Collaboration Stories

The purpose of this series is to tell the story of long-lasting, as well as emergent, stories of collaboration among clinicians and methodologists, content experts, and engineers, who have successfully worked on joint projects at the intersection of AI and health. Such collaborations are at the center of e-HAIL’s mission, and we offer these stories as a way of inspiring collaboration in other researchers.

“Organ Allocation: From Specific Aims Sprint to Multi-Faceted Collaboration for Direct Clinical Impact”

Mariel Lavieri, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering

Ji Zhu, Ph.D.
Susan A. Murphy Professor of Statistics
Literature, Science & the Arts

Danielle Haakinson, M.D.
Kidney Program Director
U-M Transplant Center


“Increasing Diversity in Biomedical Research”

Cornelius James, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine


“Be Curious About What’s Interesting to Other People”

Rada Mihalcea, Ph.D.
Janice M. Jenkins Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
College of Engineering

Larry An, M.D.
Associate Professor in Internal Medicine
Director of the Center for Health Communications Research (CHCR)

Kenneth Resnicow, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education in the School of Public Health
Associate Director for Community Engagement and Health Disparities Research at the Rogel Cancer Center


“The Marriage of the Need for It and the Ability to Do It”

Deanna Marriott, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Nursing, Systems Populations and Leadership

Vinod Vydiswaran, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Learning Health Sciences


“We Aim to Integrate Machine Learning/AI and Healthcare in Order to Have Real and Lasting Impact”

Jenna Wiens

Jenna Wiens, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
College of Engineering


“The Key to Our Success Has Been Finding Great Collaborators”

Brahmajee Nallamothu

Brahmajee Nallamothu, M.D.
Stove Julius Research Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Professor of Internal Medicine – Cardiology
Michigan Medicine

Mike Dorsch, PharmD., M.S.
Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
College of Pharmacy