Programs
The PhD in Biomedical and Health Informatics is an interdisciplinary doctoral program offered by UWM through collaboration between several academic units at UWM and the Medical College of Wisconsin. The Program is housed in the UWM Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. It is guided by a Steering Committee consisting of faculty from the academic units participating in the Program.
Biomedical and health informatics is a field that is concerned with the cognitive, information processing, and communication aspects of medicine and healthcare including the information sciences and technology to support these tasks. The field covers the application of information technology in clinical medicine, medical record keeping, medical instrumentation, and healthcare management.
Name | Rank | Degree | School | Graduate Faculty | Emeritus Faculty |
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Paul Auer | Assistant Professor (Zilber School of Public Health) | PhD | Purdue University | Yes | No |
Nicole Carnegie | Assistant Professor (Zilber School of Public Health) | PhD | University of Washington | Yes | No |
Roshan D'Souza | Associate Professor (College of Engineering and Applied Science) | PhD | University of California Berkeley | Yes | No |
Adam Greenberg | Assistant Professor (College of Letters and Science) | PhD | Johns Hopkins University | Yes | No |
Yi Hu | Assistant Professor (College of Engineering and Applied Science) | PhD | University of Texas at Dallas | Yes | No |
Chiang-Ching Huang | Associate Professor (Zilber School of Public Health) | PhD | University of Michigan-AnnArbor | Yes | No |
Rohit Kate | Assistant Professor (College of Health Sciences) | PhD | University of Texas at Austin | Yes | No |
Chiu-tai Law | Associate Professor (College of Engineering and Applied Science) | PhD | Purdue University | Yes | No |
Jake Luo | Assistant Professor (College of Health Sciences) | PhD | Queen’s University, Belfast, U.K. | Yes | No |
Amol Mali | Associate Professor (College of Engineering and Applied Science) | PhD | Arizona State University | Yes | No |
Susan McRoy | Professor (College of Engineering and Applied Science) | PhD | University of Toronto | Yes | No |
Devendra Misra | Professor (College of Engineering and Applied Science) | PhD | Michigan State University | Yes | No |
Ethan Munson | Professor (College of Engineering and Applied Science) | PhD | University of California-Berkeley | Yes | No |
Derek Nazareth | Associate Professor (Lubar School of Business) | PhD | Case Western Reserve University | Yes | No |
Timothy Patrick | Associate Professor (College of Health Sciences) | PhD | University of Missouri-Columbia | Yes | No |
Mohammad Habib Rahman | Assistant Professor (College of Engineering and Applied Science) | PhD | Université of Québec, Canada | Yes | No |
Nathan Salowitz | Assistant Professor (College of Engineering and Applied Science) | PhD | Stanford University | Yes | No |
Mathew Scanlon | Professor (Medical College of Wisconsin faculty) | MD | Loyola Stritch School of Medicine, Chicago | Yes | No |
Mary Shimoyama | Associate Professor (Medical College of Wisconsin faculty) | PhD | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Yes | No |
Atish Sinha | Professor (Lubar School of Business) | PhD | University of Pittsburgh | Yes | No |
Ehsan S. Soofi | Professor (Lubar School of Business) | PhD | University of California-Riverside | Yes | No |
Yongjin Sung | Assistant Professor (College of Engineering and Applied Science) | PhD | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Yes | No |
AkkeNeel Talsma | Associate Professor (College of Nursing) | PhD | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | Yes | No |
Weizhong Wang | Associate Professor (College of Engineering and Applied Science) | PhD | University of Maryland | Yes | No |
Charles Welzig | Associate Professor (Medical College of Wisconsin faculty) | MD | Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany | Yes | No |
Min Wu | Associate Professor (College of Health Sciences) | PhD | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Yes | No |
Guangwu Xu | Associate Professor (College of Engineering and Applied Science) | PhD | State University of New York-Buffalo | Yes | No |
Alice Fang Yan | Assistant Professor (Zilber School of Public Health) | PhD | University of Maryland | Yes | No |
Zeyun Yu | Associate Professor (College of Engineering and Applied Science) | PhD | University of Texas-Austin | Yes | No |
Jun Zhang | Professor (College of Engineering and Applied Science) | PhD | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Yes | No |
Tian Zhao | Associate Professor (College of Engineering and Applied Science) | PhD | Purdue University | Yes | No |
Cheng Zheng | Assistant Professor (Zilber School of Public Health) | PhD | University of Washington | Yes | No |
Zhi Zheng | Assistant Professor (College of Engineering and Applied Science) | PhD | Vanderbilt University | Yes | No |