NextGen researcher profile: Russ Waitman // Show Me Mizzou // University of Missouri

May 25, 2021

Russ Waitman, director of medical informatics for NextGen Precision Health, is a data connoisseur. As a national leader in medical informatics, Waitman is known around the country for his work establishing new methods for investigators to access electronic medical records for research purposes.

As a strategic hire for the NextGen initiative, Waitman spends time at Mizzou and at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) as a professor in the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics and as the director of UMKC’s Center for Health Insights.

Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant, associate dean for population health and outcomes research, and Steven Zweig, dean of the MU School of Medicine, share how Waitman’s research will help transform precision health and connect researchers across the UM System through the power of NextGen.

In this video:

Russ Waitman: Director of medical informatics for NextGen Precision Health; associate dean for informatics, vice chair for informatics and a professor in the MU School of Medicine’s Department of Health Management and Informatics; adjunct professor in the MU Department of Family and Community Medicine; professor in the UMKC Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics; director of the Center for Health Insights at the UMKC School of Medicine
Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant: Associate dean for population health and outcomes research at the MU School of Medicine; professor of Family and Community Medicine
Steven Zweig: Hugh E. and Sarah D. Stephenson dean of the MU School of Medicine; professor of Family and Community Medicine

NextGen Precision Health

Highlighting the promise of personalized health care and the impact of large-scale interdisciplinary collaboration, the University of Missouri System’s NextGen Precision Health initiative is bringing together innovators from across the system’s four research universities in pursuit of life-changing precision health advancements. It’s a collaborative effort to leverage the strengths of Mizzou and the entire UM System toward a better future for Missouri’s health. An important part of the initiative is the construction of the new NextGen Precision Health building, which will expand collaboration between researchers, clinicians and industry leaders in a state-of-the-art research facility.