Instructors

Michael Baltasi, PhD, has held leadership positions in corporate IT and university administration for over ten years. He currently serves as Deputy Director of the Center for Research Informatics at the University of Chicago. In this role, Baltasi oversees financial planning, marketing, and the...

Prashila Dullabh, MD, is a senior fellow and Health Informatics Program Area Director at NORC at the University of Chicago.  She is a clinician informatician with more than fifteen years of experience in informatics, healthcare and health services research.

At NORC, Dr. Dullabh directs technical...

An information security professional with an undergraduate degree in philosophy and a masters in computer science, both from the University of Chicago, Jason Edelstein’s experience covers everything from securing email gateways to academic systems management to teaching and mentoring. He works as...

Dan Exley has been a leader in analytics and informatics since leading major aspects of the Epic deployment at NorthShore University Health System in 2002—the first enterprise-wide Epic project. He created and lead the Analytics and Data Strategy division at MemorialCare Health System in Southern...

Larry Helseth, PhD, is a translational bioinformatician at NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, Illinois. He was trained as a biochemist, has both wet lab and dry lab experience, and has worked in both academics and the healthcare industry. His current role is developing software to...

Jane Hol is a pediatrician and fellowship-trained health services and outcomes researcher. She led the Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research and the Center for Education in Health Sciences at Northwestern University for more than ten years. Her academic activities focus on patient safety...

Cheng-Kai Kao, MD, is an assistant professor and academic hospitalist in the department of medicine where he is the medical director of informatics, chair of the clinical process review committee, and medical director of international patient services. He is board certified in clinical informatics...

Imran Khan currently serves as the Director of Clinical Research Strategic Initiatives at AbbVie, where he is responsible for strategic planning and execution of enterprise capabilities for the Drug Development Organization. Previously, Imran served on the Senior Management team at AbbVie for...

Dr. Liebovitz is a practicing internal medicine physician also board certified in clinical informatics with engineering training. He has led numerous information technology projects for use in clinical practice and research. Operational leadership experience includes former roles as Chief Medical...

Anoop Mayampurath is a senior research scientist at the Computation Institute and a senior statistician at the Center for Research Informatics, as well as an instructor for the MSCP program at the University of Chicago. His research interests lie in the application of statistical and machine...

Melvin S. Munsaka is a senior director and head of the Safety Statistics Group at AbbVie in the statistical sciences department. He has a PhD in mathematical statistics from Queen’s University in Canada, as well as an MSc in mathematical statistics and an MEd in mathematics from McGill University in...

Valerie Press is an assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics and is Executive Medical Director of specialty value-based care at the University of Chicago. She received her undergraduate, medical, and public health degrees from the University of Michigan before completing her internal medicine...

Krishna has been a leader in health care for more than fifteen years. He currently serves as a vice president of health data strategy and enterprise network operations at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of IL, MT, NM, OK, and TX, where he is responsible for developing and executing their health data...

A population health scientist and assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, Nicholas Soulakis’ research focus lies at the intersection of epidemiology and informatics with an emphasis on understanding the data-rich environment created by health...

Michael Stiehl, MS, is a senior policy analyst with Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. With over fifteen years of experience in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis, he brings an extensive understanding of how to successfully incorporate GIS into sound project planning...

Dr. Volchenboum is an expert in pediatric cancers and blood disorders. He has a special interest in treating children with neuroblastoma, a tumor of the sympathetic nervous system.

In addition to caring for patients, Dr. Volchenboum studies ways to harness information technology to enable...