WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS - Key Persons


Adam Wilcox

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine & Geriatrics

Aditi Gupta

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

Amy Reily

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Office of Health Information and Data Science

Andrea Krussel

Job Titles:
  • Director, Education and Workforce Development, Office of Health Information and Data Science

Andrew Atkinson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Dr. Atkinson is a statistician and methodologist providing ad hoc and project-driven support for interventional and observational studies. His research involves developing methods for handling missing data, the adoption of the estimand framework to improve clarity, and developing novel designs for clinical trials. He has a broad range of experience in the design and analysis of studies involving people living with HIV/AIDS, as well as projects investigating antibiotic resistance and healthcare associated infections. After studies in mathematics and statistics, he completed a PhD in Biostatistics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, on the development of methods for investigating informative missingness for time to event outcomes. Prior to moving to St Louis, he was head of the Data Science group in the Pediatric Research Center at the University Children's Hospital in Basel, Switzerland. Dr. Atkinson has a secondary appointment in the Infectious Diseases Division at Washington University School of Medicine.

Andrew P. Michelson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Andwele Jolly

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board

Aris Sotiras

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Radiology, School of Medicine

Bernard Becker

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chancellor for Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, WashU Medicine / Chief Health AI Officer, BJC Health System and WashU Medicine
Dr. Payne serves as the Chief Health AI Officer for BJC Health System and Washington University School of Medicine, and he is the founding director of their joint Center for Health AI. He also holds the Janet and Bernard Becker Professorship and is the founding director of the Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics (I2DB) at WashU Medicine. Additionally, Dr. Payne is a professor of general internal medicine and computer science and engineering. With over 300 publications, he leads a dynamic research group that addresses areas such as: 1) AI-driven methods for discovering and analyzing biomolecular and clinical phenotypes, 2) interventional applications of electronic health records and clinical decision support, 3) human factors and workflow optimization in healthcare IT, and 4) the development and assessment of data sharing and analytics platforms to support high-value, agile healthcare systems and research initiatives.

Beth Prusaczyk

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medical Sciences

Charles Goss

Job Titles:
  • Biostatistics Consulting Service
  • Director, Center for Biostatistics and Data Science / Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

Charles Gu

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Biostatistics

Chih-Hung Chang

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Occupational Therapy, Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery

Chris Shaffer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board

Cynthia Lindstrom Marich

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Staff, Office of Health Information and Data Science

Daphne Lew

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

DC Rao

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Biostatistics

Dennis Goldfarb

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, School of Medicine

Ellen Francka

Job Titles:
  • Senior HR Specialist, Office of Health Information and Data Science

Genevieve Melton-Meaux

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board

J. Philip Miller

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Biostatistics

Jessica Ancker

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board

Jessie Tenenbaum

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board

Jing Li

Job Titles:
  • Director, Administrative Data Core Services / Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medical Sciences

Jing Wang

Job Titles:
  • Director, Biostatistics Consulting Service / Professor of Biostatistics

Joanna Abraham

Job Titles:
  • Director, Center for Applied Health Informatics

Ken Schechtman

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Biostatistics

Kevin B. Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • FAAP, FAMIA, FACMI, FIAHSI / University of Pennsylvania

Lei Liu

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Director for Faculty Affairs and Research / Professor of Biostatistics

Ling Chen

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Dr. Chen joined WashU Medicine in 2009 after receiving her PhD in statistics from the University of Missouri. Prior to her PhD, she received MSPH in Biostatistics at the University in South Carolina and BS and MS at Beijing Medical University in China. Dr. Chen has been providing extensive support and collaboration for clinical research investigators across campus and her collaboration extended beyond WashU Medicine campus. Dr. Chen has developed innovative statistical methodology in clinical science research in various areas including missing data, survival analysis, longitudinal data analysis, multivariate analysis and sample size calculation. Her research work had significant impacts on clinical research and practice, both nationally and internationally.

Linying Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

Mackenzie Hofford

Job Titles:
  • Associate Chief Research Information Officer, School of Medicine / Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine School of Medicine

Peter Wang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

Richard Head

Job Titles:
  • Director, Center for Translational Bioinformatics / Professor of Genetics / Professor of Pathology and Immunology

RJ Waken

Job Titles:
  • Instructor of Biostatistics

Sabine Dietmann

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology / Assistant Professor of Medicine

Sherry Lassa-Claxton

Job Titles:
  • Director of Research IT for the Chief Research Information Officer

Soledad Fernandez

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board

Sunny Lin

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine & Geriatrics

Tara Payne

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Treva Rice

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Biostatistics

Vikas Jain

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • Founder and CEO, Aarogyam 3D Orthopaedics / Director of Global Healthcare & Lifesciences, RCS Advisors India Private Limited

William Dunagan

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine

Zachary Abrams

Job Titles:
  • Instructor of Biostatistics