Prof. Dr. Mathias Brochhausen graduated from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and received his doctorate in 2005. He joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in July 2011 as an assistant professor and became an associate professor in July 2016. From August 2019 to March 2021, he worked as an associate professor at the University of Florida and then returned to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, serving as a professor and the Vice-Chair for Faculty Development and Educational Programs. His research interests are knowledge representation, biomedical vocabularies and ontologies, and semantic web technologies in biology and medicine.
Dr. Kevin W. Sexton obtained his doctorate in Medicine at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in 2007, then he studied at the Vanderbilt University for 8 years. He is currently an Associate Professor
at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in the Department of Surgery, with secondary appointments in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management, and the UAMS College of Pharmacy Department of Pharmacy Practice, Division of Pharmaceutical Evaluation and Policy (PEP). His clinical focus is general surgery, with a particular interest in hernia and laparoscopic surgery.
Dr. Eng. Mauro Giacomini received a master’s degree in electronics engineering from the University of Genoa, Genoa, in 1987, and a Ph.D. in bioengineering from the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy, in 1993. He is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering with the Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and System Engineering, University of Genoa., His research interests include medical informatics with special reference to the application of standards in medical data treatment, medical knowledge-based systems, and the development of databases of importance in medicine and biology; microbial classification methods based on artificial neural networks and studies on antibiotic resistance; and the study of biological systems by modeling, data, and signal analysis. At present, he is Chair of the Italian Scientific Society for Biomedical Informatics (SIBIM), Chair of the Translational Health Informatics
Working Group of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI), and a member of the EFMI Council.
