Informatics Faculty | Secondary Faculty
Informatics Faculty
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.
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.
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.
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.
Min Gao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Research Interests
Her areas of specialty include single-cell transcriptomics/genomics, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data analysis, bioinformatics pipeline development, and other bioinformatics, genomics and epigenetics applications.
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.
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.
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.
Secondary Faculty
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
Dongquan Chen, Ph.D., MSHI
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Preventitive Medicine
UAB Heersink School of Medicine
David Crossman, Ph.D.
Professor
Director, Bioinformatics
Department of Genetics
Division of Genetics Research
UAB Heersink School of Medicine
Katherine Dudding, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Family, Community, and Health Systems
UAB School of Nursing
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
Sue Feldman, RN, MEd, Ph.D.
Professor
Director, Graduate Programs in Health Informatics
Department of Health Services Administration
UAB School of Health Professions
Benjamin Galatzan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Nursing Family, Community & Health Systems
UAB School of Nursing
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
Brittany Lasseigne, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
UAB Heersink School of Medicine
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
Ryan Melvin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
UAB Heersink School of Medicine
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
Buynamin Ozaydin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Services Administration
UAB School of Health Professions
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
Nichole Samuy, M.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine
UAB Heersink School of Medicine
Sadeep Shrestha, Ph.D., MHS, MS
Professor
Quetelet Endowed Professorship in Public Health
Department of Epidemiology
UAB School of Public Health
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
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
Marisa Wilson, DNSc, MHSc, RN, CPHIMS, RN-BC, FAMIA, FAAN
Associate Professor
Department of Nursing Family, Community & Health Systems
UAB School of Nursing