Team & Consortium
A five-institution consortium.
A multi-site collaborative spanning academic medical centers, research universities, and federal health systems — each contributing unique expertise and datasets to the MEFINDER initiative.
Partner Institutions
Institution
Role
Datasets

HITI Lab
Lead lab — multimodal fusion development, NLP recurrence labeling, data harmonization infrastructure. Department of Radiology and Informatics, Emory University School of Medicine.
EMBED v2 (260,815 patients, ~1M exams), EPIP (~5,000 prostate MRI patients)

Emory University (Lead)
Project coordination, institutional infrastructure, consortium management
EMBED v2 (260,815 patients, ~1M exams), EPIP (~5,000 prostate MRI patients)

Indiana University
Pathomic feature extraction (APIC), treatment benefit prediction, prostate aging research
CHAARTED, STAMPEDE clinical trials

Stanford University
NLP toolkit validation, breast cancer data harmonization, cancer registry linkage (CA)
Stanford breast and prostate cohorts, CA registry

Mayo Clinic
Long-term follow-up, biobank infrastructure, clinical report parsing
Mayo Clinic Biobank (75,000+ patients, 10–15 years follow-up)

VA
Prostate MRI data, pathology slide digitization
387 biparametric MRI patients (expanding)
Leadership
Dr. Judy Wawira Gichoya
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University
Dr. Hari Trivedi
Co-Investigator
Associate Professor, Emory University
Dr. Imon Banerjee, Ph.D.
Co-Investigator
Associate Professor, Mayo Clinic
Dr. Anant Madabhushi
Professor
Emory University
Core Team
Amara Tariq, Ph.D.
Collaborator
Beatrice Brown-Mulry
Data Analyst, Sr
Emory University HITI Lab
Rohan Satya Isaac
Data Analyst, Sr
Emory University
Jahanzaib Malik
Systems Software Engineer
Emory University HITI Lab
Drew Williamson
Assistant Professor
Emory University
Ujjwal Raghunandan Baid
Dir, Research Operations (SOM)
Emory University
Kutsev Bengisu Ozyoruk
Scientist, Asst (AR)
Emory University
Tilak Bahadur Pathak
Scientist (AR) SOM
Emory University
Barry C. Prine
Sponsored Research Analyst, Lead
Emory University
Bolin Song
Post Doctoral Fellow
Emory University
Naoto Tokuyama
Post Doctoral Fellow
Emory University
Krunal Balvantbhai Pandav
Visiting Fellow
Emory University
Daniel L. Rubin
Collaborator
Stanford University
Mirabela Rusu
Collaborator
Stanford University
Rakesh Shiradkar
Collaborator
Sumedh Ajit Sonawane
Collaborator
Yamlak Asrat Bogale
Collaborator
Dakota Kershaw
Research Admin, Post Award III
Emory University
Jay Sonuga
Clinical Research Coordinator III
Emory University
Maryam Sakinah Yasin
Clinical Research Coordinator I
Emory University
Biniam Garomsa
Doctoral Student
Emory University
Loyani Loyani
Doctoral Student
Emory University
Sebastian Medina Carrillo
Graduate Student
TU BME