Featured members

Akbar Waljee, MD, MSc

Email: awaljee@umich.edu IHPI Profile Biography Dr. Waljee uses novel artificial intelligence / machine learning techniques to implement decision support systems and tools that facilitate more personalized care for disease management and healthcare utilization to ultimately deliver efficient, effective and equitable therapy for chronic diseases. To test and advance these general principles, he has built operational…

Don Likosky, PhD

Email: likosky@umich.edu IHPI Profile Featured Member Dr. Don Likosky is a health services researcher with a focus on applied epidemiology. He was featured by the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation in September 2019. What drew you to MiCHAMP? I have been increasingly interested in MiCHAMP given the robust clinician and data science expertise housed…

Sean Meyer, MBA

Email: seameyer@med.umich.edu Featured Member Sean Meyer is a doctoral student working with Dr. Karandeep Singh. His research focuses on clinical early warning systems. What drew you to MiCHAMP? I became interested in MiCHAMP because of the collaboration across disciplines essential in solving complex healthcare challenges. The seminar presentations demonstrate and inspire innovation in health and…

Joyce Lee, MD, MPH

Email: joyclee@umich.edu IHPI Profile Featured Member Dr. Joyce Lee is an innovative leader in bringing thoughtful design to academic medicine. She believes that using patient-centered participatory design and harnessing the maker movement creates opportunities for innovation. What drew you to MiCHAMP? I am a diabetes specialist and health services researcher with a research agenda that…

Ryan Stidham, MD, MS

IHPI Profile Featured Member Ryan Stidham is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and a translational scientist, caring exclusively for patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis at the University of Michigan Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dr. Stidham received his medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and completed…

Hamid Ghanbari, MD

Email: ghhamid@med.umich.edu IHPI Profile Featured Member What drew you to MiCHAMP? I was drawn by MiCHAMP’s multidisciplinary and collaborative environment. It provides an ideal forum for people from diverse backgrounds to discuss important questions in healthcare. What specific expertise do you bring to MiCHAMP? I am a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist with an expertise in the…

Michael Mathis, MD

Email: mathism@med.umich.edu IHPI Profile Featured Member What drew you to MiCHAMP? I’ve been drawn to MiCHAMP, as it provides a forum for some of the most intelligent and highly-trained UM faculty and graduates to showcase their work and receive feedback from a multidisciplinary panel of expert clinicians, epidemiologists, and data scientists. What specific expertise do…

Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc

Email: kdpsingh@umich.edu IHPI Profile Featured Member What drew you to MiCHAMP? I was drawn by its interdisciplinary membership and biweekly seminars. Data science, biostatistics, and machine learning are domain areas with separate perspectives and approaches to addressing a variety of health problems. Through a diverse membership that includes methodologists and clinical experts, the seminars provide…

Jeremy Sussman, MD, MS

Email: jeremysu@med.umich.edu IHPI Profile Featured Member What drew you to MiCHAMP? The opportunity to meet with a cross-disciplinary group of leading academics who were all interested in understanding how better use of data could improve healthcare. What specific expertise do you bring to MiCHAMP? I’m a primary care doctor, clinical epidemiologist, and health services researcher.…

Mike Sjoding, MD

Email: msjoding@med.umich.edu IHPI Profile Featured Member What drew you to MiCHAMP? MiCHAMP was really the perfect group for me because it so nicely aligns with my own research interests. MiCHAMP regularly brings together a group of really smart people with complimentary expertise, clinical researchers, statisticians, engineers, computer scientists, interested in solving tough problems in healthcare using…