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Informatics Faculty

James J. Cimino, M.D.

James J. Cimino, M.D.

Distinguished Professor of Medicine

Director, Informatics Institute

Research Interests
His current research involves development of systems to support clinical and translational researchers and exploring new paradigms for improving electronic health records. 

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Jake Chen, Ph.D.

Jake Chen, Ph.D.

Professor of Genetics and Computer Science

Research Interests
Translational bioinformatics, system biology, data mining, advanced visual analytics for therapeutic discovery and clinical decision-making applications.

Chen Lab

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Zechen Chong, Ph.D.

Zechen Chong, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Genetics

Research Interests
Currently, Chong and his lab are working to develop algorithms for next-generation sequencing data analysis and research genomic rearrangements and disease genomics.

Chong Lab
Chong Lab at UAB Genetics

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Tiago K. Colicchio, Ph.D., MBA

Tiago K. Colicchio, Ph.D., MBA

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Research Interests
The current focus of his research is to design electronic clinical documentation systems that can increase clinicians’ situation awareness, improve the medical-decision making process, and reduce the EHR-associated documentation burden.

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John D. Osborne, Ph.D.

John D. Osborne, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Research Interests
The current focus of his research is to build the tools, methods and infrastructure needed to explore the relationship between genotype and phenotype - with a focus on clinical natural language processing to extract human phenotype information from biomedical text. He is actively exploring the application of recurrent neural networks in this problem space.

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Alexander Rosenberg, Ph.D.

Alexander Rosenberg, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Microbiology

Research Interests
His interests cover broad areas of bioinformatics, from data modeling, databases and software pipeline development for high-throughput workflows, through analysis and innovative visualization approaches for complex biological data sets. 

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Amy Wang, M.D., MBI

Amy Wang, M.D., MBI

Associate Professor of Medicine and Family and Community Medicine

Research Interests
Her areas of expertise include biomedical ontologies, health standards, electronic health records (EHRs), and informatics education. 

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Secondary Faculty

Eta Berner, Ed.D.

Department of Health Services Administration

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James Booth, M.D., MSHI

Associate Professor
Associate Vice Chair
Associate CMIO, UAB Health System
Department of Emergency Medicine
UAB Heersink School of Medicine

Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine

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Dongquan Chen, Ph.D., MSHI

Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Preventitive Medicine
UAB Heersink School of Medicine

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David Crossman, Ph.D.

Professor
Director, Bioinformatics
Department of Genetics
Division of Genetics Research
UAB Heersink School of Medicine


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Katherine Dudding, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Family, Community, and Health Systems
UAB School of Nursing 

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Tony Fargason, M.D.

Vice President of Clincal Affairs, Children's of Alabama
Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Academic General Pediatrics
UAB Heersink School of Medicine 

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Sue Feldman, RN, MEd, Ph.D.

Professor
Director, Graduate Programs in Health Informatics
Department of Health Services Administration
UAB School of Health Professions

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Benjamin Galatzan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Nursing Family, Community & Health Systems
UAB School of Nursing

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Chen Huang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics
Division of Genetics Research

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Robert Kimberly, M.D.

Director, Center for Clinical and Translational Science
Senior Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Science
Associate Vice President for Medicine and Biomedical Research
Howard L. Holley Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Immunology and Rheumatology
UAB Heersink School of Medicine

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Brittany Lasseigne, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor 
Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology 
UAB Heersink School of Medicine

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Elliot Lefkowitz, Ph.D.

Director of Bioinformatics, Center for Clinical and Translational Science
Co-Director, Undergraduate Program in Bioinformatics
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department of Microbiology
UAB Heersink School of Medicine

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Ryan Melvin, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
UAB Heersink School of Medicine

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Matthew Might, Ph.D.

Director, Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute 
Professor
Hugh Kaul Endowed Chair in Personalized Medicine
Department of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine

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Buynamin Ozaydin, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Health Services Administration
UAB School of Health Professions

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Michelle Robinson. D.M.D., M.A.

Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Office of the Provost
Associate Professor
Department of Health Services Administration
School of Health Professions
The University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Nichole Samuy, M.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics 
Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine
UAB Heersink School of Medicine

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Sadeep Shrestha, Ph.D., MHS, MS

Professor
Quetelet Endowed Professorship in Public Health
Department of Epidemiology
UAB School of Public Health

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Sooryanarayana Varambally, Ph.D.

Director, Integrative Translational Oncology Pathology Research
Co-Director of the Graduate Biomedical Sciences (Cancer Biology)
Professor 
Department of Pathology
Division of Molecular & Cellular Pathology
UAB Heersink School of Medicine

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James Willig, M.D., MSPH

Assistant Dean, Clinical Education
Director, Data Capture & Integration Care - BIGDATA
Medical Informatics Director, 1917 HIV Clinic and the UAB Health System Information Systems (HSIS)
Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
UAB Heersink School of Medicine 

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Marisa Wilson, DNSc, MHSc, RN, CPHIMS, RN-BC, FAMIA, FAAN

Associate Professor 
Department of Nursing Family, Community & Health Systems
UAB School of Nursing 

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Ferhat Zengul, Ph.D., MBA, MAcc

Associate Professor
Department of Health Services Administration
UAB School of Health Professions

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