AMIA 2026 Annual Symposium Scientific Program Committee
Victoria Tiase, PhD, RN
Chair
University of Utah
Adela Grando, PhD, MCS, FAMIA, FACMI
Vice Chair
Arizona State University
Saif Khairat, PhD, MPH, FACMI, FAMIA
Vice Chair
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gilad Kuperman, MD, PhD
Vice Chair
Columbia University
Rachel Richesson, PhD, MPH, FACMI, FAMIA
Vice Chair
University of Michigan Medical School
Gillian Strudwick, RN, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA
Vice Chair
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health/University of Toronto
Yiye Zhang, PhD MS
Vice Chair
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University
| Name | Organization |
|---|---|
| Fares Alekseyenko, MD, MS, MSc, FAHA | University of Missouri |
| Alexander Alekseyenko, PhD, FAMIA, FACMI | Medical University of South Carolina |
| Gregory Alexander, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FIAHSI, FGSA | Columbia University School of Nursing |
| Jesse Anderson, DrPH, MPH | Johns Hopkins University |
| Mujeeb Basit, MD, MMSc | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
| John Robert Bautista, PhD, MPH, RN, FAMIA | University of Missouri-Columbia |
| Shamsi Berry, PhD | Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine |
| Jonathan Beus, MD, MSCR, FAAP, FAMIA | Children's Healthcare of Atlanta |
| Richard Boyce, PhD | University of Pittsburgh |
| Elise Brandon, MD MPH | US NAVY |
| Juliana Brixey, PhD, MPH, RN | UTHealth Houston |
| Jennifer Browne, PhD, RN, CCRN | University of Incarnate Word |
| Qingyu Chen, PhD | Yale University |
| Hwayoung Cho, PhD, RN | University of Florida College of Nursing |
| Judith Dexheimer, PhD | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center |
| Julie Doberne, MD, PhD | Oregon Health & Science University |
| Brian Douthit, PhD, RN, NI-BC | Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University |
| Thomas East, PhD | Western Michigan University Homer Stryker Medical School |
| Susan Fenton, PhD | UTHealth Houston McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics |
| Jose Florez-Arango, MD MS PhD | University of Arizona |
| Carol Geary, PhD, MBA, RN, FAMIA | UNMC |
| John Gossey, MD, MS, MPH | Weill Cornell Medicine |
| Yongqun He, PhD | University of Michigan |
| Vitaly Herasevich, MD, PhD, FCCM, FAMIA | Mayo Clinic |
| Mollie Hobensack, PhD, RN, NI-BC | Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| Felix Holl, PhD, MPH, M.Sc., FAMIA | Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences |
| A J Holmgren, PhD | University of California, San Francisco |
| Jan Horsky, PhD | Novo Nordisk |
| Bradley Iott, MPH, PhD | University of Michigan |
| Silis Jiang, PhD | Weill Cornell Medicine |
| Josette Jones, RN, PhD | Indiana University Indianapolis |
| Joseph Kannry, MD | Mount Sinai Health System |
| Katherine Kim, PhD, MPH, MBA, FAMIA | University of California Davis |
| Emily Kraus, MPH PHD | MITRE Organization |
| Hye-Chung Kum, PhD | Population Informatics Lab, SPH, Texas A&M University |
| Young Ji Lee, PhD, MSN , RN, FAAN | University of Pittsburgh |
| Russell Leftwich, MD, FAMIA | InterSystems Corporation |
| Deborah Levy, MD, MPH, MS, FAMIA | Department of Veterans Affairs |
| Xiaojin Li, PhD | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
| Feifan Liu, PhD | University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School |
| Nan Liu, PhD | National University of Singapore |
| Bill Lober, MD | University of Washington |
| Rameshbabu Manyam, PhD | Rollins Schooll of Public Health, Emory University |
| James McClay, MD | University of Missouri |
| Thomas McCoy, MD | Mass General Hospital |
| Abu Mosa, PhD, MS, FAMIA | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| Denis Newman-Griffis, PhD | University of Sheffield |
| Vickie Nguyen, PhD, MA, MS | Consultant |
| Craig Norquist, MD | HonorHealth |
| Sang Pak, PT, DPT, ACHIP | UCSF |
| Alan Pan, PhD | Houston Methodist |
| Deepti Pandita, MD, FACP, FAMIA | University of California Irvine |
| Deepti Pandita, MD, FACP, FAMIA | University of California Irvine |
| Carlos Luis Parra-Calderon, PhD | Virgen del Rocio University Hospital - Institute of Biomedicine of Seville |
| Santosh Philips, PhD, MBA, MS, BPharm | Indiana University |
| Fernanda Polubriaginof, MD PhD | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
| Alyssa Pradhan, MBBS | Oxford University |
| Saptarshi Purkayastha, PhD | Indiana University, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering |
| Pallavi Ranade, PhD, MS, FAMIA | Intermountain Health |
| Kirk Roberts, PhD | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
| Adam Rule, PhD | University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Hojjat Salmasian, MD, MPH, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
| Arash Shaban-Nejad, PhD, MSc, MPH, FAMIA | University of Tennessee Health Science Center |
| Li Shen, PhD, FAIMBE, FACMI, FAMIA | University of Pennsylvania |
| Roy Simpson, DNP, RN, FAAN, FACMI | Emory University |
| Neil Smalheiser, MD-PhD | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Jiyoun Song, PhD | University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing |
| Wenyu Song, PhD | Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School |
| Sarvesh Soni, PhD | National Library of Medicine (NLM) |
| Katherine Sward, PhD | University of Utah |
| Umit Topaloglu, PhD | National Cancer Institute |
| Frank Ueckert, University Professor | University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf |
| Kim Unertl, PhD | Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| Kavishwar Wagholikar, MBBS, PhD | Harvard Medical School /MGH |
| Ann Wieben, PhD, RN NI-BC FAMIA | University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing |
| Huanmei Wu, FAMIA, PhD | Temple University |
| Yonghui Wu, PhD | University of Florida |
| Feng Xie, PhD | University of Minnesota |
| Carl Yang, PhD | Emory University |
| Rui Yin, PhD | University of Florida |
| Leming Zhou, PhD, FAMIA | University of Pittsburgh |
| Yan Zhuang, PhD | Indiana University |
