June 24, 2025
Fares Alahdab
Fares Alahdab, MD, MS, MSc, FAHA, is an associate professor of biomedical informatics, biostatistics, epidemiology and cardiology, and the director of graduate studies in health informatics at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. Dr. Alahdab’s clinical and research interests converge at the intersection of cardiovascular medicine, cardiometabolic health, advanced cardiovascular imaging and artificial intelligence. His work incorporates multimodal data sources to assess cardiovascular health and disease. In the research space, Dr. Alahdab applies machine learning and artificial intelligence to build predictive models that evaluate cardiovascular risk and outcomes. A central focus of his work is on explainable AI to…
June 24, 2025
Randi Foraker
Dr. Foraker is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics & Medical Epidemiology at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. She is trained as an epidemiologist and holds fellowships in the American Heart Association, American Medical Informatics Association, and the American College of Medical Informatics. Dr. Foraker specializes in the design of population-based studies and the integration of electronic health record data with socioeconomic indicators as well as the use of synthetic data for research. Her recent research has focused on the application of clinical decision support – embedded in the electronic health record – to…
June 23, 2025
James McClay
Dr. McClay is a professor in the newly organized Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics, and Medical Epidemiology department at the University of Missouri. He is the Chief Research Informatics Officer for the School of Medicine and the Co-principal investigator for the Greater Plains Collaborative Research Network, a PCORnet Clinical Data Research Network. His research and advocacy focus on standardizing evidence-generation pipelines for learning health systems. Dr. McClay is a long-standing Health Level Seven (HL7) workgroup chair, instructor, and advocate for the HL7 FHIR specifications. He has practiced Emergency Medicine for 30 years and is a Fellow and informatics leader for the American…
June 18, 2025
Joe Emanuel
Joe Emanuel is a PhD Student in Informatics. His research interests include geospatial data privacy, differential privacy, and cybersecurity.
June 18, 2025
Maryam Seifaddini
I’m Maryam, a researcher focused on subgroup discovery and pattern mining in health data. My work centers on developing innovative, AI-driven methods to integrate and extract meaningful insights from diverse omics datasets.
Nov. 18, 2024
Chau Tong
My current research in computational health communication involves applying natural language processing and other computational methods to analyze the vicissitudes of user-generated health content and the diffusion of such content on social media. I direct the Computational Communication and Technology lab at Mizzou; our research team includes undergraduate RAs, graduate RAs, and PhD students. The lab is an interdisciplinary hub for the organization, curation, and processing of digital trace and social media data. Together, we develop and implement rigorous research to produce insights into the digital landscape of health content and estimated impact of such communication flows across news, search…
June 26, 2024
John Robert Bautista
Dr. John Robert Bautista uses a socio-technical strategy to understand the role and impact of technologies (smartphones, social media, blockchain, and artificial intelligence) among health professionals and consumers. As an interdisciplinary researcher, he utilizes concepts from communication, information, psychological, and organizational sciences to understand the use of health information technology based on qualitative and quantitative data. His current research focuses on designing, developing, and deploying AI in health that is effective, efficient, and ethical. His articles appear in Computers in Human Behavior, International Journal of Medical Informatics, JAMIA, New Media & Society, JMIR Public Health and Surveillance and Telematics &…
May 10, 2024
Timoteo Kelly
Timoteo Kelly is a National Science Foundation CyberCorps Scholar currently affiliated with the Mizzou Scalable Data Science Lab, where he has been contributing to research in data security and the Internet of Medical Things. Prior to this, he conducted research in mobile health and data science at Nova Southeastern University’s Department of Decision Sciences where he obtained a master’s degree in health informatics. Timoteo is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Informatics with an emphasis in the Internet of Medical Things and data security at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Feb. 13, 2024
Mai-Lan Ho
Mai-Lan Ho, MD, is an accomplished neuroradiology physician-scientist and leader specializing in the full scope of advanced imaging. Dr. Ho has clinical expertise in advanced neuroimaging techniques and genotype-phenotype correlation in complex diseases. Her research focus involves radiologic technology development, quantitative image analysis and imaging genomics. Dr. Ho also leads multiple national and international initiatives for data science and precision health and serves on national/international society committees and editorial boards dedicated to advanced imaging and AI. Dr. Ho’s research program involves the three key focus areas of translational advanced imaging, imaging genomics and artificial intelligence, improving imaging technology, implementation and…