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##  BMI Program Office 

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[Department of Biomedical Informatics](https://dbmi.hms.harvard.edu/)  
10 Shattuck Street  
Countway Library, Suite 514  
Boston, MA 02115



 

 For more information on eligibility, how to apply, and to find answers to frequently asked questions please visit the [Apply](/apply) page. If you don't see an answer to your question there, please email:

 AIM-related questions to <AIM@hms.harvard.edu>

 BIG-related questions to [catherine\_haskell@hms.harvard.edu](mailto:catherine_haskell@hms.harvard.edu)

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  [### Maha Farhat

 ](/people/maha-farhat) <mrfarhat@partners.org>BIG Associate Director

Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics

 

 

 The Farhat lab is a translational lab that combines genomics and informatics to understand and better control drug resistant tuberculosis and other infections. We are particularly interested in bacterial genome wide association, prediction of phenotype... 

 

 

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   [### Cathy Haskell

 ](/people/cathy-haskell) [catherine\_haskell@hms.harvard.edu](mailto:catherine_haskell@hms.harvard.edu)Program Manager, BMI

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 Schedule Hybrid of on-campus and remote work. Contact me for my on-campus schedule. 

 

 

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   [### Isaac Samuel Kohane

 ](/people/isaac-samuel-kohane) [isaac\_kohane@harvard.edu](mailto:isaac_kohane@harvard.edu)AIM Program Director

Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics

 

 

 Why is it easier to find out what experience shoppers worldwide have had with the latest digital camera than it is to determine what adverse events patients have had with a particular drug? Why are blood tests and X-rays repeated needlessly? Why can one... 

 

 

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   [### Peter J. Park

 ](/people/peter-j-park) [peter\_park@harvard.edu](mailto:peter_park@harvard.edu)BIG Program Director

Professor of Biomedical Informatics

 

 

 Mutational processes in cancer and normal cells; development of computational methods for genome and epigenome analysis. We employ computational and statistical approaches to study various types of somatic mutations that arise in cancer cells and neurons... 

 

 

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   [### Sebastian Schneeweiss

 ](/people/sebastian-schneeweiss) <sschneeweiss@bwh.harvard.edu>AIM Program Director

Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology

 

 

 Sebastian Schneeweiss, MD, ScD, is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His research focuses on the comparative... 

 

 

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   [### Lilen Uchima

 ](/people/lilen-uchima) <Lilen@hms.harvard.edu>Director of Educational Programs, DBMI

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 Schedule On Campus: Wednesdays Remote: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 

 

 

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