Jake Chen, Ph.D.
Professor
Director, Systems Pharmacology AI Research Center (SPARC)
Research Interests
Dr. Chen's research interests include translational bioinformatics, system biology, data mining, advanced visual analytics for therapeutic discovery and clinical decision-making applications.
Zechen Chong, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Currently, Dr. Chong's lab is working to develop algorithms for next-generation sequencing data analysis and research genomic rearrangements and disease genomics.
James J. Cimino, M.D.
Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Research Interests
Dr. Cimino's current research involves developing systems supporting clinical and translational researchers and exploring new paradigms for improving electronic health records.
Tiago K. Colicchio, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Dr. Colicchio's research interests involve designing smarter EHR systems through improved interoperability, knowledge representation, and accurate clinical decision support systems, focusing on reducing alert fatigue and improving patient safety.
Jinzhuang Dou, Ph.D.
Assistant professor
Research interest
Dr. Dou's research is currently focused on statistics, computer science, cancer, and complex disease. By integrating statistical and computational methods, he aims to enhance the understanding of health and provide insights into the genetic and molecular mechanisms that drive complex diseases.
John D. Osborne, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests
The current focus of Dr. Osborne's research is building 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. Dr. Osborne is actively exploring the application of recurrent neural networks in this problem space.
Alexander Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests
Dr. Rosenberg's 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.
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Dr. Wang's areas of expertise include biomedical ontologies, health standards, electronic health records (EHRs), and informatics education.
Jiancheng Ye, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Dr. Ye’s research focuses on leveraging large cohorts, clinical informatics, deep phenotyping, and big data harmonization tools to gain a comprehensive understanding of non-communicable diseases. His goal is to continue to work collaboratively to improve the research application of clinical research informatics and population health.
Adjunct Faculty
Abdulaziz Ahmed, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Health Services Administration
School of Health Professions
James Booth, MD, MSHI
Associate Professor, Associate Vice Chair
Department of Emergency Medicine
Dongquan Chen, Ph.D., MSHI
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine – Preventive Medicine
Jin Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Division of Nephrology, Associate Director for Biomedical Informatics for Education
Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Changde Cheng, Ph.D., MS
Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology & Oncology, Department of Medicine
David Crossman, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Genetics – Genetics Research Division
Jeffrey Curtis, M.D., M.S., MPH
Professor of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology
Yvonne Edwards, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Tony Fargason, M.D.
Professor, Vice President of Clinical Affairs, Children’s of Alabama
Department of Pediatrics
Sue Feldman, RN, MeD, Ph.D.
Professor, Director, Graduate Programs in Health Informatics
Benjamin Galatzan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing Family, Community and Health Systems
UAB School of Nursing
Chen Huang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics - Genetics Research Division
Lara Ianov, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Managing Director
UAB Biological Data Science Core (U-BDS), Department of Neurobiology
Robert Kimberly, MD
Director of CCTS, Department of Medicine – Division of Immunology/Rheumatology
Brittany Lasseigne, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
Elliot Lefkowitz, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Co-Director, Undergraduate Program in Bioinformatics
Alexander Mackinnon Jr., MD, Ph.D.
Robert B. Adams Endowed Professor
Director, Division of Genomic Diagnostics & Bioinformatics, Department of Pathology
Ryan Melvin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Matthew Might, Ph.D.
Professor, Director, Hugh Kaul Personalized Medicine Institute
Department of Medicine- Division of General Internal Medicine
Heather Nelson-Brantley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director, Nurse Executive DNP Pathway
Bunyamin Ozaydin, Ph.D., MSEE
Associate Professor, Department of Health Services Administration
Larissa Pierce
Assistant Professor
University of Alabama Health Services Foundation
Michelle Robinson, D.M.D.
School of Health Professions, Department of Health Services Administration
Nichole Samuy, M.D.
Associate Professor, Division of Pediatric – Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
Sadeep Shrestha, Ph.D., MHS, MS
Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Sooryanarayana Varambally, Ph.D.
Professor, Director of Integrative Translational Oncologic Pathology Research
Co-Director, Cancer Biology Graduate Program
Department of Pathology – Division of Molecular and Cellular Pathology
James Willig, MD, MSPH
Professor, Department of Medicine – Division of Infectious Diseases
Assistant Dean, Clinical Education
Elizabeth Worthey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Genetics Research Division
Ferhat Zengul, Ph.D., MBA, MAcc
Associate Professor, Department of Health Services Administration