Professor and Chair
University of Missouri School of Medicine
Randi E. Foraker, PhD, MA, FAHA, FAMIA, FACMI is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics & Medical Epidemiology at the University of Missouri School of Medicine, where she also serves as core faculty in the Institute for Data Science and Informatics. She received her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed earlier training in health promotion and education at the University of Iowa.
Dr. Foraker is an internationally recognized leader at the intersection of epidemiology, biomedical informatics, and population health. Her research focuses on the development, evaluation, and dissemination of data-driven clinical decision support, risk prediction models, and informatics interventions to improve cardiovascular health, cancer survivorship, and health equity. She has served as principal investigator or co-investigator on funded studies including large-scale initiatives in implementation science, synthetic health data, and artificial intelligence for healthcare.
She has held academic and leadership appointments at The Ohio State University and Washington University in St. Louis, where she directed multiple centers focused on population health informatics and administrative data research. Dr. Foraker has extensive editorial experience, including service as Associate Editor for BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making and eGEMs, and as Section Editor for Current Epidemiology Reports. She is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, the American Medical Informatics Association, and the American College of Medical Informatics, and currently serves in national leadership and advisory roles for the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Thursday, March 5, 2026
2:30pm - 4:00pm PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose