The Department faculty include tenure track and adjunct faculty, who participate in graduate education and research at the School of Medicine and its partner hospitals, Truman Medical Centers, Children’s Mercy Hospital and Clinics and Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City.
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Jenifer Allsworth, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Vice Chair, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Coordinator
Department(s) of Biomedical and Health Informatics
UMKC School of Medicine
Specialties and Research/Medical Interests
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Julie Banderas, Pharm.D., F.C.C.P.
Professor, Associate Dean, Graduate Health Professions, Chair, Department of Graduate Health Professions in Medicine
Department(s) of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Internal Medicine
Section: Pharmacology
UMKC School of Medicine
Specialties and Research/Medical Interests
Health Literacy, HIV Prevention, Adherence to medications, Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmacotherapy, Adherence to treatment regimen
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Jannette Berkley-Patton, M.A., Ph.D.
Professor
Department(s) of Biomedical and Health Informatics
UMKC School of Medicine
Specialties and Research/Medical Interests
Jared Bruce, Ph.D.
Professor, Director of Psychiatric Research,
Department(s) of Biomedical and Health Informatics
UMKC School of Medicine
Specialties and Research/Medical Interests
Multiple Sclerosis, Medication adherence, Traumatic brain injury, Neuropsychology, Cognitive disorders, Dementia, Delirium, Functional brain imaging
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An-Lin Cheng, Ph.D.
Professor, Director of Research and Statistical Consult Service
Department(s) of Biomedical and Health Informatics
UMKC School of Medicine
Specialties and Research/Medical Interests
Multivariate Statistics, Longitudinal data analysis, HIV health care data, Data analysis for phase I, II, and III clinical trials, community-based interventions, response adaptive designs, Generalized linear mixed models, Hierarchical linear mixed modeling, Multiple imputation technique
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Mark Nichols, Ph.D.
Chair, Associate Professor - Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Director of Research Development, School of Medicine,
Department(s) of Biomedical Sciences, Biomedical and Health Informatics
UMKC School of Medicine
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Steve Simon, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Department(s) of Biomedical and Health Informatics
UMKC School of Medicine
Specialties and Research/Medical Interests
Biomedical Informatics, Health Informatics, Accrual problems in clinical trials, Information theory, Monitoring adverse events in clinical trials, Research ethics, Risk adjustment models
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John A. Spertus, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor, Daniel J. Lauer / Missouri Endowed Chair in Metabolic and Vascular Disease Research, Clinical Director
Department(s) of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Internal Medicine
Section: CV Disease
Saint Luke's Hospital
Specialties and Research/Medical Interests
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Russ Waitman, Ph.D.
Professor, Director, Center for Health Insights, Director, NextGen Precision Health Initiative
Department(s) of Biomedical and Health Informatics
UMKC School of Medicine
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Saman Zeeshan, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Department(s) of Biomedical and Health Informatics
UMKC School of Medicine