Bell Eapen
Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Springfield
Springfield, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolBell Eapen is an Assistant Professor and clinician-researcher blending 11 years of experience in dermatology with advanced expertise in health informatics and AI, including a PhD in Information Systems from McMaster University. Currently splitting roles between the University of Illinois Springfield and Mayo Clinic, he leads GenAI and digital health innovation efforts to translate medical imaging and decision-support research into clinical-grade software. His background spans bedside dermatology, deploying OpenMRS-based EHRs in low-resource settings, and postdoctoral work in health data science—giving him rare end-to-end perspective from patient care to production systems. He is practiced at operationalizing FHIR interoperability and ML model deployment for diagnostics, and teaches data mining and business intelligence. Colleagues know him for combining rigorous clinical judgment with pragmatic engineering to move intelligent medicine from prototype to practice.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
DNB Dermatology, DNB Dermatology at National Board (India)MSc Bioinformatics, MSc Bioinformatics at Sikkim Manipal University, GangtokDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Information Systems, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Information Systems at McMaster UniversityMD Dermatology, MD Dermatology at Manipal Academy of Higher EducationDD Dermatology, DD Dermatology at Royal College of Physicians And Surgeons of Glasgow (UK)Bengaluru University
English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
healthkit10
react-redux10
npm-package10
render10
hl710
rendering10
ncbi10
flashlight10
react-component10
neo4j10
health-informatics10
fitbit10
api10
ehealth10
nlp-machine-learning10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
dermatologist/python3-ml
Aug 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:38 commits, 31 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 4 months
E-Health/ehealth-resources
Oct 2017 - Dec 2022
A List of eHealth and Health Informatics Resources
Contributions:4 reviews, 149 commits, 48 PRs in 5 years 2 months
ehealthhealthinformationsystemshealth-informaticshealthhealthit
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