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

Associate Professor

Primary

BHI

neila@uw.edu

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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).

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James Brinkley, MD, PhD

Professor Emeritus

BHI

brinkley@uw.edu

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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.

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Annie Chen, PhD

Associate Professor

Primary

BHI

atchen@uw.edu

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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.

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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; clinical cognition.

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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.

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Jared Erwin,


Sherrilynne Fuller, PhD, FACMI

Professor Emeritus

Primary

BHI

sfuller@uw.edu

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Interests:

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

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John Gennari, PhD

Professor

Graduate Program Director

Primary

BHI

gennari@uw.edu

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Interests:

Ontologies, knowledge sharing, semantic web.

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Andrea Hartzler, PhD

Associate Professor

Primary

BHI

andreah@uw.edu

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Interests:

Consumer health informatics, social computing, human-centered design, collaborative health technology, patient-provider interaction, peer support, patient-reported outcomes, and patient-generated data

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

Professor

Clinical Informatics Fellowship Director

Joint

BHI

mgl27@uw.edu

Interests:

Translating innovations into practice in ways that improve patient care and clinical outcomes; and medical education.

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Bill Lober, MD, MS

Professor

Joint

BHI

lober@uw.edu

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Interests:

Clinical, public health, and global health informatics

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Gang Luo, PhD

Professor

Primary

BHI

luogang@uw.edu

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Interests:

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

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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.

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Daniel Masys, MD, FACMI

Professor

Affiliate

BHI

dmasys@uw.edu

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Interests:

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

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Sean Mooney, PhD, FACMI

Professor

Chief Research Information Officer

Primary

BHI

sdmooney@uw.edu

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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.

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Peter Myler, PhD

Professor

Affiliate

BHI

mylerpj@uw.edu

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Interests:

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

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Thomas Payne, MD, FACMI

Professor

Joint

BHI

tpayne@uw.edu

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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

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Wanda Pratt, PhD, FACMI

Professor

Adjunct

BHI

wpratt@uw.edu

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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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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.

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Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI

Professor

Chair, BIME

Primary

BHI, MEE

pth@uw.edu

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

Professor

Joint

BHI

amturner@uw.edu

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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.

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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. Genomics of head and neck tumors (squamous cell carcinoma, infantile hemangiomas, lymphatic malformations).

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Meliha Yetisgen, PhD

Professor

Primary

BHI

melihay@uw.edu

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Interests:

Statistical natural language processing, text mining, information retrieval

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