Contact - RESEARCH GROUP OF HEALTH INFORMATICS

Jaak Vilo

Head of the research group
Jaak.Vilo@ut.ee
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Professor Jaak Vilo, PhD, is an experienced research leader, with experience in interdisciplinary data science, bio- and health informatics. He has led many successful international and national projects, including research and infrastructure development ones. He has also had many administrative duties and led ELIXIR Estonia node development. He is ACM Senior member (the only one from Estonia). Vilo has supervised to completion 15 PhDs, one of the highest in Estonian IT, most completed PhDs continue successfully in research.

Raivo Kolde

Associate Professor of Health Informatics
Raivo.Kolde@ut.ee
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Raivo Kolde, PhD, is an associate professor of health informatics. He has degrees in mathematical statistics and PhD in bioinformatics. He did a postdoc at the Harvard Medical School and worked at Philips Research North America. He has created several popular software tools for research and led collaborative projects with biological and clinical researchers. Currently the research interests are centred in doing observational clinical research using health record databases and developing computational methods for such research. .

Elena Sügis

Lecturer in Health Informatics
Elena.Sugis@ut.ee
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Elena Sügis, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Health Informatics at the chair of Data Science with experience both in academia and industry. Today her main focus is to bridge the gap between innovative technologies and their real-life applications in healthcare. In her research, Elena is specialising in integrating and analysing biomedical data using conventional machine learning and deep learning methods. She has been creating data collections, and building ML models in research projects in various domains, such as embryonic stem cells, toxicology, immunology, oncology, and neurodegenerative disorders. Besides research, Elena considers it important to raise awareness of artificial intelligence and data science. For this purpose, she has led the creation of five AI and data science MOOCs with more than 4000 participants. She actively participates in the development of international AI and data science MOOCs for healthcare professionals. These courses help to gain knowledge about data literacy and applications of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Sulev Reisberg

Research Fellow of Health Informatics
Sulev.Reisberg@ut.ee
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Sulev Reisberg, PhD, is a researcher in health informatics and personalised medicine. He is currently leading the collaboration on EHDEN and Health Sense projects, as well as development of national personalised medicine infrastructure development (PerMed). He has a deep knowledge of electronic health records, health registries and genetics - both from system development and analysis side. His current work focuses on reproducible health science, computational issues of personalised medicine, including pharmacogenetics, and clinical pathways mining.

Sirli Tamm

Programmer
Sirli.Tamm@ut.ee
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Sirli Tamm, MSc, is a research software developer. Her work mostly focuses on converting electronic health records and health insurance claims data into OMOP common data model to facilitate observational studies. In addition to development of ETL process, her responsibilities are also related to data profiling and data quality control. She is also involved in the effort of mapping locally used vocabularies into standardized vocabularies (e.g., to SNOMED, RxNorm, etc.).