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Health & Biomedical Informatics Faculty

Below is a list of Health Sciences Integrated PhD faculty working within the Health & Biomedical Informatics (HBMI) track. View individual profiles of our faculty members — with publication and contact information, research and clinical specialties and more — via the links below.

HBMI Track Faculty Leader: Theresa L. Walunas, PhD

Ahmad, Faraz S

Ahmad, Faraz S

Assistant Professor, Medicine (Cardiology), Preventive Medicine (Biostatistics and Informatics)

Bio

Dr. Ahmad is a practicing heart failure cardiologist who cares for patients across the spectrum of heart failure, including patients with different types of cardiomyopathies, with advanced heart failu... [more]

Allen, Norrina Bai

Allen, Norrina Bai

Professor, Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology), Medical Social Sciences (Determinants of Health), Pediatrics

Bio

Dr. Allen specializes in cardiovascular epidemiology with a focus on health services research. Her research interests include the effect of neighborhood and environment on cardiovascular disease, dis... [more]

Alshurafa, Nabil I

Alshurafa, Nabil I

Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine (Behavioral Medicine)
Associate Professor, McCormick School of Engineering

Bio

My research efforts focus on developing data analytic methods and systems to quantify and model behaviors through cutting-edge passive sensing technologies. My lab conducts research developing these s... [more]

Beach, Lauren B

Beach, Lauren B

Assistant Professor, Medical Social Sciences (Determinants of Health), Medical Social Sciences (Implementation Science), Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)

Bio

Dr. Lauren B. Beach (they/them) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences and Department of Preventive Medicine, Director of the ReACH SGM lab (Research on Aging, Chronic ... [more]

Birkett, Michelle A

Birkett, Michelle A

Associate Professor, Medical Social Sciences (Determinants of Health), Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)

Bio

Michelle Birkett is a tenured associate professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences. She directs the Center for Computational and Social Sciences in Health (COMPASS) within the Institute fo... [more]

Chisholm, Rex L

Chisholm, Rex L

Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, Surgery

Bio

A primary goal of my work is to establish the approaches and benefits of genomics informed personalized medicine. A key element of this is participation in the eMERGE consortium (http://gwas.net), wh... [more]

Dulai, Parambir S

Dulai, Parambir S

Associate Professor, Medicine (Gastroenterology and Hepatology)

Bio

Dr. Dulai is a physician-scientist with clinical expertise in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and research expertise in clinical trial methodology and design, biomarker discovery, and multi-omic mult... [more]

Feinstein, Matthew

Feinstein, Matthew

Associate Professor, Medicine (Cardiology), Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology), Pathology

Bio

Matthew Feinstein, MD MSc is a cardiologist and physician-scientist at Northwestern Medicine and a tenured Associate Professor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (NUFSM). His p... [more]

Fourati, Slim

Fourati, Slim

Assistant Professor, Medicine (Allergy and Immunology)

Furmanchuk, Alona

Furmanchuk, Alona

Research Assistant Professor, Medicine (General Internal Medicine)

Bio

Dr. Furmanchuk received her PhD in computational chemistry from Jackson State University, MS. She received her trainings in modeling and data mining with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Chemistry Depa... [more]