Public Biography
Dr. Arash Shaban-Nejad is a leading expert in population and precision health informatics. He is currently an Associate Professor and Director of Population and Precision Health at the UTHSC-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Dr. Shaban-Nejad received his PhD and MSc in Computer Science from Concordia University, Canada, and an MPH from UC Berkeley, along with post-doctoral training at McGill University and additional training at Harvard School of Public Health. His interdisciplinary research focuses on health AI, explainable AI, large language models, predictive modeling, epidemiologic surveillance, and causal reasoning. He has published extensively, and his research has been funded by several federal, state, and international funding agencies.
Affiliations
Fellows of AMIA (FAMIA)
FAMIA stands for “Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association” and it recognizes the contributions and professional accomplishments of AMIA members who apply informatics skills and knowledge to their practice – be that in a clinical setting, a public or population health capacity, or as a clinical researcher.
Year Inducted
2026