Leadership Team

  • Hong Yu, Ph.D
    Professor, Director - CHORDS
    Miner School of Computer & Information Sciences
  • Dan Berlowitz, MD MPH
    Professor, Co-Director - CHORDS
    Public Health

    Health services research; Quality of medical care; Use of big data

  • David McManus
    Associate Professor, Director of Atrial Fibrillation Treatment Program, Co-Director - CHORDS, Affiliate Faculty - Biomedical EngineeringAssociate Professor, Department of Medicine, UMass Medical School
    Biomedical Engineering, CHORDS, M2D2
  • 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
    Miner School of Computer & Information Sciences, UMass Center for Digital Health (CDH), Computer Networking Lab, CHORDS

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

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
  • Honghuang Lin, Ph.D., 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