Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM)

Principal Investigators

• Jeffery Talbert, PhD 

• V. K. Cody Bumgardner, PhD   

• Xiaoqin Jennifer Wang, MD, MS   
   

Research Priority Areas

Cancer, Neuroscience, Substance Use Disorder, Cardiovascular, Diabetes, and Obesity

How to Join

Potential scientific collaborators may contact either of the principal investigators listed above for more information, or contact James Aaron

Summary

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are transforming biomedical research and health care delivery, enhancing clinical care, and speeding scientific discovery.  The recent coalescence of big data, accelerated computing, and deep learning has yielded remarkable results across research discovery and translational medicine. AI has emerged as a promising tool to improve patient outcomes and reduce cost by providing insights from clinical data across medical domains, including cancer, neuroscience, aging, substance use disorder, etc..

To develop AI methods for transdisciplinary research in medicine, investigators need programmatic access to data, methods to correlate records, and expert knowledge to curate the data across domain-specific repositories. The Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) alliance will advance data-driven science across health-centered research priority areas (RPAs) and potentially open new areas of transdisciplinary research inquiry on AI application in medicine. Our initial work will focus on radiology, pathology, and laboratory data to support UK’s strategic RPAs. We also have formal collaborations with the Markey Cancer Center, the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, and the Institute for Biomedical Informatics.

The AIM leadership team includes Jeffery Talbert, PhD, division chief for biomedical informatics and director of the Institute for Biomedical Informatics; Cody Bumgardner, PhD, of the department of pathology and laboratory medicine, with a joint appointment in computer science; and Xiaoqin Jennifer Wang, MD, MS, of the department of radiology and the Markey Cancer Center.

Alliance Members

• Paul Anaya, MD, PhD, Associate Professor - Department of Internal Medicine
• Jihye Bae, PhD, Assistant Professor – College of Engineering
• Therese Bocklage, MD, Professor – Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Joe Brewer, M.Arch, Director of Technology – College of Design
• Cody Bumgardner, Phd, Assistant Professor – Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Ana Bastos de Carvalho, MD, Assistant Professor - Department of Ophthalmology
• Jin Chen, PhD, Associate Professor – Department of Internal Medicine
• Quan Chen, PhD, Associate Professor – Department of Radiation Medicine
• Johnson Deshommes, MD, Visiting Scholar - Department of Radiology
• Robert DiPaola, MD, Interim Provost
• Eric Durbin, DrPH, Associate Professor – Department of Internal Medicine
• Mark Ebbert, PhD, Assistant Professor – Sanders Brown Center on Aging
• Riham El Khouli, MD, PhD, Associate Professor – Department of Radiology
• Sally Ellingson, PhD, Assistant Professor – Department of Internal Medicine
• Mark Evers, MD, Director, Markey Cancer Center – Department of Surgery
• David Fardo, PhD, Professor – College of Public Health
• Halemane Ganesh, MD, MBBS, Associate Professor – Department of Radiology
• Luis Sanchez Giraldo, PhD, Assistant Professor – College of Engineering
• Charles Griffith, MD,  Interim Dean - College of Medicine
• Peter Hardy, PhD, Associate Professor – Department of Radiology
• Stephen Hobbs, MD, Associate Professor – Department of Radiology
• Bahaaeldeen Ismail, MD, Assistant Professor - Department of Internal Medicine
• Nathan Jacobs, PhD, Professor – College Engineering
• Darrell Jennings, MD, Professor – Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Phil Kern, MD, Professor – Director of Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences
• Jill Kolesar, PharmD, Professor – Department of Internal Medicine
• Kirby Mayer, DPT, PhD, Assistant Professor - College of Health Sciences
• Justin Miller, PhD, Assistant Professor – Sanders-Brown Center on Aging
• Elizabeth Oates, Chair and Professor – Department of Radiology
• Shivani Pahwa, MD, Assistant Professor - Department of Radiology
• Shadi Qasem, MD, Professor – Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Qing Shao, PhD, Assistant Professor - College of Engineering
• Jamie Sturgill, PhD, Assistant Professor - Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
• Jeff Talbert, PhD, Professor – Department of Internal Medicine
• Linda Van Eldik, PhD, Professor - Department of Neuroscience
• Paras Vora, MD, Resident Physician - Department of Ophthalmology
• Chi Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor – College of Public Health
• Jennifer Wang, MD, Assistant Professor – Department of Radiology
• Peng Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor – College of Engineering
• Qiang Ye, PhD, Professor - College of Arts and Sciences
• Min Yu, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor – Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Jie Zhang, PhD, Professor – Department of Radiology
• Joseph B. Zwischenberger, MD, Professor - Department of Surgery