Chaudhari Lab Staff

Bimal P. Chaudhari, MD, MPH
Principal Investigator

Bimal P. Chaudhari, MD, MPH, is a principal investigator in the Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine, a member of the Sections of Neonatology, Genetics and Genomic Medicine and a founding member of the Radiogenomics Research Affinity Group at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Dr. Chaudhari is also an assistant professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

Clinically, Dr. Chaudhari is interested in the evaluation and management of structural birth defects and suspected Mendelian disease during fetal medicine consultation as well as postnatally in neonatal intensive care units. His academic work focuses on methods to improve the utility of genetic testing outside of the medical genetics clinic. He does this through a combination of outreach, education and research. 

Dr. Chaudhari’s research focuses on a learning health systems approach to applications of genomic medicine in acute and critical care pediatric populations. This work involves transdisciplinary collaboration to design, implement and evaluate interventions which address the challenge of making genomic medicine salient to non-geneticist health care providers. To that end, he is principal investigator on multiple protocols related to the delivery of rapid genome sequencing in acute and critical care settings. Overlapping fields and techniques used include data visualization, machine learning, natural language processing, ontologies, clustering and similarity measures, human computer interaction, computer supported collaborative work, user centered design and clinical decision support. By both generating foundational knowledge necessary to design such interventions and implementing and evaluating them in the real world, Dr. Chaudhari’s work seeks to promote safety, improve outcomes and increase value in medically complex neonatal and pediatric populations.

Austin Antoniou, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate

Austin was born in Phoenix and lived in Arizona until earning his B.S. in Mathematics at The University of Arizona in 2014. He moved to Columbus to continue studying math at The Ohio State University, where he worked as a graduate teaching associate and researcher until completing his Ph.D. in 2020. In the Fall of 2020, he started as a postdoctoral scientist at IGM.

His current research revolves around developing mathematical and computational insight into patient phenotype data. In particular, he is concerned with how to best measure similarity between terms in ontologies and how to use similarity measures to improve the gene ranking algorithms. These questions have the underlying goal of accelerating diagnoses for patients who undergo genome or exome sequencing.

Brandon Stone, MD
Resident Physician

Brandon Stone, MD, is a resident in the combined Pediatrics/Medical Genetics Residency at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State Univeristy. He hails from Michigan where he completed his undergraduate (Michigan State University) and medical (Wayne State University) degrees. His work involves identification of individuals with undiagnosed or mild genetic disorders which may be overlooked in current clinical practice.

Emily Messick, DO
Research Associate

Emily Messick, DO, joined IGM in summer of 2023 as part of the Chaudhari lab. She received her BS from The Ohio State University and medical degree from Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine. Emily recently completed her pediatric residency at Nationwide Childrens Hospital during which time her research focused on outcomes of neonates with Down Syndrome. Emily is now in her first year of perinatal-neonatal fellowship at Nationwide Childrens Hospital and is working with Dr.Chaudhari to investigate the utilization and clinical utility of genetic testing in neonates with a focus on infants with cardiac lesions. In her free time, she enjoys running, woodworking, and hanging out with her pug (Carl) and fiancé (Michael). Go Bucks!

Anamika Shah
Medical Student

Anamika Shah is a fourth-year medical student at The Ohio State University. She completed her undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College in Mathematical Biology. Her work at the Chaudhari Lab involves investigating parents’ experiences with rapid genome sequencing in critical care units. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, swimming, exploring coffee shops, and spending time with her friends.