Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education (BIME) is comprised of two divisions, Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) and Medical Education and Evaluation (MEE).
All BIME Core & Extended Faculty | All BIME Core Faculty | All BIME Extended Faculty | BHI Core & Extended | BHI Core Faculty | BHI Extended | MEE Core & Extended | MEE Core Faculty | MEE Extended
BHI Core & Extended
Barry Aaronson, MD, FACP, SFHM
Interests:
Applied clinical informatics, with focus on using health IT to mistake-proof inpatient quality metrics and safety.
Neil Abernethy, PhD
Interests:
Data management and analytics (data integration, network analysis, information visualization), computational biology (pathway analysis, protein structure), public health (disease surveillance, epidemic models, molecular epidemiology), and artificial intelligence (machine learning, planning, knowledge representation and decision making under uncertainty).
Tania P. Bardyn, MLIS, AHIP
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; using games to improve evidence based information seeking behavior and incorporating it into clinical practice.
John Brimm,
James Brinkley, MD, PhD
Interests:
Retired Professor, Professor Emeritus in Biological Structure. Interests in 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. No longer accepting students.
Daniel Capurro, MD, PhD, FAMIA
Interests:
Clinical Informatics, Secondary Uses of Electronic Clinical Data, Phenotyping, Temporal Abstractions, Clinical Data Warehouse
David Carrell,
Annie Chen, PhD
Interests:
Chronic illness information behaviors, text and visual analytics, patient education, complementary and integrative health, health-related uses of social media, research methods, digital humanities.
Trevor Cohen, MBChB, PhD, FACMI
Interests:
Mental health informatics; post-marketing drug surveillance; drug repurposing; analysis of health-related online social media; distributed representations; distributional semantics; clinical cognition.
David Crosslin, PhD
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.
Walter H. Curioso, MD, MPH, PhD
Valerie Daggett, PhD
Interests:
Data management and representation, database, mining techniques, visual analytics, structural bioinformatics, protein folding and design, single-nucleotide polymorphisms, amyloid diseases, and dynameomics.
Beth Devine, PhD, PharmD, MBA
Interests:
medication safety, specifically pharmacogenomic biomarker-guided medication use and adverse drug events
Jared Erwin,
Sherrilynne Fuller, PhD, FACMI
Interests:
Knowledge discovery, integrated information systems design: human factors, information retrieval and management.
John Gennari, PhD
Justin Guinney, PhD
Interests:
Heterogeneity of colorectal cancer, precision oncology, computational methods for cancer biology, open science and DREAM challenges, biological aging,
Andrea Hartzler, PhD
Interests:
Consumer health informatics, social computing, human-centered design, collaborative health technology, patient-provider interaction, peer support, patient-reported outcomes, and patient-generated data
David Heckerman, MD, PhD
Interests:
Genomics, vaccine design, computational biology, machine learning
Eric Horvitz, MD, PhD
Interests:
Computational foundations of intelligent sensing, reasoning, and action
Shuai Huang, PhD
Interests:
Disease modeling, monitoring, prognostics, biomarker discovery, medical decision making
Misbah Keen, MD, MBI, MPH
Interests:
Medical Education especially decentralized clinical education. Clinical Informatics Education.
Diane M. Korngiebel, DPhil
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.
Su-In Lee, PhD
Michael Leu, MD, MS, MHS, FAAP, FAMIA
Interests:
Translating innovations into practice in ways that improve patient care and clinical outcomes; and medical education.
Bill Lober, MD, MS
Gang Luo, PhD
Interests:
Health/clinical informatics (data/predictive analytics and software system design/development), big data, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, and database systems.
David Masuda, MD
Lecturer, Lecturer Emeritus
Primary
BHI, MEE
Interests:
Applied informatics educational program development with a focus on leadership in health information technology and clinical informatics.
Daniel Masys, MD, FACMI
Interests:
Development of informatics infrastructure for conducting clinical and translational research, and genome-phenome correlation using phenotype data derived from electronic medical records data
Patrick Mathias, MD, PhD
Interests:
Laboratory medicine and pathology informatics; clinical decision support; laboratory stewardship; quality improvement; characterizing and preventing diagnostic errors.
Sean Mooney, PhD, FACMI
Interests:
Managing the development of collaborative electronic systems supporting biomedical research with a focus on leading the next generation informatics tools for biomedical research and understanding the underlying molecular causes of inherited genetic diseases and cancer.
Peter Myler, PhD
Interests:
Bioinformatics, genomics, molecular parasitology, systems biology, structural genomics, biodefense
William Stafford Noble, PhD
Interests:
Development and application of machine learning and statistical methods for interpreting complex biological data sets
Patrick O’Carroll, MD, MPH
Interests:
Epidemiology, informatics, and public health systems development
Thomas Payne, MD, FACMI
Interests:
The use of the electronic health records in patient care, clinical research, and quality improvement
Notes in electronic records, methods to create them and their content
Mark Phillips, PhD
Interests:
Multiobjective optimization, utility measurements, probabilistic modeling of clinical outcomes in radiation oncology, decision modeling in oncology.
Brian Piening,
Ari Pollack, MD, MSIM
Interests:
Clinical informatics; Human-Computer Interaction; Information Architecture; Information Visualization; Population Health.
Hoifung Poon, PhD
Interests:
Advancing machine reading for precision health by unlocking structured information from text.
Wanda Pratt, PhD, FACMI
Interests:
Personal health informatics, human computer interaction, design of information technology, patient-provider communication, support for vulnerable populations, and patient empowerment.
Elizabeth A. Putnam, PhD
James D. Ralston, MD, MPH
Eric Rose, MD
Interests:
Electronic Medical Record design and implementation, Evidence-Based Medicine, Terminology Systems, Automated Decision-Support
Anthony Rossini, ScD
Interests:
The intersection and combination of interventional and non-interventional clinical studies
Doug Schaad, PhD
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; comparability of performance across training sites within the 5-state WWAMI program.
Linda Shapiro, PhD
Professor
Adjunct
BHI
Interests:
Research in a) object and pattern recognition, b) facial expression recognition c) medical imaging including cancer biopsy analysis, and d) biomedical information systems.
Andrew Simms, PhD
Interests:
Representation of structured and unstructured biomedical data, data analytics, visualization, process mining, large scale computing, clinical decision support, study feasibility, software safety
Angad Singh,
Kari Stephens, PhD
Interests:
Disparities in mental health and services, posttraumatic 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.
Paul Sutton, MD, PhD, FAMIA
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI
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
Eric Tham, MD, MS
Hilaire Thompson, PhD, RN, ARNP, CNRN, AGACNP-BC, FAAN
Anne M. Turner, MD, MLIS, MPH, FACMI
Interests:
Public health informatics, use of machine translation and natural language processing to improve communication with Limited English Proficiency populations, personal health information management by older adults, public health information workflow, evaluation of public health information systems, systems that support collaborative work, human-centered design, and usability testing.
Erik Van Eaton, MD, FACS
Interests:
Enhancing clinical information systems for communication and handoffs; integrating research and registry informatics to clinical care; improving technology for bedside clinical use.
Lucy Vanderwende, PhD
Interests:
Automated acquisition of semantic knowledge; information extraction from clinical records; robust, broad-coverage language analysis
Thomas Wetter, MSc, PhD
Interests:
Consumer Health Informatics, Patient Generated Health Data, Global Health
Mark Whipple, MD, MS, FACS
Interests:
Developing predictive models of head and neck tumor metastasis from sparse data sources using formal anatomic knowledge representations. Genomics of head and neck tumors (squamous cell carcinoma, infantile hemangiomas, lymphatic malformations).
Fei Xia, PhD
Meliha Yetisgen, PhD
Interests:
Statistical natural language processing, text mining, information retrieval
Brenda Zierler, PhD, RN, FAAN
