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Primary Faculty

Dr. Fred Prior
Fred Prior, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor & Chair
Email: FWPrior@uams.edu
Website: UAMS Cancer Institute Profile

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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Shaymaa Al-Shukri, Ph.D.
Instructor
Email: salshukri@uams.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Data warehousing
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Data Quality
Timothy Ashby
Cody Ashby, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Email: TCAshby@uams.edu
Website: Google Scholar
Website: Research Profile

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
Dr. Ahmad Baghal
Ahmad Baghal, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Website: Profile

Fellowship Rotation Faculty Supervisor,
UAMS Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program
Director of Enterprise Data Warehouse and Assistant Professor,
Department of Biomedical Informatics

Michael Bauer
Michael Bauer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Email: MBAUER2@uams.edu
Website: UAMS Cancer Institute Profile
Website: Research Profile

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Cancer Genomics
  • Next Generation Sequencing
  • Integration of Heterogeneous Datasets
  • Multiple Myeloma
  • Cancer Disparities in Minority and Rural Populations
Cari Bogulski
Cari A. Bogulski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Email: cbogulski@uams.edu
Website: Google Scholar
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Health Equity
  • Telehealth
  • Broadband Access
  • Maternal and Child Health
Jonathan Bona
Jonathan Bona, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director AR-CDR
Email: JPBona@uams.edu
Website: UAMS Health Provider Profile

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  • Biomedical Ontologies
  • Natural Language Processing
Mathias Brochhausen
Mathias Brochhausen, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice-Chair for Faculty Development and Educational Programs
Email: MBrochhausen@uams.edu
Website: Google Scholar
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Knowledge representation
  • Biomedical vocabularies and ontologies
  • Semantic web technologies in biology and medicine
Galina Glazko
Galina Glazko, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Email: GVGlazko@uams.edu
Website: Google Scholar
Website: Research Profile

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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Horacio Gomez-Acevedo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director
Email: GomezacevedoHoracio@uams.edu
Website: Google Scholar
Website: Research Profile

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Genomic and Radiomic data integration
  • Mathematical systems biology
  • Statistical learning
Melody Greer, Ph.D.
Melody Greer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Email: MLGreer@uams.edu
Website: Google Scholar

Research Interests:

  • Clinical Informatics
  • Clinical Research Informatics
  • Adverse Events and Data Quality
Donald Johann Jr.
Donald Johann, Jr., M.Sc., M.D., FACP
Professor
Email: DJJohann@uams.edu
Website: UAMS Cancer Institute Profile
Website: Research Profile

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Cancer Biology and Bioinformatics
  • Next-Gen Sequencing (NGS)
  • High-Resolution Identity-Based Mass Spectrometry (Proteomics)
  • Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM)
Se-Ran Jun
Se-Ran Jun, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Email: SJun@uams.edu
Website: Research Profile

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Microbial Genomics
  • Microbiome Science
  • Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Computational Systems Biology
  • Translational Bioinformatics
AARON KEMP
Aaron Kemp
Instructor
Email: askemp@uams.edu
Website: Google Scholar Profile

Previous Degrees:
Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the Health Care Executive MBA (HCEMBA) program at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine (UCI).

Tracy Nolan
Tracy Nolan
Instructor
Email: TNolan@uams.edu
Website: TRI Profile
Intawat Nookaew
Intawat Nookaew, Ph.D.
Professor
Email: INookaew@uams.edu
Website: Google Scholar

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Systems biology and Bioinformatics
  • RNA/DNA modification
  • Long read DNA sequencing
  • Metagenomics
  • Large-scale data analysis and visualization and Deep learning
Yasir Rahmatallah
Yasir Rahmatallah, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Email: YRahmatallah@uams.edu
Website: Department Profile
Website: Research Profile

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Translational Bioinformatics
  • Methodology of Gene Set Analysis
  • Differential Expression/Methylation Analysis
  • Statistical Methodology
  • Network Analysis
Michael Robeson
Michael S. Robeson II, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Email: MRobeson@uams.edu
Website: Department Profile
Website: Research Profile

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Translational Bioinformatics
  • Microbiome Science
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Michael Rutherford
Instructor
Email: mwrutherford@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Imaging Informatics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Data Quality
Joseph Sanford
Joseph Sanford, M.D.
Associate Professor
Email: JASANFORD@uams.edu
Website: Research Gate

PRIMARY/ADDITIONAL APPOINTMENTS:

  • Director of the UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation (IDHI)
  • Associate Vice Chancellor — Chief Clinical Informatics Officer (CCIO)
  • Associate Professor — College of Medicine’s Department of Anesthesiology

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Anesthesiology
  • Clinical Information
Kirk Smith
Instructor
Email: KESmith2@uams.edu
Website: Google Scholar

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Radiographic Image Interpretation
  • Computer-Assisted
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Lawrence Tarbox
Lawrence Tarbox, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Email: LRTarbox@uams.edu
Website: Google Scholar
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Imaging Informatics
  • DICOM
  • Open Access Information Repositories
  • Data Analysis Tool Development
Visanu Wanchai
Visanu Wanchai
Instructor
Email: vwanchai@uams.edu
Website: Research Profile
Christopher Wardell
Christopher Wardell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Email: CPWardell@uams.edu
Website: PubMed
Website: Research Profile

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Translational Bioinformatics
  • Cancer genomics
  • Radiomics and image analysis
  • Neuro-oncology
  • Multiple myeloma
  • Machine learning
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