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Michael J. Becich, MD, PhD

Dr. Becich is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Pathology, Information Sciences and Telecommunications. He is the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics.

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Gregory Cooper, MD, PhD

Dr. Cooper is the Vice chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Information Science, and Intelligent Systems.

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Rebecca S. Crowley, MD, MS

Dr. Crowley is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Intelligent Systems and Pathology and the current Director of the Training program.

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Roger S. Day, ScD

Associate Professor Day leads development of the Oncology Thinking Cap computer modeling facility, which uses stochastic models of tumor growth to help researchers do thought experiments about cancer biology and treatment.

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Madhavi Ganapathiraju, PhD

Assistant Professor whose current research focus is in the area of computational molecular and systems biology, translational bioinformatics and biomedical text mining, using signal processing and machine learning.

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Vanathi Gopalakrishnan, PhD

Dr. Gopalakrishnan is interested in the design and development of computational methods for solving clinically relevant biological problems.

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Steven Handler, MD, PhD

Dr. Handler is an Assistant Professor with a primary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and secondary appointments in Geriatric Medicine, and Clinical and Translational Research.

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Harry Hochheiser, PhD

Dr. Hochheiser’s research focuses on the design of usable systems for use in clinical and research settings. His other interests include universal usability, security, privacy, and public policy implications of computing systems.

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Claudia Mello-Thoms, MSEE, PhD

Dr. Mello-Thoms’ research focuses on understanding and modeling medical image perception. Her work in informatics is guided by her doctoral training in cognitive psychology and image perception/decision making.

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Fu-Chiang (Rich) Tsui, PhD

Dr. Tsui’s past and current research involves the application of biosurveillance, time series analyses, machine learning, expert systems, grid computing, and artificial intelligence to biomedical informatics research problems.

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Shyam Visweswaran, MD, PhD

Dr. Visweswaran's research interests lie in the application of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining and Bayesian methods to problems in clinical medicine and bioinformatics.

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Richard Boyce, PhD

Dr. Boyce is interested in the intersection of informatics, comparative effectiveness research, and medication safety (including pharmacoepidemiology).

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Xia Jiang, PhD

Dr. Jiang's research focuses on developing novel algorithms/systems that improve the computational efficiency of high-dimensional data analysis, and network modeling of cancer genome data.

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Xinghua Lu, MD, PhD, MS

Dr. Lu’s research focuses on the computational methods for identifying signaling pathways underlying biological processes and diseases as well as Statistical methods for acquiring knowledge from biomedical literature.

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Gerald Douglas, PhD

Dr. Douglas is an Assistant Professor focusing on Health Informatics for the Underserved.

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Recent Publications

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A novel SNP analysis method to detect copy number alterations with an unbiased reference signal directly from tumor samples.

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Natural Language Processing Methods and Systems for Biomedical Ontology Learning

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Bayesian rule learning for biomedical data mining

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Department Highlights

DEPARTMENT HIGHLIGHTS

DBMI Publication Wins Distinguished Paper Award at AMIA TBI 2012

Congratulations to Dr. Shyam Visweswaran and his collaborators for their publication that won...

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DBMI Publication Wins Distinguished Paper Award at AMIA TBI 2011

Congratulations to Dr. Vanathi Gopalakrishnan and her former advisee, Philip Ganchev, for...

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Constantin Aliferis, MD, PhD

Having Greg Cooper as an advisor and working on extremely novel computational causal discovery with Bayesian networks methodology shaped my research career. Climbing the hill to upper campus to see Bruce Buchanan was a metaphor; it was like going to see the wise sage on the top of the mountain.

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Christa Bartos, BSN, MS, PhD

For years, I worked in the field of clinical information technology, always searching for the academic field that would enhance my applied skills with the underlying theoretical knowledge I needed. When I discovered the Center for Biomedical Informatics (now a department), I felt like I had come...

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Patricia Corby, DDS, MS

For many years now, I have been working with research in all aspects from basic science to clinical research. My limitation in dealing with many research tasks was the lack in knowledge and skills related to efficiently managing the enormous amount of information gathered during each aspect of...

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Deborah A. Lewis, EdD, MPH, MS

The Biomedical Informatics program at the University of Pittsburgh provided me with the opportunity to enhance my knowledge and network with professional colleagues. I have been able to achieve my professional goals due, in large part, to the opportunities provided by this academic program.

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Christopher Mast, MD, MS

My training in biomedical informatics from Pitt is invaluable, and I use it every day. Clinicians and healthcare leaders are hungry for practical, high quality information on breakthroughs and best practices in our field. Expertise in evaluation is a particularly rare commodity.

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Pedro L. Hernández-Cott, DMD, MS

After 20 years as a general dentist with an interest in computers, this was an excellent program for aiding me in making the transition into academia. This is an outstanding program for exposing healthcare professionals, academicians, and researchers in how technology is changing and will be used...

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Raj K. Krishnaraju PhD, MS

Currently, I am working as a Health Scientist Administrator at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. My areas of interest are bioinformatics and molecular biology of cell differentiation.

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Ann McKibbon, PhD

The people [at Pitt] are what I remember and value the most. Doug Fridsma and Ellen Detlefsen were stellar; without them, I would not have graduated. I remember project group members; new babies; relationships blossoming and souring; sharing rooms at the annual American Medical Informatics...

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Gilan El-Saadawi, MD, PhD, MS

I began work in biomedical informatics under the mentorship of James Harrison, MD, PhD, and later received a fellowship in the Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics Training Program. I also have been mentored by and am currently collaborating with Rebecca Crowley, MD, who helped introduce me to the...

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Matthew Scotch, MPH, PhD

I came to the University of Pittsburgh as a PhD student without a direction in this diverse and challenging new field. Four years later, I left the program as a doctor with an expertise in a focused area of public health informatics. One of the strengths of the DBMI program is that the faculty does...

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Catherine Arnott Smith, MS, PhD

The five years I spent at DBMI were among the most fulfilling of my life—intellectually and professionally. The lessons I learned—not only through coursework but through exposure to the multiple disciplines that make up medical informatics — remain with me today.

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Heather Piwowar, PhD

I started at DBMI because it was a 10 minute bike ride from my house and I needed to learn more about clinical informatics for my job. I stayed -- for a class, then a certificate, then a PhD -- because the profs were smart and thought-provoking, the students were friendly and interesting, and the...

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Heather is currently a postdoctoral research associate with DataONE and the Dryad data repository at NESCent. She has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from MIT in electrical engineering

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