Akbar Waljee, MD, MSc, AGAF

Professor, Learning Health Sciences
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Lyle C. Roll Professor, Medical School
Faculty Lead of Data and Methods Hub, IHPI
Co-Director of Michigan Integrated Center for Health Analytics and Medical Prediction (MiCHAMP)
Research Scientist, VA Center for Clinical Management Research Ann Arbor HSR&D Center of Innovation
Staff Physician & Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System
Accepting HILS PhD Students? No
Accepting PIBS Students? No

Administrative Content

Sarah Conner

Biography

Dr. Akbar K. Waljee is an accomplished physician-scientist in healthcare policy and innovation, focusing on using machine learning and deep learning techniques to improve healthcare outcomes. He holds several key leadership positions at the University of Michigan, including serving as the faculty lead for the IHPI Data and Methods Hub and the Co-Director of theMichigan Integrated Center for Health Analytics and Medical Prediction (MiCHAMP) as well as a convener for the e-Health and Artificial Intelligence program (e-HAIL). 

Dr. Waljee's educational background includes undergraduate and medical degrees from Emory University, as well as a master’s degree in health services research from the University of Michigan. He also completed a healthcare policy fellowship at the Center for Health and Research Transformation.

Dr. Waljee’s work is aimed at improving healthcare access, quality, and efficiency, particularly in resource-constrained settings. He employs novel machine learning techniques to develop AI-enabled decision support systems and tools to facilitate more personalized care for disease management and healthcare utilization, with the ultimate goal of delivering efficient, effective and equitable care both domestically and globally.

Areas of Interest

Dr. Waljee uses novel machine learning techniques to implement decision support systems and tools that facilitate more personalized care for disease management and healthcare utilization to ultimately deliver efficient, effective, and equitable therapy for chronic diseases. He has built operational programs that are guiding—and improving—patient care in costly gastroenterology and liver disorders in under-resourced settings both domestically and internationally.

Research and Scholarly Interests

Subject-matter expertise

Publications

Selected publications:

  • Waljee AK, Rogers MA, Lin P, Singal AG, Stein JD, Marks RM, Ayanian JZ, Nallamothu BK. Short term use of oral corticosteroids and related harms among adults in the United States: population-based cohort study. BMJ. 2017;357:j1415. [PMCID: PMC6284230]. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28404617/
  • Waljee AK*, Mukherjee A*, Singal AG, Zhang Y, Warren J, Balis U, Marrero J, Zhu J, Higgins PD. Comparison of imputation methods for missing laboratory data in medicine. BMJ Open. 2013;3(8). pii: e002847. [PMCID: PMC3733317]. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23906948/
  • Mahmoudi E, Kamdar N, Kim N, Gonzales G, Singh K, Waljee AK. Use of electronic medical records in development and validation of risk prediction models of hospital readmission: systematic review. BMJ. 2020; Apr 8;369:m958. [PMID: 32269037]. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m958

A list of all publications can be found here.