Biomedical and Health Informatics

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.

NameRankDegreeSchoolGraduate FacultyEmeritus Faculty
Paul Auer Professor, (Medical College of Wisconsin, Institute for Health and Equity) PhD Purdue Yes No
Mahsa Dabagh Associate Professor (UWM College of Engineering & Applied Science) PhD Lappeenranta University of Technology Yes No
Adam Greenberg Associate Professor (Medical College of Wisconsin faculty) PhD Johns Hopkins University No No
Lu He Assistant Professor (UWM Zilber School of Public Health) PhD University of California-Irvine Yes No
William Hogan Professor and Director (Medical College of Wisconsin, Data Science Institute) MD Jefferson Medical College Yes No
Yi Hu Associate Professor (UWM College of Engineering & Applied Science) PhD University of Texas at Dallas Yes No
Chiang-Ching Huang Professor (UWM Zilber School of Public Health) PhD University of Michigan-AnnArbor Yes No
Rohit Kate Associate Professor (UWM College of Engineering & Applied Science) PhD University of Texas at Austin Yes No
Jennifer Kibicho Associate Professor (UWM College of Nursing) PhD Wayne State University Yes No
Chiu-tai Law Associate Professor (UWM College of Engineering & Applied Science) PhD Purdue University Yes No
Jake Luo Associate Professor (UWM Health Informatics) PhD Queen’s University, Belfast, U.K. Yes No
Amol Mali Associate Professor (UWM College of Engineering & Applied Science) PhD Arizona State University Yes No
Susan McRoy Professor (UWM College of Engineering & Applied Science) PhD University of Toronto Yes No
Derek Nazareth Associate Professor (UWM Lubar College of Business) PhD Case Western Reserve University Yes No
Jessica Olson Assistant Professor (Medical College of Wisconsin faculty) PhD Medical College of Wisconsin No No
Anna Palatnik Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology (Medical College of Wisconsin) MD Sackler School of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University No No
Purushottam Papatla Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute; Professor (UWM Lubar College of Business) PhD Northwestern University Yes No
Mohammad Habib Rahman Professor (UWM College of Engineering & Applied Science) PhD Université of Québec, Canada Yes No
Nathan Salowitz Associate Professor (College of Engineering & Applied Science) PhD Stanford University Yes No
Mathew Scanlon Professor (Medical College of Wisconsin faculty) MD Loyola Stritch School of Medicine, Chicago No No
Atish Sinha Professor (UWM Lubar College of Business) PhD University of Pittsburgh Yes No
Yongjin Sung Associate Professor (UWM College of Engineering & Applied Science) PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology Yes No
AkkeNeel Talsma Associate Professor (UWM College of Nursing) PhD University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Yes No
Weizhong Wang Associate Professor (UWM College of Engineering & Applied Science) PhD University of Maryland Yes No
Min Wu Associate Professor (UWM Health Informatics) PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Yes No
Zeyun Yu Professor (UWM College of Engineering & Applied Science) PhD University of Texas-Austin Yes No
Jun Zhang Professor (UWM College of Engineering & Applied Science) PhD Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Yes No
Jin Zhang Professor (UWM School of Information Studies; UWM) PhD University of Pittsburgh Yes No