Primary Faculty
 | Kayhan Batmanghelich, PhDAssistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Interests:
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 | Michael J. Becich, MD, PhDChairman and Distinguished University Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics Professor of Pathology, Information Sciences, Telecommunications and Clinical/Translational Sciences Associate Vice Chancellor for Informatics in the Health Sciences Director, Center for Commercial Application (CCA) of Healthcare Data Associate Director for Cancer Institute (UPCI) Associate Director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Interests:
bioinformatics; biological markers; computational biology; computer communication networks; computer-assisted instruction; diagnostic imaging; gene expression regulation, neoplastic; imaging informatics; informatics; laboratories, hospital; medical informatics; next generation sequencing; pathology; translational research; personalized medicine
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 | David Boone, PhDAssistant Professor, Director of CoSBBI Executive Director of the UPCI Academy Department of Biomedical Informatics University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Interests:
Development and implementation of STEM outreach programs -Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 (IGF1) signaling in breast cancer -Regulation and function of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs)
-Transcription and transcriptomics -Breast cancer biology
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 | Richard Boyce, PhDAssociate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics Faculty, Geriatric Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Gero-Informatics Research and Training Program Faculty, Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Interests:
Informatics interventions to improve medication safety, especially for older adults Structured publishing of biomedical knowledge and data to improve information retrieval and knowledge synthesis Computational methods for simplifying biomedical knowledge-base development, curation, and use
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 | Uma Chandran, PhD, MSISResearch Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics Co-Director, Cancer Boinformatics Services, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
Interests:
Genomic data mining, Next Generation Sequencing data analysis, Integrative analysis of The Cancer Genome Atlas Project (TCGA), Development of computing infrastructure for large genomics datasets
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 | Gregory Cooper, MD, PhDDistinguished Professor and UPMC Endowed Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Vice Chair of Research, Department of Biomedical Informatics Secondary appointments: Intelligent Systems Program, Computational and Systems Biology, and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Interests:
Dr. Cooper’s research interest is in application of decision theory, probability theory, and artificial intelligence to address biomedical informatics research questions, with a focus on causal modeling and discovery in medicine and biology, data mining of medical databases, application of Bayesian statistics in medicine, and biosurveillance.
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 | Gerald Douglas, PhDAssistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management Director of Center for Health Informatics for the Underserved University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Interests:
Health informatics in medically underserved populations, eHealth policy/strategy, Financial models of health information systems, Global health informatics, Quality improvement, Human-computer interaction, and Point-of-care computing
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 | Madhavi Ganapathiraju, PhDAssociate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics Associate Professor, Intelligent Systems, Intelligent Systems Program Associate Professor, Computational Biology, Department of Computational Biology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Interests:
Translational Systems Biology, Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction, Machine Learning, and Genome Sequence Analysis.
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 | Vanathi Gopalakrishnan, PhDAssociate Professor of Biomedical Informatics Associate Professor of Intelligent Systems Associate Professor of Computational and Systems Biology Associate Professor of Bioengineering Associate Professor of Clinical and translational Science Director, PRoBE Laboratory for Pattern Recognition from Biomedical Evidence Core Faculty Member, Biomedical Informatics Training Program Faculty Member, Intelligent Systems Program Faculty Member, Joint CMU-Pitt Program in Computational Biology Faculty Member, Medical Scientist Training Program Faculty Member, Cardiovascular Bioengineering Training Program Co-Director of Bioengineering, Biotechnology and Innovation (BBI) Area of Concentration School of Medicine Director of the Intelligent Systems Program, School of Computing and Information Interests:
Rule Learning Hybrid Algorithms - Design and Development, Multi-modal Biomedical Data Science - Modeling and Analysis, Biomarker Discovery, Predictive Modeling for Precision Medicine and Health Care
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 | Harry Hochheiser, PhDAssociate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics Associate Professor in the Intelligent Systems Program Director, Biomedical Informatics Training Program University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Interests:
Dr. Hochheiser’s research focuses on the design of usable systems for use in clinical and research settings. He is particularly interested in using user-centered design techniques to inform the design of highly-interactive information visualization systems for the interpretation of complex data sets in domains such as bioinformatics and health care. Dr. Hochheiser is currently working on the development of user-centered tools for annotating, searching, and browsing of biomedical data in online repositories. As part of the FaceBase (www.facebase.org) project, he is working on the design, implementation, and evaluation of highly-interactive tools for exploring genomic, genetic, demographic, and phenotypic data sets from craniofacial research, with ultimate goal of developing tools and techniques that can be applied to a other domains.
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