Precision Health Investigators Awards

2019 Investigators Awards

2019 Investigators Awards recipients and research topics

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Thomas Klumpner, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Obstetrics and Gynecology; Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc, Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences, Internal Medicine, Urology, and Information:
“Developing an Early Warning System for Treatment of Postpartum Hemorrhage Using Time-Series Machine Learning Models”

Danai Koutra, PhD, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Chandra Sripada, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Philosophy:
“Characterizing and Understanding Time-varying Functional Connectivity States via Network Science and Deep Neural Networks”

Rada Mihalcea, PhD, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Kenneth Resnicow, PhD, Professor of Health Behavior & Health Education; Veronica Perez-Rosas, PhD, Assistant Research Scientist, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science:
“Precision Counselor: Natural Language Processing for Enhanced Behavior Counseling”

Laura Rozek, PhD, Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences; Maureen Sartor, PhD, Associate Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics and Biostatistics; Arvind Rao, PhD, Associate Professor of  Radiation Oncology and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics:
“Synthesizing Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocyte Patterns with Genomic Measurements for Head and Neck Cancer Survival”

Kathleen Sienko, PhD, Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Xun Huan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering:
“Personalized Data-Driven Balance-Training Instruction and Assessment for Older Adults”

Michael Sjoding, MD, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-Pulmonary/Critical Care; David Fouhey, PhD, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering:
“Precision Diagnosis in Patients with Acute Dyspnea by Linking Imaging and Clinical Data”

Peter Todd, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology; Ryan E. Mills, PhD, Associate Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics and Human Genetics; Alan Boyle, PhD, Assistant Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics and Human Genetics:
“Short Tandem Repeats in Precision Health and Human Disease”*
(*co-funded by Precision Health and the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute)