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Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education is comprised of two divisions, Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) and Medical Education and Evaluation (MEE).

All BIME Core & Extended Faculty

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    Barry Aaronson, MD, FACP, SFHM, FAMIA

    • Associate Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    barry.aaronson@commonspirit.org

    Interests:

    Applied clinical informatics, risks to patient safety from health information technology (HIT) and the use of health information technology to support safety goals, use of HIT to support clinical quality goals, AI in medicine, hospital medicine, teaching hospital medicine, use of HIT for venous thromboembolism prophylaxis, use of HIT for hospital glycemic control, EHR usability, Cerner EHR, lean production methods, and informatics governance and team building.


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    Neil Abernethy, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    neila@uw.edu

    UW Faculty website

    School of Public Health profile

    LinkedIn

    Google Scholar citations

    Interests:

    Artificial intelligence in medicine (AI safety/reliability, grounding, machine learning, knowledge representation and extraction, multi-modal models, and decision making under uncertainty), biomedical data science (data integration, visualization, network analysis), computational biology (pathway analysis, protein structure), and public health informatics (disease surveillance, epidemic models, molecular epidemiology).


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    Uba Backonja, PhD, RN

    • Assistant Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    backonja@uw.edu

    LinkedIn

    Interests:

    Community-based health informatics, data visualization, health inequities, women’s health, and health promotion


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    Tania P. Bardyn, MLIS, AHIP

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    bardyn@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Equitable access to high-quality health information, clinical and translational information resources, collaborations that foster outcomes in population health research, mobile app development, disaster preparedness resource access, assessing information needs in medical education, GME and CME, and using games to improve evidence-based information-seeking behavior and incorporating it into clinical practice.


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    James Brinkley, MD, PhD

    • Professor Emeritus
    • BHI

    brinkley@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Structural informatics with emphasis on multimedia data management, ontologies, data integration, the semantic web, and visualization as applied to biomedicine; potential applications of structural informatics in areas outside biomedicine such as music.


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    Daniel Capurro, MD, PhD, FAMIA

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    dcapurro@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Clinical informatics, secondary uses of electronic clinical data, phenotyping, temporal abstractions, and Clinical Data Warehouse.


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    Jan Carline, PhD

    • Professor Emeritus
    • Primary
    • MEE

    carlinej@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Medical education and its evaluation.


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    Annie Chen, MSIS, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    atchen@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Health-behaviors in everyday life, digital health, health-related belief and knowledge representation, health-related social media use, text and visual analytics, research methods, stakeholder-engagement in design and research, and digital humanities.


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    Trevor Cohen, MBChB, PhD, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    cohenta@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Mental health informatics, post-marketing drug surveillance, drug repurposing, analysis of health-related online social media, distributed representations, distributional semantics, and clinical cognition.


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    David Crosslin, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    davidcr@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Human genetics and genomics, applied bioinformatics, applied statistics, clinical decision support, systems integration and implementation, large scale statistical genetic analyses, etiology of complex diseases.


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    Matthew Cunningham, PhD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Primary
    • MEE

    cunningm@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Evaluation of curricular innovations and educational programs.


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    Walter H. Curioso, MD, MPH, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    wcurioso@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Biomedical and health informatics.


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    Valerie Daggett, PhD

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    daggett@uw.edu

    Daggett Research Group

    Interests:

    Structural bioinformatics, databases, mining techniques, visual analytics, protein folding and design, single-nucleotide polymorphisms, amyloid diseases, protein design, dynameomics combined with experimental biophysical studies, diagnostic and therapeutic design for amyloid diseases.


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    Nic Dobbins, PhD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    Google Scholar

    Interests:

    Developing intuitive, user-centered tools for scientific discovery and data extraction from electronic health records, with a focus on natural language processing (NLP), large language models and autonomous agents, cohort discovery, and clinical trials.


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    Kristina Dzara, PhD, MMSc

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • MEE

    dzara@uw.edu

    CLIME Website

    CLIME Teaching Scholars Program Website

    Interests:

    Educator development, science of teaching and learning, program evaluation, curriculum development, social media, and educational scholarship.


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    Jared M. Erwin, PhD

    • Lecturer
    • Primary
    • BHI

    erwinj@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Genomics, pharmacogenomics, research methods, causality, and FHIR.


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    Sherrilynne Fuller, PhD, FACMI

    • Professor Emeritus
    • Primary
    • BHI

    sfuller@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Knowledge discovery, integrated information systems design, human factors, and information retrieval and management.


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    John Gennari, PhD

    • Professor
    • Graduate Program Director
    • Primary
    • BHI

    gennari@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Ontologies, knowledge representation, reproducibility, FAIR, and knowledge sharing.


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    Justin Guinney, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    jguinney@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Heterogeneity of colorectal cancer, precision oncology, computational methods for cancer biology, open science and DREAM challenges, and biological aging.


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    Jennifer Hadlock, MD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    hadlock@isbscience.org

    Hadlock Lab

    Interests:

    Multimodal longitudinal modeling for mechanistic understanding and clinical decision support.


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    Amanda “Mandi” Hall, PhD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    mandiha@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Research focusing on the design, usability, and evaluation of consumer health information technologies including mobile applications, wearable devices, and healthcare robotics; health education and behavior change interventions, and games for health and human factors.


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    Andrea Hartzler, PhD

    • Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    andreah@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Human-centered design, health equity, personal health informatics, patient-provider interaction, and clinical informatics.


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    David Heckerman, MD, PhD

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    heckerma@hotmail.com

    Website

    Interests:

    Genomics, vaccine design, computational biology, and machine learning.


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    Eric Horvitz, MD, PhD

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    horvitz@microsoft.com

    Website

    Interests:

    Computational foundations of intelligent sensing, reasoning, and action.


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    Shuai Huang, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    shuaih@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Disease modeling, monitoring, prognostics, biomarker discovery, and medical decision-making.


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    Jonathan Ilgen, MD, MCR, FACEP

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • MEE

    ilgen@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Clinical and diagnostic reasoning, and medical education scholarship and assessment.


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    Misbah Keen, MD, MBI, MPH

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI
    • MEE

    mkeen@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Medical education, decentralized clinical education, and clinical informatics education.


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    Sara Kim, PhD

    • Research Professor
    • Adjunct
    • MEE

    sarakim@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Educational Continuous Quality Improvement, healthcare communication skills, and conflict management negotiation research.


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    Diane M. Korngiebel, DPhil

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    dianemk@uw.edu

    Interests:

    User-centered design, ethical issues in Big Data science, shared decision making, ethically informed genomic medicine, mHealth broadly construed (e.g. patient portals, smartphone applications, voice user interface/smart speakers particularly to support older and diverse populations), and health equity.


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    Amanda Kost

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • MEE

    akost@uw.edu


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    Su-In Lee, PhD

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    suinlee@cs.washington.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Machine learning, computational biology, and clinical informatics.


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    Michael Leu, MD, MS, MHS, FAAP, FAMIA

    • Professor
    • Clinical Informatics Fellowship Director
    • Joint
    • BHI

    mgl27@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Medical education and translating innovations into practice in ways that improve patient care and clinical outcomes.


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    Chen Liang, PhD, FAMIA

    • Assistant Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    cl0512@uw.edu

    Link to CV

    Interests:

    Electronic Health Records (EHR), multi-modal health data integration, common data models, biomedical ontology, EHR-based deep phenotyping and data mining, machine-learning-based clinical predictive models to be used for augmenting Clinical Decision Support Systems, diagnostics, screening, comorbidity reasoning, prognosis prediction, and evidence-based intervention.


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    Bill Lober, MD, MS

    • Professor
    • Joint
    • BHI

    lober@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Clinical, public health, and global health informatics.


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    Gang Luo, PhD

    • Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    luogang@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Health and clinical informatics (data and predictive analytics and software system design and development), big data, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, and database systems.


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    Kevin Lybarger, PhD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    klybarge@gmu.edu

    Interests:

    Machine learning, natural language processing, and clinical informatics.


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    David Masuda, MD

    • Lecturer Emeritus
    • Primary
    • BHI

    Interests:

    Applied informatics educational program development with a focus on leadership in health information technology and clinical informatics.


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    Daniel Masys, MD, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    dmasys@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Development of informatics infrastructure for conducting clinical and translational research, and genome-phenome correlation using phenotype data derived from electronic medical records.


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    Patrick Mathias, MD, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    pcm10@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Laboratory medicine and pathology informatics, clinical decision support, laboratory stewardship, quality improvement, and characterizing and preventing diagnostic errors.


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    Peter Myler, PhD

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    mylerpj@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Bioinformatics, genomics, molecular parasitology, systems biology, structural genomics, and biodefense.


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    Pamela Nagasawa, PhD

    • Associate Teaching Professor
    • Joint
    • MEE

    pnaga22@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Educating a diverse workforce by priming students to serve rural, undeserved, and culturally diverse patient populations, impact assessment by the teaching and learning of science, curricular and institutional effectiveness, medical education, and student identity formation.


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    William Stafford Noble, PhD

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    william-noble@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Development and application of machine learning and statistical methods for interpreting genomics and proteomics data


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    Patrick O’Carroll, MD, MPH

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    ocarroll@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Epidemiology, informatics, and public health systems development.


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    Mark Phillips, PhD

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    markp@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Multiobjective optimization, utility measurements, probabilistic modeling of clinical outcomes in radiation oncology, and decision modeling in oncology.


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    Jim Phuong, MSPH, PhD

    • Acting Assistant Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    Interests:

    Natural disaster preparedness, climate adaptation, injury prevention, health equity research and allied research to support people with disabilities, population health, maturity models, biomedical informatics and cybersecurity, geocoding methods and spatial-temporal data analytics, common data models (e.g., OMOP, PCORNet), social determinants of health data engineering, data-driven research and process modeling, data engineering, DevOps, data linkage, research data science, and environmental health and toxicology.


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    Brian Piening

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    bpiening@uw.edu


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    Ari Pollack, MD, MSIM

    • Associate Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    apollack@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Clinical informatics, human-computer interaction, information architecture, information visualization, and population health.


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    Hoifung Poon, PhD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    hoifung@microsoft.com

    Website

    Interests:

    Advancing machine reading for precision health by unlocking structured information from text.


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    Abhishek Pratap, PhD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    apratap@uw.edu


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    Wanda Pratt, PhD, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    wpratt@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Personal health informatics, human-computer interaction, design of information technology, patient-provider communication, support for vulnerable populations, and patient empowerment.


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    Elizabeth A. Putnam, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    elizabeth.putnam@montana.edu

    Interests:

    Biomedical and health informatics.


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    James D. Ralston, MD, MPH

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    ralston.j@ghc.org

    Interests:

    Biomedical and health informatics.


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    Lynne Robins, PhD

    • Professor Emeritus
    • Primary
    • MEE

    lynner@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Educator development and mentorship, curriculum development, the science of teaching and learning, communication in the health professions, and qualitative research.


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    Timothy Robinson, PhD, MS

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • MEE

    tjrobin@uwyo.edu

    Interests:

    Design of experiments, response surface methodology, categorical data analysis, and applications in engineering, medicine and the environment.


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    Eric Rose, MD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    emrdoc@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Electronic medical record design and implementation, evidence-based medicine, terminology systems, and automated decision-support.


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    Anthony Rossini, ScD

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    rossini@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    The intersection and combination of interventional and non-interventional clinical studies.


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    Janice A. Sabin, PhD, MSW

    • Research Professor
    • Primary
    • MEE

    sabinja@uw.edu

    Google Scholar Citations

    Interests:

    The science of implicit (unconscious) bias and effects on medical care, workforce diversity, health equity and social determinants of health, healthcare delivery to health-disparity populations, patient-provider communication, culturally tailored health communication, and faculty development.


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    Doug Schaad, PhD

    • Professor
    • Division Head, MEE
    • Primary
    • MEE

    schaad@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Career trajectories in the medical profession, survey design and psychometrics, compassion, empathy, and cynicism in the professional development of physicians; interprofessional teams and learning outcomes, curriculum enhancement and associated performance, demographic variables associated with rural and underserved practice, and comparability of performance across training sites within the 5-state WWAMI program.


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    Craig Scott, PhD

    • Professor Emeritus
    • Primary
    • MEE

    scottcs@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Mind/body medicine, evaluation of scientific innovation, medical student stress management, performance-based teaching and evaluation (including TBL, PBL, flipped classrooms, objectively-structured clinical examinations and standardized patients), clinical skills development and assessment, medical school admissions, international medical education, and assessment of outcomes of National Science Foundation research centers.


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    Linda Shapiro, PhD

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    shapiro@uw.edu

    Faculty Web Page

    Interests:

    Research in object and pattern recognition, facial expression recognition, medical imaging including cancer biopsy analysis, and biomedical information systems.


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    Jane Shelby, PhD

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • MEE

    njshelby@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Medical education and evaluation.


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    Andrew Simms, PhD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    asimms@cognitivemedicine.com

    Website

    Interests:

    Representation of structured and unstructured biomedical data, data analytics, visualization, process mining, large-scale computing, clinical decision support, study feasibility, and software safety.


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    Angad Singh, MD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    Interests:

    Clinical informatics, preventative medicine, and ambulatory care and health equity.


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    Kari Stephens, PhD

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    kstephen@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Disparities in mental health and services, post-traumatic stress, dissemination of evidenced-based behavioral treatments to integrated care settings, and clinical health informatics with a focus on data sharing to promote translational research with communities.


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    Paul Sutton, MD, PhD, FAMIA

    • Associate Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    plsutton@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Biomedical and health informatics.


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    Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Chair, BIME
    • Primary
    • BHI
    • MEE

    pth@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Data integration and knowledge bases as applied to: translational bioinformatics, biospecimen acquisition, clinical/translational research, clinical data repositories, genomic medicine, and comparative effectiveness research.


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    Eric Tham, MD, MS

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    eric.tham@seattlechildrens.org

    Interests:

    Biomedical and Health Informatics


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    Hilaire Thompson, PhD, RN, ARNP, CNRN, AGACNP-BC, FAAN

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    hilairet@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Innovative interventions, symptom science, lifespan health


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    Anne M. Turner, MD, MLIS, MPH, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Joint
    • BHI

    amturner@uw.edu

    HPRC

    NWCPHP

    CPHI

    Faculty Page: School of Public Health

    Dept of Health Systems and Population Health faculty page

    Decision-making in Alzheimer’s Research (DMAR) webpage

    Interests:

    Public health informatics, older adult decision-making and personal health information management, designing discrete choice experiment tools for older adults with dementia and their caregivers, information needs assessment for public health, public health workflow and evaluation of public health information technologies, improving language access and use of informatics methods to improve communication with Limited English Proficiency populations, human-centered design, and qualitative methods.


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    Erik Van Eaton, MD, FACS

    • Associate Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    vane@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Enhancing clinical information systems for workflow, communication and handoffs, integrating research and registry informatics to clinical care, and improving technology for bedside clinical use.


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    Lucy Vanderwende, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    lucy_vanderwende@live.com

    Website

    Interests:

    Automated acquisition of semantic knowledge, information extraction from clinical records, and robust, broad-coverage language analysis.


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    Patrick Wedgeworth, MD, MISM

    • Assistant Professor
    • Joint
    • BHI

    LinkedIn

    Interests:

    Social determinants of health (using health IT tools to facilitate screening, referral, and understanding the effects of interventions on health outcomes and utilization), clinical decision support (creating tools to assist clinician decision making that are accurate, easy to understand, and explainable), and descriptive and predictive analytics (using analytics to understand the drivers behind health outcomes and the effects of interventions).


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    Marjorie Wenrich, PhD, MPH

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • MEE

    maxter@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Medical education, physician assessment, change management in medical education, and metacognition in teaching and learning.


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    Thomas Wetter, MSc, PhD

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    thomas.wetter@urz.uni-hd.de

    Website

    Interests:

    Consumer health informatics, patient-generated health data, and global health.


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    Mark Whipple, MD, MS, FACS

    • Professor
    • Joint
    • BHI

    mwhipple@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Developing predictive models of head and neck tumor metastasis from sparse data sources using formal anatomic knowledge representations and the genomics of head and neck tumors (squamous cell carcinoma, infantile hemangiomas, lymphatic malformations).


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    Fei Xia, PhD

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    fxia@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Natural language processing and information extraction.


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    Meliha Yetisgen, PhD

    • Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    melihay@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Clinical Natural Language Processing, Outcomes analysis


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    Wen-wai Yim, PhD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    yimwenwai@microsoft.com

    Interests:

    Natural language processing, information extraction, and language and semantics.


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    Brenda Zierler, PhD, RN, FAAN

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    brendaz@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Biomedical and health informatics.


All BIME Core Faculty

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    Neil Abernethy, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    neila@uw.edu

    UW Faculty website

    School of Public Health profile

    LinkedIn

    Google Scholar citations

    Interests:

    Artificial intelligence in medicine (AI safety/reliability, grounding, machine learning, knowledge representation and extraction, multi-modal models, and decision making under uncertainty), biomedical data science (data integration, visualization, network analysis), computational biology (pathway analysis, protein structure), and public health informatics (disease surveillance, epidemic models, molecular epidemiology).


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    James Brinkley, MD, PhD

    • Professor Emeritus
    • BHI

    brinkley@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Structural informatics with emphasis on multimedia data management, ontologies, data integration, the semantic web, and visualization as applied to biomedicine; potential applications of structural informatics in areas outside biomedicine such as music.


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    Jan Carline, PhD

    • Professor Emeritus
    • Primary
    • MEE

    carlinej@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Medical education and its evaluation.


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    Annie Chen, MSIS, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    atchen@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Health-behaviors in everyday life, digital health, health-related belief and knowledge representation, health-related social media use, text and visual analytics, research methods, stakeholder-engagement in design and research, and digital humanities.


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    Trevor Cohen, MBChB, PhD, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    cohenta@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Mental health informatics, post-marketing drug surveillance, drug repurposing, analysis of health-related online social media, distributed representations, distributional semantics, and clinical cognition.


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    Matthew Cunningham, PhD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Primary
    • MEE

    cunningm@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Evaluation of curricular innovations and educational programs.


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    Valerie Daggett, PhD

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    daggett@uw.edu

    Daggett Research Group

    Interests:

    Structural bioinformatics, databases, mining techniques, visual analytics, protein folding and design, single-nucleotide polymorphisms, amyloid diseases, protein design, dynameomics combined with experimental biophysical studies, diagnostic and therapeutic design for amyloid diseases.


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    Jared M. Erwin, PhD

    • Lecturer
    • Primary
    • BHI

    erwinj@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Genomics, pharmacogenomics, research methods, causality, and FHIR.


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    Sherrilynne Fuller, PhD, FACMI

    • Professor Emeritus
    • Primary
    • BHI

    sfuller@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Knowledge discovery, integrated information systems design, human factors, and information retrieval and management.


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    John Gennari, PhD

    • Professor
    • Graduate Program Director
    • Primary
    • BHI

    gennari@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Ontologies, knowledge representation, reproducibility, FAIR, and knowledge sharing.


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    Andrea Hartzler, PhD

    • Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    andreah@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Human-centered design, health equity, personal health informatics, patient-provider interaction, and clinical informatics.


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    Michael Leu, MD, MS, MHS, FAAP, FAMIA

    • Professor
    • Clinical Informatics Fellowship Director
    • Joint
    • BHI

    mgl27@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Medical education and translating innovations into practice in ways that improve patient care and clinical outcomes.


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    Chen Liang, PhD, FAMIA

    • Assistant Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    cl0512@uw.edu

    Link to CV

    Interests:

    Electronic Health Records (EHR), multi-modal health data integration, common data models, biomedical ontology, EHR-based deep phenotyping and data mining, machine-learning-based clinical predictive models to be used for augmenting Clinical Decision Support Systems, diagnostics, screening, comorbidity reasoning, prognosis prediction, and evidence-based intervention.


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    Bill Lober, MD, MS

    • Professor
    • Joint
    • BHI

    lober@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Clinical, public health, and global health informatics.


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    Gang Luo, PhD

    • Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    luogang@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Health and clinical informatics (data and predictive analytics and software system design and development), big data, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, and database systems.


    Missing Headshot

    David Masuda, MD

    • Lecturer Emeritus
    • Primary
    • BHI

    Interests:

    Applied informatics educational program development with a focus on leadership in health information technology and clinical informatics.


    Missing Headshot

    Daniel Masys, MD, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    dmasys@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Development of informatics infrastructure for conducting clinical and translational research, and genome-phenome correlation using phenotype data derived from electronic medical records.


    Missing Headshot

    Peter Myler, PhD

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    mylerpj@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Bioinformatics, genomics, molecular parasitology, systems biology, structural genomics, and biodefense.


    Missing Headshot

    Pamela Nagasawa, PhD

    • Associate Teaching Professor
    • Joint
    • MEE

    pnaga22@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Educating a diverse workforce by priming students to serve rural, undeserved, and culturally diverse patient populations, impact assessment by the teaching and learning of science, curricular and institutional effectiveness, medical education, and student identity formation.


    Missing Headshot

    Jim Phuong, MSPH, PhD

    • Acting Assistant Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    Interests:

    Natural disaster preparedness, climate adaptation, injury prevention, health equity research and allied research to support people with disabilities, population health, maturity models, biomedical informatics and cybersecurity, geocoding methods and spatial-temporal data analytics, common data models (e.g., OMOP, PCORNet), social determinants of health data engineering, data-driven research and process modeling, data engineering, DevOps, data linkage, research data science, and environmental health and toxicology.


    Missing Headshot

    Wanda Pratt, PhD, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    wpratt@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Personal health informatics, human-computer interaction, design of information technology, patient-provider communication, support for vulnerable populations, and patient empowerment.


    Missing Headshot

    Lynne Robins, PhD

    • Professor Emeritus
    • Primary
    • MEE

    lynner@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Educator development and mentorship, curriculum development, the science of teaching and learning, communication in the health professions, and qualitative research.


    Missing Headshot

    Janice A. Sabin, PhD, MSW

    • Research Professor
    • Primary
    • MEE

    sabinja@uw.edu

    Google Scholar Citations

    Interests:

    The science of implicit (unconscious) bias and effects on medical care, workforce diversity, health equity and social determinants of health, healthcare delivery to health-disparity populations, patient-provider communication, culturally tailored health communication, and faculty development.


    Missing Headshot

    Doug Schaad, PhD

    • Professor
    • Division Head, MEE
    • Primary
    • MEE

    schaad@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Career trajectories in the medical profession, survey design and psychometrics, compassion, empathy, and cynicism in the professional development of physicians; interprofessional teams and learning outcomes, curriculum enhancement and associated performance, demographic variables associated with rural and underserved practice, and comparability of performance across training sites within the 5-state WWAMI program.


    Missing Headshot

    Craig Scott, PhD

    • Professor Emeritus
    • Primary
    • MEE

    scottcs@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Mind/body medicine, evaluation of scientific innovation, medical student stress management, performance-based teaching and evaluation (including TBL, PBL, flipped classrooms, objectively-structured clinical examinations and standardized patients), clinical skills development and assessment, medical school admissions, international medical education, and assessment of outcomes of National Science Foundation research centers.


    Missing Headshot

    Linda Shapiro, PhD

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    shapiro@uw.edu

    Faculty Web Page

    Interests:

    Research in object and pattern recognition, facial expression recognition, medical imaging including cancer biopsy analysis, and biomedical information systems.


    Missing Headshot

    Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Chair, BIME
    • Primary
    • BHI
    • MEE

    pth@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Data integration and knowledge bases as applied to: translational bioinformatics, biospecimen acquisition, clinical/translational research, clinical data repositories, genomic medicine, and comparative effectiveness research.


    Missing Headshot

    Anne M. Turner, MD, MLIS, MPH, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Joint
    • BHI

    amturner@uw.edu

    HPRC

    NWCPHP

    CPHI

    Faculty Page: School of Public Health

    Dept of Health Systems and Population Health faculty page

    Decision-making in Alzheimer’s Research (DMAR) webpage

    Interests:

    Public health informatics, older adult decision-making and personal health information management, designing discrete choice experiment tools for older adults with dementia and their caregivers, information needs assessment for public health, public health workflow and evaluation of public health information technologies, improving language access and use of informatics methods to improve communication with Limited English Proficiency populations, human-centered design, and qualitative methods.


    Missing Headshot

    Patrick Wedgeworth, MD, MISM

    • Assistant Professor
    • Joint
    • BHI

    LinkedIn

    Interests:

    Social determinants of health (using health IT tools to facilitate screening, referral, and understanding the effects of interventions on health outcomes and utilization), clinical decision support (creating tools to assist clinician decision making that are accurate, easy to understand, and explainable), and descriptive and predictive analytics (using analytics to understand the drivers behind health outcomes and the effects of interventions).


    Missing Headshot

    Mark Whipple, MD, MS, FACS

    • Professor
    • Joint
    • BHI

    mwhipple@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Developing predictive models of head and neck tumor metastasis from sparse data sources using formal anatomic knowledge representations and the genomics of head and neck tumors (squamous cell carcinoma, infantile hemangiomas, lymphatic malformations).


    Missing Headshot

    Meliha Yetisgen, PhD

    • Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    melihay@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Clinical Natural Language Processing, Outcomes analysis


All BIME Extended Faculty

BHI Core & Extended

    Missing Headshot

    Barry Aaronson, MD, FACP, SFHM, FAMIA

    • Associate Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    barry.aaronson@commonspirit.org

    Interests:

    Applied clinical informatics, risks to patient safety from health information technology (HIT) and the use of health information technology to support safety goals, use of HIT to support clinical quality goals, AI in medicine, hospital medicine, teaching hospital medicine, use of HIT for venous thromboembolism prophylaxis, use of HIT for hospital glycemic control, EHR usability, Cerner EHR, lean production methods, and informatics governance and team building.


    Missing Headshot

    Neil Abernethy, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    neila@uw.edu

    UW Faculty website

    School of Public Health profile

    LinkedIn

    Google Scholar citations

    Interests:

    Artificial intelligence in medicine (AI safety/reliability, grounding, machine learning, knowledge representation and extraction, multi-modal models, and decision making under uncertainty), biomedical data science (data integration, visualization, network analysis), computational biology (pathway analysis, protein structure), and public health informatics (disease surveillance, epidemic models, molecular epidemiology).


    Missing Headshot

    Uba Backonja, PhD, RN

    • Assistant Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    backonja@uw.edu

    LinkedIn

    Interests:

    Community-based health informatics, data visualization, health inequities, women’s health, and health promotion


    Missing Headshot

    Tania P. Bardyn, MLIS, AHIP

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    bardyn@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Equitable access to high-quality health information, clinical and translational information resources, collaborations that foster outcomes in population health research, mobile app development, disaster preparedness resource access, assessing information needs in medical education, GME and CME, and using games to improve evidence-based information-seeking behavior and incorporating it into clinical practice.


    Missing Headshot

    James Brinkley, MD, PhD

    • Professor Emeritus
    • BHI

    brinkley@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Structural informatics with emphasis on multimedia data management, ontologies, data integration, the semantic web, and visualization as applied to biomedicine; potential applications of structural informatics in areas outside biomedicine such as music.


    Missing Headshot

    Daniel Capurro, MD, PhD, FAMIA

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    dcapurro@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Clinical informatics, secondary uses of electronic clinical data, phenotyping, temporal abstractions, and Clinical Data Warehouse.


    Missing Headshot

    Annie Chen, MSIS, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    atchen@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Health-behaviors in everyday life, digital health, health-related belief and knowledge representation, health-related social media use, text and visual analytics, research methods, stakeholder-engagement in design and research, and digital humanities.


    Missing Headshot

    Trevor Cohen, MBChB, PhD, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    cohenta@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Mental health informatics, post-marketing drug surveillance, drug repurposing, analysis of health-related online social media, distributed representations, distributional semantics, and clinical cognition.


    Missing Headshot

    David Crosslin, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    davidcr@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Human genetics and genomics, applied bioinformatics, applied statistics, clinical decision support, systems integration and implementation, large scale statistical genetic analyses, etiology of complex diseases.


    Missing Headshot

    Walter H. Curioso, MD, MPH, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    wcurioso@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Biomedical and health informatics.


    Missing Headshot

    Valerie Daggett, PhD

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    daggett@uw.edu

    Daggett Research Group

    Interests:

    Structural bioinformatics, databases, mining techniques, visual analytics, protein folding and design, single-nucleotide polymorphisms, amyloid diseases, protein design, dynameomics combined with experimental biophysical studies, diagnostic and therapeutic design for amyloid diseases.


    Missing Headshot

    Nic Dobbins, PhD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    Google Scholar

    Interests:

    Developing intuitive, user-centered tools for scientific discovery and data extraction from electronic health records, with a focus on natural language processing (NLP), large language models and autonomous agents, cohort discovery, and clinical trials.


    Missing Headshot

    Jared M. Erwin, PhD

    • Lecturer
    • Primary
    • BHI

    erwinj@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Genomics, pharmacogenomics, research methods, causality, and FHIR.


    Missing Headshot

    Sherrilynne Fuller, PhD, FACMI

    • Professor Emeritus
    • Primary
    • BHI

    sfuller@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Knowledge discovery, integrated information systems design, human factors, and information retrieval and management.


    Missing Headshot

    John Gennari, PhD

    • Professor
    • Graduate Program Director
    • Primary
    • BHI

    gennari@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Ontologies, knowledge representation, reproducibility, FAIR, and knowledge sharing.


    Missing Headshot

    Justin Guinney, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    jguinney@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Heterogeneity of colorectal cancer, precision oncology, computational methods for cancer biology, open science and DREAM challenges, and biological aging.


    Missing Headshot

    Jennifer Hadlock, MD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    hadlock@isbscience.org

    Hadlock Lab

    Interests:

    Multimodal longitudinal modeling for mechanistic understanding and clinical decision support.


    Missing Headshot

    Andrea Hartzler, PhD

    • Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    andreah@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Human-centered design, health equity, personal health informatics, patient-provider interaction, and clinical informatics.


    Missing Headshot

    David Heckerman, MD, PhD

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    heckerma@hotmail.com

    Website

    Interests:

    Genomics, vaccine design, computational biology, and machine learning.


    Missing Headshot

    Eric Horvitz, MD, PhD

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    horvitz@microsoft.com

    Website

    Interests:

    Computational foundations of intelligent sensing, reasoning, and action.


    Missing Headshot

    Shuai Huang, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    shuaih@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Disease modeling, monitoring, prognostics, biomarker discovery, and medical decision-making.


    Missing Headshot

    Misbah Keen, MD, MBI, MPH

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI
    • MEE

    mkeen@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Medical education, decentralized clinical education, and clinical informatics education.


    Missing Headshot

    Diane M. Korngiebel, DPhil

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    dianemk@uw.edu

    Interests:

    User-centered design, ethical issues in Big Data science, shared decision making, ethically informed genomic medicine, mHealth broadly construed (e.g. patient portals, smartphone applications, voice user interface/smart speakers particularly to support older and diverse populations), and health equity.


    Missing Headshot

    Su-In Lee, PhD

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    suinlee@cs.washington.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Machine learning, computational biology, and clinical informatics.


    Missing Headshot

    Michael Leu, MD, MS, MHS, FAAP, FAMIA

    • Professor
    • Clinical Informatics Fellowship Director
    • Joint
    • BHI

    mgl27@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Medical education and translating innovations into practice in ways that improve patient care and clinical outcomes.


    Missing Headshot

    Chen Liang, PhD, FAMIA

    • Assistant Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    cl0512@uw.edu

    Link to CV

    Interests:

    Electronic Health Records (EHR), multi-modal health data integration, common data models, biomedical ontology, EHR-based deep phenotyping and data mining, machine-learning-based clinical predictive models to be used for augmenting Clinical Decision Support Systems, diagnostics, screening, comorbidity reasoning, prognosis prediction, and evidence-based intervention.


    Missing Headshot

    Bill Lober, MD, MS

    • Professor
    • Joint
    • BHI

    lober@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Clinical, public health, and global health informatics.


    Missing Headshot

    Gang Luo, PhD

    • Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    luogang@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Health and clinical informatics (data and predictive analytics and software system design and development), big data, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, and database systems.


    Missing Headshot

    Kevin Lybarger, PhD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    klybarge@gmu.edu

    Interests:

    Machine learning, natural language processing, and clinical informatics.


    Missing Headshot

    Daniel Masys, MD, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    dmasys@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Development of informatics infrastructure for conducting clinical and translational research, and genome-phenome correlation using phenotype data derived from electronic medical records.


    Missing Headshot

    Patrick Mathias, MD, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    pcm10@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Laboratory medicine and pathology informatics, clinical decision support, laboratory stewardship, quality improvement, and characterizing and preventing diagnostic errors.


    Missing Headshot

    Peter Myler, PhD

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    mylerpj@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Bioinformatics, genomics, molecular parasitology, systems biology, structural genomics, and biodefense.


    Missing Headshot

    William Stafford Noble, PhD

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    william-noble@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Development and application of machine learning and statistical methods for interpreting genomics and proteomics data


    Missing Headshot

    Patrick O’Carroll, MD, MPH

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    ocarroll@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Epidemiology, informatics, and public health systems development.


    Missing Headshot

    Mark Phillips, PhD

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    markp@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Multiobjective optimization, utility measurements, probabilistic modeling of clinical outcomes in radiation oncology, and decision modeling in oncology.


    Missing Headshot

    Jim Phuong, MSPH, PhD

    • Acting Assistant Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    Interests:

    Natural disaster preparedness, climate adaptation, injury prevention, health equity research and allied research to support people with disabilities, population health, maturity models, biomedical informatics and cybersecurity, geocoding methods and spatial-temporal data analytics, common data models (e.g., OMOP, PCORNet), social determinants of health data engineering, data-driven research and process modeling, data engineering, DevOps, data linkage, research data science, and environmental health and toxicology.


    Missing Headshot

    Brian Piening

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    bpiening@uw.edu


    Missing Headshot

    Ari Pollack, MD, MSIM

    • Associate Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    apollack@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Clinical informatics, human-computer interaction, information architecture, information visualization, and population health.


    Missing Headshot

    Hoifung Poon, PhD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    hoifung@microsoft.com

    Website

    Interests:

    Advancing machine reading for precision health by unlocking structured information from text.


    Missing Headshot

    Abhishek Pratap, PhD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    apratap@uw.edu


    Missing Headshot

    Wanda Pratt, PhD, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    wpratt@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Personal health informatics, human-computer interaction, design of information technology, patient-provider communication, support for vulnerable populations, and patient empowerment.


    Missing Headshot

    Elizabeth A. Putnam, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    elizabeth.putnam@montana.edu

    Interests:

    Biomedical and health informatics.


    Missing Headshot

    James D. Ralston, MD, MPH

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    ralston.j@ghc.org

    Interests:

    Biomedical and health informatics.


    Missing Headshot

    Eric Rose, MD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    emrdoc@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Electronic medical record design and implementation, evidence-based medicine, terminology systems, and automated decision-support.


    Missing Headshot

    Anthony Rossini, ScD

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    rossini@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    The intersection and combination of interventional and non-interventional clinical studies.


    Missing Headshot

    Linda Shapiro, PhD

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    shapiro@uw.edu

    Faculty Web Page

    Interests:

    Research in object and pattern recognition, facial expression recognition, medical imaging including cancer biopsy analysis, and biomedical information systems.


    Missing Headshot

    Andrew Simms, PhD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    asimms@cognitivemedicine.com

    Website

    Interests:

    Representation of structured and unstructured biomedical data, data analytics, visualization, process mining, large-scale computing, clinical decision support, study feasibility, and software safety.


    Missing Headshot

    Angad Singh, MD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    Interests:

    Clinical informatics, preventative medicine, and ambulatory care and health equity.


    Missing Headshot

    Kari Stephens, PhD

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    kstephen@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Disparities in mental health and services, post-traumatic stress, dissemination of evidenced-based behavioral treatments to integrated care settings, and clinical health informatics with a focus on data sharing to promote translational research with communities.


    Missing Headshot

    Paul Sutton, MD, PhD, FAMIA

    • Associate Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    plsutton@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Biomedical and health informatics.


    Missing Headshot

    Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Chair, BIME
    • Primary
    • BHI
    • MEE

    pth@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Data integration and knowledge bases as applied to: translational bioinformatics, biospecimen acquisition, clinical/translational research, clinical data repositories, genomic medicine, and comparative effectiveness research.


    Missing Headshot

    Eric Tham, MD, MS

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    eric.tham@seattlechildrens.org

    Interests:

    Biomedical and Health Informatics


    Missing Headshot

    Hilaire Thompson, PhD, RN, ARNP, CNRN, AGACNP-BC, FAAN

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    hilairet@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Innovative interventions, symptom science, lifespan health


    Missing Headshot

    Anne M. Turner, MD, MLIS, MPH, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Joint
    • BHI

    amturner@uw.edu

    HPRC

    NWCPHP

    CPHI

    Faculty Page: School of Public Health

    Dept of Health Systems and Population Health faculty page

    Decision-making in Alzheimer’s Research (DMAR) webpage

    Interests:

    Public health informatics, older adult decision-making and personal health information management, designing discrete choice experiment tools for older adults with dementia and their caregivers, information needs assessment for public health, public health workflow and evaluation of public health information technologies, improving language access and use of informatics methods to improve communication with Limited English Proficiency populations, human-centered design, and qualitative methods.


    Missing Headshot

    Erik Van Eaton, MD, FACS

    • Associate Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    vane@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Enhancing clinical information systems for workflow, communication and handoffs, integrating research and registry informatics to clinical care, and improving technology for bedside clinical use.


    Missing Headshot

    Lucy Vanderwende, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    lucy_vanderwende@live.com

    Website

    Interests:

    Automated acquisition of semantic knowledge, information extraction from clinical records, and robust, broad-coverage language analysis.


    Missing Headshot

    Patrick Wedgeworth, MD, MISM

    • Assistant Professor
    • Joint
    • BHI

    LinkedIn

    Interests:

    Social determinants of health (using health IT tools to facilitate screening, referral, and understanding the effects of interventions on health outcomes and utilization), clinical decision support (creating tools to assist clinician decision making that are accurate, easy to understand, and explainable), and descriptive and predictive analytics (using analytics to understand the drivers behind health outcomes and the effects of interventions).


    Missing Headshot

    Thomas Wetter, MSc, PhD

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    thomas.wetter@urz.uni-hd.de

    Website

    Interests:

    Consumer health informatics, patient-generated health data, and global health.


    Missing Headshot

    Mark Whipple, MD, MS, FACS

    • Professor
    • Joint
    • BHI

    mwhipple@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Developing predictive models of head and neck tumor metastasis from sparse data sources using formal anatomic knowledge representations and the genomics of head and neck tumors (squamous cell carcinoma, infantile hemangiomas, lymphatic malformations).


    Missing Headshot

    Fei Xia, PhD

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    fxia@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Natural language processing and information extraction.


    Missing Headshot

    Meliha Yetisgen, PhD

    • Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    melihay@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Clinical Natural Language Processing, Outcomes analysis


    Missing Headshot

    Wen-wai Yim, PhD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    yimwenwai@microsoft.com

    Interests:

    Natural language processing, information extraction, and language and semantics.


    Missing Headshot

    Brenda Zierler, PhD, RN, FAAN

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    brendaz@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Biomedical and health informatics.


BHI Core Faculty

    Missing Headshot

    Neil Abernethy, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    neila@uw.edu

    UW Faculty website

    School of Public Health profile

    LinkedIn

    Google Scholar citations

    Interests:

    Artificial intelligence in medicine (AI safety/reliability, grounding, machine learning, knowledge representation and extraction, multi-modal models, and decision making under uncertainty), biomedical data science (data integration, visualization, network analysis), computational biology (pathway analysis, protein structure), and public health informatics (disease surveillance, epidemic models, molecular epidemiology).


    Missing Headshot

    James Brinkley, MD, PhD

    • Professor Emeritus
    • BHI

    brinkley@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Structural informatics with emphasis on multimedia data management, ontologies, data integration, the semantic web, and visualization as applied to biomedicine; potential applications of structural informatics in areas outside biomedicine such as music.


    Missing Headshot

    Annie Chen, MSIS, PhD

    • Associate Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    atchen@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Health-behaviors in everyday life, digital health, health-related belief and knowledge representation, health-related social media use, text and visual analytics, research methods, stakeholder-engagement in design and research, and digital humanities.


    Missing Headshot

    Trevor Cohen, MBChB, PhD, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    cohenta@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Mental health informatics, post-marketing drug surveillance, drug repurposing, analysis of health-related online social media, distributed representations, distributional semantics, and clinical cognition.


    Missing Headshot

    Valerie Daggett, PhD

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    daggett@uw.edu

    Daggett Research Group

    Interests:

    Structural bioinformatics, databases, mining techniques, visual analytics, protein folding and design, single-nucleotide polymorphisms, amyloid diseases, protein design, dynameomics combined with experimental biophysical studies, diagnostic and therapeutic design for amyloid diseases.


    Missing Headshot

    Jared M. Erwin, PhD

    • Lecturer
    • Primary
    • BHI

    erwinj@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Genomics, pharmacogenomics, research methods, causality, and FHIR.


    Missing Headshot

    Sherrilynne Fuller, PhD, FACMI

    • Professor Emeritus
    • Primary
    • BHI

    sfuller@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Knowledge discovery, integrated information systems design, human factors, and information retrieval and management.


    Missing Headshot

    John Gennari, PhD

    • Professor
    • Graduate Program Director
    • Primary
    • BHI

    gennari@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Ontologies, knowledge representation, reproducibility, FAIR, and knowledge sharing.


    Missing Headshot

    Andrea Hartzler, PhD

    • Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    andreah@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Human-centered design, health equity, personal health informatics, patient-provider interaction, and clinical informatics.


    Missing Headshot

    Michael Leu, MD, MS, MHS, FAAP, FAMIA

    • Professor
    • Clinical Informatics Fellowship Director
    • Joint
    • BHI

    mgl27@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Medical education and translating innovations into practice in ways that improve patient care and clinical outcomes.


    Missing Headshot

    Chen Liang, PhD, FAMIA

    • Assistant Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    cl0512@uw.edu

    Link to CV

    Interests:

    Electronic Health Records (EHR), multi-modal health data integration, common data models, biomedical ontology, EHR-based deep phenotyping and data mining, machine-learning-based clinical predictive models to be used for augmenting Clinical Decision Support Systems, diagnostics, screening, comorbidity reasoning, prognosis prediction, and evidence-based intervention.


    Missing Headshot

    Bill Lober, MD, MS

    • Professor
    • Joint
    • BHI

    lober@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Clinical, public health, and global health informatics.


    Missing Headshot

    Gang Luo, PhD

    • Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    luogang@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Health and clinical informatics (data and predictive analytics and software system design and development), big data, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, and database systems.


    Missing Headshot

    David Masuda, MD

    • Lecturer Emeritus
    • Primary
    • BHI

    Interests:

    Applied informatics educational program development with a focus on leadership in health information technology and clinical informatics.


    Missing Headshot

    Daniel Masys, MD, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    dmasys@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Development of informatics infrastructure for conducting clinical and translational research, and genome-phenome correlation using phenotype data derived from electronic medical records.


    Missing Headshot

    Peter Myler, PhD

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • BHI

    mylerpj@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Bioinformatics, genomics, molecular parasitology, systems biology, structural genomics, and biodefense.


    Missing Headshot

    Jim Phuong, MSPH, PhD

    • Acting Assistant Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    Interests:

    Natural disaster preparedness, climate adaptation, injury prevention, health equity research and allied research to support people with disabilities, population health, maturity models, biomedical informatics and cybersecurity, geocoding methods and spatial-temporal data analytics, common data models (e.g., OMOP, PCORNet), social determinants of health data engineering, data-driven research and process modeling, data engineering, DevOps, data linkage, research data science, and environmental health and toxicology.


    Missing Headshot

    Wanda Pratt, PhD, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    wpratt@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Personal health informatics, human-computer interaction, design of information technology, patient-provider communication, support for vulnerable populations, and patient empowerment.


    Missing Headshot

    Linda Shapiro, PhD

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI

    shapiro@uw.edu

    Faculty Web Page

    Interests:

    Research in object and pattern recognition, facial expression recognition, medical imaging including cancer biopsy analysis, and biomedical information systems.


    Missing Headshot

    Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Chair, BIME
    • Primary
    • BHI
    • MEE

    pth@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Data integration and knowledge bases as applied to: translational bioinformatics, biospecimen acquisition, clinical/translational research, clinical data repositories, genomic medicine, and comparative effectiveness research.


    Missing Headshot

    Anne M. Turner, MD, MLIS, MPH, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Joint
    • BHI

    amturner@uw.edu

    HPRC

    NWCPHP

    CPHI

    Faculty Page: School of Public Health

    Dept of Health Systems and Population Health faculty page

    Decision-making in Alzheimer’s Research (DMAR) webpage

    Interests:

    Public health informatics, older adult decision-making and personal health information management, designing discrete choice experiment tools for older adults with dementia and their caregivers, information needs assessment for public health, public health workflow and evaluation of public health information technologies, improving language access and use of informatics methods to improve communication with Limited English Proficiency populations, human-centered design, and qualitative methods.


    Missing Headshot

    Patrick Wedgeworth, MD, MISM

    • Assistant Professor
    • Joint
    • BHI

    LinkedIn

    Interests:

    Social determinants of health (using health IT tools to facilitate screening, referral, and understanding the effects of interventions on health outcomes and utilization), clinical decision support (creating tools to assist clinician decision making that are accurate, easy to understand, and explainable), and descriptive and predictive analytics (using analytics to understand the drivers behind health outcomes and the effects of interventions).


    Missing Headshot

    Mark Whipple, MD, MS, FACS

    • Professor
    • Joint
    • BHI

    mwhipple@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Developing predictive models of head and neck tumor metastasis from sparse data sources using formal anatomic knowledge representations and the genomics of head and neck tumors (squamous cell carcinoma, infantile hemangiomas, lymphatic malformations).


    Missing Headshot

    Meliha Yetisgen, PhD

    • Professor
    • Primary
    • BHI

    melihay@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Clinical Natural Language Processing, Outcomes analysis


BHI Extended

MEE Core & Extended

    Missing Headshot

    Jan Carline, PhD

    • Professor Emeritus
    • Primary
    • MEE

    carlinej@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Medical education and its evaluation.


    Missing Headshot

    Matthew Cunningham, PhD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Primary
    • MEE

    cunningm@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Evaluation of curricular innovations and educational programs.


    Missing Headshot

    Kristina Dzara, PhD, MMSc

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • MEE

    dzara@uw.edu

    CLIME Website

    CLIME Teaching Scholars Program Website

    Interests:

    Educator development, science of teaching and learning, program evaluation, curriculum development, social media, and educational scholarship.


    Missing Headshot

    Jonathan Ilgen, MD, MCR, FACEP

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • MEE

    ilgen@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Clinical and diagnostic reasoning, and medical education scholarship and assessment.


    Missing Headshot

    Misbah Keen, MD, MBI, MPH

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • BHI
    • MEE

    mkeen@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Medical education, decentralized clinical education, and clinical informatics education.


    Missing Headshot

    Sara Kim, PhD

    • Research Professor
    • Adjunct
    • MEE

    sarakim@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Educational Continuous Quality Improvement, healthcare communication skills, and conflict management negotiation research.


    Missing Headshot

    Amanda Kost

    • Professor
    • Adjunct
    • MEE

    akost@uw.edu


    Missing Headshot

    Pamela Nagasawa, PhD

    • Associate Teaching Professor
    • Joint
    • MEE

    pnaga22@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Educating a diverse workforce by priming students to serve rural, undeserved, and culturally diverse patient populations, impact assessment by the teaching and learning of science, curricular and institutional effectiveness, medical education, and student identity formation.


    Missing Headshot

    Lynne Robins, PhD

    • Professor Emeritus
    • Primary
    • MEE

    lynner@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Educator development and mentorship, curriculum development, the science of teaching and learning, communication in the health professions, and qualitative research.


    Missing Headshot

    Timothy Robinson, PhD, MS

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • MEE

    tjrobin@uwyo.edu

    Interests:

    Design of experiments, response surface methodology, categorical data analysis, and applications in engineering, medicine and the environment.


    Missing Headshot

    Janice A. Sabin, PhD, MSW

    • Research Professor
    • Primary
    • MEE

    sabinja@uw.edu

    Google Scholar Citations

    Interests:

    The science of implicit (unconscious) bias and effects on medical care, workforce diversity, health equity and social determinants of health, healthcare delivery to health-disparity populations, patient-provider communication, culturally tailored health communication, and faculty development.


    Missing Headshot

    Doug Schaad, PhD

    • Professor
    • Division Head, MEE
    • Primary
    • MEE

    schaad@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Career trajectories in the medical profession, survey design and psychometrics, compassion, empathy, and cynicism in the professional development of physicians; interprofessional teams and learning outcomes, curriculum enhancement and associated performance, demographic variables associated with rural and underserved practice, and comparability of performance across training sites within the 5-state WWAMI program.


    Missing Headshot

    Craig Scott, PhD

    • Professor Emeritus
    • Primary
    • MEE

    scottcs@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Mind/body medicine, evaluation of scientific innovation, medical student stress management, performance-based teaching and evaluation (including TBL, PBL, flipped classrooms, objectively-structured clinical examinations and standardized patients), clinical skills development and assessment, medical school admissions, international medical education, and assessment of outcomes of National Science Foundation research centers.


    Missing Headshot

    Jane Shelby, PhD

    • Professor
    • Affiliate
    • MEE

    njshelby@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Medical education and evaluation.


    Missing Headshot

    Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Chair, BIME
    • Primary
    • BHI
    • MEE

    pth@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Data integration and knowledge bases as applied to: translational bioinformatics, biospecimen acquisition, clinical/translational research, clinical data repositories, genomic medicine, and comparative effectiveness research.


    Missing Headshot

    Marjorie Wenrich, PhD, MPH

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • MEE

    maxter@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Medical education, physician assessment, change management in medical education, and metacognition in teaching and learning.


MEE Core Faculty

    Missing Headshot

    Jan Carline, PhD

    • Professor Emeritus
    • Primary
    • MEE

    carlinej@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Medical education and its evaluation.


    Missing Headshot

    Matthew Cunningham, PhD

    • Assistant Professor
    • Primary
    • MEE

    cunningm@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Evaluation of curricular innovations and educational programs.


    Missing Headshot

    Kristina Dzara, PhD, MMSc

    • Associate Professor
    • Affiliate
    • MEE

    dzara@uw.edu

    CLIME Website

    CLIME Teaching Scholars Program Website

    Interests:

    Educator development, science of teaching and learning, program evaluation, curriculum development, social media, and educational scholarship.


    Missing Headshot

    Pamela Nagasawa, PhD

    • Associate Teaching Professor
    • Joint
    • MEE

    pnaga22@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Educating a diverse workforce by priming students to serve rural, undeserved, and culturally diverse patient populations, impact assessment by the teaching and learning of science, curricular and institutional effectiveness, medical education, and student identity formation.


    Missing Headshot

    Lynne Robins, PhD

    • Professor Emeritus
    • Primary
    • MEE

    lynner@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Educator development and mentorship, curriculum development, the science of teaching and learning, communication in the health professions, and qualitative research.


    Missing Headshot

    Janice A. Sabin, PhD, MSW

    • Research Professor
    • Primary
    • MEE

    sabinja@uw.edu

    Google Scholar Citations

    Interests:

    The science of implicit (unconscious) bias and effects on medical care, workforce diversity, health equity and social determinants of health, healthcare delivery to health-disparity populations, patient-provider communication, culturally tailored health communication, and faculty development.


    Missing Headshot

    Doug Schaad, PhD

    • Professor
    • Division Head, MEE
    • Primary
    • MEE

    schaad@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Career trajectories in the medical profession, survey design and psychometrics, compassion, empathy, and cynicism in the professional development of physicians; interprofessional teams and learning outcomes, curriculum enhancement and associated performance, demographic variables associated with rural and underserved practice, and comparability of performance across training sites within the 5-state WWAMI program.


    Missing Headshot

    Craig Scott, PhD

    • Professor Emeritus
    • Primary
    • MEE

    scottcs@uw.edu

    Interests:

    Mind/body medicine, evaluation of scientific innovation, medical student stress management, performance-based teaching and evaluation (including TBL, PBL, flipped classrooms, objectively-structured clinical examinations and standardized patients), clinical skills development and assessment, medical school admissions, international medical education, and assessment of outcomes of National Science Foundation research centers.


    Missing Headshot

    Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI

    • Professor
    • Chair, BIME
    • Primary
    • BHI
    • MEE

    pth@uw.edu

    Website

    Interests:

    Data integration and knowledge bases as applied to: translational bioinformatics, biospecimen acquisition, clinical/translational research, clinical data repositories, genomic medicine, and comparative effectiveness research.


MEE Extended