
Leadership
DELPHI Initiative Recruiting a New Faculty Co-Director
The DELPHI Initiative would like to invite applications from interested UofU faculty to serve as a new DELPHI Faculty Co-Director in partnership with Drs. Aaron Quinlan and Jim Hotaling. The new initiative co-director will add complementary data science research, education, and community-building expertise to our team. Please review the attached document for a full position description and application instructions. Please submit your application materials by April 15 and contact DELPHI senior manager Andrew George at andrew.george@hsc.utah.edu with any questions.
DELPHI Data Science Initiative
The DELPHI Steering Committee was formed in 2022 to develop and launch the DELPHI Initiative. These cross-campus leaders have a vision of establishing a center of excellence in biomedical data science research and education through five activities:
- Build Community: establish a community for knowledge exchange, professional development, and research collaboration and innovation
- Facilitate Recruitment: grow expertise in biomedical data science through recruitment of data science researchers in health sciences
- Catalyze Research: catalyze new data science research teams to facilitate collaborative grant applications in biomedical data science
- Enhance Education: develop a world-class education program for health-related data science which will serve to recruit leading clinician scientists and obtain extramural funding
- Increase National Distinction: establish an international reputation of the University of Utah as a premier university for health-related data science and develop local partnerships to encourage entrepreneurial endeavors and garner philanthropic and industry support
Leadership

Jim Hotaling
Faculty Director
Associate Professor of Surgery

Aaron Quinlan
Faculty Director
Professor of Human Genetics and Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Andrew George
Senior Manager, DELPHI Data Science Initiative
DELPHI Steering Committee

Rebecca Barter
Research Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Benjamin Brooke
Associate Professor of Surgery

Mollie Cummins
Professor of Nursing
Karen Eilbeck
Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Joseph Finkelstein
Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Anne Kirchoff
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Rob Macleod
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Mike Newman
Associate Director of Utah Population Database
Matthew Samore
Professor and Chief of Internal Medicine (Epidemiology)

Daniel Scharfstein
Professor and Chief of Population Health Sciences (Biostatistics)