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College of Medicine: Department of Biomedical Informatics

Primary Faculty

Fred Prior
Fred Prior, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair
FWPrior@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Open Science and Open Access data publication
  • Quantitative Imaging and Radiomics
  • Distributed Machine Learning
  • Neuro Imaging Informatics
  • Clinical Trial Data Management
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Mathias Brochhausen
Mathias Brochhausen, Ph.D.
Professor & Vice-Chair for Academic Programs & Faculty Development
MBrochhausen@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Knowledge representation
  • Biomedical vocabularies and ontologies
  • Semantic web technologies in biology and medicine
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Horacio Gomez-Acevedo
Horacio Gomez-Acevedo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor & Academic Program Director
GomezacevedoHoracio@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Genomic and Radiomic data integration
  • Mathematical systems biology
  • Statistical learning
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Timothy Ashby
Cody Ashby, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
TCAshby@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Cancer genetics and genomic sequencing
  • Bioinformatic tools and algorithms
  • Big data processing, mining and visualization methods
  • Machine learning approaches
  • The study of rural populations
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Ahmad Baghal, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
ABaghal@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Clinical Informatics
  • Clinical Research Informatics
  • Clinical Knowledge Management
  • Machine learning
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Michael Bauer
Michael Bauer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
MBAUER2@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Cancer Genomics
  • Next Generation Sequencing
  • Integration of Heterogeneous Datasets
  • Multiple Myeloma
  • Cancer Disparities in Minority and Rural Populations
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William Bennett
William Bennett
Instructor
WCBennett@uams.edu
Jonathan Bona
Jonathan Bona, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
JPBona@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  • Biomedical Ontologies
  • Natural Language Processing
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Maryam Garza
Maryam Y. Garza, Ph.D., MPH, MMCi
Instructor
MYGarza@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Clinical Research Informatics
  • Interoperability & Standards-based Data Exchange
  • Secondary Data Use for Clinical Research
  • Data Quality
  • Knowledge Representation
  • Public Health Informatics
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Galina Glazko
Galina Glazko, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
GVGlazko@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Develop and apply statistical & computational methods
  • Analyze high dimensional omics data
  • Developing approaches for pathway analysis, network inference & data integration.
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Melody Greer
Melody Greer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
MLGreer@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Clinical Informatics
  • Clinical Research Informatics
  • Adverse Events and Data Quality
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Corey James Hayes
Corey James Hayes, Pharm.D., Ph.D., MPH
Assistant Professor
cjhayes@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Opioid Use
  • Opioid Abuse
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Donald Johann Jr.
Donald Johann, Jr., M.Sc., M.D., FACP
Associate Professor
DJJohann@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Cancer Biology and Bioinformatics
  • Next-Gen Sequencing (NGS)
  • High-Resolution Identity-Based Mass Spectrometry (Proteomics)
  • Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM)
UAMS Cancer Institute Profile
Se-Ran Jun
Se-Ran Jun, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
SJun@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Microbiome Science
  • Genomic Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance
  • MultiOmics Integration
  • Software Development
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Tracy Nolan
Tracy Nolan
Instructor
TNolan@uams.edu
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Intawat Nookaew
Intawat Nookaew, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
INookaew@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Systems biology and Bioinformatics
  • RNA/DNA modification
  • Long read DNA sequencing
  • Metagenomics
  • Large-scale data analysis and visualization and Deep learning
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Erich Peterson
Erich Peterson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
EAPeterson@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Cancer Computational Methods
  • Molecular Profiling Techniques
  • Development of lung cancer-based precision medicine
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Thomas Powell
Thomas Powell, M.D.
Assistant Professor
TPowell@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Clinical Informatics
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Yasir Rahmatallah
Yasir Rahmatallah, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
YRahmatallah@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Translational Bioinformatics
  • Methodology of Gene Set Analysis
  • Differential Expression/Methylation Analysis
  • Statistical Methodology
  • Network Analysis
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Michael Robeson
Michael S. Robeson II, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
MRobeson@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Translational Bioinformatics
  • Microbiome Science
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Kirk Smith
Kirk Smith
Instructor
KESmith2@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Radiographic Image Interpretation
  • Computer-Assisted
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Lawrence Tarbox
Lawrence Tarbox, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
LRTarbox@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Imaging Informatics
  • DICOM
  • Open Access Information Repositories
  • Data Analysis Tool Development
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David Ussery
David Ussery, Ph.D.
Professor
DWUssery@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Translational Bioinformatics
  • High-throughput genomics
  • Bioinformatics
  • DNA structures
  • Third-generation sequencing
  • Bacterial and viral genomics
  • SARS-CoV-2 genomics
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Christopher Wardell
Christopher Wardell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
CPWardell@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Translational Bioinformatics
  • Cancer genomics
  • Radiomics and image analysis
  • Neuro-oncology
  • Multiple myeloma
  • Machine learning
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Tremaine Williams
Tremaine Williams, Ed.D.
Assistant Professor
TBWilliams@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Clinical Research Data Management Training & Workforce Development
  • Human Factors/Socio‐cognitive Impacts on Information Quality
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