety, Infection Control, Data Analytics

    Scott Sittig, PhD, MHI, RHIA

    Scott Sittig, PhD, MHI, RHIA
    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Associate Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and holds the Debra H. Kite/BORSF Endowed Professorship in Nursing and Health Sciences.

    Focus: Personalized digital health solutions and personalized medicine utilizing data science techniques such as: NLP, machine learning, AI, and Persuasive System Design.

    Ergin Soysal, MD, PhD

    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 Stout, PhD

    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.

    Carl V. Vartian, MD, MS

    Carl V. Vartian, MD, MS
    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Chief Medical Information Officer
    HCA – Gulf Coast Division

    Focus Area: EHR Implementation, Quality, Safety and Meaningful Use

    Ryan Walsh, MD

    Ryan Walsh, MD
    Adjunct Professor

    Chief Medical Information Officer – Ambulatory & Population Health at Memorial Hermann Health System

    Focus Area: Applied informatics, population health and informatics related to social determinations of health

    Jing Wang, PhD, MPH, RN

    Jing Wang, PhD, MPH, RN
    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Dean, Florida State University School of Nursing

    Focus Area: Nursing systems, informatics

    Stacy Weil, DHI

    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.

    Irmgard Willcockson, PhD

    Irmgard Willcockson, PhD
    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    E-Learning Consultant

    https://www.linkedin.com/pub/irmgard-willcockson/10/813/276

    Stephen Wong, PhD, PE

    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

    Stephen Wu, PhD
    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Head of Research, Tibyan AI
    Focus Area: Informatics in developing and complex global contexts, AI ethics, digital language resources for minority languages and dialects, computational semantics; clinical natural language processing, electronic health records, medical information retrieval

    Dr. Hua Xu PhD

    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

    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

    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


    Updated: 10/01/2024