Dr. Jake Y. Chen is the Chief Bioinformatics Officer at UAB Informatics Institute and a Professor of Genetics, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering. Previously, he was the founding director of Indiana Center for Systems Biology and Personalized Medicine. He has over 25 years of R&D experience in biological data mining and systems biology, with over 180 peer-reviewed publications. He is currently President-elect of the Midsouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society. He is an el...
I am a bioinformatics scientist with industry and academic experience. Currently, I engage in collaborative research on projects primarily in immunology and infectious disease. These collaborations serve as an opportunity for requirements gathering that my group can use for developing bioinformatics tools which can be used more broadly in the community. I serve as director of the Data Analytics and Bioinformatics Core for the UAB Cooperative Centers on Human Immunology U19 award as well as co...
Dr. Amy Y. Wang is Associate Professor of Medicine and Family and Community Medicine at the UAB School of Medicine. A board-certified family physician, she is one of the first physicians to become board certified in the new subspecialty of clinical informatics. Her areas of expertise include health terminologies and ontologies, health standards, electronic health records (EHRs), and informatics education. Prior to joining UAB, Dr. Wang was Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Faculty D...
Bunyamin Ozaydin, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Services Administration and Scientist at School of Medicine Informatics Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Computer Engineering. Prior to his faculty appointment, he has worked in the Departments of Ophthalmology and Anesthesiology in various informatics roles for almost a decade. He mainly teaches in the Graduate Programs in Health Informatics focusing on systems analysis and desi...
My work at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) encompasses a number of roles and interests. As a Professor of Microbiology, my research interests are directed at deriving a better understanding of the processes and consequences of microbial evolution and how variation of the genomic sequences of microbes impacts that evolution. I am also interested in the role that microbes play in human health and disease. To pursue these interests my lab focuses on bioinformatics analysis – the devel...
Eta S. Berner, Ed.D. teaches in the Master of Science in Health Informatics Program and is Director of the UAB Center for Health Informatics for Patient Safety/Quality. Dr. Berner is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics , the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics. She has published articles in leading journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Academic Medicine and the Journal of the Ame...
James H. Willig, MD, MSPH, is the Associate Dean of Clinical Education in the School of Medicine. He attended Medical School at the Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) and completed his residency at the University of Virginia Roanoke-Salem. At UAB, Willig has earned an M.S. in Public Health and completed an Infectious Diseases Fellowship. His research interests in quality improvement and medical informatics have found expression in both research into quality issues in HIV primary care...
Dr. Katherine Dudding has twenty-five culminative years as an experienced neonatal nurse, clinical lead, educator, and researcher. She earned her PhD in Nursing from the University of Arizona with a substantive focus in Informatics and a minor in Cognitive Science focusing on artificial intelligence and machine learning. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where she teaches in the MSN Informatics Track. Her research focuses on increasing our understanding of ...
Dr. Marisa L. Wilson is a board certified informatician with an interest in health information technology policy, implementation, and positive patient outcome and clinical efficiency supported by technology. She spent over 15 years as a nurse clinician working in acute physical rehabilitation, medical-surgical, and telemetry units. In addition, Dr. Wilson spent over 25 years as an analyst, project leader and manager implementing information systems in public health and acute care with settings.
Robert P. Kimberly, MD, a native of New Haven, Conn., received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School after receiving a baccalaureate degree magna cum laude from Princeton University and a baccalaureate / master's degree from the University of Oxford, Oxford, England. Dr. Kimberly's achievements and honors include election to Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University, a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University, a "First" class degree from Oxford, and election to both the America...
My research focus is on understanding the molecular basis of cancer using integrative genomic, epigenetic and proteomic approach. Our groups translational cancer research involves transferring the basic research discoveries to develop disease detection markers of developing therapy for the identified targets. I have worked extensively in the area of solid tumor genomics, biomarker discovery, biology, and therapeutic targeting.
Our group’s research helps better understand the...
Sue Feldman is a Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in Health Informatics in Health Services Administration in the School of Health Professions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She teaches in the Clinical Informatics program, the Master of Science in Health Informatics program, and in the PhD program. She has a dual appointment in the School of Medicine, where she is a Senior Scientist in the Informatics Institute, and is a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Community Heal...
Dr. Tiago Colicchio earned his PhD in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Utah. He earned his MBA at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and his MS in Information Systems at Grenoble Alpes University, France. He is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the UAB Department of Medicine. Dr. Colicchio is a project management professional (PMP) certified by the project management institute (PMI) with extensive experience in health information technology (health IT) adoption. Prior to joining ...
