Fred Prior, Ph.D.
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
Shaymaa Al-Shukri, Ph.D.
Instructor
Email: salshukri@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Bioinformatics
- Data warehousing
- Natural Language Processing
- Data Quality
Cody Ashby, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Email: TCAshby@uams.edu
Website: Google Scholar
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
Ahmad Baghal, M.D., Ph.D.
Director AR-CDR
Website: Profile
Fellowship Rotation Faculty Supervisor,
UAMS Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program
Director of Enterprise Data Warehouse and Assistant Professor,
Department of Biomedical Informatics
UAMS Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program
Director of Enterprise Data Warehouse and Assistant Professor,
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Michael Bauer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Email: MBAUER2@uams.edu
Website: UAMS Cancer Institute Profile
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Cancer Genomics
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Integration of Heterogeneous Datasets
- Multiple Myeloma
- Cancer Disparities in Minority and Rural Populations
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, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Email: JPBona@uams.edu
Website: UAMS Health Provider Profile
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Biomedical Ontologies
- Natural Language Processing
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, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Email: GVGlazko@uams.edu
Website: Google Scholar
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Develop and apply statistical & computational methods
- Analyze high dimensional omics data
- Developing approaches for pathway analysis, network inference & data integration.
Horacio Gomez-Acevedo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director
Email: GomezacevedoHoracio@uams.edu
Website: Google Scholar
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Genomic and Radiomic data integration
- Mathematical systems biology
- Statistical learning
Melody Greer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Email: MLGreer@uams.edu
Website: Google Scholar
Research Interests:
- Clinical Informatics
- Clinical Research Informatics
- Adverse Events and Data Quality
Donald Johann, Jr., M.Sc., M.D., FACP
Professor
Email: DJJohann@uams.edu
Website: UAMS Cancer Institute 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, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Email: SJun@uams.edu
Website: TRI Profile
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Microbial Genomics
- Microbiome Science
- Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance
- Computational Systems Biology
- Translational Bioinformatics
Aaron Kemp
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).
Mentor:
Linda Larson-Prior, PhD
Thesis Title:
"Deep-Learning Recurrent Neural Networks to Identify Candidate Biomarkers of Dynamic Neural Network Abnormalities among People with Parkinson’s Disease"
Tracy Nolan
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, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Email: YRahmatallah@uams.edu
Website: Department Profile
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Translational Bioinformatics
- Methodology of Gene Set Analysis
- Differential Expression/Methylation Analysis
- Statistical Methodology
- Network Analysis
Michael S. Robeson II, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Email: MRobeson@uams.edu
Website: Department Profile
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Translational Bioinformatics
- Microbiome Science
Michael Rutherford
Instructor
Email: mwrutherford@uams.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Imaging Informatics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Natural Language Processing
- Data Quality
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, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Email: LRTarbox@uams.edu
Website: Google Scholar
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Imaging Informatics
- DICOM
- Open Access Information Repositories
- Data Analysis Tool Development
David Ussery, Ph.D.
Professor
Email: DWUssery@uams.edu
Website: ArC-GEM
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Translational Bioinformatics
- High-throughput genomics
- Bioinformatics
- DNA structures
- Third-generation sequencing
- Bacterial and viral genomics
- SARS-CoV-2 genomics
Visanu Wanchai
Email: vwanchai@uams.edu
Website: Research Profile
Christopher Wardell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Email: CPWardell@uams.edu
Website: PubMed
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Translational Bioinformatics
- Cancer genomics
- Radiomics and image analysis
- Neuro-oncology
- Multiple myeloma
- Machine learning
Tremaine Williams, Ed.D.
Assistant Professor
Email: TBWilliams@uams.edu
Website: TRI Profile
Website: Department Profile
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Sociotechnical Systems
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Data and Information Quality
- Clinical Research Data Management Training & Workforce Development