
Fred Prior, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Open Science and Open Access data publication
- Quantitative Imaging and Radiomics
- Distributed Machine Learning
- Neuro Imaging Informatics
- Clinical Trial Data Management

Ahmad Baghal, M.D., Ph.D.
Director AR-CDR
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

Horacio Gomez-Acevedo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Genomic and Radiomic data integration
- Mathematical systems biology
- Statistical learning

Mathias Brochhausen, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice-Chair for Faculty Development and Educational Programs
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Knowledge representation
- Biomedical vocabularies and ontologies
- Semantic web technologies in biology and medicine

Cody Ashby, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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

Michael Bauer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Health Equity
- Telehealth
- Broadband Access
- Maternal and Child Health

Jonathan Bona, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Biomedical Ontologies
- Natural Language Processing

Maryam Y. Garza, Ph.D., MPH, MMCi
Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Clinical Research Informatics
- Interoperability & Standards-based Data Exchange
- Secondary Data Use for Clinical Research
- Data Quality
- Knowledge Representation
- Public Health Informatics

Galina Glazko, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Develop and apply statistical & computational methods
- Analyze high dimensional omics data
- Developing approaches for pathway analysis, network inference & data integration.

Melody Greer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Clinical Informatics
- Clinical Research Informatics
- Adverse Events and Data Quality

Corey James Hayes, Pharm.D., Ph.D., MPH

Donald Johann, Jr., M.Sc., M.D., FACP
Professor
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
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Microbial Genomics
- Microbiome Science
- Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance
- Computational Systems Biology
- Translational Bioinformatics

Tracy Nolan

Zulema Udaondo Dominguez, Ph.D., Instructor

Intawat Nookaew, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Systems biology and Bioinformatics
- RNA/DNA modification
- Long read DNA sequencing
- Metagenomics
- Large-scale data analysis and visualization and Deep learning

Erich Peterson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Cancer Computational Methods
- Molecular Profiling Techniques
- Development of lung cancer-based precision medicine

Yasir Rahmatallah, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Translational Bioinformatics
- Methodology of Gene Set Analysis
- Differential Expression/Methylation Analysis
- Statistical Methodology
- Network Analysis

Michael S. Robeson II, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Translational Bioinformatics
- Microbiome Science

Kirk Smith
Instructor
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Radiographic Image Interpretation
- Computer-Assisted
- Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Lawrence Tarbox, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Imaging Informatics
- DICOM
- Open Access Information Repositories
- Data Analysis Tool Development

David Ussery, Ph.D.
Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Translational Bioinformatics
- High-throughput genomics
- Bioinformatics
- DNA structures
- Third-generation sequencing
- Bacterial and viral genomics
- SARS-CoV-2 genomics

Christopher Wardell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Translational Bioinformatics
- Cancer genomics
- Radiomics and image analysis
- Neuro-oncology
- Multiple myeloma
- Machine learning

Tremaine Williams, Ed.D.
Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Clinical Research Data Management Training & Workforce Development
- Human Factors/Socio‐cognitive Impacts on Information Quality

Shaymaa Al-Shukri
Instructor
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Bioinformatics
- Data warehousing
- Natural Language Processing
- Data Quality

Michael Rutherford
Instructor
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Imaging Informatics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Natural Language Processing
- Data Quality