Faculty

David Meltzer MD, PhD is Associate Professor of Medicine, Economics, and Public Policy at UC, where he directs the Hospital Medicine Program and the Center for Health and the Social Sciences (CHeSS). His research focuses on hospital medicine and the theoretical foundations of medical cost-effectiveness analysis. An experienced educator, Dr. Meltzer has directed the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Clinical Scholars Programs, Hospitalist Scholars Program, Summer Program and Outcomes Research and MD/PhD Program in the Social Sciences at UC. He has mentored junior faculty on K and Beeson Awards from NIH, Hartford awards, NARSAD career development awards, and RWJ Physician Faculty Scholar awards. His trainees hold faculty positions at Harvard, Pennsylvania, Rochester, Michigan, Chicago, Northwestern, UCLA, and UCSF.

Caleb Alexander, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UC and affiliate faculty of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. His research examines pharmaceutical utilization with a focus on the doctor-patient relationship.

Vineet Arora, MD, MA is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Assistant Dean of Curricular Innovation at the UC Pritzker School of Medicine. A hospitalist, she studies policies to improve medical education and the quality and safety of care for hospitalized patients. She also directs the Training Early Achievers for Careers in Health (TEACH) Research Program, designed to prepare and inspire diverse talented high school students from Chicago Public Schools to enter clinical research careers.

Anirban Basu, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UC. Dr. Basu's research interests are in cost-effectiveness of medical interventions, decision analysis methodology, health econometrics and applied health services research primarily focused on prostate cancer and schizophrenia.

Rena Conti, PhD is an Instructor in Community Health Sciences at the UC Institute for Molecular Pediatric Sciences. She is health economist pursuing research in the value of new medical technology for individuals and society, and the organization and financing of medical care for vulnerable populations.

Nancy Cox, PhD is Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Section of Genetic Medicine at UC. Dr. Cox studies common disorders with complex patterns of transmission including type 1 and 2 diabetes, polycystic ovary syndrome, inherited thyroid defects, asthma, autism, ADHD, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Dr. Cox has developed and extended methods for genetic linkage analysis.

Soma Das, PhD is an Associate Professor of Human Genetics and is Director of the Clinical Molecular Genectics Laboratory at UC. Her laboratory research focuses on the development of diagnostic testing for rare orphan genetic disease, development of methodologies for DNA diagnosis, translation of molecular tests from research to the clinical arena, pharmacogenetics and translation to diagnostic applications.

Bill Galanter, MD, PhD is Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director of Clinical Information Systems, Chair of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, and Medical Director of the Physicians Group at UIC. He studies computerized interventions to reduce medication errors and improve preventive services.

Joe G.N. Garcia, MD is Chair of Medicine at UC and a leading authority on lung biology and disease, the genetics of acute lung injury and the molecular mechanisms of edema formation. Dr. Garcia’s studies of the biology of this process have focused on signal transduction pathways and the cytoskeleton of the endothelium and led to novel approaches to restore vessel walls, reducing edema formation.

Daniel Gaylin, MPA is Executive Vice President and Director of NORC’s Department of Health Survey, Program, and Policy Research. He has 20 years experience in health services and policy research, health care outcomes and quality cost-effectiveness studies, and program evaluation. He has conducted research for CMS, AHRQ, HRSA, ASPE, CDC, MedPAC, and several NIH Institutes using the major HHS surveys and CMS claims data sets; he also has conducted studies for the major health foundations and numerous health care associations. Current projects include directing the National Resource Center for Health Information Technology for AHRQ.

Daniel Heir, MD, MBA is a Professor of Neurology, Rehabilitation Medicine and Bioengineering at UIC. His research foci are health informatics, behavioral neurology and neurorehabilitation. He is presently performing a study to leverage clinical decision support in improving problem list documentation

Todd Lee, PharmD, PhD is a Research Assistant Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University and Associate Faculty at the Center for Pharmacoeconomic Research at the University of Illinois Chicago. Dr. Lee’s primary research focus is outcomes research in patients with COPD.

Elbert Huang, MD is Assistant Professor of Medicine at UC. His research examines the clinical and/or financial constraints that health care providers encounter when caring for patients with chronic diseases, especially elderly patients with type 2 diabetes.

Federico Innocenti, MD, PhD is Assistant Professor of Medicine is interested in the individualization of pharmacological therapies in cancer treatment by elucidating the genetic basis of differences in patient response. Dr. Innocenti is currently studying mechanisms by which genetic variants in anticancer drug metabolism and mechanism affect patient outcome in the context of clinical trials.

Jerry Krishnan, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Medicine at UC. Dr. Krishnan's research focuses on the epidemiology, treatment, and health disparities in obstructive lung disorders, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

David Lovinger, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at UC. He is a general internist and a practicing hospitalist. He is the Co-Director of the Hospitalist Consult Service, which provides assistance with the management of anticoagulation therapy for inpatients at the University of Chicago Hospitals and is implementing a central Anticoagulation Clinic in the Department of Medicine.

Ives Lussier, MD is Associate Professor of Medicine at UC. He studies the development and use of high throughput phenotyping to integrate and analyze genomes with phenotypes to individualize the prediction and the treatment of diseases. He has developed automated computational methods that bring together the fields of molecular bioinformatics, ontologies, and natural language processing to code, integrate, structure and mine the escalating wealth of complex and heterogeneous phenotypes.

Patrick Murray, MD is a Professor of Medicine and Director for Nephrology Fellowship Training Program at UC. He studies approaches to prevent, treat, and provide renal replacement therapy for acute renal failure, especially in critically ill subjects.

Minoli Perera, PharmD, PhD is an Instructor of Medicine at UC. Her research studies the genetic variation affecting steady-state warfarin levels in African Americans, a population that has been poorly studied to date for genes implicated in warfarin dosing.

Tomas Philipson, PhD is a Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy and a faculty member in the Department of Economics and the Law School at UC. He is a health economist interested in health and social policy and most recently studying the the growth of obesity and efficacy of public health policies directed at lowering American obesity rates.

Mark Ratain, MD is a Professor of Medicine at UC and studies the pharmacogenetics of the metabolism of anticancer agents and phase I and phase II drug studies. He has demonstrated the critical importance of genetic variants in determining variability in the toxicity of anticancer drugs.

Glen Schumock, PharmD, MBA, FCCP is an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmacy Administration and Director of the Center for Pharmacoeconomic Research at UIC and the Chicago-Area DEcIDE Center. His areas of research and publication are in pharmacoeconomics and outcomes.

Juned Siddique, DrPH is a Research Associate (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Health Studies. He is currently the lead Statistician on the Hospitalist Study, a large multicenter study of the effects of hospitalists on the cost and quality of care in academic hospitals. His interests are in the fields of health services research and multiple imputation of incomplete data.
Brian Stein, MD, is a 2nd year Fellow in the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care. His clinical research focuses on obstructive lung disease.

Thomas Summerfelt, PhD is Research Associate Assistant Professor of Medicine and Executive Director of the Center for Health and Social Sciences at UC. An applied social psychologist with training in clinical psychology and health services research, his research focuses on the care of vulnerable populations, including children and adults with mental illness.

Surrey Walton, PhD is an economist who is Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Administration and Director of the Midwest Center for Health Workforce Research at UIC. He has conducted numerous economic evaluations of health care interventions. Currently, he is principal investigator of an AHRQ Decide Network project to prioritize research in off-label drug use.

Chad Whelan, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine. Associate Director of the UC Hospitalist Program. His research focuses on measuring and improving quality of care and patient safety using information technology with an emphasis on the inpatient setting.