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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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All BIME Core Faculty


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Neil Abernethy, PhD

  • Associate Professor
  • Primary
  • BHI

neila@uw.edu

Website

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

Website

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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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, 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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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, 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, 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, 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, clinical informatics


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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

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/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
  • 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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Sean Mooney, PhD, FACMI

  • Professor
  • Chief Research Information Officer
  • Primary
  • BHI

sdmooney@uw.edu

Website

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

Website

Interests:

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


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Pamela Nagasawa, PhD

  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • Joint
  • MEE

pnaga22@uw.edu

Interests:

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


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Thomas Payne, MD, FACMI

  • Professor
  • Joint
  • BHI

tpayne@uw.edu

Website

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

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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Lynne Robins, PhD

  • Professor Emeritus
  • Primary
  • MEE

lynner@uw.edu

Interests:

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


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Janice A. Sabin, PhD, MSW

  • Research Professor
  • Primary
  • MEE

sabinja@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

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

As an emeritus faculty member he serves the National Science Foundation as an assessment coordinator and evaluator for numerous centers in the Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program. He recently completed his 33 year of service on the UWSoM Admissions Committee


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Linda Shapiro, PhD

  • Professor
  • Adjunct
  • BHI

shapiro@uw.edu

Faculty Web Page

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

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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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 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.


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Patrick Wedgeworth, MD, MISM

  • Assistant Professor
  • Joint
  • BHI

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), descriptive and predictive analytics (using analytics to understand the drivers behind health outcomes and the effects of interventions)


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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

Website

Interests:

Statistical natural language processing, text mining, information retrieval