IBI Senior Fellows

Ron Anafi, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Anafi is an Assistant Professor of Medicine. His research interests include the role of sleep and circadian rhythms on peripheral physiology and the management of disease. He uses techniques from machine learning, neural networks, and systems biology to understand how molecular rhythms influence drug sensitivity, biomarkers, and molecular physiology. Click here for more information.

Yoseph Barash, Ph.D. Dr. Barash is an Associate Professor of Genetics. His research interests include bioinformatics, computational biology, computer science, genomics, and machine learning. Click here for more information.

Shelley Berger, Ph.D. Dr. Berger is a Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Biology, and Genetics. She is also Director of the Epigenetics Program. Her research interests include bioinformatics, epigenomics, genetics, genomics, and molecular biology. Click here for more information.

Joel Betesh, M.D. Dr. Betesh is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) at the Pennsylvania Hospital. His research interests include clinical decision support, clinical systems, clinical workflow, human-computer interaction, patient safety, and quality improvement. Click here for more information.

Christopher Bonafide, M.D., M.S.C.E. Dr. Bonafide is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics.  His research interests include clinical decision making, clinical systems, and mobile health.  Click here for more information.

Mary Regina Boland, Ph.D. Dr. Boland is an Assistant Professor of Informatics. Her research interests include data integration, data mining, and the relationship between environment and disease. Click here for more information.

Kathy Bowles, Ph.D., R.N. Dr. Bowles is a Professor of Nursing. Her research interests include clinical trials, databases, clinical decision support, nursing, ontologies, and predictive modeling. Click here for more information.

Christopher Brown, Ph.D. Dr. Brown is an Assistant Professor of Genetics. His research interests include bioinformatics, regulatory (epi)genomics, and human complex trait genetics. Click here for more information.

Maja Bucan, Ph.D. Dr. Bucan is a Professor of Genetics. Her research interests include bioinformatics, genomics, human genetics, and neuropsychiatric disorders. Click here for more information.

Frederick Bushman, Ph.D. Dr. Bushman is a Professor of Microbiology. His research interests include bioinformatics, genomics, and the human microbiome. Click here for more information.

Pablo Camara, Ph.D. Dr. Camara is an Assistant Professor of Genetics. His research interests include computational biology, bioinformatics, genomics, cancer, and single cell biology. Click here for more information.

Jinbo Chen, Ph.D. Dr. Chen is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics. Her research interests include statistics methods development, genetic association studies of complex diseases, and development and evaluation of risk prediction models. Click here for more information.

Yong Chen, Ph.D. Dr. Chen is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics. His research interests include statistical methods for electronic health record data, meta-analysis, mathematical statistics. Click here for more information.

Tessa Cook, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Cook is an Assistant Professor of Radiology. Her research interests include clinical decision support, clinical systems, data integration, data mining, databases, human-computer interaction, and imaging. Click here for more information.

Scott M Damrauer, M.D. Dr. Damrauer is an Assistant Professor of Surgery.  His research interesting include bioinformatics, genomics, human genetics, and vascular disease.

Christos Davatzikos, Ph.D. Dr. Davatzikos is the Wallace T. Miller Sr. Professor of Radiology and Director of the Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics. His research interests include biomedical image analysis and machine learning. Click here for more information.

George Demiris, Ph.D., FACMI. Dr. Demiris is a Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor of Nursing and Informatics. His research focuses on the use of information technology to support older adults and their family caregivers and explore innovative solutions to promote independent aging and patient and family engagement. Click here for more information.

Bimal Desai, M.D. Dr. Desai is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. His research interests include web-based tools for collaboration and education. Click here for more information.

Dawei Dong, Ph.D. Dr. Dong is a Research Professor of Animal Biology. His research interests include bioinformatics, computational biology, evolution, and genomics. Click here for more information.

James Eberwine, Ph.D. Dr. Eberwine is a Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics. His research interests include bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, and single cell biology. Click here for more information.

Babak Faryabi, Ph.D. Dr. Faryabi is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and member of the Center for Personalized Diagnostics. His research interests include bioinformatics, cancer, computational biology, genomics, and genome integrity. Click here for more information.

Michael Feldman, M.D. Dr. Feldman is an Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. His research interests include clinical systems, imaging, and pathology informatics. Click here for more information.

Alexander Fiks, M.D. Dr. Fiks is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and primary care pediatrician at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He is also the Associate Medical Director for the CHOP Pediatric Research Consortium (PeRC). His research interests include health information technology, clinical decision support, telephony, and social media. Click here for more information.

Cesar de la Fuente Nunez, Ph.D. Dr. de la Fuente Fuente is a Presidential Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Microbiology, and Bioengineering. His research interests include artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, microbiology and computer science. Click here for more information.

Peter Gabriel, M.D. Dr. Gabriel is an Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology. His research interests include clinical decision support, clinical systems, data integration, data mining, databases, and ontologies. Click here for more information.

Elizabeth Grice, Ph.D. Dr. Grice is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology. Her research interests include bioinformatics, genomics, immunology, and human microbiome analysis. Click here for more information.

Robert Grundmeier, M.D. Dr. Grundmeier is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. His research interests include clinical decision support, clinical epidemiology, clinical systems, data integration, data mining, databases, and human-computer interaction. Click here for more information.

C. William Hanson, M.D. Dr. Hanson is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) for the University of Pennsylvania Health System. His clinical expertise is in critical care, cardiac anesthesia, and echocardiography. Click here for more information.

Daniel Herman, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Herman is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. His research interests include the application of biomedical informatics, machine learning, and clinical systems to improve the diagnosis and prediction of cardiovascular disease. Click here for more information.

Blanca Himes, Ph.D. Dr. Himes is an Assistant Professor of Informatics in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology. Her research interests include asthma, bioinformatics, computational biology, genetics, and genomics. Click here for more information.

John Holmes, Ph.D. Dr. Holmes is a Professor of Medical Informatics in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology. He is also Associate Director for Medical Informatics in the Institute for Biomedical Informatics. His research interests include clinical decision support, clinical systems, clinical epidemiology, computer science, data mining, and machine learning. Click here for more information.

Rebecca Hubbard, Ph.D. Dr. Hubbard is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics. Her research interests include statistical methods for electronic health records data with a focus on methods for phenotyping and tackling data provenance issues including measurement error, missing data, and informative observation schemes. Click here for more information.

Shane Jensen, Ph.D. Dr. Jensen is an Associate Professor of Statistics in the Wharton School. His research interests include bioinformatics, biostatistics, genetics, and sports. Click here for more information.

Kevin B. Johnson, M.D., M.S. Dr. Johnson is the David L Cohen University Professor of Pediatrics, Informatics, and Communication.  He is also Vice President of Applied Clinical Informatics for the University of Pennsylvania Health System.  His research interests include developing computational approaches to eliminate physician documentation, as well as methods to improve the reach and effectiveness of health and science communication.  Click here for more information.

Klaus Kaestner, Ph.D. Dr. Kaestner is a Professor of Genetics. His research interests include bioinformatics, cancer, developmental biology, diabetes, genetics, and genomics. Click here for more information.

Charles Kahn, M.D. Dr. Kahn is a Professor of Radiology. His research interests include clinical decision support, clinical systems, imaging, and ontologies. Click here for more information.

Sampath Kannan, Ph.D. Dr. Kannan is a Professor and Chair of Computer and Information Science. His research interests include algorithms, bioinformatics, computational biology, and computer science. Click here for more information.

Dokyoon Kim, Ph.D. Dr. Kim is an Assistant Professor of  Informatics. His research interests include bioinformatics, data integration, and translational genomics. Click here for more information.

Junhyong Kim, Ph.D. Dr. Kim is a Professor of Biology and Computer and Information Science. His research interests include bioinformatics, computational biology, computer science, evolution, genomics, and mathematical biology. Click here for more information.

Despina Kontos, Ph.D. Dr. Kontos is an Associate Professor of Radiology. Her research interests include biomedical image analysis, quantitative imaging biomarkers, pattern recognition, evaluation of genotype to phenotype associations via imaging, and integrated diagnostics. Click here for more information.

Ross Koppel, Ph.D. Dr. Koppel is an Adjunct Professor of Sociology. His research interests include the impact of healthcare information technology on medication errors, technology in society, disease costs, and ethics in social research. Click here for more information

Konrad Paul Kording, PhD. Dr. Kording is a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with appointments in Bioengineering and Neuroscience. His research interests include any case where data science is relevant and can make an impact. This includes science of science, the objective of neuroscience, and causality in medicine. Click here or here for more information.

Mitchell Lazar, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Lazar is a Professor and Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism in the Department of Medicine. He is also Director of the Institute of Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism. His research interests include bioinformatics, diabetes, genomics, metabolism, and molecular biology. Click here for more information.

Hongzhe Li, Ph.D. Dr. Li is a Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the Laboratory of Statistical Genetics and Genomics. His work focuses on methodological and collaborative research in the areas of bioinformatics, biostatistics, computational biology, statistical genetics, genomics, and metagenomics. Click here for more information.

Mingyao Li, Ph.D. Dr. Li is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics. Her research interests include bioinformatics, biostatistics, genetics, genomics, and systems biology. Click here for more information.

Brian Litt, M.D. Dr. Litt is a Professor of Neurology and a Professor Bioengineering. His research interests include computational neuroscience, clinical systems, and neurologic disorders. Click here for more information.

Qi Long, Ph.D. Dr Long is a Professor of Biostatistics. His research interests include statistics, machine learning, and big health data, including EHR and mHealth data. Click here for more information.

Anthony Luberti, M.D. Dr. Luberti is the Medical Director for Informatics Education in the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). His research interests include clinical systems and informatics education. Click here for more information.

Aaron Masino, M.Eng., Ph.D. Dr. Masino is an Assistant Professor in the  Anesthesiology and Critical Care at CHOP. His research interests include machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning, data mining, clinical decision support, automated diagnostics, and computational phenotypes. Click here for more information.

Stephen Master, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Master is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at CHOP.  His current research focus is on high-throughput analysis of mass spectrometry-based metabolomics data for mitochondrial disease, and he has extensive experience in the application of machine learning approaches for the analysis of clinical laboratory data. Click here for more information.

John McGreevey III, M.D. Dr. McGreevey is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) for the University of Pennsylvania Health System. His research interests include clinical decision support, clinical systems, clinical workflow, human-computer interaction, patient safety, and quality improvement. Click here for more information.

Raina Merchant, M.D., M.S.H.P. Dr. Merchant is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Her research interests are in data mining, personalized medicine, health services research and digital health. Click here for more information.

Sarah Millar, Ph.D. Dr. Millar is a Professor of Dermatology. Her research interests include bioinformatics, epigenomics, genomics, and molecular biology. Click here for more information.

Jeffrey S. Morris, Ph.D. Dr. Morris is Professor and Director of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics. His research interests include statistical methods for complex big data, computational biology, data integration, and translational bioinformatics. Click here for more information.

Danielle Mowery, Ph.D. Dr. Mowery is Chief Research Information Officer (CRIO) at Penn Medicine, Assistant Professor at the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, and Director of the IBI Clinical Research Informatics Core. Her research interests include: natural language processing, knowledge representation, patient phenotyping, clinical research services, clinical/translational informatics, and learning health systems. Her research aims to help clinical investigators better understand disease burden, treatment efficacy, and patient outcomes and to translate actionable healthcare knowledge to improve patient care. Click here for more information.

Katherine Nathanson, M.D. Dr. Nathanson is a Professor of Medicine and Genetics, who also serves as Deputy Director of the Abramson Cancer Center, with a primary research interest in cancer genetics/genomics, both inherited susceptibility and somatic changes as they influence response to therapies. Click here for more information.

Joshua Plotkin, Ph.D. Dr. Plotkin is a Professor Biology and Computer Science. His research interests include bioinformatics, biomathematics, ecology, evolutionary biology, and systems biology. Click here for more information.

Marylyn Ritchie, Ph.D. Dr. Ritchie is a Professor of Genetics and the Associate Director for Bioinformatics in the Institute for Biomedical Informatics. She is also the Director of the Center for Translational Bioinformatics. Her research interests include complex analysis of big data in genetics, genomics, and clinical databases, and pharmacogenomics. Click here for more information.

Li Shen, Ph.D. Dr. Shen is a Professor of Informatics. His research interests include medical image computing, bioinformatics, machine learning, network science, visual analytics, and big data in biomedicine. Click here for more information.

Russell Shinohara, Ph.D. Dr. Shinohara is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics. His research interests include bioinformatics, biostatistics, and imaging. Click here for more information.

Eileen Shore, Ph.D. Dr. Shore is a Professor of Orthopedic Surgery. Her research interests include bioinformatics, bone disorders, human genetics, and genomics. Click here for more information.

Dwight Stambolian, M.D. Dr. Stambolian is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Genetics. His research interests include bioinformatics, eye diseases, genetics, and genomics. Click here for more information.

Christian Stoeckert, Ph.D. Dr. Stoeckert is a Research Professor of Genetics and Director of the Computational Biology and Informatics Laboratory (CBIL). His research interests include bioinformatics, biomedical ontologies, computational biology, databases, and genomics. Click here for more information.

Kai Tan, Ph.D. Dr. Tan is a Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical and Health Informatics. His research interests include cancer genomics, systems biology, and single-cell biology. Click here for more information.

Deanne Taylor, Ph.D. Dr. Taylor is Director of Bioinformatics in the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics at CHOP. Her research interests include bioinformatics, computational biology and structural biology. Click here for more information.

Sarah Tishkoff, Ph.D. Dr. Tishkoff is a Professor of Genetics and Biology. Her research interests include bioinformatics, evolution, genetics, genomics, health disparities, and population genetics. Click here for more information.

Fuchiang (Rich) Tsui, Ph.D. Dr. Tsui is the Endowed Chair of Biomedical Informatics and Entrepreneurial Science in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). His research interests include clinical informatics, public health informatics, biosurveillance, machine learning, biomedical natural language processing, mobile healthcare, data warehouse, signal processing, and large real-time production systems. Click here for more information.

Lyle Ungar, Ph.D. Dr. Ungar is a Professor of Computer and Information Science. His research interests include bioinformatics, computational biology, computer science, machine learning, natural language processing, and text mining. Click here for more information.

Golnaz Vahedi, Ph.D. Dr. Vahedi is an Assistant Professor of Genetics.  Her research interests include bioinformatics, genomics, human genetics, and immunology. Click here for more information.

Benjamin Voight, Ph.D. Dr. Voight is an Associate Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics.  His research interests include bioinformatics, genomics, human genetics, and population genetics. Click here for more information.

Li-San Wang, Ph.D. Dr. Wang is an Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He is also Chair of the Genomics and Computational Biology Graduate Group. His research interests include bioinformatics, computational biology, computer science, data integration, databases, and genomics. Click here for more information.

Kai Wang, Ph.D. Dr. Wang is an Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. His research focuses on the development of bioinformatics methods to improve our understanding of the genetic basis of human diseases, and the integration of electronic health records and genomic information to facilitate genomic medicine on scale. Click here for more information.

Gary Weissman, M.D., M.S.H.P. Dr Weissman is an Assistant Professor of Medicine. His research interests include clinical research informatics, natural language processing, acute care clinical decision support, population health management, health informatics policy. Click here for more information.

Yi Xing, Ph.D. Dr. Xing is a professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. His research interests include computational biology, genomics, precision medicine, and cancer immunotherapy. Click here for more information.