Faculty
Imran Khan
Faculty Director
Imran Khan is the Faculty Director of Northwestern University’s Master of Science in Healthcare Data Science (MHDS) program and a healthcare Data and AI leader with more than 18 years of experience across biopharmaceutical R&D, healthcare, digital health, data science, informatics, and technology.
At AbbVie, Imran is a Director leading R&D Data and AI Strategy across Medical Affairs, Value & Evidence, and the broader R&D organization. His work focuses on advancing the use of data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies to accelerate research, strengthen evidence generation, generate insights from complex healthcare data, and improve decision-making across the medicine development lifecycle.
Throughout his career at AbbVie, Imran has held leadership roles spanning R&D, Clinical Development, Medical Affairs, Commercial, and Digital Health. He has led and advanced capabilities in artificial intelligence and machine learning, real-world data and real-world evidence, digital health, data strategy and partnerships, analytics, and technology-enabled research. His experience also includes supporting global drug development and launches, building cross-functional capabilities and teams, and leading large-scale transformation, adoption, and change initiatives.
Prior to joining the biopharmaceutical industry, Imran worked at Advocate Health Care, where he led initiatives involving electronic health records, health information exchange, interoperability, patient portals, clinical quality improvement, population health, and value-based care for one of the largest physician communities in the United States. Earlier in his career, he worked with GE Healthcare and Walgreens on clinical, healthcare, and pharmaceutical technology solutions.
At Northwestern, Imran provides academic leadership for the MHDS program, including curriculum strategy and evolution, faculty recruitment and development, and ensuring that the program remains aligned with advances in healthcare data science, artificial intelligence, digital health, research, and industry practice. He has more than 15 years of teaching experience at Northwestern and has taught graduate courses in healthcare data science, health informatics, analytics, digital health, artificial intelligence, capstone, healthcare leadership, and related areas.
In addition to his leadership of MHDS, Imran teaches across multiple Northwestern graduate programs, including Health Informatics and the Pritzker School of Law. His interdisciplinary teaching connects healthcare, data, technology, research, leadership, and drug development, bringing practical perspectives from both industry and academia into the classroom.
Imran has also served in professional leadership roles with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), including several years on the Board of Directors of the Greater Illinois Chapter. He is a Fellow of HIMSS and holds professional certifications in healthcare information and management systems, project management, and agile practices.
Lynd Bacon, PhD, MBA
Lynd Bacon is a scientist and a natural philosopher. He teaches graduate and post-graduate courses in data science, machine learning, statistics, and research methods. He does research about health services delivery, product and service design, and genomic testing. His prior teaching experience includes having taught at The David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah, Notre Dame University’s Mendoza School of Business, The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, Rush University, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has founded two software companies, and has held senior management and chief research officer positions in venture-funded start-up companies and in global business intelligence enterprises. Bacon has a PhD and an MA in cognitive and physiological experimental Psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an MBA with specializations in marketing, econometrics, and healthcare management from the Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago. He completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at Rush University in Chicago, during which he did neuroscience research on healthy and patient populations, and saw patients with the clinical neurology and neurosurgery services.
Ariel Chandler
Ariel Chandler is currently a data scientist and strategic consultant at Validate Health, which provides data driven guidance to healthcare organizations on value based care contracts. In 2020 she received her PhD in Health and Biomedical Informatics from the Health Sciences Integrated Program at Northwestern University. Her dissertation work involved the application of a complex network model to electronic health record data to identify when clinical care and teamwork have the greatest impact on patient outcomes. Ariel previously worked at Boston Children’s Hospital on research integrating electronic health record and genomic data, and at The Policy and Research Group in New Orleans on projects evaluating the implementation and impact of federally funded public health programs. She earned her undergraduate degree in Cell and Molecular Biology from Tulane University.
Eytan Dallal
Eytan Dallal is a senior healthcare IT executive with over 25 years of experience in the private and public sectors, helping organizations think beyond simply using technology as a tool, and leading implementations of technology as a strategic business driver. As a former CIO in healthcare in the public and private sectors, he understands the complex nature of managing and security healthcare data across business silos and the challenges from a legal, compliance, security, privacy, and interoperability perspective.
Dallal has served as a keynote speaker and panelist in a number of seminars, recognized for his in-depth knowledge of technology, strategy, and business. He holds a Master's in Health Informatics from the College of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a Bachelor’s in Business Management from NEIU, and several industry certifications including HCISPP and HIPAA. He is an active member of AHIMA, HIMSS, and (ISC)2, and serves on the board of a community non-profit organization supporting education.
Christina Maimone
Christina Maimone is a data scientist with Northwestern University IT Research Computing Services, where she leads a team that supports researchers in learning data science, data visualization, and computer programming skills and applying them in their research. Through consultations, project collaborations, working groups, and workshops, her team helps thousands of researchers across the university overcome technical challenges and undertake innovative research projects. She especially enjoys projects that involve collecting new data, text analysis, and communicating effectively with data visualizations. She is active in the research computing and data professionals community, where she works to build national networks of technical research professionals and develop career paths for academic data scientists and research software engineers. Christina has a PhD in political science and a master's degree in statistics from Stanford University.
William T. Mickelson (Bill)
Dr. William T. Mickelson is an applied social science statistician and statistical consultant with over 35 years of experience in both academia and industry. Mickelson has taught across the spectrum of research and statistical topics, including courses in mathematical and stochastic modeling, general linear statistical models, response surface methods, multivariate statistical methods, and linear and non-linear optimization. He is deeply involved with statistics education and the promoting of statistical reasoning, thinking, and literacy. He has also maintained a statistical consulting practice with clients primarily in Health Care, state and local government, health and fitness, transportation, insurance, banking and finance, and Higher Education.
Regina Schwind
Regina Schwind, MS, MBA, is a healthcare and life sciences executive with more than 20 years of experience spanning oncology, clinical informatics, academic medicine, real-world evidence, and artificial intelligence. She serves as Chief Data Officer at Triomics, where she leads clinical data strategy and the development of AI-enabled solutions designed to accelerate clinical research and improve patient access to precision oncology trials.
Previously, Schwind served as Senior Director of Clinical Data at Tempus AI, where she built and led large-scale clinical data operations supporting clinical-genomic research, real-world evidence, and data-driven product development. Earlier in her career, she held leadership roles at the University of Illinois Cancer Center, contributing to the center’s development and advancing translational research, research informatics, and innovative oncology programs.
Schwind’s work centers on translating complex clinical needs into scalable data, technology, and operational solutions. She is particularly interested inhelping students understand healthcare data within its clinical context and use it thoughtfully to improve research, care delivery, and patient outcomes.
Victoria Wangia-Anderson
Dr. Victoria Wangia-Anderson is an Associate Professor and Program Director at the University of Cincinnati. She has a doctorate degree in Health Informatics from the University of Minnesota. She also completed the Public Health Informatics fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. She has a strong interest in leveraging technology and data to promote health and reduce health disparities. Wangia-Anderson has experience teaching and using health data science techniques and programming. She also has extensive experience teaching and developing courses. She has been a member of several industry organizations, including the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), the American Public Health Association (APHA), the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). In 2016, Dr. Wangia-Anderson received HIMSS fellow status, earning her the FHIMSS credential.