Health Informatics Faculty

Program Administration and Advising

Dr. Janusz Wojtusiak, Director, Programs in Health Informatics
Dr. Farrokh Alemi, Dr. Abdul Hafeez, and Dr. Hua Min, Faculty graduate advisors
Dr. Sanja Avramovic, Faculty undergraduate advisor
Maria Perez, Undergraduate student advisor
Julio Diaz-Carroll, Undergraduate student advisor

Full-Time Faculty

Farrokh Alemi, PhD

Professor
Research Interests: Causal inference, direct to consumer information services, analysis of streaming real-time data, multimorbidity prognosis
Teaching: MS and PhD level courses. See open online courses. 
CPH Profile: https://publichealth.gmu.edu/profiles/falemi 
Personal Website: LinkedIn
See here for publications list.

Sanja Avramovic, PhD

Associate Professor
Research Interests: Health Informatics, databases, data mining, predictive modeling
Teaching: MS and BS level courses in databases, health information systems and data mining.
CPH profile: https://publichealth.gmu.edu/profiles/savramov 
IBI: https://ibi.gmu.edu/faculty-directory/sanja-avramovic/ 
IDIA: https://idia.gmu.edu/faculty-directory/sanja-avramovic/ 
Personal website: http://mason.gmu.edu/~savramov/

Eman ElAshkar, PhD

Assistant Professor 
Research Interests: Ethical artificial intelligence in healthcare, machine learning, clinical decision support, clinical data analysis, knowledge representation 
Teaching: Technical and non-technical courses for Health Informatics graduate level. Advanced Health Information Systems, Health Data Standards & Vocabulary, Bio-Ontologies,  Introduction to Health Informatics, Health Informatics Capstone Practicum 
CPH Profile: https://publichealth.gmu.edu/profiles/eelashka

Abdul Hafeez, PhD

Assistant Professor 
Research Interests: Health informatics, databases, data analytics, machine learning, cloud computing 
Teaching: MS and BS level courses in databases. 
CPH Profile: https://publichealth.gmu.edu/profiles/ahafeez7 
Personal Website: LinkedIn

Y. Alicia Hong, PhD

Professor
Research Interests: Digital health, telehealth, personalized behavioral intervention, program planning and evaluation, patient-centered health outcomes, patient-provider communication in the digital context
Teaching: MS and PhD level courses in social determinants of health, mHealth, telehealth, systematic review, scientific communication.
CPH profile: https://publichealth.gmu.edu/profiles/yhong22
See here for publications list.

Hua Min, PhD

Associate Professor
Research Interests: Medical ontologies and applications, data standards, data integration and analysis from different EHR systems
Teaching: MS and BS level courses in data standards and vocabularies, data integration.
CPH profile: https://publichealth.gmu.edu/profiles/hmin3

Hedyeh Mobahi, PhD

Assistant Professor 
Research Interests: Machine learning, data mining, health informatics 
Teaching: BS level courses in health informatics
CPH profile: https://publichealth.gmu.edu/profiles/hmobahi2

Jinshan Tang, PhD

Professor
Research Interests:  Medical image analysis, medical imaging, computer-aided cancer detection, AI for COVID-19 detection, computational biology and bioinformatics, big medical data analysis   
Teaching:  PhD and MS level courses in health informatics  
CPH Profile: https://publichealth.gmu.edu/profiles/jtang25 
Personal Website: https://mason.gmu.edu/~jtang25/MyWeb/index.htm

Janusz Wojtusiak, PhD

Professor
Director, Programs in Health Informatics and Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, clinical decision support, temporal and spatiotemporal data analysis, modeling of patient outcomes
Teaching: MS and PhD level courses in data mining, artificial intelligence applied in health.
CPH profile: https://publichealth.gmu.edu/profiles/jwojtusi
Personal website: https://www.mli.gmu.edu/jwojt/

Hong Xue, PhD

Associate Professor
Research Interests: Health economics, nutritional epidemiology, systems modeling, obesity, tobacco use, mHealth, and big data and machine learning in noncommunicable disease research
Teaching: MS and PhD level courses in research methods and health informatics.
CPH profile: https://publichealth.gmu.edu/profiles/hxue4

Phillip Zane, JD

Assistant Professor 
Research Interests: Healthcare law, antitrust & competition law, law & economics, legal history 
Teaching: BS level courses in cybersecurity 
CPH profile: https://www.gmu.edu/profiles/pzane

Select Part-time and Adjunct faculty

Diana Ciricean, MD, MS, IT Methods
Timothy P. Coffin, PhD, Databases and Health Information Systems
Joo Li Lee, MS, Computational Tools and IT Methods
James L. Oakes, Health Information Systems
Afshin Pashai, MBA, Mobile Health
Andrew S. Ritcheson, Health Information Systems
Farhad Safaie, IT Project Management
Kathie Westpheling, Coordination of undergraduate information internship courses