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
Allen, Norrina Bai
Professor of Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology), Medical Social Sciences (Determinants of Health) and 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]
Birkett, Michelle A
Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences (Determinants of Health) and Preventive Medicine
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Michelle Birkett, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences and directs the CONNECT Complex Systems and Health Disparities Research Program within the Institute for... [more]
Chisholm, Rex L
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and 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]
Davuluri, Ramana V
Adjunct Professor of Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics)
Bio
Research in our lab focuses on developing statistical machine learning based algorithms and informatics solutions for knowledge extraction in biology and medicine. Our ongoing research work, funded by... [more]
Ho, Bing
Associate Professor of Medicine (Nephrology and Hypertension) and Surgery (Organ Transplantation)
Holmes, Kristi
Professor of Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics) and Medical Education
Bio
Dr. Holmes is the Director of Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center and associate professor of Preventive Medicine (Health & Biomedical Informatics) at Northwestern University. Her research... [more]
Kho, Abel N
Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine) and Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics)
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Abel Kho received his MD from the Medical College of Wisconsin and completed a residency and Chief residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He completed a NLM/NIH fello... [more]
Liu, Yaping
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Lloyd-Jones, Donald M
Professor of Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology), Medicine (Cardiology) and Pediatrics
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Dr. Lloyd-Jones attended Swarthmore College for his BA (Major in History), Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons for his MD, and Harvard School of Public Health for his Master of Scienc... [more]
Luo, Yuan
Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics), McCormick School of Engineering and Pediatrics
Bio
His research interests include machine learning, natural language processing, time series analysis, integrative genomic analysis and big data analytics, with a focus on medical and clinical applicatio... [more]