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 Faculty
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).
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.
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.
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.
Jared Erwin,
Sherrilynne Fuller, PhD, FACMI
Interests:
Knowledge discovery, integrated information systems design: human factors, information retrieval and management.
John Gennari, PhD
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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).
Meliha Yetisgen, PhD
Interests:
Statistical natural language processing, text mining, information retrieval