Justin Rousseau

Justin Rousseau, MD, MMSc, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute. He serves as Deputy Chief Medical Informatics Officer for Neurosciences and leads the IMAGINe Lab, focusing on clinical informatics and leveraging EHR data. His research integrates NLP, ontologies, and data warehousing to advance brain health and clinical decision-making. He previously co-founded the Dell Medical School Data Core and contributed to networks like EPINET-TX and TX-CTRN.

Education: Medical degree from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, neurology residency at UC San Diego, and an NIH fellowship in Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He holds a Master of Medical Sciences in Biomedical Informatics from Harvard.

Research Interests: Secondary use of EHR data, clinical informatics, machine learning in healthcare, and AI ethics. Projects include IMPACC study on post-COVID-19 sequelae and developing computable phenotypes for patient cohort identification.

Recent work highlights gaps in AI healthcare adoption (JBI 2025), thrombolysis safety in stroke (JAMA Netw Open 2025), and longitudinal trauma effects (J Clin Psychiatry 2025). He co-leads efforts to standardize SDoH data and address conflicts of interest in biomedical research.

Labs/Teams: IMAGINe Lab (specializing in neuroscience informatics) and Biostatistics & Clinical Informatics Section at UTSW. Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams on multi-omic studies and clinical AI applications.

Grants/Awards: NIH-funded projects on informatics and pandemic response. Active in policy development for ethical research practices and AI governance.