Juan Zhao, PhD, is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at VUMC and Director of Data Science at the American Heart Association. Dr. Zhao achieved a PhD in Computer Science from the University Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her work was supported by the American Heart Association (AHA) and NIH grants. 

Research Interests: Leveraging machine learning, data mining, and natural language processing techniques on Electronic health records and multi-omics data to advance deep phenotyping and disease prediction. Also interested in Blockchain technology in healthcare and Internet-of-Things (IoT).