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Primary Faculty

Dr. Fred Prior
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
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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.
Assistant 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.
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
Michael Bauer
Michael Bauer, Ph.D.
Assistant 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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
David Ussery
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
Visanu Wanchai
Email: vwanchai@uams.edu
Website: Research Profile
Christopher Wardell
Christopher Wardell, Ph.D.
Assistant 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
Tremaine Williams
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
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