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Biomedical & Health Informatics Faculty

The BHI Graduate Certificate, Master’s and PhD programs offer a broad, interdisciplinary mix of courses from which you can tailor a program that resonates with your interests. Faculty come from across Case Western Reserve University, including the School of Medicine, Weatherhead School of Management, and the School of Engineering.

Faculty

  • Portrait of Jeffrey M. Albert

    Jeffrey M. Albert, PhD

    Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Member, Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Email: jma13@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.1968

  • Portrait of William S. Bush, PhD

    William S. Bush, PhD

    Associate Director for Computational Genomics, Institute for Computational Biology
    Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Professor, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine

    Email: wsb36@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.0411

  • Dana Crawford headshot

    Dana Crawford, PhD

    Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Professor, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine
    Associate Director, Community and Population Research & Outreach, Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology

    Email: dana.crawford@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.0411

  • Portrait of Jacqueline Curtis

    Jacqueline Curtis, PhD

    Associate Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Member, Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
    Faculty Affiliate, Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health, School of Medicine

    Email: jacqueline.curtis@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.3065

  • Sara M. Debanne, PhD

    Sara M. Debanne, PhD

    Professor Emeritus, School of Medicine

    Email: sara.debanne@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.3895

  • Image of Alan Dowling

    Alan F. Dowling

    Adjunct Professor of Information Systems, Health Systems Management Center, Weatherhead School of Management
    Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case School of Engineering
    Adjunct Professor, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing

    Email: alan.dowling@case.edu

    Phone: 216.533.1143

  • Colin Drummond

    Colin Drummond, PhD, MBA

    Assistant Department Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
    Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

    Email: colin.drummond@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.6970

  • Scott Frank

    Scott Frank, MD, MS

    Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine
    Director Emeritus, Master of Public Health Program, School of Medicine

  • Darcy Freedman New Headshot

    Darcy Freedman, PhD, MPH

    Mary Ann Swetland Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Director, Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health, School of Medicine
    Core Faculty, Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, School of Medicine
    Secondary Faculty, Division of General Medical Sciences, Center for Community Health Integration, School of Medicine
    Secondary Faculty, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
    Faculty Associate, Schubert Center for Child Studies
    Member, Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Email: daf96@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.3060

  • Pingfu Fu PhD

    Pingfu Fu, PhD

    Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Member, Developmental Therapeutics Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Email: pxf16@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.3911

  • Jonathan L. Haines, PhD

    Jonathan L. Haines, PhD

    Chair, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Mary W. Sheldon MD Professor of Genomic Sciences, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Professor, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine
    Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, School of Medicine
    Founder and Director, Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology, School of Medicine

    Email: jonathan.haines@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.0411

  • Holly Hartman, PhD

    Holly Hartman, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Faculty Associate, Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, School of Medicine
    Member, Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Email: heh39@case.edu

  • headshot of Sudha Iyengar

    Sudha K. Iyengar, PhD

    Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Frederick C. Robbins, M.D. Professor in Child and Adolescent Health, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Professor, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine
    Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, School of Medicine
    Faculty, Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology, School of Medicine
    Member, Cancer Genomics and Epigenomics Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Email: sudha.iyengar@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.4388

  • David Kaelber 2025

    David Kaelber, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAP, FACP

    Chief Health Informatics Officer, MetroHealth System
    Associate Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Co-Director, Center for Education and Training in Health Informatics, Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology, School of Medicine
    Director, Center for Clinical Informatics Research and Education, The MetroHealth System

    Email: david.kaelber@case.edu

    Phone: 216.780.3722

  • photo of Jin E. Kim-Mozeleski, PhD

    Jin Kim-Mozeleski, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Faculty Associate, Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, School of Medicine
    Member, Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Email: jin.kim-mozeleski@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.6793

  • Kristina Knight, PhD, MPH

    Kristina Knight, PhD, MPH

    Assistant Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Associate Director, MPH Program, School of Medicine
    Faculty Associate, Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, School of Medicine

    Email: kristina.knight@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.3187

  • Siran M. Koroukian, PhD

    Siran M. Koroukian, PhD

    Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Professor, Center for Community Health Integration, School of Medicine
    Secondary Faculty, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
    Member, Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, School of Medicine

    Email: skoroukian@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.5816

  • Jing Li

    Jing Li, PhD

    Arthur L. Parker Professor, Department of Computer and Data Sciences, Case School of Engineering
    Faculty, Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology
    Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine

    Email: jing.li1@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.0356

  • Image of Nora Nock.

    Nora Nock, PhD, PE

    Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine
    Member, Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, School of Medicine

    Email: nora.nock@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.5653

  • Satya Sahoo, PhD

    Satya S. Sahoo, PhD

    Professor, Department of Population & Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Director, Biomedical & Health Informatics PhD Program, School of Medicine
    Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine
    Associate Professor, Computer and Systems Engineering, Case School of Engineering
    Associate Professor, Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Case School of Engineering
    Faculty, Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology

    Email: satya.sahoo@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.0532

  • Headshot of Abdus Sattar smiling.

    Abdus Sattar, PhD, LLM

    Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine

    Email: sattar@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.1501

  • Mark Schluchter, PhD

    Mark D. Schluchter , PhD

    Professor Emeritus, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine
    Member, Developmental Therapeutics Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Email: mds11@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.2651

  • Fred Schumacher headshot

    Fredrick R. Schumacher, PhD, MPH

    Associate Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Co-Leader, Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
    Faculty, Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology

    Email: frs2@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.0351

  • Mendel Singer, PhD, MPH

    Mendel E. Singer, PhD, MPH

    Associate Professor, Department of Population & Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Vice Chair for Education

    Email: mendel@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.1951

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    Lynn T. Singer, PhD

    Distinguished University Professor
    Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine
    Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine

    Email: lynn.singer@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.5948

  • Yeunjoo Song, PhD

    Yeunjoo E. Song, PhD

    Instructor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine

    Email: yeunjoo.song@case.edu

  • Dr. James Spilsbury

    James Spilsbury, PhD, MPH

    Associate Professor, Department of Population & Quantitative Health Sciences
    Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine
    Program Director, Department of Educational Programs in Clinical Research, School of Medicine
    Co-Director of PhD in Clinical Translational Science, Center for Clinical Investigation, School of Medicine
    Vice Chair of Education, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine

    Email: james.spilsbury@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.7559

  • Catherine M. Stein, PhD

    Catherine M. Stein, PhD

    Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine

    Email: catherine.stein@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.5631

  • Yilun Sun, PhD

    Yilun Sun , PhD

    Assistant Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Member, Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Email: yxs1212@case.edu

  • Daniel J. Tisch, PhD

    Daniel J. Tisch, PhD, MPH

    Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Director, Master of Public Health Program
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine
    Member of the Board of Directors, Association for Prevention Teaching and Research

    Email: daniel.tisch@case.edu

  • Erika Trapl headshot

    Erika S. Trapl, PhD

    Philip and Mary Wenclaw Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Director, Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, School of Medicine
    Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
    Interim Director, Institute for Population and Community Health, School of Medicine

    Email: erika.trapl@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.0098

  • Scott Williams, PhD

    Scott Williams, PhD

    Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Professor, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine
    Faculty, Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology

    Email: smw154@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.5659

  • Xiaofeng Zhu

    Xiaofeng Zhu, PhD

    Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Faculty, Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology

    Email: xxz10@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.0201