Best Practices Integrated Informatics Core (BPIC) Staff

BPIC Director, Clinical Informatics
Ahmad AbuSalah, PhD, MSc
abusalah@umn.edu
612-626-6263

BPIC Clinical Informatics Manager
Gretchen Sieger
siege022@umn.edu
612-626-7495

Affiliated Informatics Faculties and Data Scientists

Staff

Bryan Akkerman
Data Analyst and Informatics Consultant
612-625-8722
akke0014@umn.edu

Ashley Benner
Data Analyst and Informatics Consultant
612-626-4132
andre725@umn.edu

Michelle DeMist
Project Manager
612-626-4865
mdemist@umn.edu

Shay Downey-Forseyth
Programmer/Analyst
612-625-9161
sdowneyf@umn.edu

Vidhya Ramesh
Cancer Informatics, Data Analysis Manager
612-624-1427
rames007@umn.edu

Wei Shen
Cancer Informatics, Application Developer
612-626-6726
weixx006@umn.edu

Anthony Tholkes
Data Analyst and Informatics Consultant
612-625-5650
tholk009@umn.edu

Vivek Venugopal
Cancer Informatics, Application Development Manager
612-301-9654
vvenugop@umn.edu

Zhengyang Yang 
Cancer Informatics, Data Analyst
yang2100@umn.edu

Data & Infrastructure Management

Luke Bicknese
Database Developer and Analyst
612-625-3843
lbicknes@umn.edu

Duy Duong
Database Developer and Analyst
612-624-5848
duon0035@umn.edu

Sonya Grillo
Clinical Data Analyst
612-625-3668
gril0059@umn.edu

Timothy Meyer 
Research Development Support Manager
612-624-8386
meye0664@umn.edu