Over the next few years, my research objective will be to develop principles, techniques and tools that can be used by biomedical researchers to assemble a coherent biomedical picture by integrating information from multiple complementary data sources.  The approach is to develop knowledge and data-management middleware so that investigators can explore different ways of synthesizing information from multiple, disparate data sources. This middleware will allow researchers to generate and test biomedically-meaningful  hypotheses. 

My team leads the development of informatics infrastructure designed to support integrated management and analysis of clinical, molecular, pathology and image data. In addition to work with biomedical research teams, we will continue the development and evaluation of computer science techniques, tools and algorithms motivated by deep integrative research applications.

Georgia is a tremendously exciting environment with a great deal of multidisciplinary interest in biomedical informatics and the application of informatics to health care quality. Emory, Georgia Tech, CHOA, CDC, Morehouse School of Medicine, University of Georgia at Athens and the VA together have the potential for allowing the creation of a unique biomedical informatics research environment. My role as director of the Emory Center for Comprehensive Informatics is to build integrative informatics research strength at Emory and to identify and nurture informatics collaborations with other Georgia institutions.