office: 340-16 Lincoln Tower
phone: 614-688-9723
fax: 614-688-6600
email: AyseSelen.Yilmaz@osumc.edu

mailing address:

250 Lincoln Tower 
1800 Cannon Drive
Columbus, OH 43210

Education:

• M.S., Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando 2001
• B.S., Computer Science and Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul 1998

Areas of Expertise:

• Building workflows for processing variety of genomic data on cluster computing environment:
• Transcriptome, ExomeSeq and TargetedSeq, Whole Genome, ChipSeq, ATAC-Seq
• Sequencing Quality control
• Expression quantification
• Variant calling, annotation, filtering and  integrative genomics
• Pathway Enrichment Analysis

Selected Collaborations:

• Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology
• Division of Endocrinology
• Department of Surgery, Ohio State Comprehensive Wound Center
• Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics
• College of Veterinary Medicine
• OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center, James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute

 

office: Ackerman Road
phone: 614-688-9722
fax: 614-688-6600
email: Amy.Hite@osumc.edu

mailing address:

340 Lincoln Tower 
1800 Cannon Drive 
Columbus, OH 43210

Education:

• PhD., Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina, 2012
• B.S. Biosystem and Agriculture Engineering, University of Kentucky, 2004

Areas of Expertise:

• Next generation sequencing analysis including RNAseq, miRNAseq, exome-seq, and CHIPseq
• Ingenuity Pathway analysis
• Nanostring miRNA expression

Selected Collaborations:

• OSU-Comprehensive Cancer Center

 

Office: 340-02 Lincoln Tower
Phone: TBA
Fax: 614-688-6600
Email: anjun.ma@osumc.edu
 
Mailing address:
340 Lincoln Tower
1800 Cannon Drive
Columbus, OH 43210
 
Education:

• Ph.D., Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University, 2020
• M.S., Biology (plant genetics), South Dakota State University, 2017
• M.S., General Biology, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2014
• B.E., Bio-engineering, Nanjing Technology University, 2012
  

Areas of Expertise and research interests:

• Single-cell multi-omics analysis, including scRNA-seq, scATAC-seq, integrative data analysis.  
• Next-Generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis
• Machine learning/ artificial intelligence algorithm

 
Selected collaboration

• Pelotonia Institute for Immuno-Oncology
• Department of IM Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep

office: 340-34 Lincoln Tower
phone: 614-685-6494
fax: 614-688-6600
email: Cankun.Wang@osumc.edu

mailing address:

340-34 Lincoln Tower 
1800 Cannon Drive
Columbus, OH 43210

Education:

• M.S., Plant Science, South Dakota State University, 2019
• B.S., Software Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, 2017

Areas of Expertise:

• Next-generation sequencing data analysis
• Single-cell multi-omics data analysis
• Cloud infrastructure design, operation, and deployment
• Full-stack web applications and software development

Selected Collaborations:

• NIH SenNet Consortium Tissue Mapping Center
• Department of Neuroscience at OSU
• Center for Cardiovascular Research at Nationwide Children's Hospital

office: 340-06 Lincoln Tower
phone: 614-688-9634
fax: 614-688-6600
email: Patrick.Stevens@osumc.edu

mailing address:

340-06 Lincoln Tower 
1800 Cannon Drive
Columbus, OH 43210

Education:

• M.S., Bioinformatics, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis 2019 (ongoing) 
• B.S., Biology, Penn State Behrend, Erie, PA 2017

Research Interests:

• Understanding the chromatin interactions using Hi-C data.
• Expression quantification of single-cell RNA sequencing transcriptome data and integration of other single-cell genomic methods to predict cell subtypes
• Functional roles of RNA modifications across tissues and species
• Prediction of RNA modifications using third generation sequencing

Selected Collaborations:

• Department of microbial infection and immunity
• Department of Neurology

 

office: 340 Lincoln Tower
phone: 614-688-4778
fax: 614-688-6600
email: Garrett.Kinnebrew@osumc.edu

mailing address:

340 Lincoln Tower 
1800 Cannon Drive
Columbus, OH 43210

Education:

• M.D., Indiana University, School of Medicine, 2009
• B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2005

Areas of Expertise:

• Metabolomics Analysis, including experimental design, metabolite identification and quantification, and pathway analysis
• Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS) Analysis

 

phone: 614-685-9231
email:  Gabrielle.Kokanos@osumc.edu

Gabrielle has been with the department since 2014. As Education Program Manager, she serves as the primary point of contact for all education-related activities in our department, including all BMI courses, biomedical informatics masters programs, the  online certificate program, the biomedical informatics summer internship program, and many others. She manages the hiring process for trainees, postdoctoral scientists, and visiting scholars. Gabrielle plans departmental events that are educational, operational, or research-oriented in nature, including training workshops, research seminars and journal clubs, and departmental retreats. Students wanting more information about our Department's educational initiatives should contact Gabrielle via BMI.Education@osumc.edu or visit the education page for more details.

Email: Laura.Sullivan.2@osumc.edu

Center for Biostatistics
220 Lincoln Tower, 1800 Cannon Drive
Columbus, OH 43210

Education:

• Masters of Public Health, The Ohio State University, 2023
• BA, Biology, The Ohio State University, 2018
• Minor in Evolution, Ecology, Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, 2018

Areas of expertise:

• Project management implementation and execution
• Tracking and maintaining invoices and contracts

Selected collaborations:

• Nationwide Children's Hospital
• CTSA
• ASPIRES Method Core
• Secondary Data Core
• GMO, OSP

Email: Priya.Chhetri@osumc.edu

Center for Biostatistics
220 Lincoln Tower, 1800 Cannon Drive
Columbus, OH 43210

Education:

• BA, Communications, The Ohio State University, 2021

Areas of expertise:

Selected collaborations:

Email: Ryan.Norris@osumc.edu

Lincoln Tower, 1800 Cannon Drive
Office 250D
Columbus, OH 43210

Education

• MBA, Rider University, 2017
• Bachelors, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011

James Blachly, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine

Ümit V. Çatalyürek, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology

Alistair Erskine, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Chief Informatics Officer, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania

Randi Foraker, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology, College of Public Health

Jennifer Garvin, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Medicine

Gregg Gascon, PhD, CHDA
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Value Analytics Clinical Data Scientist, Ohio Health Group

Kun Huang, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Assistant Dean for Data Sciences, Indiana University College of Medicine

Kamer Kaya, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor, Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci Universitesi, Istanbul, Turkey

Albert M. Lai, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Associate Professor, Washington University St. Louis
Chief Research Information Officer, Washington University St. Louis

Omkar Lele, MS, MBA
Adjunct Instructor
Director, Informatics Research & Development, Department of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine

Marcelo A. Lopetegui Lazo, MD, MS
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Jefe de Servicio and Clinical Informatician, Clínica Alemana, Santiago, Chile

Ann McAlearney, ScD
Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine

Robert McKenney, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine

Philip R.O. Payne, PhD, FACMI
Adjunct Professor
Director, Institute for Informatics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Sheldon Retchin, MD, MSPH
Professor
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine

Phyllis Teater, MBA
Adjunct Instructor
Chief Information Officer, Wexner Medical Center

Daniel Walker, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine

Po-Yin Yen, PhD, RN
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor of General Medical Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis