Alumni Directory
Maxwell Oluwole Akanbi
Program: Health Services & Outcomes Research (HSOR)
Maxwell Oluwole Akanbi
Program: Health Services & Outcomes Research (HSOR)
Aparna Balakrishnan
Entry year: 2016
Program: Health Services and Outcomes Research (HSOR)
Advisor: Lucy Bilaver, PhD
Aparna Balakrishnan
Entry year: 2016
Program: Health Services and Outcomes Research (HSOR)
Advisor: Lucy Bilaver, PhD
Bio: Aparna received a BA in English Literature from Columbia University, and pursued a career in journalism before working in public health. In 2012, she completed a dual masters degree program in Public Health and Public Administration, also at Columbia University. For the four years in between finishing her Masters degrees and starting HSIP, she worked first as a cancer outcomes researcher in the Mount Sinai Medical System in New York City, and then managed an outreach program for underserved and immigrant cancer patients at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Aparna completed her PhD in 2022.
Publications:
Balakrishnan, A., Burdett, K., Kocherginsky, M., & Jordan, N. (2021). HSR21-043: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Surgery for Kidney Cancer: A SEER Analysis, 2007-2014, Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network J Natl Compr Canc Netw, 19(3.5), HSR21-043-HSR21-043.
Balakrishnan A, Jordan N. The Undocumented Elderly: Coverage Gaps and Low Health Care Use. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2019;30(3):891-898.
Buscemi J, Buitrago D, Iacobelli F, Penedo F, Maciel C, Guitleman J, Balakrishnan A, Corden M, Adler RF, Bouchard LC, Perez-Tamayo A, Yanez BR. Feasibility of a Smartphone-based pilot intervention for Hispanic breast cancer survivors: a brief report. Transl Behav Med. 2018 Jul 7.
Salva Balbale
Program: Health Services & Outcomes Research (HSOR)
Salva Balbale
Program: Health Services & Outcomes Research (HSOR)
Bio: Dr. Balbale is a Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology and the Center for Health Services & Outcomes Research at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She also serves as a Research Health Scientist in the Center of Innovation for Complex Chronic Healthcare at the Hines Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital. Her research interests include making healthcare safer, better coordinated, and more patient-centered for individuals with complex and chronic conditions, particularly digestive disorders. Salva earned her undergraduate and Master’s degrees in Public Health from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She then worked as a Research Analyst at the Hines VA, supporting studies designed to enhance care and outcomes for Veterans.
During her time in the Health Sciences Integrated Program (HSIP), Salva was an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) T32 pre-doctoral fellow. She also served as a teaching assistant, research assistant, and was awarded Northwestern’s Graduate Writing Fellowship. The doctoral program in Health Services and Outcomes Research enabled Salva to develop practical skills in leading health services research studies while expanding her methodological expertise. Her dissertation describes opioid use and opioid-related adverse events among Veterans with chronic digestive disorders who are dually enrolled in the VA and Medicare.
Dissertation Title: Safety of Opioid Use among Veterans with GI Symptoms and Disorders
Cynthia Barnard
Program: Health Quality and Patient Safety (HQPS)
Cynthia Barnard
Program: Health Quality and Patient Safety (HQPS)
Bio:
Dr. Barnard completed her undergraduate studies in Psychology at Bryn Mawr College, her MBA at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and a Master's degree in Jewish Studies at Spertus Institute. She serves as Vice President of Quality for the Northwestern Medicine system of seven hospitals and four medical practice groups. Cindy has served on the faculty of the Northwestern MS program in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety since its inception. She has held leadership roles in the National Association for Healthcare Quality, the Illinois Hospital Association, and the board of Project Patient Care, and has published in healthcare quality, patient safety, ethics and policy.
The doctoral program in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety, within the Health Sciences Integrated Program, enabled Cindy to construct an interdisciplinary, cross-cutting curriculum to advance her research skills and to explore emerging areas in healthcare quality. Her qualifying examinations addressed the potential for patient-reported outcomes to play a role in quality evaluation, and innovative approaches to quality improvement in a federally qualified health center. Cindy currently works as an Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine within the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Sarah Bassett
Program: Social Sciences & Health (SSH)
Sarah Bassett
Program: Social Sciences & Health (SSH)
Ariel Chandler
Program: Health and Biomedical Informatics (HBMI)
Ariel Chandler
Program: Health and Biomedical Informatics (HBMI)
Cerina Dubois
Entry year: 2019
Program: Social Sciences and Health (SSH)
Advisor: Neil Jordan, PhD
Cerina Dubois
Entry year: 2019
Program: Social Sciences and Health (SSH)
Advisor: Neil Jordan, PhD
Bio: Cerina Dubois (Lee) is a Master of Public Health graduate from the University of Alberta, Canada; and is Certified in Public Health (NBPHE). She was the former Project Coordinator of Action on Smoking & Health - Western Canada's leading tobacco control organization, studying smoking policies to address vaping and hookah use in Alberta's youth population. With cannabis legalization in Canada (2018) and Illinois (2020), Cerina currently studies the health outcomes of medical cannabis patients in Canada. For her PhD, Cerina aspires to compare both health outcomes and cannabis regulatory policies in Canada, with US States that have legalized cannabis. On the side, Cerina is an avid fitness instructor - her favorite classes to teach are HIIT and Outdoor Bootcamp! Cerina completed her PhD in the Social Sciences and Health (SSH) track in 2024.
Publications:
Lee, C., Round, J. M., Klarenbach, S., Hanlon, J. G., Hyshka, E., Dyck, J., & Eurich, D. T. (2021). Gaps in evidence for the use of medically authorized cannabis: Ontario and Alberta, Canada. Harm reduction journal, 18(1), 61. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-021-00509-0
Lee, C., Lin, M., Martins, K., Dyck, J., Klarenbach, S., Richer, L., Jess, E., Hanlon, J. G., Hyshka, E., & Eurich, D. T. (2021). Opioid use in medical cannabis authorization adult patients from 2013 to 2018: Alberta, Canada. BMC public health, 21(1), 843. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10867-w
Lee, C., Voaklander, D., Minhas-Sandhu, J. K., Hanlon, J. G., Hyshka, E., Dyck, J., & Eurich, D. T. (2021). Cohort study of medical cannabis authorization and motor vehicle crash-related healthcare visits in 2014-2017 in Ontario, Canada. Injury epidemiology, 8(1), 33. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40621-021-00321-1
Round, J. M., Lee, C., Hanlon, J. G., Hyshka, E., Dyck, J., & Eurich, D. T. (2020). Changes in patient health questionnaire (PHQ-9) scores in adults with medical authorization for cannabis. BMC public health, 20(1), 987. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09089-3
Eurich, D., Lee, C., Zongo, A., Minhas-Sandhu, J. K., Hanlon, J. G., Hyshka, E., & Dyck, J. (2020). Cohort study of medical cannabis authorization and healthcare utilization in 2014-2017 in Ontario, Canada. Journal of epidemiology and community health, 74(3), 299–304. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2019-212438
Abhijit Grewal
Entry year: 2019
Program: Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety (HQPS)
Advisor: Neil Jordan, PhD
Abhijit Grewal
Entry year: 2019
Program: Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety (HQPS)
Advisor: Neil Jordan, PhD
Bio: Abhi was a student in the Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety (HQPS) track within the Health Sciences Integrated (HSIP) PhD program. Abhi earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Wayne State University and his Master of Health Administration from Cornell University. Before joining the PhD program, Abhi worked as a management consultant focusing on healthcare at Ernst and Young. He also served in the United States Air Force in both active and reserve capacities for six years while pursuing his undergraduate degree. As a PhD student, drew upon his experiences to study the integration of new technologies (AI, machine learning, telehealth, etc.) to address health inequity and improve the quality and safety of care for vulnerable populations. Abhi completed his PhD in the Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety track in 2023.
Mohamed Hasan
Entry year: 2016
Program: Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety (HQPS)
Advisor: Donna M Woods, PhD
Mohamed Hasan
Entry year: 2016
Program: Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety (HQPS)
Advisor: Donna M Woods, PhD
Bio: Mohamed has 6 years of experience in hospital accreditation, implementation of patient safety interventions, coordination of quality improvement projects, and facilitation of multidisciplinary teams as part of his job as a Total Quality Management Consultant at the Armed Forces Hospitals of Saudi Arabia. He also volunteered as a trainer in which he worked with multiple Saudi Directors of Health Affairs to train healthcare workers on clinical risk management, patient safety, and quality improvement. Mohamed graduated from medical school at Zagazig University in Egypt and he completed his MPH with a concentration in Healthcare Management and Policy from American University of Beirut. His research interests include implementation science, diagnostic errors, simulation and health IT interventions to improve patient safety. Mohamed completed his PhD in the Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety (HQPS) track in 2024.
Publications:
Hasan MM, Zhang M, Beal M, et al. An umbrella review comparing computer-assisted and conventional total joint arthroplasty: quality assessment and summary of evidenceBMJ Surgery, Interventions, & Health Technologies 2020; 2:e000016. doi: 10.1136/bmjsit-2019-000016
Smith J & Hasan, M, Quantitative approaches for the evaluation of implementation research studies, Psychiatry Research, Volume 283, 2020, 112521,ISSN 0165-1781, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2019.112521.
Many, B, Hasan, M, Raval, M, et al. Conceptual Frameworks of Postoperative Recovery: A Scoping Review, Journal of Surgical Research, Volume 263, 2021, Pages 265-273, ISSN 0022-4804,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2021.01.031.
Elkholi A, Althobiti H, Al Nofeye J, et alNO WAIT: new organized well-adapted immediate triage: a lean improvement projectBMJ Open Quality 2021;10:e001179. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2020-001179
Ahmed, Abdalrahman G.; Kang, Raymond MA; Hasan, Mohamed MD, MPH; Tian, Yao PhD, MS, MPH; Ghomrawi, Hassan M. PhD, MPH Trends in Practice Patterns of Conventional and Computer-assisted Knee Arthroplasty: An Analysis of 570,671 Knee Arthroplasties Between 2010 and 2017, Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons: December 21, 2020 - Volume - Issue - 10.5435/JAAOS-D-20-00763, doi: 10.5435/JAAOS-D-20-00763
Timothy Herr
Program: Health and Biomedical Informatics (HBMI)
Timothy Herr
Program: Health and Biomedical Informatics (HBMI)
Publications:
Rasmussen LV, Smith ME, Almaraz F, Persell SD, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Pacheco JA, Chisholm RL, Christensen C, Herr TM, Wehbe FH, Starren JB. An ancillary genomics system to support the return of pharmacogenomic results. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2019 Apr 1;26(4):306-310.
Herr TM, Peterson JF, Rasmussen LV, Caraballo PJ, Peissig PL, Starren JB. Pharmacogenomic clinical decision support design and multi-site process outcomes analysis in the eMERGE Network. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2019 Feb 1;26(2):143-148.
Luo Y, Thompson WK, Herr TM, Zeng Z, Berendsen MA, Jonnalagadda SR, Starren JB. Natural language processing for EHR-based pharmacovigilance: a structured review 2017;40 (11):1075-1089
Fort DG, Herr TM, Shaw PL, Gutzman KE, Starren JB. Mapping the evolving definitions of translational research. Journal of clinical and translational science 2017;1 (1):60-66
Herr TM, Bielinski SJ, Bottinger E, Brautbar A, Brilliant M, Chute CG, Cobb BL, Denny JC, Hakonarson H, Hartzler AL, Hripcsak G, Kannry J, Kohane IS, Kullo IJ, Lin S, Manzi S, Marsolo K, Overby CL, Pathak J, Peissig P, Pulley J, Ralston J, Rasmussen L, Roden DM, Tromp G, Uphoff T, Weng C, Wolf W, Williams MS, Starren J. Practical considerations in genomic decision support: The eMERGE experience. J Pathol Inform 2015;6:50.
Herr TM, Bielinski SJ, Bottinger E, Brautbar A, Brilliant M, Chute CG, Denny J, Freimuth RR, Hartzler A, Kannry J, Kohane IS, Kullo IJ, Lin S, Pathak J, Peissig P, Pulley J, Ralston J, Rasmussen L, Roden D, Tromp G, Williams MS, Starren J. A conceptual model for translating omic data into clinical action. J Pathol Inform 2015;6:46.
BOOKS AND CHAPTERS
Rasmussen LV, Herr TM, Taylor CO, Jahhaf AM, Nelson TA, Starren JB (2020) The Genomic Medical Record and Omic Ancillary Systems. In: Adam T, Aliferis C (eds) Personalized and Precision Medicine Informatics. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham
Gayle Kricke
Program: Health Quality and Patient Safety (HQPS)
Gayle Kricke
Program: Health Quality and Patient Safety (HQPS)
Julianne Murphy
Entry year: 2018
Program: Health and Biomedical Informatics (HBMI)
Advisor: Andrew Naidech, MD, MSPH
Julianne Murphy
Entry year: 2018
Program: Health and Biomedical Informatics (HBMI)
Advisor: Andrew Naidech, MD, MSPH
Bio: Julianne received her BA and MS degrees in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Clark University. During this time, she worked and studied in Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Her research examined the distribution of microRNA gene copy number across human populations. Prior to joining HSIP, she analyzed self-reported risky health behaviors in middle and high-school students at the Worcester Division of Public Health. Her prior experiences include environmental health work at the Association of Public Health Laboratories and corporate medical management at AmeriHealth Caritas. Her research interests include integrating genomic data into EHRs and telehealth initiatives for quality of care improvement. She is a recipient of the NU Data Science Fellowship. Julianne completed her PhD in the Health and Biomedical Informatics (HBMI) track in 2024.
Publications:
Borders A, Lee King P, Weiss D, Murphy J. 160: improving outcomes for mothers affected by opioids through statewide quality improvement. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2020; 222:S116
Borders A, Lee King P, Weiss D, Murphy J. 792: Optimizing care for mothers and newborns affected by opioids by understanding disparities in treatment. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2020; 222:S501-S502
Jonah Musa
Program: Health Services & Outcomes Research (HSOR)
Jonah Musa
Program: Health Services & Outcomes Research (HSOR)
Jessica Ibrahim Puri
Entry year: 2018
Program: Social Sciences and Health (SSH)
Advisor: Judith T Moskowitz, PhD
Jessica Ibrahim Puri
Entry year: 2018
Program: Social Sciences and Health (SSH)
Advisor: Judith T Moskowitz, PhD
Adovich Rivera
Program: Health Services & Outcomes Research (HSOR)
Adovich Rivera
Program: Health Services & Outcomes Research (HSOR)
Iva Terwilliger
Entry year: 2017
Program: Health Quality and Patient Safety (HQPS)
Advisor: Julie K Johnson, MSPH, PhD
Iva Terwilliger
Entry year: 2017
Program: Health Quality and Patient Safety (HQPS)
Advisor: Julie K Johnson, MSPH, PhD
Bio: Iva graduated cum laude with a BS in Nursing from Georgetown University. After graduating, she completed a nurse residency program and worked as a Staff Nurse on an orthopedic / oncology / medical / surgical unit at the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center. She then worked at the New York University Langone Medical Center as a Senior Staff Nurse in Breast Imaging., She is interested in studying how technology can help improve the quality of care provided to patients. Iva completed her PhD in the Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety track in 2022.
Charlotte Ward
Program: Health Services & Outcomes Research (HSOR)
Charlotte Ward
Program: Health Services & Outcomes Research (HSOR)
Rick Weinmeyer
Entry year: 2017
Program: Social Sciences and Health (SSH)
Advisor: Judith T Moskowitz, PhD
Rick Weinmeyer
Entry year: 2017
Program: Social Sciences and Health (SSH)
Advisor: Judith T Moskowitz, PhD
Bio: Rick spent the last four years serving as a Senior Research Associate for the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs at the American Medical Association. During his tenure with the AMA, he researched and wrote on subjects at the intersection of health policy, health law, and medical ethics, including expanded access to unapproved drugs, religious and philosophical vaccination exemptions, and hospital mergers and their impact on patient care. Rick earned his BA in Political Science from the University of Washington, his MPhil in Sociology from Cambridge University, and his JD and MA in Health Law and Bioethics at the University of Minnesota. His research interests are in health disparities research, legal epidemiology, and research regulation, and he’d like to use his doctoral training to conduct empirical work in public health law and health policy. Rick completed his PhD in the Social Sciences and Health track in 2023.
Publications:
Richard Weinmeyer, Annalise Norling, Margaret Kawarski & Estelle Higgins, The Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 and Its Role in Providing Access to Safe Drinking Water in the United States, 19 AMA J. ETHICS 1018 (2017), http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2017/10/pdf/hlaw1-1710.pdf.
Yuyang Yang
Entry year: 2020
Program: Health and Biomedical Informatics (HBMI)
Advisor: Abel Kho, MD
Yuyang Yang
Entry year: 2020
Program: Health and Biomedical Informatics (HBMI)
Advisor: Abel Kho, MD
Bio: Yuyang received his B.S in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Michigan and joined the Feinberg School of Medicine Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) in 2018. Coming from a basic science background, he became interested in clinical quality improvement after seeing the high morbidity burden attributable to preventable when compared to non-preventable risk factors. He is specifically interested in leveraging human-computer interaction to improve patient-centered medical education and in data driven implementation of clinical decision support tools. During his PhD in HSIP's Health and Bioinformatics (HBMI) track, he furthered his informatics and programming toolset to make positive impacts on patient care. Yuyang completed his PhD in the HBMI track in 2024.
Jiancheng Ye
Entry year: 2018
Program: Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety (HQPS)
Advisor: Donna M Woods, PhD
Jiancheng Ye
Entry year: 2018
Program: Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety (HQPS)
Advisor: Donna M Woods, PhD
Bio: Jiancheng received Biomedical Engineering training from Tsinghua University in China and Health Informatics training from Johns Hopkins University. He has not only done much work in the design and implementation of medical devices, but also in the industry and data analysis. His PhD research will be focused on the intersection of informatics, health quality and patient safety. He enjoys interdisciplinary research for the opportunity to use technology to combine engineering and medicine, thereby improving people’s health and quality of life. Jiancheng completed his PhD in the Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety track in 2023.
Publications:
Ye J. The impact of electronic health record-integrated patient-generated health data on clinician burnout. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2021 Apr 23;28(5):1051-1056. PMID: 33822095; PMCID: PMC8068436.
Walunas TL, Ye J, Bannon J, Wang A, Kho AN, Smith JD, Soulakis N. Does coaching matter? Examining the impact of specific practice facilitation strategies on implementation of quality improvement interventions in the Healthy Hearts in the Heartland study. Implement Sci. 2021 Mar 31;16(1):33. PMID: 33789696; PMCID: PMC8011080.
Ye J. Health Information System's Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic in China: A National Cross-sectional Study. Appl Clin Inform. 2021 Mar;12(2):399-406. PMID: 34010976; PMCID: PMC8133837.
Feinglass J, Wang JA, Ye J, Tessier R, Kim H. Hospital care for opioid use in Illinois, 2016-2019. J Behav Health Serv Res. 2021 Jan 27:1–13. PMID: 33502670; PMCID: PMC7839292.
Ye J, Sanchez-Pinto LN. Three Data-Driven Phenotypes of Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome Preserved from Early Childhood to Middle Adulthood. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2021 Jan 25;2020:1345-1353. PMID: 33936511; PMCID: PMC8075454.
Ye J. The role of health technology and informatics in a global public health emergency: practices and implications from the Covid-19 pandemic. JMIR Med Inform. 2020;8(7):e19866. PMID: 32568725; PMCID: PMC7388036.
Ye J, Zhang R, Bannon JE, Wang AA, Walunas TL, Kho AN, Soulakis ND. Identifying practice facilitation delays and barriers in primary care quality improvement. J Am Board Fam Med. 2020; 33(5): 655-664. PMID: 32989060.
Ye J. Pediatric mental and behavioral health in the period of quarantine and social distancing with COVID-19. JMIR Pediatr Parent. 2020 Jul 28;3(2):e19867. PMID: 32634105; PMCID: PMC7389340.
Ye, J., Yao, L., Shen, J., Janarthanam, R., & Luo, Y. (2020). Predicting mortality in critically ill patients with diabetes using machine learning and clinical notes. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 20(11), 1-7. PMID: 33380338 PMCID: PMC7772896
Juliet Yonek
Program: Health Services & Outcomes Research (HSOR)
Juliet Yonek
Program: Health Services & Outcomes Research (HSOR)
Bio: Dr. Yonek holds a Bachelor of Science in Animal Physiology from the University of California at San Diego and a Master's of Public Health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from San Diego State University. Prior to starting her doctoral training, Julie worked as a Research Associate for the Center for Healthcare Studies at Northwestern University, where she served as the project director and leader author on a report describing the health status and availability of resources that promote health within Chicago's 77 communities. The doctoral program in Health Services and Outcomes Research within the Health Sciences Integrated Program enabled Julie to advance these research skills and develop content expertise in adolescent mental health services, a topic of great interest to her. For her qualifying examinations, she conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis on the effectiveness of care delivery models focused on integrating mental and physical health services in pediatric primary care settings. She also wrote a mock R01 grant proposal to evaluate the psychometrics of a recently developed measure of integrated care, and to assess the extent of integrated care implementation in pediatric primary care settings.
Julie is currently completing an NIMH-funded clinical services research fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF. Her research focuses on using mobile health technologies to facilitate integration of mental health services in pediatric primary care, and models to accelerate the implementation of evidence-based prevention and treatment interventions in this setting. After the fellowship she plans to stay in academic research and continue her trajectory to becoming an independent investigator in adolescent mental health services research.
Zexian Zeng
Program: Health and Biomedical Informatics (HBMI)
Zexian Zeng
Program: Health and Biomedical Informatics (HBMI)
Publications:
First/Co-first Peer-Reviewed Publications (* # indicate equal contributions)
1. Fan T, Liao Q, Zhao Y, Dai H, Song S, He T, Wang Z, Huang J, Zeng Z#, Guo H#, Zhang H#,
Qiu X#. Sialylated-IgG in epithelial cancers inhibits anti-tumor function of T cells via Siglec-
7. Cancer Science (2022) 10.1111.
2. Zeng Z*, Gu S*, Yang L, Wong C, Ouardaoui N, Zhang W, Li D, Weirather J, Zhang Y,
Meyer C, Rodig S, Hodi SF#, Brown M#, Liu XS#: Hippo signaling pathway regulates MHCII
expression in melanoma. Cancer Immunology Research (2022) 10.68.2
3. Zeng Z*, Gu S*, Wong C, Li D, Lin Y, Wong C, Ouardaoui N, Zhang W, Brown M, Liu XS: A
joint dimension reduction framework to model immunotherapy response for syngeneic
mouse models. Science Advances (2022) 8 (41) eabm8564
4. Zeng Z*, Li Y*, Li Yi*, Luo Y: Computational methods for spatially resolved transcriptomics
data analysis. Genome Biology (2022) 10.02653
5. Zhou L*, Zeng Z*, Egloff A, Zhang F, Guo F, Cambell K, Du P, … & Liu XS#, Uppaluri R#:
Checkpoint blockade induced CD8+ T cell differentiation in responders in head and neck
cancers. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer (2021) 10(1), e004034.
6. Zeng Z*,#, Wong C*, Lin Y*, Li D, Zhang Y, Gu S, Zhang W, Kim S, Yates K, Freeman G,
Brown M, Manguso R, Liu XS#: TISMO: syngeneic mouse tumor database to model tumor
immunity and immunotherapy response. Nucleic Acids Research (2021) 10.1093
7. Zeng Z*, Fu J*, Cibulskis C, Jhaveri A, Gumbs C, Das B, … & Liu XS#, Wu C#: Cross-site
concordance evaluation of tumor DNA and RNA sequencing platforms for the CIMAC-CIDC
network. Clinical Cancer Research. (2021).20.3251
8. Kumar S*, Zeng Z*, Bagati A*, Tay Re*, Sanz L, Hartono SR, … & Liu XS#, Wucherpfennig
K#: Carm1 inhibition enables immunotherapy of resistant tumors by dual action on tumor and
T-cells. Cancer Discovery (2021). 20-1144
9. Zeng Z, Vo A, Li X, Shidfar Ali, Saldana P, Xuei X, Luo Y, Khan AS, Clare SE: Somatic
genetic aberrations in benign breast disease and the risk of subsequent breast cancer. npj
Breast Cancer. (2020). 6(1),1-11
10. Zeng Z, Amin A, Roy A, Pulliam N, Karavites L, Espino S, Li X, Luo Y, Khan AS:
Preoperative magnetic resonance imaging and oncologic outcomes in premenopausal breast
cancer patients. npj Breast Cancer. (2020). 6(1),1-8.
11. Zeng Z, Fan Z, Xie X, Swartz C, DePriest P, Li J: A two-level iteration approach for modeling
and analysis of rapid response process with multiple deteriorating patients. Flexible Service
and Manufacturing. (2020). 1-37
12. Zeng Z, Mao C, Vo A, Li X, Nugene J, Khan AS, Clare SE, Luo Y: Deep learning for cancer
type classification and driver gene identification. BMC Bioinformatics. (2020) (18)1
13. Zeng Z, Vo A, Mao C, Clare S, Khan S, Luo Y: Cancer classification and pathway
discovering using non-negative matrix factorization. Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
(2019): 103247
14. Zeng Z, Yao L, Roy A, Li X, Espino S, Clare S, Khan S, Luo Y: Identifying breast cancer
distant recurrence from electronic health records using machine learning. Journal of
Healthcare Informatics Research. (2019). 1-17
15. Zeng Z, Zhao Y, Sun M, Vo AH, Starren J, Luo Y. Rich text formatted EHR narratives: a
hidden and ignored trove. Studies in health technology and informatics. (2019), 264:472-
6.
16. Zeng Z, Xie X, Menaker H, Sanford-Ring SG, Li J: Performance evaluation of operating
room schedules in orthopedic surgery. Flexible Services and Manufacturing. (2018), 30(1-
2):198-223.
17. Zeng Z, Deng Y, Li X, Naumann T, Luo Y: Natural language processing for EHR-based
computational phenotyping. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and
Bioinformatics. (2018):1-1
18. Zeng Z, Espino S, Roy A, Li X, Khan S, Clare S, Jiang X, Neapolitan R, Luo Y: Using natural
language processing and machine learning to identify breast cancer local recurrence. BMC
Bioinformatics. (2018), 19(Suppl 17):498
19. Zeng Z, Roy A, Li X, Espino S, Clare S, Khan S, Luo Y: Using clinical narratives and
structured data to identify distant recurrences in breast cancer. In: 2018 IEEE International
Conference on Healthcare Informatics: (2018). 44-52.
20. Zeng Z, Jiang X, Li X, Wells A, Luo Y, Neapolitan R: Conjugated equine estrogen and
medroxyprogesterone acetate are associated with decreased risk of breast cancer relative to
bioidentical hormone therapy and controls. PLOS One. (2018), 13(5):e0197064
21. Zeng Z, Li X, Espino S, Roy A, Kitsch K, Clare S, Khan S, Luo Y: Contralateral breast cancer
event detection using Nature Language Processing. In: AMIA Annual Symposium
Proceedings: (2017). American Medical Informatics Association: 1885-1892.
22. Zeng Z, Jiang X, Neapolitan R: Discovering causal interactions using Bayesian network
scoring and information gain. BMC bioinformatics, (2016), 17(1):1.
23. Zeng Z, Xie X, Li J, Menaker H, Sanford-Ring SG: An analytical model for performance
evaluation of operating room schedules in orthopedic surgery. In: IEEE Automation
Science and Engineering, (2014). 570-575.
24. Zeng Z, Xie X, Zhong X, Li J, Liegel BA, Sanford-Ring S: Simulation modeling of hospital
discharge process. Proceedings of Industrial and Systems Engineering Research.
(2013). World Scientific: 1383-1390.
Other Peer-Reviewed Publications (* # indicate equal contributions)
1. Yadav S, Virk R, Chung CH, Eduardo MB, VanDerway D, Chen D, Burdett K., Gao H, Zeng,
Z, Ranjan, M, Cottone, G, Khan S, Clare S: Lipid exposure activates gene expression
changes associated with estrogen receptor negative breast cancer. npj Breast Cancer
(2022) pp.1-17
2. Li Y, Liu Q, Zeng Z, Luo Y: Using an Unsupervised Clustering Model to Detect the Early
Spread of SARS-CoV-2 Worldwide. Genes. (2022) 13(4), p.648.
3. Wang X, Tokheim C, Wang B, Gu S, Tang Q, li Y, Traugh N, Zeng Z, Zhang Y, Li Z, Zhang
B, Fu J, …, Brown M#, Liu XS#: In vivo CRISPR screens identify E3 ligase Cop1 as a
modulator of macrophage infiltration and cancer immunotherapy target. Cell (2021) 09.006
4. Gu S*, Zhang W*, Wang X*, Jiang P, Traugh N, Li Z, Meyer C, … & Tewari AK, Zeng Z, … &
Brown M#, Liu XS#: Therapeutically increasing MHC-I expression potentiates immune
checkpoint blockade. Cancer Discovery. (2021) 20.0812
5. Cui Y, Cheng X, Chen Q, Song B, Chiu A, Gao Y, Dawson T, Chao L, Zhang W, Li D, Zeng
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Manrui Zhang
Program: Social Sciences & Health (SSH)
Manrui Zhang
Program: Social Sciences & Health (SSH)
Yinan Zheng
Program: Health and Biomedical Informatics (HBMI)
Yinan Zheng
Program: Health and Biomedical Informatics (HBMI)
Bio:
Dr. Zheng received his Bachelor of Science in Biostatistics from Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China. He started his graduate training in the United States in 2011 at Northwestern University, earning his MS in Epidemiology and Biostatistics in 2012 and his PhD in Biomedical Informatics in 2017. Yinan's research centers around identifying epigenomic biomarkers linking environmental exposures and lifestyle behaviors (air pollution, diet, physical activity, etc.) with various aging-related disease developments (cancer, cardiovascular diseases, dementia, etc.) in large population cohorts and clinical trials. During his doctoral training, Yinan had 28 peer-reviewed publications with over 400 citations and he also invented several advanced and widely used biostatistical and bioinformatic tools for longitudinal and high-dimensional epigenomic data analysis.
Yinan is continued this research as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Population Epigenetics at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center within the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine's Department of Preventive Medicine. He also serves as a member of the Student Editorial Board for the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). And he is a New Investigators Committee member at the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (CARDIA). Yinan is currently an Assistant Professor of Cancer Epigenetics within the Department of Preventative Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Lindsay Zimmerman
Program: Health and Biomedical Informatics (HBMI)
Lindsay Zimmerman
Program: Health and Biomedical Informatics (HBMI)