Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Paula Ehrlich, DVM, PhD

President & CEO
E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation

Chethan Sarabu, MD

Director of Clinical Innovation for the Health Tech Hub
Cornell Tech


 

SPEAKERS

Jenifer Allsworth, PhD

Vice Chair of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Associate Professor
University of Missouri Kansas City

Alexander Alsup, PhD

Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Biostatistics & Data Science
University of Kansas Medical Center

Nate Apathy, PhD

Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management
University of Maryland

Todd Bradley, PhD

Director of Immunogenomics, Genomic Medicine Center, Children’s Mercy
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UMKC School of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; and Microbiology, Molecular Genetic and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center

Erin Ealba Bumann, DDS, PhD

Associate Professor (tenured)
Department of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences
University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Dentistry

Jianlin (Jack) Cheng, PhD

Curators’ Distinguished Professor
Paul K. and Diane Shumaker Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
NextGen Precision Health
University of Missouri

Martina Clarke, PhD

Assistant Professor
School of Interdisciplinary Informatics
University of Nebraska Omaha

Sharlee Climer, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Missouri – St. Louis

Kimberly DeWitt

Chief Data Officer
State of Kansas

Prerna Dua, PhD

Professor
Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
School of Medicine
University of Missouri-Kansas City

Randi Foraker, PhD

Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics
Biostatistics & Medical Epidemiology
University of Missouri School of Medicine

Mark Hoffman, PhD

Chief Research Information Officer, Children’s Mercy Research Institute

Abby Kietzman

Manager of Research Informatics Experience
Children’s Mercy

Sandra Langeslag, PhD

Associate Professor
Psychological and Brain Sciences
University of Missouri – St. Louis

Randy Logan, PhD

Scientific Director
BioNexus KC

Sumner Magruder, PhD

AI Fellow
Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Craig Mason

Founder & CEO
Myndset

Jocelyn McDonald, PhD

Professor, Division of Biology
Kansas State University

Jasmine Neupane, PhD

Assistant Professor of Agricultural Systems Technology
Division of Plant Science and Technology
University of Missourri

Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi, PhD

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
Missouri State University

Gayla Olbricht, PhD

Associate Professor of Statistics
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Dong Pei, PhD

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics & Data Science
University of Kansas Medical Center

Daniel Shank, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychological Science
Missouri University of Science & Technology

Ananya Sharma

Founder and CEO, Cyclea LLC
Medical Student, University of Missouri Kansas City

Jorge Soberon, PhD

University Distinguished Professor
University of Kansas

Xing Song, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medical Epidemiology
University of Missouri

 

Zohreh Talebizadeh, PhD

Senior Director of RARE-X Research Program
Global Genes

J. Sailor Usher

Augmented & Virtual Reality Coordinator
University of Missouri Kansas City

Jieqiong Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Sciences
University of Nebraska Medical Center

Brad White, DVM

Professor, E.J. Frick Chair
Director Beef Cattle Institute
Kansas State University
College of Veterinary Medicine

Sam Windham, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine
University of Kansas Medical Center

Scott Younger, PhD

Director of Disease Gene Engineering, Genomic Medicine Center
Children’s Mercy Kansas City