Biomedical Informatics
Meet the Team

Meet the Biomedical Informatics Team

Primary Appointment

Sandra Andorf, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Computational immunology; biomedical informatics; publicly available clinical data; food allergy

Jing Chen, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Phenomics for common and rare diseases; genetics of preterm birth; genomics of pediatric cancers.

Philip A. Hagedorn, MD, MBI

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Research clinical informatics; clinical research informatics; research informatics; decision support tools; patient safety; advanced data analytics;...

Michelle I. Knopp, MD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Quality improvement; health care delivery; medical education; chronic disease management; continuous glucose monitors (CGM); data visualization;...

Michal Kouril, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Hee Woong Lim, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Regulatory genomics; enhancer; transcription; metabolism; pharmacogenomics; machine learning

Surya Prasath, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Image processing; computer vision; biomedical image analysis; machine learning

Krishna M. Roskin, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Computational immunology: antibody and TCR sequence analysis Bioinformatics: large-scale biological data systems; reproducible science.

Marc D. Ruben, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Nathan Salomonis, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Bioinformatics; genomics; cancer genomics; single-cell RNA-Seq analysis; alternative splicing; pathway analysis; pathway visualization; pathway...

Mayur Sarangdhar, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Systems pharmacology; developmental pharmacology; cardio-oncology; drug-induced toxicities; drug repositioning

Michael Wagner, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Large-scale optimization; applications in bioinformatics

Gang Wu, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Human genomics; biomedical informatics; data science

Secondary Appointment

Maya Dewan, MD, MPH

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Clinical informatics; decision support; implementation science; patient safety

Jasbir Dhaliwal, MBBS, MRCPCH, MSc

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Artificial intelligence; deep learning; machine learning; predictive analytics; clinical decision support tool and social determinants of health

Kevin R. Dufendach, MD, MS

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Clinical informatics; user-centered design; human-computer interaction; quality improvement; novel software development

Thomas Hagan, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Systems immunology; vaccinology; microbiome-immune system interaction

Kenneth M. Kaufman, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Genetics; bio-informatics

Jarek Meller, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Environmental Health

Emily R. Miraldi, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Systems biology; computational immunology; immuno-engineering; network inference

Matthew J. Molloy, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Clinical decision support; clinical informatics; quality improvement; high value care; antimicrobial stewardship

Nathan M. Pajor, MD

Instructor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Chronic respiratory failure; machine learning; learning health systems; quality improvement

Alexey Porollo, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Learn more about the Decision Support Analytics Workgroup.
Research Interests
Pediatric liver tumors; diffuse liver disease; enterprise imaging; machine learning
Research Interests
Gene regulation Bioinformatics Functional Genomics

Yan Xu, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Yan Xu:  main area of research interests are bioinformatics and systems biology application in pulmonary research. Our current focus is to...