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Dr. Eduardo J. Simoes

MU Medicine BBME Featured Talk

Date & Time: Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Location: MA223 SOM Conference Room

Subject: Missouri PHIG (Public Health Infrastructure Grant) Evaluation - Preliminary Results

Join us for a keynote presentation by Dr. Eduardo Simoes, MD, MSc, MPH, Distinguished Professor in the School of Medicine Department of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics, & Medical Epidemiology.
 

Dr. Eduardo Simoes Bio

Dr. Eduardo J. Simões is medical doctor and researcher with 44 years of experience in medicine, public health, and health research. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medical Epidemiology, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, United States (2023-present). He was Chair, Dr. Stuart Wesbury Distinguished Professor of Health and Informatics Management and HMI Alumni Distinguished Professor of the Department of Health and Informatics Management, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, United States (2011-2023). He was the director of the Prevention Research Program (PRC-Office) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the US Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS-US), Atlanta, United States (2002-2011). He was State Epidemiologist and Chief of the Office of Epidemiology of the Missouri Department of Health, USA, 1995-2002. He was Assistant Professor of Schools of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Saint Louis, United States (1995-2002). He was a visiting scientist and associate at CDC/DHSS-US in 1991-1993 and an associate researcher at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA, 1994-95. He was a primary health care physician, Director of the Coque and Pina Health Centers, Recife, Brazil, and health planning consultant at the Recife and Jaboatão Health Departments and URB-Recife, Recife, Brazil (1981-89). His degree in medicine is from the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Pernambuco-Brazil (1976-1981). He has diploma and master's degree in health sciences from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine of the University of London, London, United Kingdom (1986- 87) and a master's degree in public health from the Emory University School of Public Health, Atlanta, USA (1989-91). He is a member of the American College of Epidemiology (United States), and reviewer and editor of 15 international medical journals. He has published 185 peer-reviewed scientific publications, 15 book chapters, and 31 public health reports. He has presented at over 180 international health conferences. He has been a principal investigator or co-investigator in 47 research grants for a total of about $69 million.

Research in Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medical Epidemiology includes clinical informatics, epidemiology and population health, health informatics and surveillance, biostatistics, medical informatics, medicine, enabling and improving efforts in translational precision medicine and basic science investigation.

Services & Consultation

Department research support features peer-reviewed sources including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS), the Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH), Department of Veteran Affairs, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and other federal, state, local, academic, and foundation partners.

Faculty members actively participate in institutional research activities collaborating with various University of Missouri units including the NextGen Precision Health initiative, MU Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, the Bond Life Sciences Center, MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics, and the UMKC Center for Health Insights.

Graduate students study to obtain a master's degree, with certificates available to support specialized professional subject matter, engage in assistantships in research working with faculty in the department and centers. For additional information regarding MSHI (Informatics) programs, please contact the Director of Graduate Studies, Fares Alahdab, MD, MSc.

Research training opportunities for post-doctoral fellows, residents, medical students, and undergraduates at times may also be available; those interested should contact individual centers and faculty members. The diversity of biomedical informatics, biostatistics and medical epidemiology investigators generates significant funded research contributions to health and medicine in Missouri and beyond.

The department includes the following centers, cores, and labs:

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Some Current Research Areas and Topics

  • Accountable healthcare systems
  • Bioinformatics
  • Biomedical Informatics
  • Biostatistics
  • Cancer genomics
  • Cancer research registry
  • Clinical informatics
  • Clinical research informatics
  • Consumer health informatics
  • Computational biology, whole-genome sequencing data
  • Diabetes translational research dissemination
  • Electronic medical records (EMR)
  • Electronic health records (EHR)
  • Health surveillance projects
  • Healthcare industry economics, finance, and policy
  • Informatics for healthcare
  • Medical informatics
  • Population-based cancer registry
  • Public health informatics
  • Pregnancy risk assessment monitoring system (PRAMS)
  • Translational BioInformatics