CDHAI Staff Bios

Jennifer Ling Bagdasarian, Ph.D., is the Associate Director of CDHAI. She received her Ph.D. in Management at Florida Atlantic University, where she studied the implications of healthcare professionals adopting an AI dermatology application on the institution of medicine. She received her BA from Duke University and an Executive MBA from Florida Atlantic University.

Upasna Sagar coordinates CDHAI’s administrative and program management activities, including the center’s communication and social media. Upasna has an undergraduate degree in dentistry and a master’s degree in health administration. Before joining Carey Business School, she was working as a research manager at the Center for Health Information and Decision systems. In that research setting, she managed multiple research projects and key administrative functions.

Sabrina Christian has an undergraduate degree in sociology and a master’s in health administration. Sabrina is also certified in Lean Six Sigma. Prior to joining the Carey Business School, she worked as medical records coordinator for Wais, Vogelstein, Forman, Koch, and Normal LLC. In that setting, she managed the medical records for severe birth injury cases.

Shruthi Srivatsan

Tianli Xu

Rui Han is a Research Assistant at CDHAI. Her research interests lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence in healthcare and chronic disease management. Rui holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo and a MS in Information Systems from the University of Maryland.

Junjie Luo is a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Junjie’s research interests include health care, artificial intelligence, and behavioral economics, particularly the interaction between human decisions and new health care technologies. He has a B.A in Applied Economics and a MS in Data Science from School of Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.