Zhongming Zhao, Ph.D., FACMI, FAMIA, FAIMBE

Dr. Zhongming Zhao holds University Chair for Precision Health. He is the founding director of the Center for Precision Health, and currently serves as the Vice President for Cancer Genomic Medicine, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). Before he joined UTHealth in 2016, he was Ingram Professor of Cancer Research, Professor (tenured) in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics, Psychiatry, and Cancer Biology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Chief Bioinformatics Officer of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), Director of the VICC Bioinformatics Resource Center, and the Associate Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences. Dr. Zhao has broad interests in bioinformatics, genomics, data science/AI, population genetics, and precision medicine, and has co-authored over 500 total publications in these areas (cited by >29,000 times, H-index = 83). He was appointed Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in January, 2016.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eDRMnHQAAAAJ&hl=en

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhongmingzhao    

Lab: https://www.uth.edu/bioinfo/