UC San Diego Biomedical Informatics Faculty 

Amy M. Sitapati, M.D.

Professor, Interim Division Chief
Interim Department Chair, UCSD Health
Chief Medical Information Officer for Population Health, UCSDH

BMI Research Area(s): EMR and Non-EMR Registries, Quality Informatics, Biomedical Informatics Analytics, Applied AI/ML, Digital Engagement, Equity in Informatics, All of Us Researcher Workbench, EMR Clinical Informatics and Population Health

BISB Research Area(s): Cohort generation/Registries, Equity

Research Focus: Registries, Population Health Informatics, NIH All of Us Precision Medicine, Equity in Clinical Informatics, Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Analytics, Learning Health System, Public Health Informatics and Vital Records, Quality Analytics and Informatics, Applied Health System Informatics

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Brian Clay, M.D.

Professor
Associate Chief Medical Officer for Inpatient Care

Christian Dameff, M.D.

Assistant Professor, Emergency Medical Services, Biomedical Informatics, & Computer Science Medical Director of Cybersecurity

 BMI Research Area(s): Healthcare Cybersecurity

Christopher Longhurst, M.D., M.S.

Chief Medical Officer & Chief Digital Officer
Associate Dean & Clinical Professor 

Cinnamon Bloss, Ph.D.

Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Science

Research Focus: Genomics, technology adoption, first-in-human trials, experimental diagnostics and treatments, science and technology policy, health policy, empirical ethics, mobile health, digital health, genetic testing, rare disease

Cynthia Kuelbs, M.D.

Clinical Professor, Pediatrics, Chief Medical Information Officer, Rady Children's Hospital

Research Focus: Informatics, social determinants of health, adverse childhood experiences and mental health trauma

David Gutglass, M.D., MBI

Clinical Professor, Pediatrics

Hannah Carter, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Division of Medical Genetics

BMI Research Area(s): Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine; Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease

BISB Research Area(s): Genetic and Molecular Networks; Structural Bioinformatics and Systems Pharmacology

Research Focus: Genomics and systems biology for precision cancer medicine, variant interpretation, network analysis, immunogenomics

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James Killeen, M.D.

Chief Medical Officer, San Diego Health Connect
UCSD Clinical Informatics Fellowship Director
Clinical Professor, Emergency Medical Services
Clinical Professor, Hyperbaric Medicine Department

Jejo David Koola, M.D., M.S.

Associate Clinical Professor, School of Medicine

BMI Research Area(s): Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine; Biomedical Natural Language Processing

Research Focus: Practicing internist in the field of hospital medicine and clinical informatics. Research focus is on using informatics tools (including predictive analytics, natural language processing, and information visualization) to improve the care of multi-morbid hospital patients.

Karandeep Singh

Associate Professor
Joan and Irwin Jacobs Endowed Chair in Digital Health Innovation
Chief Health Artificial Intelligence (AI) Officer

 Research Focus: Machine learning methods to model electronic health record and registry data in support of a learning health system. 

Kathleen (Kit) Curtius, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

 BMI Research Area(s): Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine; Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease

BISB Research Area(s): Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology; Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control

 Research Focus: Mathematical models of cancer evolution, optimization of cancer screening and surveillance, epigenetic aging, translational risk prediction tools

Quantitative Cancer Control Lab website

Lucila Ohno-Machado, M.D., Ph.D, M.B.A.

Distinguished Professor

BMI Research Area(s): Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine; Privacy Technology, Data Sharing, and Big Data Analytics

BISB Research Area(s): Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control

Research Focus: Biomedical Informatics, predictive modeling, biomedical data analytics

Marlene Millen, M.D.

Associate Professor

Matteo D'Antonio, Ph.D.

 BMI Research Area(s): Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine

Research Focus: Associations between genetic variation, molecular phenotypes, complex traits and disease

Michael Hogarth, M.D.

Professor
Clinical Research Information Officer

Research Focus: Development of next generation public health information systems, terminology/ontology infrastructure in biomedical informatics, and developing systems that support clinical research at the point of care.

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Ming Tai-Seale, Ph.D.

Professor, Joint Appointment with DBMI
Professor, Vice Chair for Research, Department of Family Medicine

Research Focus: Professor Tai-Seale' research investigates the practice of medicine, patient-physician communications, and healthcare economics. She pioneered the use of user action log data in electronic health records to study physician practice and wellbeing. She was also the first to use video and audio recordings of clinical encounters to study time allocation in primary care practices. She publishes original research articles in journals such as JAMA IM, JAMA Network Open, Health Affairs, Health Services Research, Medical Care, and Journal of American Geriatrics Society. Her publications on patient-physician communication earned the Article-of-the-Year award from AcademyHealth. A co-authored publication on the practice of medicine in the age of electronic health records was the second most read paper in Health Affairs in 2017. In addition to her faculty appointments at UC San Diego, she is the Director for Outcomes Analysis and Scholarship at the UC San Diego Health and Director for Research and Learning in the Population Health Services Organization at UC San Diego Health. Dr. Tai-Seale earned her Ph.D. in Health Services with a cognate in Economics from UCLA. 

Tai-Seale Lab

Robert El-Kareh, M.D., M.S., M.P.H.

Clinical Professor
Co-Director, Postdoctorate Trainees
Mentoring Director

BMI Research Area(s): Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine; Decision Support Systems

Research Focus: Clinical informatics, clinical decision support, diagnostic safety, quality improvement, patient safety

Rodney Gabriel, M.D.

Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
Cheif, Division of Regional Anesthesia, Anesthesiology 
Clinical Director of Anesthesiology, Koman Outpatient Pavilion, Anesthesiology 
Director, Dividion of Perioperative Informatics, Anesthesiology

 BMI Research Area(s): Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine

Research Focus: Perioperative outcomes, pharmacogenomics, machine learning, predictive modeling, regional anesthesia, acute pain.

Sally Baxter, M.D.

Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology

Sandip P. Patel, M.D.

Clinical Professor
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center

Research Focus: Medical Oncology, Immunotherapy, Thoracic Oncology, Phase 1 Clinical Trials, Solid Tumor Cellular Therapy, Cancer Genomics/Biomarkers, Computational Immunopathology

Shamim Nemati, Ph.D.

BMI Research Area(s): Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine; Decision Support Systems

BISB Research Area(s): Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits

Research Focus: Signal Processing, Dynamical Systems, Multivariate Time Series, Point Process, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Video Processing, and Natural Language Processing

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Siddharth Singh, M.D.

Assistant Professor

Tiffany Amariuta

Assistant Professor, DBMI
Assistant Professor, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute
DBMI Wellness Representative
DBMI Training and Education Steering Committee member

BMI Research Area(s): Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease

Research Focus: We are a statistical genetics lab focusing on developing methods to study complex traits and polygenic diseases in global populations. We are specifically interested in fine-mapping disease genes and their cell types of action, with the goal of finding targets for gene-based therapeutics.

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Timothy Wen

Assistant Professor, DBMI
Assistant Professor, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences

 BMI Research Area: Applied AI/ML and Predictive Analytics, Clinical Decision Support, Clinical Informatics, Digital Health

Research Focus: Dr. Wen is an active Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist and Clinical Informaticist with a primary focus on leveraging clinical and multimodal data to develop and implement clinical decision support tools aimed at improving risk stratification and outcome prediction in pregnancy care. He is particularly interested in utilizing the electronic health record platform to enhance care delivery, facilitate quality improvement initiatives, and support data-driven decision-making. Dr. Wen is committed to bringing data-driven care to women's health by integrating advanced analytics and informatics solutions into clinical workflows. He aims to further develop and expand the role of women's health informatics within the operational and research arenas. 

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Tsung-Ting Kuo, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor in Residence

BMI Research Area(s): Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine; Privacy Technology, Data Sharing, and Big Data Analytics

Research Focus: Blockchain Technologies, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

Video about Dr. Kuo's research

Vanessa Wertheim, Ph.D., M.B.A., RN, CCRN

Assistant Clinical Professor, Medicine