CLHSS Leadership, Members, Scholars, Advisory Board and Staff

Connecting experts across disciplines to advance learning health system leadership and research.

The Center for Learning Health System Sciences (CLHSS) is guided by a team of dedicated learning health system leadership professionals. CLHSS is led by the Director and Deputy Director, who oversee each center program and program faculty leads, ensuring strategic alignment and impactful outcomes. Reporting to the Deans of the Medical School and School of Public Health, the directors are instrumental in shaping the center’s mission.

LHS advisory board members, both internal and external, play a critical role in advancing the mission of CLHSS by advising on strategic priorities, portfolio composition, and fostering health system collaboration. The board members bring together diverse leaders representing UMN college and departments, M Health Fairview and other Minnesota health systems, as well as nationally from LHS centers, patient engagement, and health equity disciplines.

Supporting this vision, a multidisciplinary healthcare team of data analysts, data scientists, and program and project managers from UMN and M Health Fairview collaborates to drive research and education initiatives forward. Together, they enable the impactful work of healthcare research faculty and scholars.

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Research Grants & Compliance Manager, Center for Learning Health System Sciences
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Director, Institute for Health Informatics
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Co-Director, Administrative Core
Brad Benson
Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
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Health Data Scientist, Clinical Quality, Outcomes, Discovery and Evaluation (CQODE) Core
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Administrative Director, Center for Learning Health System Sciences
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Project Manager, RapidEval Program
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Project Manager, Evidence Synthesis Program
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Scientific Co-Director, Evidence Synthesis Program
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Associate Data Analyst, Center for Learning Health System Sciences
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Vice Dean for Research, University of Minnesota Medical School
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Project Manager, Program for Clinical AI
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Professor and Dean, School of Nursing
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Research Operations Specialist, Center for Learning Health System Sciences
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Associate Data Scientist, Center for Learning Health System Sciences
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Health Data Scientist, Program for Clinical AI
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Director and Core Investigator, Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research, Veterans Affairs
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Director, Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science, NYU Langone
Dr. Sayeed Ikramuddin
Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery
Dr. Nicholas Ingraham
Assistant Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, And Sleep Medicine
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Data Science Project Manager, Center for Learning Health System Sciences
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Project Manager, Innovative Methods & Data Science Program
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Scientific Co-Director, RapidEval Program
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Data Programs Manager, Center for Learning Health System Sciences
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Associate Professor, Division of Surgical Oncology
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Professor, Division of Colon & Rectal Surgery
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Principal, PX Advisors
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Associate Dean for Health Equity Research and C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
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Communications Associate, Center for Learning Health System Sciences
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Data Analytics Manager, Clinical Quality, Outcomes, Discovery and Evaluation (CQODE) Core
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Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
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Assistant Professor, Division of Computational Sciences
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Program Specialist for Patient Engagement and Education Initiatives, Center for Learning Health System Sciences
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine
Dr. Rubina Rizvi
Assistant Professor, Division of Computational Sciences
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Professor, Department of Health Policy & Management, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
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Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Public Health
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Scientific Co-Director, Program for Clinical AI
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Senior Research Project Specialist, Center for Learning Health System Sciences
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Administrative Specialist, Center for Learning Health System Sciences
Christopher Tignanelli, MD
Associate Professor, Division of Critical Care & Acute Care Surgery
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Research Outreach Manager, Center for Learning Health System Sciences
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Director, Office of Discovery and Translation
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Scientific Co-Director, Innovative Methods & Data Science Program
Rui Zhang, PhD, FAMIA
Professor and Chief, Division of Computational Health Sciences
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