Clinical & Scientific Advisory Board
Kevin Klauer, DO, EJD, FACEP, FACOEP
CEO, American Health Information Management Association
Dr. Klauer currently is the CEO of the American Health Information Management Association. Dr. Klauer formerly served as System Chief Medical Officer for HCA Florida Ocala and West Marion Hospitals, and prior to that was the CEO of the American Osteopathic Association. Dr. Klauer served as the Chief Medical Officer, Hospital Based Services, Enterprise Chief Risk Officer, and Executive Director of the Patient Safety Organization for TeamHealth. He has been recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of the nation’s “Top 150 Most Influential Clinical Executives.” He holds the following faculty appointments: Assistant Clinical Professor at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and Clinical Assistant Professor, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Klauer received his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at LSU Health Sciences Center, Charity Hospital New Orleans. Dr. Klauer earned his Executive JD, with honors, from Purdue Global Law School in 2011.
Philip A. Verhoef, MD, PhD
Med Beds Intensivist, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii and Kapiolani Medical Center
Philip A. Verhoef, MD, Ph.D is a Med Peds intensivist, caring for patients in both the adult and pediatric critical care units at Kaiser Permanente Hawaii and Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, HI. In addition, he is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii. Dr. Verhoef completed medical and graduate training at Case Western Reserve University, followed by residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at UCLA and subspecialty ICU fellowship training at the University of Chicago. He has led an NIH-funded research lab using mouse models and human samples and big data analysis to study the immunology of sepsis in the ICU, with his scientific work being published in Nature, JAMA, Intensive Care Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, PNAS, and AJRCCM, among others.
Pratik Sinha, MD, PhD
Physician-Scientist
Dr. Pratik Sinha is a physician-scientist faculty at Washington University School of Medicine. Clinically, Pratik practices in the surgical and cardiothoracic ICUs. He runs a precision medicine research program that seeks to deliver individualised therapies to critically ill patients. His research is focused in delivering precision medicine in critical care syndromes such as sepsis and ARDS. Through innovative biological measurement systems and novel data science techniques, his research program hopes to deliver the right therapies to the right patients at the right time. His clinical training was in the U.K. and Australia and he received his Ph.D from Imperial College, London, where he received training in applied respiratory physiology and biostatistics. He completed two postdoctoral scholarships at Columbia University and UCSF.
David Sihai Zhao, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Director of Computational Genomics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dave has specialized in statistical techniques for analyzing large-scale data from high-throughput biological datasets for over 11 years, and has developed accurate inference and prediction models using multiple omics datasets across varied subjects, phenotypes, modalities, and species. Dave’s broad collaborative research experience includes GWAS of pediatric autoimmune disease, eQTL studies of human heart failure, integrative genomics studies of long noncoding RNAs in cancer, and cross-species studies of the molecular roots of social behavior. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dave received a Ph.D. in Biostatistics, and A.M. and A.B. degrees in Statistics and Chemistry/Physics, respectively, all from Harvard University.
Ruoqing Zhu, PhD
Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Illinois
Dr. Ruoqing Zhu is an Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Zhu received his Ph.D. of Biostatistics in 2013 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Yale University from 2013 to 2015 before he joined the department of Statistics at UIUC. His research interest lies in personalized medicine, reinforcement learning, random forests, survival analysis, sufficient dimension reduction, and machine learning applications in biomedical problems such as infectious diseases, nutrition health, diagnostics and cancer. He is affiliated with the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor at Journal of the American Statistical Association and Statistical Analysis and Data Mining.