Leadership

Data and Informatics Leadership

Kun Huang, PhD

Director of Data Sciences and Informatics, Precision Health Initiative
Chair, Genomic Data Sciences, Precision Health Initiative
Assistant Dean for Data Sciences, IU School of Medicine
Professor of Medicine, IU School of Medicine
Senior Investigator, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, IU School of Medicine
Senior Investigator, Regenstrief Institute

Dr. Huang leads the development of innovative informatics solutions as part of the IU Precision Health Initiative, laying the foundation for a suite of technologies and strategies that will support and enhance biomedical research and define IU’s approach to precision health. Dr. Huang received bachelor's degrees in biology and computer science in 1996 from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. From 1996 to 2004, he studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he obtained Master of Science degrees in molecular and systems physiology, electrical engineering and mathematics, as well as a PhD in electrical and computer engineering. His research interests include translational bioinformatics and integrative genomics tools for precision health, bioinformatics, computational biology, bioimage informatics and machine learning.

Umberto Tachinardi, MD, MS

Chief Informatics Officer, IU Grand Challenge Precision Health Initiative
Professor of biostatistics and assistant dean for clinical research informatics for IU School of Medicine
Director of clinical research informatics for the Indiana Clinical and Translation Sciences Institute (CTSI) and the Regenstrief Institute.

Tachinardi has worked in the rapidly growing field of informatics for more than 30 years. As CIO, he will have oversight and responsibility for the clinical and translational informatics elements for the IU Precision Health Initiative and IU School of Medicine. Most recently, for the past 8 years he served as the associate dean for biomedical informatics at the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison and as the chief research information officer at UW Health in Madison, Wisconsin. He was responsible for building and operating UW Health’s translational research resources such as data warehouses and new functions in the electronic health record systems, he additionally participated in the creation of UWHealth’s enterprise analytics group. He idealized and directed the Clinical and Health Informatics Institute of the University of Wisconsin Institute for Clinical and Translation Research, where he served as the executive scientific director. His leadership roles at University of Wisconsin-Madison included being the Associate Director of Informatics at the Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center, where he had oversight of the area of clinical and research informatics. Tachinardi’s experience also includes five years as the assistant dean of academic and research informatics and the associate director for clinical research of the Initiative for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Chicago. He served as the chief information officer for the Secretary of Health of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil in addition to holding leadership positions at the Heart Institute of Sao Paulo University Medical School.

Leadership

Data and Informatics Leadership

Kun Huang, PhD

Umberto Tachinardi, MD, MS

Precision Health resources