University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing Team — University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing

IHC Co-Executive Directors

Sujal Bista

University of Maryland, College Park
Sujal Bista, Ph.D., has research interests that include computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality, spatial audio, computer game development, medical and scientific visualization, machine learning, and human-motion understanding. Prior to joining the Institute for Health Computing, Bista founded a video game company that will soon release a rapid action 3D platformer. He earned his Ph.D. and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has contributed to several research projects that focus on human perception, simulation and visualization of real-time planetary-scale GIS data, nanoparticle simulation and optimization, visual analysis of MRI scans of patients with traumatic brain injuries, mapping changes in RNA flexibility, and developing an exploration tool for EEG datasets. His research earned him three best paper awards.
Bradley Maron

University of Maryland, Baltimore
Bradley Maron, M.D., is the Senior Associate Dean for Precision Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. His laboratory studies redox biochemistry to identify functional essential protein cysteinyl thiols and utilizes network medicine to characterize the pathobiological mechanisms underpinning complex cardiovascular disease. In collaborative work, he led international projects focusing on the hemodynamic spectrum of clinical risk, which contributed to a revised definition of pulmonary hypertension used in clinical practice. He has co-authored over 200 scientific manuscripts, is the co-inventor of several patents or pending patents, and is funded by the National Institutes of Health and other organizations. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the recipient of numerous awards for research, clinical skills, and teaching.

To contact the IHC Co-Executive Directors, email ihc@umd.edu.

IHC Co-Director

Warren D'Souza

Warren D’Souza, Ph.D., MBA, is a Professor and the Division Head of Medical Physics in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Vice President of Enterprise Data and Analytics at the University of Maryland Medical System. He came to the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2002 as an Assistant Professor following two years at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center as an Instructor. He has served as Division Head since 2008. He has received several awards, including the Medical Physics Travel Award from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. He holds six patents from the United States Patent Office. He has been funded as a principal investigator on multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and industry. He became a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine in 2015.

Deans

Mark Gladwin

Dean
School of Medicine
University of Maryland, Baltimore
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Amitabh Varshney

Dean
College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences
University of Maryland, College Park
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Faculty

Jonathan Baghdadi

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
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Clayton Brown

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
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Chixiang Chen

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND. BALTIMORE
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Esa Davis

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
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Katherine Goodman

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
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Anthony Harris

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
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Heng Huang

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
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Peter Hu

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
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Joseph JaJa

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
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Rozalina McCoy

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
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Kristen Stafford

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
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Elana Rosenthal

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
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Pratyush Tiwary

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK; UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
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Shiming Yang

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
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