Speakers: Abu Mosa, PhD

Abu Mosa, PhD

Sr. Director of Informatics Technology
Assistant Research Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Core Faculty of Institute for Data Science and Informatics (PhD Program)
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
NextGen Biomedical Informatics Center
University of Missouri School of Medicine

 

Abu Saleh Mohammad Mosa, PhD is the Sr. Director of Informatics Technology at the NextGen Biomedical Informatics (NextGen BMI) Center at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. He is an Assistant Research Professor of Biomedical Informatics, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, a member of the Core Faculty of the Institute for Data Science and Informatics. Previously, Dr. Mosa served as the Director of Research Informatics for the School of Medicine and the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science since 2013. Dr. Mosa obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, followed by a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University College Dublin, and a Doctoral degree in Health Informatics from the University of Missouri. Dr. Mosa received the NIH Data Science Rotations for Advancing Discovery (RoAD-Trip) Fellowship in 2018 and received the honor of 2020 inductee of the Fellow of American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA). Dr. Mosa served as the principal investigator (PI) and co-investigator for numerous extramural research grants funded by PCORI, NIH, AHRQ, State of Missouri, and industry partners. He also serves as the site-PI for MU’s participation in the Greater Plains Collaborative (GPC) PCORNet Clinical Research Network, which is a national healthcare data infrastructure grant funded by PCORI. His research interests fall within the subdiscipline of biomedical informatics for supporting the mission of biomedical and clinical research, which include: (a) the application of data science techniques for real-world data management, warehousing and mining for developing, implementing and disseminating the 21st century data-driven research infrastructure, and (b) the innovative uses of EHR to support clinical and translational research and the learning health system, with the goal of healthcare innovation, patient-centered outcomes improvement and precision medicine application. He has extensive research expertise in large scale healthcare data management, warehousing, and mining. These ranges from the development of clinical research data warehouse for institutional electronic health record data to the establishment of data coordinating center for prospective electronic data collection in clinical studies.