ABOUT

Mission

About MiCHAMP

MiCHAMP was awarded a $1.25 million Health Sciences grant from the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) for its proposal “From Big Data to Vital Insights”. Experts led by Dr. Brahmajee Nallamothu MD, MPH (Internal Medicine – Cardiovascular Medicine) from the U-M Medical School, College of Engineering, School of Nursing, School of Public Health, and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts are poised to tackle several compelling projects. The MIDAS Health Sciences grant focused on a core methodological problem that currently limits health research—exploiting patterns in data that evolve over time for novel discovery and prediction. Although healthcare produces an extraordinary amount of patient information, patterns of disease trajectories are frequently overlooked in favor of simplistic “snapshots” reflecting only a single moment in time. By incorporating more complex information about changes over time, we hope to improve medical prediction models. Our work addresses several pressing healthcare problems, including: (1) acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) (i.e., sudden lung injury resulting from critical illness) and (2) chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection (i.e., a long-term infection that may lead to severe liver disease). In addition, a critical and unique aspect of MiCHAMP is to develop a novel computational platform to enable the sharing, reusing, and remixing of data and models.

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Our Team

Akbar Waljee, MD, MSc

Director

Brahmajee Nallamothu, MD, MPH

Co-Director

Ji Zhu, PhD

Associate Director

Rebecca Breitner, BSW

Administrative Assistant

Brad Trumpower, MS

Research Coordinator

Our Advisory Board

John Ayanian, MD, MPP

Director of Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation (IHPI)

Ivo Dinov, PhD

Associate Director for Education and Training, Michigan Institute for Data Science

Karen Farris, PhD

Chair, Clinical Pharmacy

Charles Friedman, PhD

Chair, Learning Health Science

David Hanauer, MD, MS

Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics Ambulatory Care Program

Patricia Hurn, PhD, RN

Dean, School of Nursing

HV Jagadish, PhD

Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Sachin Kheterpal, MD, MBA

Associate Professor, Anesthesiology

Anne Sales, PhD, RN

Professor, Learning and Knowledge Systems

Kevin Ward, MD

Professor, Emergency Medicine

Associated Researchers

Anesthesiology

Mike Burns, MD
Douglas A Colquhoun, MB, ChB, MSc, MPH
Michael Mathis, MD
Amy Shanks, PhD
John Vandervest, MS

Cardiovascular Medicine / Cardiac Surgery

Eric Brandt, MD
Matthew Corriere, MD, MS
Hamid Ghanbari, MD
Jessica Golbus, MD
Kashvi Gupta, MBBS, MPH
Chris Huang, BA
Donald Likosky, PhD, MS
Venk Murthy, MD, PhD
Supriya Shore, MD, MSCS

Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics

Sardar Ansari, PhD
Kayvan Najarian, PhD
Arvind Rao, PhD
Elyas Sabeti, PhD
S.M. Reza Soroushmehr, PhD
Cooper Stansbury, Student

Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Sameer Berry, MD
Shirley Cohen-Mekelburg, MD
Samuel Handelman, PhD
Eileen Weinheimer-Haus, PhD, RD
Andrew Read, MD
Sameer Saini, MD
Ryan Stidham, MD
Monica Tincopa, MD

General Medicine

Jacob Mack, MD, BS
Larry McMahon, MD, MPH
Jeremy Sussman, MD, MS
Melissa Yun-sun Wei, MD

Internal Medicine

Cornelius James, MD
Naresh Gunaratnam, MD
Viji Nair, MS
Stephanie Owyang, MD

Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation

Tanima Basu, MS
Patrick Brady, MHA
Neil Kamdar, MA
Paul Lin, MS
Sophia Ng, PhD
Kristian Seiler

Learning Health Sciences

Elliott Brannon, MPH
Brinda Gokul, Student
Andrew Krumm, PhD
Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc
Vinod Vydiswaran, PhD
Kevin Wheelock, Student

College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Elizabeth Austic, PhD, MSI, MSW
Richard Gonzalez, PhD
James Henderson, PhD
Cheng Ma
Kerby Shedden, PhD
Weijing Tang, BS
Xianshi Yu

Michigan Engineering

Raed Al Kontar, PhD
Nikola Banovic, PhD, MSc
Karthik Duraisamy, PhD
Ian Fox, BS
Sarah Jabbour, BSE, BBA
Erkin Otles
Sean Meyer, MBA
Jiaxuan Wang, BS
Jenna Wiens, PhD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Anna Kratz, PhD
Daniel Whibley, PhD

Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

Jack Iwashyna, MD, PhD
Hallie Prescott, MD, MSc
Michael Sjoding, MD
Liz Viglianti, MD, MPH

School of Nursing

Marcy Harris, PhD, RN
Yun Jiang, PhD, MS, RN

School of Public Health

Mousumi Banerjee, PhD
Adam Markovitz, BA
Jeff McCullough, PhD
Edward Norton, PhD
Andy Ryan, PhD
Yongwen Zhuang, MS

College of Pharmacy

Corey Lester, MS, PhD, PharmD
Mike Dorsch, MS, PharmD
Jasmine Luzum, PharmD, PhD

Other Researchers

Charu Chandra, PhD, Business, U-M
Rajan Dewar, MBBS, Pathology, U-M
Tim Guetterman, PhD, Creighton University
Sejal Gunaratnam, Student, U-M
Shawn Kim, DMD, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, U-M
Joyce Lee, MD, Pediatrics, U-M
Sean Ma, PhD, Henry Ford
Elham Mahmoudi, PhD, MBA, Family Medicine, U-M
Porama (Koy) Thanaporn, MD, Hospital Medicine, U-M
Beth Wallace, MD, Rheumatology, U-M
Deahan Yu, School of Information, U-M
Alex Zheutlin, Health Information Technology & Services, U-M