BIME Faculty Directory
Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education (BIME) is comprised of two divisions, Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) and Medical Education and Evaluation (MEE).
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BHI Core & Extended
Barry Aaronson, MD, FACP, SFHM
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
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
Informatics governance and team building
Neil Abernethy, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Primary
- BHI
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
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
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.
James Brinkley, MD, PhD
- Professor Emeritus
- BHI
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
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Clinical Informatics, Secondary Uses of Electronic Clinical Data, Phenotyping, Temporal Abstractions, Clinical Data Warehouse
Annie Chen, MSIS, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Primary
- BHI
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, digital humanities
Trevor Cohen, MBChB, PhD, FACMI
- Professor
- Primary
- BHI
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
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
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
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Biomedical and health informatics
Valerie Daggett, PhD
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
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.
Beth Devine, PhD, PharmD, MBA
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
medication safety, specifically pharmacogenomic biomarker-guided medication use and adverse drug events
Jared M. Erwin, PhD
- Lecturer
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Genomics, pharmacogenomics, research methods, causality, FHIR,
Sherrilynne Fuller, PhD, FACMI
- Professor Emeritus
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Knowledge discovery, integrated information systems design: human factors, information retrieval and management.
John Gennari, PhD
- Professor
- Graduate Program Director
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Ontologies, knowledge representation, reproducibility, FAIR, knowledge sharing
Justin Guinney, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Heterogeneity of colorectal cancer, precision oncology, computational methods for cancer biology, open science and DREAM challenges, biological aging,
Andrea Hartzler, PhD
- Professor
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Human-centered design, health equity, personal health informatics, patient-provider interaction, clinical informatics
David Heckerman, MD, PhD
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Genomics, vaccine design, computational biology, machine learning
Eric Horvitz, MD, PhD
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Computational foundations of intelligent sensing, reasoning, and action
Shuai Huang, PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Disease modeling, monitoring, prognostics, biomarker discovery, medical decision making
Misbah Keen, MD, MBI, MPH
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- MEE
Interests:
Medical Education especially decentralized clinical education. Clinical Informatics Education.
Diane M. Korngiebel, DPhil
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
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
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Machine learning, computational biology, clinical informatics
Michael Leu, MD, MS, MHS, FAAP, FAMIA
- Professor
- Clinical Informatics Fellowship Director
- Joint
- BHI
Interests:
Translating innovations into practice in ways that improve patient care and clinical outcomes; and medical education.
Gang Luo, PhD
- Professor
- Primary
- BHI
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
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Development of informatics infrastructure for conducting clinical and translational research, and genome-phenome correlation using phenotype data derived from electronic medical records
Patrick Mathias, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Laboratory medicine and pathology informatics; clinical decision support; laboratory stewardship; quality improvement; characterizing and preventing diagnostic errors.
Sean Mooney, PhD, FACMI
- Professor
- Chief Research Information Officer
- Primary
- BHI
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
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Bioinformatics, genomics, molecular parasitology, systems biology, structural genomics, biodefense
William Stafford Noble, PhD
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Development and application of machine learning and statistical methods for interpreting complex biological data sets
Patrick O’Carroll, MD, MPH
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Epidemiology, informatics, and public health systems development
Thomas Payne, MD, FACMI
- Professor
- Joint
- BHI
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
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Multiobjective optimization, utility measurements, probabilistic modeling of clinical outcomes in radiation oncology, decision modeling in oncology.
Ari Pollack, MD, MSIM
- Assistant Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Clinical informatics; Human-Computer Interaction; Information Architecture; Information Visualization; Population Health.
Hoifung Poon, PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Advancing machine reading for precision health by unlocking structured information from text.
Wanda Pratt, PhD, FACMI
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Personal health informatics, human computer interaction, design of information technology, patient-provider communication, support for vulnerable populations, and patient empowerment.
Eric Rose, MD
- Assistant Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Electronic Medical Record design and implementation, Evidence-Based Medicine, Terminology Systems, Automated Decision-Support
Anthony Rossini, ScD
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
The intersection and combination of interventional and non-interventional clinical studies
Doug Schaad, PhD
- Professor
- Division Head, MEE
- Primary
- MEE
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
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Representation of structured and unstructured biomedical data, data analytics, visualization, process mining, large scale computing, clinical decision support, study feasibility, software safety
Kari Stephens, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
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.
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI
- Professor
- Chair, BIME
- Primary
- BHI
- MEE
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
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
eric.tham@seattlechildrens.org
Interests:
Biomedical and Health Informatics
Hilaire Thompson, PhD, RN, ARNP, CNRN, AGACNP-BC, FAAN
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Innovative interventions, symptom science, lifespan health.
Anne M. Turner, MD, MLIS, MPH, FACMI
- Professor
- Joint
- BHI
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 assessments for public health, public health workflow and evaluation of public health information technologies, improving language access/ use of informatics methods to improve communication with Limited English Proficiency populations, human centered design, qualitative methods.
Erik Van Eaton, MD, FACS
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
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
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Automated acquisition of semantic knowledge; information extraction from clinical records; robust, broad-coverage language analysis
Thomas Wetter, MSc, PhD
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Consumer Health Informatics, Patient Generated Health Data, Global Health
Mark Whipple, MD, MS, FACS
- Professor
- Joint
- BHI
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).
Meliha Yetisgen, PhD
- Professor
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Statistical natural language processing, text mining, information retrieval
