March 17, 2021
Xing Song
My research interests are in biomedical informatics, machine learning and statistical learning algorithms, data mining and knowledge discovery. My long-term research goal is to use novel computational algorithms to discover clinically meaningful knowledge from integrated healthcare databases and apply that knowledge to understand and improve population health. I joined University of Kansas Medical Center in September 2017 for postdoctoral training in medical informatics, where I developed various machine learning models for predicting chronic kidney disease onset in the diabetic population from electronic medical records (EMRs) and a robust risk factor identification framework based on EMRs and external registries. As a…
Dec. 16, 2020
Rene Cortese
Rene Cortese, PhD, studies epigenetics of complex diseases to detect and understand how complex diseases develop, progress, are inherited, and can be treated. His main research interests are: i) Multiomics studies on phenotype modulation in Children’s and Women’s Health, ii) Epigenetics mechanisms involved in the Developmental Origin of Diseases, iii) Epigenomics of Sleep Disorders, and iv) Epigenomics profiling in circulating DNA in bodily fluids. Dr. Cortese received his MSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires, Argentina and earned his PhD at the University of Bonn, in Bonn, Germany. He did his Post-doctoral Fellowship in…
Oct. 23, 2020
Kate Trout
Large scale datasets collected by Information Technologies have continued to have an increasing role in nearly every sector of the economy over the past decade and will continue to do so in the next. Despite national goals of achieving interoperability of electronic health records (EHRs) and enhanced clinical decision making, health data remains fragmented. Dr. Trout’s research interest lies at the intersection of Public Health, Health Policy, and Health Informatics to develop novel, data-driven approaches to rural health issues. Dr. Trout is a health services researcher and epidemiologist with research focusing on the utilization of Health Information Technologies (HITs) such…
Oct. 20, 2020
Iris Zachary
Iris Zachary is an Associate Research Professor with a focus on cancer informatics. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Informatics at the University of Missouri. She has collaborated with nationally recognized leaders in cancer research and has presented her research at regional, national and international meetings of, among others, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the National Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR), the World Cancer Congress (WCC), the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the American Public Health Association (APHA). Dr. Zachary’s cancer informatics research extends precision cancer surveillance, cancer informatics, and public health informatics.
Oct. 14, 2020
Jussuf T. Kaifi
As a surgeon scientist, Chief of the Division for Cardiothoracic Surgery and co-Director for Clinical Trials at Ellis Fischel Cancer Center at the University of Missouri, my overarching goal is to translate basic science discovery into improved clinical care for patients suffering from lung cancer. I have spent my career studying solid cancers using cancer mouse models and liquid biomarkers. My efforts in this field of translational cancer research have resulted in >125 peer-reviewed publications. I initiated investigator-initiated observational clinical trials involving biospecimens at the University of Missouri (NCT02838836) and the Truman VA (NCT03551951) that led to several recent publications…
May 4, 2020
Praveen Rao
Dr. Praveen Rao is a tenured associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Missouri (MU). His research interests are in the areas of big data management, data science, health informatics, and cybersecurity. He directs the Scalable Data Science (SDS) Lab at MU. His research, teaching, and outreach activities have been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), the University of Missouri System (Tier 1 grant, Tier 3…
Oct. 30, 2019
Blaine Reeder
Dr. Reeder received his PhD in Biomedical and Health Informatics from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 2010, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Prior to his academic career, he was a software engineer and technology consulting entrepreneur.
April 5, 2019
Murugesan Raju
My name is Murugesan, and my research focuses on biomedical and ocular informatics. My primary research interests revolve around the early prediction of disease onset and developing a drug recommendation system using DL and LSTM models. To facilitate translational research, I am interested in developing novel methods and pipelines to integrate and extract meaningful data-driven knowledge from various omics data, such as clinical data, genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics.
Jan. 28, 2019
Cheryl Rosenfeld
Rosenfeld specializes in studying the effects of maternal diet on offspring, exploring how the in-utero environment can shape risks for later disease. Her research with mice has yielded majorbreakthroughs. She has determined that an energy-rich maternal diet will result in more male mouse pups, while a restricted-calorie diet produces daughtersmore frequently. She also established a relationship between a certain hair-coat color and obesity and diabetes in mice. Most recently, the Rosenfeld lab has identified spatial learning disabilities in male deer mice whose mothers consumed a diet supplemented with bisphenol A, (BPA), a known endocrine disruptor and a common pollutant. This…