Michael J. Becich, MD, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Professor of Pathology
Professor of Information Sciences
Professor of Telecommunications
Chair of Department of Biomedical Informatics
Translational bioinformatics, pathology informatics, prostate tumor cell biology, oncology informatics, tissue banking informatics, research resource development, content-based image retrieval and digital libraries, outcome informatics.
Richard Boyce, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Comparative effectiveness and safety of newer psychotropics in elderly nursing home residents,
Knowledge-based approaches to drug-drug interaction prediction and identification drug safety decision support,
Novel applications of linked health care and life sciences data (Semantic Web),
Computational methods for simplifying biomedical knowledge-base development, curation, and use
Gregory Cooper, MD, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Secondary faculty appointments in Intelligent Systems,
Computational Biology, Computer Science and
Information Sciences
Vice Chair of Department of Biomedical Informatics
Dr. Cooper’s research interest is in application of decision theory, probability theory, and artificial intelligence to address biomedical informatics research questions, with a focus on causal modeling and discovery in medicine and biology, data mining of medical databases, application of Bayesian statistics in medicine, and biosurveillance.
Rebecca S. Crowley, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Associate Professor of Intelligent Systems
Associate Professor of Pathology
Director of the University of Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics Training Program
Intelligent Medical Training Systems, Student and User Modeling, Empirical studies of medical decision making and expertise, Information Extraction and Medical Natural Language Processing for Translational Informatics, Image-guided decision support systems and Multi-institution data and tissue sharing.
Roger S. Day, ScD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Day leads the Educational Resource for Tumor Heterogeneity, and continues the evolution of the Oncology Thinking Cap computer modeling facility. These projects use stochastic models of tumor growth to help cancer researchers do thought experiments about cancer biology and treatment, with the goal of improving translational research resources.
Interpreting dose information from disease-free survival curves in adjuvant breast cancer treatment; tracking genetic evolution of breast cancers through molecular studies of individual cells in tumor cell samples and through modeling.
Statistical modeling of events and effects in biology and medicine, development of methods more effective than the usual linear modeling.
Gerald Douglas, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Director of Center for Health Informatics for the Underserved
Madhavi Ganapathiraju, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Assistant Professor of Intelligent Systems
Biomedical Informatics Training Program Core Faculty
Translational Systems Biology, protein-protein Interaction Prediction, machine learning, and Genome Sequence Analysis.
Vanathi Gopalakrishnan, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Associate Professor of Intelligent Systems
Associate Professor of Computational Biology
Biomedical Informatics Training Program Core Faculty
Design and development of computational methods for solving clinically relevant biological problems, application of machine learning and data mining techniques to the analysis of proteomic data, prediction of protein sequence-structure-function relationships, and the study of variables affecting protein crystallization.
Steven Handler, MD, PhD
Director of Clinical Informatics
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Assistant Professor of Geriatric Medicine
Assistant Professor of Clinical and Translational Research
Core Faculty of the RAND-University of Pittsburgh Health Institute (RUPHI)
Research Scientist at the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS)
Medical Director for Long-term Care Health information technology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)
Biomedical Informatics Training Program Core Faculty
Biomedical Informatics Training Program Core Faculty
Biomedical Informatics,
Clinical and Translational Informatics,
Pharmacoepidemiology,
Adverse Drug Reactions,
Adverse Drug Events,
Medication management,
Patient safety,
Patient Safety Culture,
Process and Quality Improvement.
Harry Hochheiser, PhD
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics
Biomedical Informatics Training Program Core Faculty
Dr. Hochheiser’s research focuses on the design of usable systems for use in clinical and research settings. He is particularly interested in using user-centered design techniques to inform the design of highly-interactive information visualization systems for the interpretation of complex data sets in domains such as bioinformatics and health care. Dr. Hochheiser is currently working on the development of user-centered tools for annotating, searching, and browsing of biomedical data in online repositories. As part of the FaceBase (www.facebase.org) project, he is working on the design, implementation, and evaluation of highly-interactive tools for exploring genomic, genetic, demographic, and phenotypic data sets from craniofacial research, with ultimate goal of developing tools and techniques that can be applied to a other domains.