Dr. Trupti Joshi is the Senior Associate Dean for Informatics and Population Analytics and Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Joan C Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University. She also holds an Adjunct faculty appointment in Department of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medical Epidemiology (BBME) and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at University of Missouri-Columbia (UM). She is the Principal Investigator of the WV-INBRE NIGMS / NIH Award P20GM103434, whose mission as part of the NIH Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Program is to establish a consortium among selected institutions of higher education in the State of West Virginia to enhance their capacity for educating and training their faculty and students in biomedical research.