Dr. Ugiliweneza is the Director of the Bioinformatics Core. Dr. Ugiliweneza's educational background spans analytical fields in theory and application, with a PhD in Applied and Industrial Mathematics and a Master's in Biostatistics from the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY. She holds a BS in pure Mathematics with a minor in Theoretical Physics from the Universite de Niamey, Niamey, Niger. Dr. Ugiliweneza's research and professional interests lie on the analytical continuum from data knowledge to quality and improvement in healthcare. Specifically, she is interested in health analytics, health services and outcomes, health economics, and health policy. She has worked and collaborated on many projects, resulting in numerous peer-reviewed publications. Her current ongoing projects include evaluating the long-term outcomes associated with spinal cord injury, healthcare resource use and costs for individuals with spinal cord injury, and the comparative effectiveness of different care modalities in terms of clinical trajectories after spinal cord injury, using administrative databases and data generated by KSCIRC.