Senior Project Manager, Department of Learning Health Sciences

Dr Eileen Weinheimer-Haus

Dr Eileen Weinheimer-Haus is a Project Senior Manager in the Department of Learning Health Sciences and the Center for Global Health Equity at the University of Michigan. She has been a project manager with Dr Akbar Waljee since 2018 and works closely with him in his role as the AKU-UM Collaborative Director and PI of the UZIMA-DS Research Hub. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, she spent time in the private sector and public sector in the areas of nutrition, exercise, metabolism, and aging. She holds a master’s degree in Exercise Physiology from Ball State University and a doctorate in Nutrition Science from Purdue University.

Project Manager, Department of Learning Health Sciences

Chelsea Tatchin

Chelsea Tatchin, MBA is a project manager at the University of Michigan in the Department of Learning Health Sciences. She supports the UZIMA-DS Hub. Her background is in pre-award and post-award administration and finance at both the University of Michigan and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Chelsea brings administrative expertise to her role in supporting Dr Waljee’s team since 2022. Some of her interests are operational efficiency and upscaling those around her. She is excited to support global health outcomes through UZIMA-DS.

Project Manager, Department of Internal Medicine

Jessica Baker

Jessica Baker is a project manager at the University of Michigan working with the UZIMA-DS Hub. Her background is in nursing, where she has worked in both the inpatient and outpatient settings caring for a variety of patients with differing acuities. Upon receiving a master’s degree in Health Care Informatics, she joined UM in 2020 to begin working as a project manager with Dr Waljee and his team. One of her main interests is the intersection of technology and health care to optimize care and improve patient outcomes. She is excited to be a part of this Hub which is at the forefront of utilizing data science to improve health outcomes in Africa.

Assistant Research Scientist, Neuroscience Institute

Elena Frank

Dr Elena Frank is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Michigan. Her research interests focus on the drivers of stress and depression during physician training, and the use of mobile technology to assess and treat depression and differences in depression for men and women. Dr Frank has been the Director of the Intern Health Study for the past four years, which focuses on studying physicians in their first year of post-medical school training using genomics, mobile technology and other tools to understand how stress leads to depression.

Associate Professor, Department of Learning Health Sciences

Dr Cheryl Moyer

Dr Moyer, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Learning Health Sciences and an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Her research focuses on the social and cultural factors that influence maternal and neonatal health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa with an emphasis on facility-based delivery, neonatal mortality, social autopsy, and the assessment of ‘near -miss mortality’-or those mothers and babies who suffer a life-threatening complication but ultimately survive.

Research Professor, Neuroscience Institute

Dr Srijan Sen

Dr Sen, MD, PhD, is the Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Professor of Depression and Neurosciences, Director of the Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg and Family Depression Center, and Associate Vice President for Research – Health Sciences at the University of Michigan. Dr Sen’s research focuses on the interactions between genes and the environment and their effect on stress, anxiety, and depression. He also leads the Intern Health Study, a multi country longitudinal study of depression and stress among over 20,000 first-year medical residents and has significant expertise in utilizing mobile technology tools to identify predictors of mental health outcomes among medical trainees.

Assoc Professor, Biostatistics, Michigan Institute for Data Science

Zhenke Wu

Dr Wu, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in Biostatistics, core faculty in the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS), and Faculty Associate in the Quantitative Methodology Program, Survey Research Center of Institute for Social Research (ISR), at the University of Michigan. His research interests include the design and application of statistical methods that inform health decisions made by individuals, or precision medicine. Dr. Wu has extensive experience designing and applying novel methods for implementing mobile health interventions and analyzing mobile health data.

Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics

Ji Zhu

Prof Zhu, PhD, is a Professor of Statistics at the University of Michigan, the director of the PhD program in Statistics and the Associate Chair of the Department. He is an international leader in statistical machine learning, high dimensional data analysis, and network analysis. He has worked with healthcare researchers on multiple risk prediction projects in the fields of hepatology, genetics, breast cancer, and gastroenterology.

Research Assist Professor, Department of Learning Health Sciences

Geoffrey Siwo

Dr Siwo, PhD is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Department of Learning Health Sciences and a Research Associate at the University of Michigan Center for Global Health Equity. His research integrates fundamental biology with computational approaches such as AI and systems biology to drive equitable advances in drug discovery and clinical medicine. Previously, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame and a Research Scientist at IBM Research Africa and the IBM TJ Watson Research Center. He has served as founder of several technology companies including Anza Biotechnologies and Helix Nanotechnologies and as advisor to Saguaro Capital Management and Immusoft Corporation.