Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD - NIH

National Library of Medicine Director

Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, is the director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health. NLM is a leader in biomedical informatics and computational health data science research and the world’s largest biomedical library. Since joining NLM in 2016, she has positioned it as a global scientific research library with visible and accessible pathways to research and information that is universally actionable, meaningful, understandable, and useful. This ensures that scientists, policymakers, clinicians, patients, and the public can access biomedical information when and where they need it. Read more. 

Michael Chiang, MD - NIH

NEI Director/Bridge2AI Co-Chair

Michael F. Chiang is Director of the National Eye Institute. By background, he is a pediatric ophthalmologist and is also board-certified in clinical informatics. His research focuses on the interface of biomedical informatics and clinical ophthalmology in areas such as retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), telehealth, artificial intelligence, electronic health records, data science, and genotype-phenotype correlation. He is an Adjunct Investigator at the National Library of Medicine, and his group has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers and developed an assistive artificial intelligence system for ROP that received Breakthrough Status from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Read more. 

Eric D. Green, MD, PHD - NIH
National Human Genome Research Institute Director

Dr. Green is the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is the third NHGRI director, having been appointed by NIH director Dr. Francis Collins in 2009.

Dr. Green’s relationship with the Institute began long before his appointment as director. He served as the Institute’s scientific director (2002 - 2009), chief of the NHGRI Genome Technology Branch (1996 - 2009) and founding director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (1997 - 2009). Prior to that, he played an integral role in the Human Genome Project. Read more. 

Helene Marie Langevin, MD - NIH

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health Director

As NCCIH director, Dr. Langevin oversees the Federal Government’s lead agency for research on the fundamental science, usefulness, and safety of complementary and integrative health approaches and their roles in improving health and health care. With an annual budget of approximately $170 million, NCCIH funds and conducts research to help answer important scientific and public health questions within the context of whole person health. The Center also coordinates and collaborates with other research institutes and Federal programs on research into complementary and integrative health. Dr. Langevin is currently the chair of the Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee. Read more. 

Douglas Mark Sheeley, SC.D. - NIH

Acting Director of Common Fund

Dr. Douglas M. Sheeley is currently the Acting Director of the NIH Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC). This Office is a component of the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI) in the NIH Office of the Director and is responsible for management of the NIH Common Fund. Dr. Sheeley joined OSC in 2019 as a program leader and has served as OSC Deputy Director since 2022. As a Program Director and Senior Scientific Officer at the former National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) and NIGMS (2000-2017), he led programs developing new technologies to catalyze scientific advances in structure determination, proteomics and metabolomics, and informatics, including several Common Fund programs. Dr. Sheeley served in multiple leadership roles at NCRR and NIGMS, and as the Deputy Director of NIDCR. Before coming to NIH, Dr. Sheeley was a researcher at Glaxo Wellcome Research & Development, where he gained an industry perspective on project management and the value of diverse multidisciplinary teams. He earned his doctoral degree in nutritional biochemistry from Harvard University and his BS in chemistry from Dickinson College. His primary research experience is as a bioanalytical chemist, with expertise in biomedical mass spectrometry and the structural analysis of both proteins and carbohydrates. 

Bruce Tromberg - NIH

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Director

Dr. Tromberg is the Director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) where he oversees an approximately $400 million per year portfolio of research programs focused on developing, translating, and commercializing engineering, physical science, and computational technologies in biology and medicine.  In addition, he leads NIBIB’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx Tech) program, a $1.7 billion initiative to increase SARS-COV-2 testing capacity and performance.

Dr. Tromberg specializes in the development of optics and photonics technologies for biomedical imaging and therapy. He has co-authored more than 450 publications and holds 24 patents in new technology development as well as bench-to-bedside clinical translation, validation, and commercialization of devices.  He has trained more than 80 students and fellows, is co-founder of the biophotonics company, Modulim, Inc, and has served on numerous advisory boards in academia, industry, government, and private foundations. Read more. 

Grace C.Y. Peng, PhD - NIH
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Grace C.Y. Peng, Ph.D. is the Director of Mathematical Modeling, Simulation and Analysis at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). In this capacity she has programmatic oversight of extramural activities in these areas. Read more.

Lanay M.  Mudd, PhD - NIH

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

Lanay joined the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) as a program director in July 2015. Her grant portfolio centers on clinical studies of movement meditation, including yoga, tai chi, and qi gong. Dr. Mudd’s interests include physical activity measurement as well as the use of mind and body interventions for perinatal health conditions and for promoting healthy behaviors. She is also NCCIH’s representative to the National Institutes of Health Common Fund initiative on Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity in Humans. Read more. 

Shurjo K. Sen, PhD - NIH

Dr. Sen joined the National Human Genome Research Institute's Extramural Research Program as a program director in 2019. He manages a portfolio of grants focused upon genomic data sciences, and is particularly interested in transitioning genomics from a centralized data repository model to cloud-based collaborative science. Apart from genomic data science, Dr. Sen’s grant portfolio also includes genomic technology development, including computational technologies. Dr. Sen also has an interest in training initiatives at NHGRI that aim to create an expanded and diverse bioinformatics workforce for managing the massive data volumes being produced in genomics. Read more. 

Haluk Resat, PhD - NIH

Dr. Haluk Resat joined the Office of Strategic Coordination in 2020, where he helps to integrate data from multiple Common Fund programs within the Common Fund Data Ecosystem.  Previously, Dr. Resat was a program director in the Division of Biophysics, Biomedical Technology, and Computational Biosciences (BBCB) at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). In this role, he managed research and training grants in bioinformatics, computational biology, data science, mathematical biology, systems biology, and biotechnology areas. Before joining NIGMS/NIH, Dr. Resat was an associate professor in the Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at Washington State University. He has also worked as a senior research scientist at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and was an associate professor at Koç University in Turkey. Dr. Resat earned a B.S. in physics and electrical engineering from Bogaziçi University in Turkey and a Ph.D. in physics from Stony Brook University. He was a postdoctoral fellow both at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York and the University of California, San Diego. Read more. 

Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, MBA, PhD - Administrative Core

Waldemar von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics and Data Science; Deputy Dean for Biomedical Informatics; Chair, Section of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

As Deputy Dean for Biomedical Informatics, Ohno-Machado oversees the infrastructure related to biomedical informatics research across the academic health system.Biomedical Informatics and Data Science serves as the hub for biomedical collaboration at Yale. It brings informatics to the clinic and the bedside; innovates new approaches to the analysis of big data across the biomedical research spectrum from basic genetic, proteomic, cellular, and systems biology to the understanding of the social determinants of health; and works in concert with colleagues in data science. Read more. 

Sally A.  Baxter, MD, MSc - AI READi DGP

University of California, San Diego, Division of Ophthalmology Informatics and Data Science, Viterbi Family Department of Ophthalmology and Shiley Eye Institute, University of California San Diego

Sally is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Biomedical Informatics at the University of California San Diego. She is a physician and informaticist integrating comprehensive ophthalmic care with research investigation in big data, artificial intelligence, and health information technology systems. She is double board-certified in both ophthalmology and clinical informatics. Read more. 

William R. Hersh, MD - Voice DGP

Oregon Health & Science University, Department of

Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology

Dr. Hersh is a leader and innovator in biomedical informatics both in education and research. Dr. Hersh’s main research efforts are in the area of information retrieval (also known as search) applied to biomedicine. He has authored over 200 scientific papers and abstracts as well as the book, Information Retrieval: A Biomedical and Health Perspective (Springer, 2020), which has an associated Website. His current work focuses on the application of search techniques to electronic health record data, aiming to improve patient cohort discovery and amplification of signals of rare diseases. Read more. 

Goldie Komaie, PhD - Teaming Core

University of Colorado, Denver, The Evaluation Center, Denver, CO, USA

Goldie Komaie is a Senior Evaluator at the Evaluation Center.  She brings nearly 10 years of experience in community-based research and evaluation in public health programs that aim to improve health care access and reduce health disparities in medically underserved populations. Goldie is currently the Evaluation Core Director for the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI) at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Read more. 

Monica C. Munoz-Torres, PhD (Moni) - Teaming and Standards Cores

University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Department of Biomedical Informatics

My expertise, education, and enthusiasm span genomics, biocuration, knowledge representation, and data harmonization – and the development of software tools and standards to advance these fields. The major motivations for my research are, first, to leverage the wealth of comparative genomics knowledge I’ve acquired over the past 2 decades to advance our understanding of human health and disease with translational and integrative data science – we need ALL the organisms! – and second, to continuously improve on socio-technological practices to build and coordinate research communities in these fields of study. I lead the Standards Core in the BRIDGE Center project of the NIH Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI) Program, and I am the Program Director for the Phenomics First Resource, an NHGRI Center of Excellence in Genomic Science, and for the Monarch Initiative, the flagship Program of TISLab.Read more. 

Julie A. McMurry, MPH - Teaming and Standards Cores

University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Department of Biomedical Informatics

As Associate Director of monarchinitiative.org, Julie manages the design, development, release, and publication of Monarch Software and integrative data stack. She is cross-trained in biomedical research, public health, project management, software engineering, bioinformatics, and data visualization. Read more. 

Anne E. Thessen, PhD - Teaming Core

University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Department of Biomedical Informatics

Anne is a semantic engineer with a background in oceanography. She started her career in plankton ecology and harmful algae, then transitioned into informatics while working on the Encyclopedia of Life and the International Census of Marine Life. Anne operated her own data science consulting company for five years before joining TISLab. She brings many years of environmental and biodiversity science experience to the group.

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Alex A. T. Bui, PhD - Tools and SWD Cores

University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Radiological Sciences

Dr. Bui received his PhD in Computer Science in 2000, upon which he joined the UCLA faculty. He is now the Director of the Medical & Imaging Informatics (MII) group. His research includes informatics and data science for biomedical research and healthcare in areas related to distributed information architectures and mHealth; methodological development, application, and evaluation of artificial intelligence (AI) methods, including machine/reinforcement learning; and data visualization. His work bridges contemporary computational approaches with the opportunities arising from the breadth of biomedical observations and the electronic health record (EHR), tackling the associated translational challenges. Read more. 

Bradley A. Malin, PhD - Ethics Core

Vanderbilt University, Department of Biomedical Informatics

Bradley Malin is the Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics, and Computer Science, as well as Vice Chair for Research Affairs in the Department of Biomedical Informatics.  His research is funded through grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).  His research is on the development of technologies to enable artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in the context of organizational, political, and health information architectures. He has made specific contributions in a number of areas, including distributed data processing methods for medical record linkage and predictive modeling, intelligent auditing technologies to protect electronic medical records from misuse in the context of primary care, and algorithms to formally anonymize patient information disseminated for secondary research purposes. His investigations on the empirical risks to health information re-identification have been cited by the Federal Trade Commission in the Federal Register and certain privacy enhancing technologies he developed have been featured in popular media outlets and blogs, including Nature News, Scientific American, and Wired magazine. Read more. 

Catherine Saldutti, MA - Teaming Core

President and Founder, EduChange, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

Catherine Saldutti has over 29 years of experience in secondary education, and has served as a teacher, administrator, professional development provider, program evaluator, and instructional designer. She founded EduChange in 2000 to fundamentally reimagine and redesign the systems and structures that deliver formal education. Her team of senior instructional designers, master educators and researchers built relationships with over 350 schools in New York City, several school districts across the USA, and in Sao Paulo, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Culiacan and Tijuana. In 2010 she began forging relationships with education professionals and ministry officials in Brazil, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand and the UK. After a 12-year implementation period in 8 global locations, alongside 3 rounds of academic scientific review, The Integrated Science Program is now powered by Sustainable Open Educational Resources (SOER) that removes disciplinary silos, is digitally deployed internationally using 4 different models, and may be customized to local and national requirements. Catherine also holds a patent for the Concept Construxions product line, a pattern-recognition system that helps learners construct concepts and acquire academic or technical language in social, collaborative ways. Read more. 

Yael Bensoussan, MD  MSc FRCSC - Voice DGP 

Assistant Professor, College of Medicine Otolaryngology University of South Florida, Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Tampa, FL

Dr. Bensoussan is currently the director of the USF Health Voice Center. She is passionate about voice and technology and completed her Masters degree in System Leadership and Innovations at the University of Toronto with a focus in AI and laryngology. She strongly believes that collaborations and partnerships are indispensable for successful implementation of innovation.  Read more. 

Eric Rosenthal, MD - CHoRUS DGP
Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology; Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery, Boston, MA
Eric S. Rosenthal, MD, serves as Medical Director of the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and ICU Director of the MGH Clinical Data Animation Center. He has an appointment in the MGH Center for Neurotechnology and NeuroRecovery.

Dr. Rosenthal devotes clinical time in the MGH Neurosciences ICU and as part of the Epilepsy Service. His clinical interests include traumatic brain injury (TBI), subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), and seizure disorders in critically ill patients, including status epilepticus.

Dr. Rosenthal performs clinical research on innovative approaches that apply principles of precision medicine to neurocritical care by uniting neurologic monitoring of brain activity with contextual information such as medication time and dose information and continuous recovery data. His research spans from individual customized studies of complex individual patients to multi-center big data analyses involving up to 20,000 subjects. Read more. 

Trey Ideker, PhD - CM4AI DGP
University of California, San Diego, Department of Medicine
Trey Ideker, PhD, is a UC San Diego Professor of Medicine, Bioengineering and Computer Science, and former Chief of Genetics. Dr. Ideker is the Director of the Cell Maps for AI initiative under the Bridge2AI program. Additionally, he is Director or Co-Director of the the Cancer Cell Map Initiative, the National Resource for Network Biology, the Psychiatric Cell Map Initiative and the UC San Diego PhD Program in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, all NIH-funded efforts. Read more.

Cecilia S. Lee, MD, MS - AI-READi DGP
University of Washington, Department of Ophthalmology, Seattle, WA, USA
Dr. Lee joined the faculty at Washington University in 2014. She is a clinician scientist and her time is divided into seeing patients with retinal conditions, performing cataract extractions, teaching, and pursuing her research in medical retina and uveitis.

Dr. Lee offers medical treatments for vitreoretinal diseases and performs cataract surgeries. She enjoys being actively involved in clinical research and teaching residents. She is dedicated to educating her patients with the most current information and offering diverse treatment options. Read more. 

Aaron Y. Lee, MD, MSc - AI-READi DGP
University of Washington, Department of Ophthalmology, Seattle, WA, USA
After finishing residency, Dr. Lee completed two fellowships in vitreoretinal diseases. He completed a medical retina fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, UK and then a surgical retina fellowship at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Dr. Lee is an active clinician-scientist and is actively researching application of Big Data computing techniques in the field of ophthalmology. He has been the first to apply novel visualizations from results from cloud and cluster based computing environments. Read more.

Ellen Wright Clayton, M.D., J.D. - Ethics Core
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Nashville, TN

Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD, is the Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Professor of Law in the Vanderbilt University School of Law.  A graduate of Duke University, Stanford University, Yale Law School, and Harvard Medical School, Professor Clayton is an internationally respected leader particularly in the field of law and genetics.  Professor Clayton’s scholarship currently focuses on the translation of genomics to clinical care, and she currently is co-Principal Investigator of two grants, one involving a transdisciplinary Center for Excellence in ELSI Research addressing genomic privacy and another analyzing legal issues in liability, quality, privacy and access, and the clinical-research interface, all with the goal of developing more effective solutions. Read more. 

Paul C. Boutros, PhD, MBA - Tools Optimization and Skills & Workforce Development Cores

University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Human Genetics

Paul Boutros, PhD, MBA, is a renowned data scientist and professor in the departments of human genetics and urology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He currently serves as director of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Cancer Data Science program and associate director of cancer informatics at the UCLA Institute for Precision Health, and is a member of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research. Read more. 

William Hsu, PhD - Skills & Workforce Development Core
University of California, Los Angeles, Medical & Imaging Informatics, Department of Radiological Sciences
William Hsu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiological Sciences and a member of the Medical Imaging & Informatics group. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering with an emphasis in Medical Imaging Informatics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2009 and a BS degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 2004. His research interests include data integration, predictive modeling, population health management, and imaging informatics. He is an active member of the American Medical Informatics Association, serving on the Working Group Steering Committee and as a leader in the Biomedical Imaging Informatics Working Group. Read more.

Xiao Hu, PhD - CHoRUS DGP

Emory University, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Atlanta, GA

Dr. Xiao Hu is a Professor at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, an associated professor at department of Computer Sciences at College of Arts and Sciences, and a program faculty, and a program faculty member at department of Biomedical Informatics at School of Medicine. Dr. Hu is also the Associate Director of the Center for Data Science Dr.Hu conducts research at the intersection of computational and health sciences where he develops signal processing, mathematical modeling, machine learning, and deep learning algorithms to transform physiological and clinical data into actionable information for improving patient care. Read more. 

Jake Y. Chen, PhD - CM4AI DGP

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Informatics Institute, Birmingham, AL

Dr. Jake Y. Chen is the Chief Bioinformatics Officer at UAB Informatics Institute and a Professor of Genetics, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering. Previously, he was the founding director of Indiana Center for Systems Biology and Personalized Medicine. He has over 25 years of R&D experience in biological data mining and systems biology, with over 180 peer-reviewed publications. He is currently President-elect of the Midsouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society. He is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He also serves on the editorial boards of BMC Bioinformatics, Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), and Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. In 2019, he was recognized by Deep Knowledge Analytics as one of the “Top 100 AI Leaders in Drug Discovery and Healthcare”. Read more. 

Cinnamon S. Bloss, PhD - Administrative Core

University of California, San Diego, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health

Dr. Cinnamon Bloss is a tenured Professor of Public Health, Psychiatry, and Medicine at the University of California San Diego. She is the Founding Director of the Center for Empathy and Technology, situated within the UCSD Institute for Empathy and Compassion, where she also serves as Associate Director. Dr. Bloss conducts interdisciplinary research focused on social and behavioral phenomena related to emerging information and biotechnologies. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and philanthropic donations. Read more.