Director

PRISMAp Lab Director
Azra Bihorac, MD, MS, FCCM, FASN
Dr. Bihorac is an internist, nephrologist, general and neuro-intensivist with a career-long clinical and research interest in postoperative complications. She specializes in studying sepsis and acute kidney injury. Her interests lie in complex biological systems, human-machine interaction, and the use of rapid analytic techniques to optimize unstable patient care in real time.
Faculty Members

data and analytics core leader
Tezcan Ozrazgat Baslanti, PhD
Statistical Methods in Biomedical Data Science / tezcan@ufl.edu

PriSMA-P Partner, Department of surgery
Tyler J. Loftus, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Acute Care Surgeon / tloftus@ufl.edu
Associates
Assistant Scientist
Yuanfang Ren, PhD
Computer Science, Software Engineering
Yuanfang.Ren@medicine.ufl.edu

Postdoctoral Associate
Esra Adıyeke, PhD
Machine Learning, Operations Research
Esra.Adiyeke@medicine.ufl.edu

Data/System Analysts
System Manager and Data Analyst
Ziyuan Guan
Electrical and Computer Engineering
ziyuan.guan@ufl.edu

Staff
Clinical research coordinator
Jenny Russ
jenny.russ@medicine.ufl.edu

Student Research Assistants
Sabrina M Guillen
Health Disparities, Neuroscience, Psychology, Chemistry, AI
sabrinaguillen@ufl.edu

Kiara E. Fierman
Genetics and genomics, specifically, CRISPR
kiara.fierman@medicine.ufl.edu

Victoria Hough
Health Disparities, Bacteriophages, Emergency Medicine, AI
vhough@ufl.edu

Isha Verma
Health disparities, medical devices
iverma@ufl.edu

Volunteers
- Tiffany Gandhikumar
- Raiya Habib, MD
Alumni
- Shounak Datta
- Anis Davoudi
- Patrick Tighe, MD
- Nicholas Lysak, MD
- Ferdous Kadri, MD
- Meghan Brennan, MD
- Harini Bejjanki, MD
- Amir Kazory, MD
- Shahab Bozorgmehri, MPH
- George Arnaoutakis
- Alina N. Merceron
- Jacob Rubin
- Laura Maria Velez Turizo
- Maisha Akbar
- Jessica Pflugfelder Lipori
- Seth F. Williams
- Sherry Brown, RN
- Ganiel Freeman
- Margaret G. Downey
- Ashley Hoover
- Justin S. Patton