Meet the Team

Leadership Team

Hong Yu, Ph.D

Professor, Director - CHORDS

Computer Science
- Phone(978) 934-3620
- EmailHong_Yu@uml.edu
Dan Berlowitz, MD MPH

Chair, Professor, Co-Director - CHORDS

Public Health

Health services research; Quality of medical care; Use of big data
- Phone(978) 934-4532
- EmailDan_Berlowitz@uml.edu
David McManus

Associate Professor, Director of Atrial Fibrillation Treatment Program, Co-Director - CHORDS, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, UMass Medical School
- Phone508-334-3452
- EmailDavid.McManus@umassmed.edu
John Wells

Associate Chief of Staff, Research and President of the Board of Directors, Bedford VA Research Corporation, Inc. and Co-Director - CHORDS

Center of Biomedical and Health Research in Data Sciences (CHORDS)
Weisong Liu

Research Assistant Professor, Assistant Director - CHORDS

Computer Science
- EmailWeisong_Liu@uml.edu

Advisory Board

James Cimino

Professor and Director of the Informatics Institute at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Fran Cunningham

Director of the Center for Medication Safety, Associate Chief Consultant, and Program Director of Outcomes Assessment at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Pharmacy Benefits Management Services (PBM)
Vimla Patel

Senior Research Scientist and Director at the Center for Cognitive Studies in Medicine and Public Health, The New York Academy of Medicine
Jack Tsai

Campus Dean and Professor of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Adam Wright

Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Director of the Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC)

UML Core Faculty

Mohammad Arif Ul Alam, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Computer Science

Mobile Computing, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics
- Phone(978) 934-1971
- EmailMohammadArifUl_Alam@uml.edu
Hadi Amiri

Assistant Professor

Computer Science

Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Health Informatics
- Phone(978) 934-3612
- EmailHadi_Amiri@uml.edu
Tingjian Ge, Ph.D.

Professor

Data Management Systems
- Phone(978) 934-3957
- Emailtingjian_ge@uml.edu
Jong Soo Lee

Associate Professor

Mathematical Science

Statistics, Applications of statistics
- EmailJongSoo_Lee@uml.edu
Wenjun Li

Professor, Director - Health Statistics and Geography Lab

Public Health, Center of Biomedical and Health Research in Data Sciences (CHORDS), Health Statistics and Geography Lab

Geospatial Analysis, Observational Cohort Studies, Analysis of Electronic Health Records, Analysis of State-wide Hospital Discharge and ED Visit Databases.
- Phone978-934-2919
- EmailWenjun_Li@uml.edu
Benyuan Liu, Ph.D.

Professor, Director

Data and Computer Communication Networks, Mobile and Wireless Networks, Internet Technologies & Applications
- Phone978-934-2425
- Emailbliu@cs.uml.edu
Rachel Melamed

Assistant Professor

Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Center of Biomedical and Health Research in Data Sciences (CHORDS)

Computational biology, cancer genomics, data science, biomedical informatics
- Phone978-934-2982
- EmailRachel_Melamed@uml.edu
Asil Oztekin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Operations and Information Systems (OIS)

Medical informatics, healthcare engineering, business analytics, data mining, decision making, big data
- Phone(978) 934-2714
- EmailAsil_Oztekin@uml.edu
Farhad Pourkamali Anaraki, PhD

Assistant Professor

Computer Science

Machine Learning, Data Science
- Phone(978) 934-6126
- EmailFarhad_Pourkamali@uml.edu
Anna Rumshisky

Associate Professor

Computer Science

Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning
- Phone(978) 934-3619
- EmailAnna_Rumshisky@uml.edu
Katherine Tucker, Ph.D.

Professor, Director of the Center for Population Health

Biomedical & Nutritional Sciences

Nutritional Epidemiology
- Phone978-934-4066
- Emailkatherine_tucker@uml.edu
Jie Wang

Professor

Computer Science

Algorithms, Computational Complexity, Complex Networks, Wireless & Sensor Networks, Network Security, Mathematical Modeling
- Phone(978) 934-3649
- EmailJie_Wang@uml.edu
Yan Wang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Psychology
- Phone(978) 934-3912
- EmailYan_Wang1@uml.edu
Yuan Zhang

Associate Professor

Susan and Alan Solomont School of Nursing

Occupational Health, Shift Work and Sleep Health, Health-care Workforce
- Phone(978) 934-4421
- Emailyuan_zhang@uml.edu

Other Core Faculty

James Allan, Ph.D., Professor, College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst
Adarsha Bajracharya, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, UMass Chan Medical School
Alok Kapoor, M.D., Associate Professor, UMass Chan Medical School
Thomas Land, Ph.D., Associate Professor, UMass Chan Medical School
Donald Miller, S.cD., Bedford VA
Adam Rose, M.D., Associate Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Philip Thomas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst

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