Paul A. Harris, PhD, FACMI, FIAHSI
Paul Harris, PhD, is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biomedical Engineering, and Biostatistics with extensive experience working in the field of clinical and translational research informatics. He serves as Director of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Office of Research Informatics and is very active in the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) informatics community. In addition to supporting the Vanderbilt University research enterprise, Dr. Harris devised and created REDCap (www.projectredcap.org), a data collection platform that has seen widespread adoption by more than 3600 institutional partners and over 1 million end-users across 131 countries. He also created and runs a national program (www.researchmatch.org) designed to match individuals wishing to volunteer for studies and researchers recruiting patients for studies and trials. ResearchMatch is serving approximately 150,000 research volunteers and 165 research institutions. He has extensive experience teaching principles and applied methods for research data management in the form of short courses, symposia, and MOOC format).
Ali Yaqoob, MSc
Megan Lancaster, MD, PhD
Sara Lynn Block, BS
Erin Whiting, BS
Kelly Hammonds
Nataraja Vaitinadin MBBS, PhD, MPH
Andrei Bombi, PhD
Minoo Bagheri, PhD
Minoo Bagheri, PhD, MSc, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She has an interest in genomics, metabolomics, and multi-omic interrogation of cardiometabolic disease and performed epidemiological, multi-omic translational research in Nutritional Sciences. Her background is in nutritional epidemiology and big data analysis, and during her graduate studies at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, and Harvard Chan School of Public Health, she gained extensive experience in identification of metabolomic biomarkers of diet and disease. She became interested in the role of genetics in disease, and pursued postdoctoral work in genomics and metabolomics, first at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and second at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Bagheri’s current projects include integrating multi-omics and nutritional data with clinical data to improve the understanding of the molecular basis of cardiometabolic disease, prediction of therapeutic responses and risk of adverse effects, and implementation of cutting-edge approaches and new tools towards the goal of more personalized nutrition.