Dr. Athey is Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Associate Director, Center for Computational Medicine and Biology (CCMB) and Director, Biomedical Informatics Program (BIP) MICHR CTSA. He has recently been named “Chair Designate” of a new Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan Medical School, and also serves as overall Director of Academic Informatics and Information Technology of the School. He is also the Principal Investigator of the NIH/NIGMS Bioinformatics Training Grant. He is an expert in the new field of ‘Translational Bioinformatics’ and also research cyberinfrastructure.