Meet the Team

On our 'Team' page, you'll meet the dedicated and diverse individuals driving the innovative research and educational initiatives at our lab. Get to know the talented minds behind our mission to advance knowledge in medicine and science.

Girish Nadkarni, MD, MPH, CPH
Senior Faculty

Fishberg Professor of Medicine; Chief of Data-Driven and Digital Medicine (D3M); Director of the Charles Bronfman Institute of Personalized Medicine

Ira S. Hofer, MD
Senior Faculty

Faculty at Department of Anesthesiology and Clinical Informatics; Founding Director of the Division of Bioinformatics at UCLA

Ankit Sakhuja, MBBS MS
Senior Faculty

Director of Clinical Informatics Research Division of Data Driven and Digital Medicine, Department of Medicine

Lili Chan, MD, MSCR
Senior Faculty

Faculty at the Division of Nephrology and Institute of Personalized Medicine

Ethan Abott, DO
Junior Faculty

Faculty and Investigator at Department of Emergency Medicine

Ali Soroush, MD, MS
Junior Faculty

Faculty at Division of Gastroenterology and the Division of Data Driven and Digital Health (D3M)

Ashwin Sawant, MD, MS
Junior Faculty

Faculty at Department of Internal Medicine

Donald U. Apakama, MD, MS
Junior Faculty

EMRA Informatics Committee Chair; Former Sinai EM chief resident

Son (Sonny) Duong, MD, MS
Junior Faculty

Assistant Professor at Division of Pediatric Cardiology

Tielman Van Vleck, PhD
Faculty

Director of Clinical Linguistics and Data Science

Udit Chaddha, MBBS, DAABIP
Faculty

Associate Director of Interventional Pulmonology; Director of the Respiratory Institute Pleural Service

Pranai Tandon, MD
Junior Faculty
Faculty at Pulmonology Division

Akhil Vaid, MD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Kullaya Takkavatakarn, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Wonsuk Oh, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Emma Polidoro, MD
Clinical Fellow
Felix Richter, MD, PhD
Clinical Resident

Huei Hsun Wen, MD, MS
Lab Manager
Cristina Liriano Cepin, MPH
Clinical Research Coordinator
Thi Ha My Vy, PhD
Data Science Staff
Yang Dai, MEng
Data Science Staff
Pooja Anand Gownivaripally, MS, BE
Data Science Staff

Faris Gulamali, BS
Medical Student
Justin Kauffman
Master Student
Chris Cheng, AB
Medical Student
Pushkala Jayaraman, MS
Ph.D. Candidate
Hannah Kitrell, MS
Ph.D. Candidate
Shelly Teng, BSE
Graduate Student
Joy Jiang, BS
MD-PhD Student
Hemali Rochlani, BS
Rotating Student
Sameer Kini
Rotating Student
Matt Liebers, BS
Medical Student
Ben Fox, MS, BS
Graduate Student
Naveen Arivazhagan, MS, BS
Rotating Student
AnnieChang, MS, BS
Medical Student