People

Leadership

Nirav Merchant Interim Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics & Biostatistics

Vern Pilling Director, Biomedical Informatics Services vpilling@medadmin.arizona.edu

Dean Billheimer, PhD Director, Statistical Consulting dean.billheimer@arizona.edu

Senior Faculty Members

Bonnie LaFleur, PhD Research Professor, BIO5 Institute 520-626-9462 blafleur@email.arizona.edu

Edward J. Bedrick, PhD Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics edwardjbedrick@email.arizona.edu

Staff & Research Professors

Colleen Kenost, EdD, MPH Director, Strategic Operations ckenost@email.arizona.edu

Terry Smith Specialist, Biomedical Informatics REDCap Manager tsmith6@medadmin.arizona.edu

Shannon M. Knapp, PhD Statistician, BIO5 Institute sknapp@statlab.bio5.org

Shripad Sinari, MS Statistician, BIO5 Institute shripad@email.arizona.edu

Brian Hallmark, PhD Assistant Research Professor , StatLab bhallmark@statlab.bio5.org

Dave Parizek Senior Programmer dparizek@medadmin.arizona.edu

Raymond "Yuan" Shang, PhD Research Specialist, Principal yshang@medadmin.arizona.edu

Julia Fisher, PhD Assistant Research Professor, Stat Lab julia@statlab.bio5.org

Elmira Torabzadeh, MS Statistician, Stat Lab elmira@statlab.bio5.org

Haiquan Li, PhD Assistant Professor, Medicine Director, Translational Bioinformatics haiquan@email.arizona.edu

Manuel Snyder, MSc Senior Programmer (520) 626-7875 manuel@email.arizona.edu

Tanyha Zepeda Database Administrator II tanyha@arizona.edu

Affiliated Faculty Members

Mary Davis, PhD, RN, CPHQ Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Nursing

Sheila M. Gephart, PhD, RN, FAAN Associate Professor, College of Nursing DNP-Informatics Specialty Coordinator

Jessica G. Rainbow, PhD, RN Assistant Professor, College of Nursing

Walter W. Piegorsch, PhD Director, Statistical Research and Education wpiegors@email.arizona.edu

Andrew D. Boyd, MD Associate Professor, Biomedical and Health Information Sciences University of Illinois at Chicago

Francesca Vitali, PhD Research Assistant Professor Director of Bioinformatics, Center for Innovation in Brain Science (CIBS) francescavitali@email.arizona.edu

A. Grant Schissler, PhD Assistant Professor, Statistics Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Nevada, Reno

Barbara B. Brewer PhD, RN, MALS, MBA, FAAN Professor, College of Nursing

Kimberly Shea, PhD RN Clinical Associate Professor, College of Nursing Coordinator, Rural Telehealth Certificate Program

Vignesh Subbian, PhD Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor, Systems and Industrial Engineering Assistant Professor, BIO5 Institute Assistant Professor, Clinical Translational Sciences Assistant Professor, Statistics-GIDP (520) 621-6559 vsubbian@email.arizona.edu

Mentored Faculty

Julio Duarte, PharmD (2013-present)

Ankit Desai, MD (2011-present)

Fellows & Students

Dillon Aberasturi

Samir Rachid Zaim