Faculty
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Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education is comprised of two divisions, Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) and Medical Education and Evaluation (MEE).
All BIME Core & Extended Faculty
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- Associate Professor
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- BHI
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Assistant Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
- Assistant Professor
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- Professor Emeritus
- BHI
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
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- Associate Professor
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- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Professor
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- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
- Assistant Teaching Professor
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- MEE
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
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- Professor
- Adjunct
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- Assistant Professor
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- BHI
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- MEE
- Lecturer
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- Professor Emeritus
- Primary
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- Professor
- Graduate Program Director
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- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
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- Endorsed to Chair
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- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
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- Professor
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- MEE
- Professor
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- MEE
- Research Professor
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- MEE
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- Professor
- Clinical Informatics Fellowship Director
- Joint
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- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Assistant Professor
- Primary
- BHI
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Professor
- Joint
- BHI
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Professor
- Primary
- BHI
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
- Lecturer Emeritus
- Primary
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- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
- Associate Teaching Professor
- Joint
- MEE
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- Acting Assistant Professor
- Primary
- BHI
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- Endorsed to Chair
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Professor Emeritus
- Primary
- MEE
- Professor
- Affiliate
- MEE
- Assistant Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
- Research Professor Emeritus
- Primary
- MEE
- Professor
- Division Head, MEE
- Primary
- MEE
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Professor Emeritus
- Primary
- MEE
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- Professor
- Chair, BIME
- Primary
- BHI
- MEE
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- Professor Emeritus
- Joint
- BHI
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- Assistant Professor
- Joint
- BHI
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- MEE
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
- Professor
- Joint
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- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Professor
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- Endorsed to Chair
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- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Barry Aaronson, MD, FACP, SFHM, FAMIA
barry.aaronson@commonspirit.org
LinkedIn page for Barry Aaronson
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, Epic Physician Builder, and informatics governance and team building.
Neil Abernethy, PhD
UW Faculty page for Neil Abernethy
School of Public Health profile for Neil Abernethy
Google Scholar citations for Neil Abernethy
Interests:
Artificial intelligence in medicine (AI safety/reliability, grounding, machine learning, knowledge representation and extraction, multi-modal models, and decision making under uncertainty), biomedical data science (data integration, visualization, network analysis), computational biology (pathway analysis, protein structure), and public health informatics (disease surveillance, epidemic models, molecular epidemiology).
Uba Bačkonja, PhD, RN
Interests:
Community-based health informatics, data visualization, health inequities, women’s health, and health promotion
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, and using games to improve evidence-based information-seeking behavior and incorporating it into clinical practice.
Oliver J. Bear Don’t Walk IV, Apsáalooke, PhD
Interests:
Natural language processing, machine learning, community engagement, Indigenous knowledge, epistemological justice, social drivers of health, ethics, intersectionality, and fairness.
James Brinkley, MD, PhD
Structural Informatics Group personnel page for Jim Brinkley
Interests:
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.
Daniel Capurro, MD, PhD, FAMIA
Interests:
Clinical informatics, secondary uses of electronic clinical data, phenotyping, temporal abstractions, and Clinical Data Warehouse.
Annie Chen, MSIS, PhD
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, and 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, and 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.
Matthew Cunningham, PhD
Interests:
Evaluation of curricular innovations and educational programs.
Walter H. Curioso, MD, MPH, PhD
Interests:
Biomedical and health informatics.
Valerie Daggett, PhD
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.
Nic Dobbins, PhD
Interests:
Developing intuitive, user-centered tools for scientific discovery and data extraction from electronic health records, with a focus on natural language processing (NLP), large language models and autonomous agents, cohort discovery, and clinical trials.
Kristina Dzara, PhD, MMSc
Center for Educator Development, Advancement and Research
Interests:
Educator development, science of teaching and learning, program evaluation, curriculum development, social media, and educational scholarship.
Jared M. Erwin, PhD
Interests:
Genomics, pharmacogenomics, research methods, causality, and FHIR.
Sherrilynne Fuller, PhD, FACMI
UW faculty page for Sherrilynne Fuller
Interests:
Knowledge discovery, integrated information systems design, human factors, and information retrieval and management.
John Gennari, PhD
UW faculty page for John Gennari
Interests:
Ontologies, knowledge representation, reproducibility, FAIR, and knowledge sharing.
Justin Guinney, PhD
Interests:
Heterogeneity of colorectal cancer, precision oncology, computational methods for cancer biology, open science and DREAM challenges, and biological aging.
Jennifer Hadlock, MD
Interests:
Multimodal longitudinal modeling for mechanistic understanding and clinical decision support.
Amanda “Mandi” Hall, PhD
Interests:
Research focusing on the design, usability, and evaluation of consumer health information technologies including mobile applications, wearable devices, and healthcare robotics; health education and behavior change interventions, and games for health and human factors.
Andrea Hartzler, PhD
Interests:
Human-centered design, health equity, personal health informatics, patient-provider interaction, and clinical informatics.
David Heckerman, MD, PhD
Interests:
Genomics, vaccine design, computational biology, and 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, and medical decision-making.
Jonathan Ilgen, MD, MCR, FACEP
Interests:
Clinical and diagnostic reasoning, and medical education scholarship and assessment.
Misbah Keen, MD, MBI, MPH
Interests:
Medical education, decentralized clinical education, and clinical informatics education.
Sara Kim, PhD
Interests:
Educational Continuous Quality Improvement, healthcare communication skills, and conflict management negotiation research.
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
Interests:
Machine learning, computational biology, and clinical informatics.
Michael Leu, MD, MS, MHS, FAAP, FAMIA
Interests:
Medical education and translating innovations into practice in ways that improve patient care and clinical outcomes.
Chen Liang, PhD, FAMIA
Interests:
Electronic Health Records (EHR), multi-modal health data integration, common data models, biomedical ontology, EHR-based deep phenotyping and data mining, machine-learning-based clinical predictive models to be used for augmenting Clinical Decision Support Systems, diagnostics, screening, comorbidity reasoning, prognosis prediction, and evidence-based intervention.
Bill Lober, MD, MS
Clinical Informatics Research Group website
Interests:
Clinical, public health, and global health informatics.
Gang Luo, PhD
Interests:
Health and clinical informatics (data and predictive analytics and software system design and development), big data, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, and database systems.
Kevin Lybarger, PhD
Interests:
Machine learning, natural language processing, and clinical informatics.
David Masuda, MD
Interests:
Applied informatics educational program development with a focus on leadership in health information technology and clinical informatics.
Daniel Masys, MD, FACMI
UW faculty page for Daniel Masys
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
Interests:
Laboratory medicine and pathology informatics, clinical decision support, laboratory stewardship, quality improvement, and characterizing and preventing diagnostic errors.
Peter Myler, PhD
Center for Global Infectious Disease Research website
Interests:
Bioinformatics, genomics, molecular parasitology, systems biology, structural genomics, and biodefense.
Pamela Nagasawa, PhD
Interests:
Educating a diverse workforce by priming students to serve rural, undeserved, and culturally diverse patient populations, impact assessment by the teaching and learning of science, curricular and institutional effectiveness, medical education, and student identity formation.
William Stafford Noble, PhD
Interests:
Development and application of machine learning and statistical methods for interpreting genomics and proteomics data
Patrick O’Carroll, MD, MPH
Interests:
Epidemiology, informatics, and public health systems development.
Mark Phillips, PhD
Interests:
Multiobjective optimization, utility measurements, probabilistic modeling of clinical outcomes in radiation oncology, and decision modeling in oncology.
Jim Phuong, MSPH, PhD
Interests:
Natural disaster preparedness, climate adaptation, injury prevention, health equity research and allied research to support people with disabilities, population health, maturity models, biomedical informatics and cybersecurity, geocoding methods and spatial-temporal data analytics, common data models (e.g., OMOP, PCORNet), social determinants of health data engineering, data-driven research and process modeling, data engineering, DevOps, data linkage, research data science, and environmental health and toxicology.
Ari Pollack, MD, MSIM
Interests:
Clinical informatics, human-computer interaction, information architecture, information visualization, and population health.
Hoifung Poon, PhD
Interests:
Advancing machine reading for precision health by unlocking structured information from text.
Wanda Pratt, PhD, FACMI
UW faculty page for Wanda Pratt
Interests:
Personal health informatics, human-computer interaction, design of information technology, patient-provider communication, support for vulnerable populations, and patient empowerment.
Lynne Robins, PhD
Interests:
Educator development and mentorship, curriculum development, the science of teaching and learning, communication in the health professions, and qualitative research.
Timothy Robinson, PhD, MS
Interests:
Design of experiments, response surface methodology, categorical data analysis, and applications in engineering, medicine and the environment.
Eric Rose, MD
Interests:
Electronic medical record design and implementation, evidence-based medicine, terminology systems, and automated decision-support.
Anthony Rossini, ScD
Interests:
The intersection and combination of interventional and non-interventional clinical studies.
Janice A. Sabin, PhD, MSW
Google Scholar Citations page for Janice Sabin
Interests:
The science of implicit (unconscious) bias and effects on medical care, workforce diversity, health equity and social determinants of health, healthcare delivery to health-disparity populations, patient-provider communication, culturally tailored health communication, and faculty development.
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, and comparability of performance across training sites within the 5-state WWAMI program.
Craig Scott, PhD
Interests:
Mind/body medicine, evaluation of scientific innovation, medical student stress management, performance-based teaching and evaluation (including TBL, PBL, flipped classrooms, objectively-structured clinical examinations and standardized patients), clinical skills development and assessment, medical school admissions, international medical education, and assessment of outcomes of National Science Foundation research centers.
Linda Shapiro, PhD
Faculty Web Page for Linda Shapiro
Interests:
Research in object and pattern recognition, facial expression recognition, medical imaging including cancer biopsy analysis, and 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, and software safety.
Angad Singh, MD
Interests:
Clinical informatics, preventative medicine, and ambulatory care and health equity.
Kari Stephens, PhD
Interests:
Disparities in mental health and services, post-traumatic 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
Interests:
Biomedical and health informatics.
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI
UW faculty page for Peter Tarczy-Hornoch
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
eric.tham@seattlechildrens.org
Interests:
Biomedical and Health Informatics
Hilaire Thompson, PhD, RN, ARNP, CNRN, AGACNP-BC, FAAN
Interests:
Innovative interventions, symptom science, lifespan health
Anne M. Turner, MD, MLIS, MPH, FACMI
Health Promotion Research Centre
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
UW Center for Public Health Informatics
School of Public Health faculty page for Anne Turner
Dept of Health Systems and Population Health faculty page for Anne Turner
Decision-making in Alzheimer’s Research (DMAR) website
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 assessment for public health, public health workflow and evaluation of public health information technologies, improving language access and use of informatics methods to improve communication with Limited English Proficiency populations, human-centered design, and qualitative methods.
Erik Van Eaton, MD, FACS
Interests:
Enhancing clinical information systems for workflow, communication and handoffs, integrating research and registry informatics to clinical care, and improving technology for bedside clinical use.
Patrick Wedgeworth, MD, MISM
LinkedIn page for Patrick Wedgeworth
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), and descriptive and predictive analytics (using analytics to understand the drivers behind health outcomes and the effects of interventions).
Marjorie Wenrich, PhD, MPH
Interests:
Medical education, physician assessment, change management in medical education, and metacognition in teaching and learning.
Thomas Wetter, MSc, PhD
Interests:
Consumer health informatics, patient-generated health data, and 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 and the genomics of head and neck tumors (squamous cell carcinoma, infantile hemangiomas, lymphatic malformations).
Meliha Yetisgen, PhD
UW faculty page for Meliha Yetisgen
Interests:
Clinical Natural Language Processing, Outcomes analysis
Wen-wai Yim, PhD
Interests:
Natural language processing, information extraction, and language and semantics.
All BIME Core Faculty
- Associate Professor
- Primary
- BHI
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Assistant Professor
- Primary
- BHI
- Professor Emeritus
- BHI
- Associate Professor
- Primary
- BHI
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Professor
- Primary
- BHI
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- Primary
- MEE
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- Lecturer
- Primary
- BHI
- Professor Emeritus
- Primary
- BHI
- Professor
- Graduate Program Director
- Primary
- BHI
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Professor
- Primary
- BHI
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Professor
- Clinical Informatics Fellowship Director
- Joint
- BHI
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Assistant Professor
- Primary
- BHI
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Professor
- Joint
- BHI
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Professor
- Primary
- BHI
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Lecturer Emeritus
- Primary
- BHI
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
- Associate Teaching Professor
- Joint
- MEE
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Acting Assistant Professor
- Primary
- BHI
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Professor Emeritus
- Primary
- MEE
- Research Professor Emeritus
- Primary
- MEE
- Professor
- Division Head, MEE
- Primary
- MEE
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Professor Emeritus
- Primary
- MEE
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- Professor
- Chair, BIME
- Primary
- BHI
- MEE
- Professor Emeritus
- Joint
- BHI
- Assistant Professor
- Joint
- BHI
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Professor
- Joint
- BHI
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
- Professor
- Primary
- BHI
- Endorsed to Chair
- Graduate Faculty
Neil Abernethy, PhD
UW Faculty page for Neil Abernethy
School of Public Health profile for Neil Abernethy
Google Scholar citations for Neil Abernethy
Interests:
Artificial intelligence in medicine (AI safety/reliability, grounding, machine learning, knowledge representation and extraction, multi-modal models, and decision making under uncertainty), biomedical data science (data integration, visualization, network analysis), computational biology (pathway analysis, protein structure), and public health informatics (disease surveillance, epidemic models, molecular epidemiology).
Oliver J. Bear Don’t Walk IV, Apsáalooke, PhD
Interests:
Natural language processing, machine learning, community engagement, Indigenous knowledge, epistemological justice, social drivers of health, ethics, intersectionality, and fairness.
James Brinkley, MD, PhD
Structural Informatics Group personnel page for Jim Brinkley
Interests:
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.
Annie Chen, MSIS, PhD
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, and 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, and clinical cognition.
Matthew Cunningham, PhD
Interests:
Evaluation of curricular innovations and educational programs.
Valerie Daggett, PhD
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.
Jared M. Erwin, PhD
Interests:
Genomics, pharmacogenomics, research methods, causality, and FHIR.
Sherrilynne Fuller, PhD, FACMI
UW faculty page for Sherrilynne Fuller
Interests:
Knowledge discovery, integrated information systems design, human factors, and information retrieval and management.
John Gennari, PhD
UW faculty page for John Gennari
Interests:
Ontologies, knowledge representation, reproducibility, FAIR, and knowledge sharing.
Andrea Hartzler, PhD
Interests:
Human-centered design, health equity, personal health informatics, patient-provider interaction, and clinical informatics.
Michael Leu, MD, MS, MHS, FAAP, FAMIA
Interests:
Medical education and translating innovations into practice in ways that improve patient care and clinical outcomes.
Chen Liang, PhD, FAMIA
Interests:
Electronic Health Records (EHR), multi-modal health data integration, common data models, biomedical ontology, EHR-based deep phenotyping and data mining, machine-learning-based clinical predictive models to be used for augmenting Clinical Decision Support Systems, diagnostics, screening, comorbidity reasoning, prognosis prediction, and evidence-based intervention.
Bill Lober, MD, MS
Clinical Informatics Research Group website
Interests:
Clinical, public health, and global health informatics.
Gang Luo, PhD
Interests:
Health and clinical informatics (data and predictive analytics and software system design and development), big data, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, and database systems.
David Masuda, MD
Interests:
Applied informatics educational program development with a focus on leadership in health information technology and clinical informatics.
Daniel Masys, MD, FACMI
UW faculty page for Daniel Masys
Interests:
Development of informatics infrastructure for conducting clinical and translational research, and genome-phenome correlation using phenotype data derived from electronic medical records.
Peter Myler, PhD
Center for Global Infectious Disease Research website
Interests:
Bioinformatics, genomics, molecular parasitology, systems biology, structural genomics, and biodefense.
Pamela Nagasawa, PhD
Interests:
Educating a diverse workforce by priming students to serve rural, undeserved, and culturally diverse patient populations, impact assessment by the teaching and learning of science, curricular and institutional effectiveness, medical education, and student identity formation.
Jim Phuong, MSPH, PhD
Interests:
Natural disaster preparedness, climate adaptation, injury prevention, health equity research and allied research to support people with disabilities, population health, maturity models, biomedical informatics and cybersecurity, geocoding methods and spatial-temporal data analytics, common data models (e.g., OMOP, PCORNet), social determinants of health data engineering, data-driven research and process modeling, data engineering, DevOps, data linkage, research data science, and environmental health and toxicology.
Wanda Pratt, PhD, FACMI
UW faculty page for Wanda Pratt
Interests:
Personal health informatics, human-computer interaction, design of information technology, patient-provider communication, support for vulnerable populations, and patient empowerment.
Lynne Robins, PhD
Interests:
Educator development and mentorship, curriculum development, the science of teaching and learning, communication in the health professions, and qualitative research.
Janice A. Sabin, PhD, MSW
Google Scholar Citations page for Janice Sabin
Interests:
The science of implicit (unconscious) bias and effects on medical care, workforce diversity, health equity and social determinants of health, healthcare delivery to health-disparity populations, patient-provider communication, culturally tailored health communication, and faculty development.
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, and comparability of performance across training sites within the 5-state WWAMI program.
Craig Scott, PhD
Interests:
Mind/body medicine, evaluation of scientific innovation, medical student stress management, performance-based teaching and evaluation (including TBL, PBL, flipped classrooms, objectively-structured clinical examinations and standardized patients), clinical skills development and assessment, medical school admissions, international medical education, and assessment of outcomes of National Science Foundation research centers.
Linda Shapiro, PhD
Faculty Web Page for Linda Shapiro
Interests:
Research in object and pattern recognition, facial expression recognition, medical imaging including cancer biopsy analysis, and biomedical information systems.
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI
UW faculty page for Peter Tarczy-Hornoch
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
Health Promotion Research Centre
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
UW Center for Public Health Informatics
School of Public Health faculty page for Anne Turner
Dept of Health Systems and Population Health faculty page for Anne Turner
Decision-making in Alzheimer’s Research (DMAR) website
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 assessment for public health, public health workflow and evaluation of public health information technologies, improving language access and use of informatics methods to improve communication with Limited English Proficiency populations, human-centered design, and qualitative methods.
Patrick Wedgeworth, MD, MISM
LinkedIn page for Patrick Wedgeworth
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), and descriptive and predictive analytics (using analytics to understand the drivers behind health outcomes and the effects of interventions).
Mark Whipple, MD, MS, FACS
Interests:
Developing predictive models of head and neck tumor metastasis from sparse data sources using formal anatomic knowledge representations and the genomics of head and neck tumors (squamous cell carcinoma, infantile hemangiomas, lymphatic malformations).
Meliha Yetisgen, PhD
UW faculty page for Meliha Yetisgen
Interests:
Clinical Natural Language Processing, Outcomes analysis
All BIME Extended Faculty
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- Adjunct
- BHI
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- Adjunct
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- Affiliate
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- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
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- Affiliate
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- Endorsed to Chair
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
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- Affiliate
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- Professor
- Affiliate
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- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
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- Professor
- Adjunct
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- Professor
- Adjunct
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- Research Professor
- Adjunct
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Barry Aaronson, MD, FACP, SFHM, FAMIA
barry.aaronson@commonspirit.org
LinkedIn page for Barry Aaronson
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, Epic Physician Builder, and informatics governance and team building.
Uba Bačkonja, PhD, RN
Interests:
Community-based health informatics, data visualization, health inequities, women’s health, and health promotion
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, and using games to improve evidence-based information-seeking behavior and incorporating it into clinical practice.
Daniel Capurro, MD, PhD, FAMIA
Interests:
Clinical informatics, secondary uses of electronic clinical data, phenotyping, temporal abstractions, and Clinical Data Warehouse.
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
Interests:
Biomedical and health informatics.
Valerie Daggett, PhD
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.
Nic Dobbins, PhD
Interests:
Developing intuitive, user-centered tools for scientific discovery and data extraction from electronic health records, with a focus on natural language processing (NLP), large language models and autonomous agents, cohort discovery, and clinical trials.
Kristina Dzara, PhD, MMSc
Center for Educator Development, Advancement and Research
Interests:
Educator development, science of teaching and learning, program evaluation, curriculum development, social media, and educational scholarship.
Justin Guinney, PhD
Interests:
Heterogeneity of colorectal cancer, precision oncology, computational methods for cancer biology, open science and DREAM challenges, and biological aging.
Jennifer Hadlock, MD
Interests:
Multimodal longitudinal modeling for mechanistic understanding and clinical decision support.
Amanda “Mandi” Hall, PhD
Interests:
Research focusing on the design, usability, and evaluation of consumer health information technologies including mobile applications, wearable devices, and healthcare robotics; health education and behavior change interventions, and games for health and human factors.
David Heckerman, MD, PhD
Interests:
Genomics, vaccine design, computational biology, and 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, and medical decision-making.
Jonathan Ilgen, MD, MCR, FACEP
Interests:
Clinical and diagnostic reasoning, and medical education scholarship and assessment.
Misbah Keen, MD, MBI, MPH
Interests:
Medical education, decentralized clinical education, and clinical informatics education.
Sara Kim, PhD
Interests:
Educational Continuous Quality Improvement, healthcare communication skills, and conflict management negotiation research.
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
Interests:
Machine learning, computational biology, and clinical informatics.
Kevin Lybarger, PhD
Interests:
Machine learning, natural language processing, and clinical informatics.
Patrick Mathias, MD, PhD
Interests:
Laboratory medicine and pathology informatics, clinical decision support, laboratory stewardship, quality improvement, and characterizing and preventing diagnostic errors.
William Stafford Noble, PhD
Interests:
Development and application of machine learning and statistical methods for interpreting genomics and proteomics data
Patrick O’Carroll, MD, MPH
Interests:
Epidemiology, informatics, and public health systems development.
Mark Phillips, PhD
Interests:
Multiobjective optimization, utility measurements, probabilistic modeling of clinical outcomes in radiation oncology, and decision modeling in oncology.
Ari Pollack, MD, MSIM
Interests:
Clinical informatics, human-computer interaction, information architecture, information visualization, and population health.
Hoifung Poon, PhD
Interests:
Advancing machine reading for precision health by unlocking structured information from text.
Timothy Robinson, PhD, MS
Interests:
Design of experiments, response surface methodology, categorical data analysis, and applications in engineering, medicine and the environment.
Eric Rose, MD
Interests:
Electronic medical record design and implementation, evidence-based medicine, terminology systems, and automated decision-support.
Anthony Rossini, ScD
Interests:
The intersection and combination of interventional and non-interventional clinical studies.
Andrew Simms, PhD
Interests:
Representation of structured and unstructured biomedical data, data analytics, visualization, process mining, large-scale computing, clinical decision support, study feasibility, and software safety.
Angad Singh, MD
Interests:
Clinical informatics, preventative medicine, and ambulatory care and health equity.
Kari Stephens, PhD
Interests:
Disparities in mental health and services, post-traumatic 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
Interests:
Biomedical and health informatics.
Eric Tham, MD, MS
eric.tham@seattlechildrens.org
Interests:
Biomedical and Health Informatics
Hilaire Thompson, PhD, RN, ARNP, CNRN, AGACNP-BC, FAAN
Interests:
Innovative interventions, symptom science, lifespan health
Erik Van Eaton, MD, FACS
Interests:
Enhancing clinical information systems for workflow, communication and handoffs, integrating research and registry informatics to clinical care, and improving technology for bedside clinical use.
Marjorie Wenrich, PhD, MPH
Interests:
Medical education, physician assessment, change management in medical education, and metacognition in teaching and learning.
Thomas Wetter, MSc, PhD
Interests:
Consumer health informatics, patient-generated health data, and global health.
Wen-wai Yim, PhD
Interests:
Natural language processing, information extraction, and language and semantics.
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Barry Aaronson, MD, FACP, SFHM, FAMIA
barry.aaronson@commonspirit.org
LinkedIn page for Barry Aaronson
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, Epic Physician Builder, and informatics governance and team building.
Neil Abernethy, PhD
UW Faculty page for Neil Abernethy
School of Public Health profile for Neil Abernethy
Google Scholar citations for Neil Abernethy
Interests:
Artificial intelligence in medicine (AI safety/reliability, grounding, machine learning, knowledge representation and extraction, multi-modal models, and decision making under uncertainty), biomedical data science (data integration, visualization, network analysis), computational biology (pathway analysis, protein structure), and public health informatics (disease surveillance, epidemic models, molecular epidemiology).
Uba Bačkonja, PhD, RN
Interests:
Community-based health informatics, data visualization, health inequities, women’s health, and health promotion
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, and using games to improve evidence-based information-seeking behavior and incorporating it into clinical practice.
Oliver J. Bear Don’t Walk IV, Apsáalooke, PhD
Interests:
Natural language processing, machine learning, community engagement, Indigenous knowledge, epistemological justice, social drivers of health, ethics, intersectionality, and fairness.
James Brinkley, MD, PhD
Structural Informatics Group personnel page for Jim Brinkley
Interests:
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.
Daniel Capurro, MD, PhD, FAMIA
Interests:
Clinical informatics, secondary uses of electronic clinical data, phenotyping, temporal abstractions, and Clinical Data Warehouse.
Annie Chen, MSIS, PhD
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, and 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, and 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
Interests:
Biomedical and health informatics.
Valerie Daggett, PhD
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.
Nic Dobbins, PhD
Interests:
Developing intuitive, user-centered tools for scientific discovery and data extraction from electronic health records, with a focus on natural language processing (NLP), large language models and autonomous agents, cohort discovery, and clinical trials.
Jared M. Erwin, PhD
Interests:
Genomics, pharmacogenomics, research methods, causality, and FHIR.
Sherrilynne Fuller, PhD, FACMI
UW faculty page for Sherrilynne Fuller
Interests:
Knowledge discovery, integrated information systems design, human factors, and information retrieval and management.
John Gennari, PhD
UW faculty page for John Gennari
Interests:
Ontologies, knowledge representation, reproducibility, FAIR, and knowledge sharing.
Justin Guinney, PhD
Interests:
Heterogeneity of colorectal cancer, precision oncology, computational methods for cancer biology, open science and DREAM challenges, and biological aging.
Jennifer Hadlock, MD
Interests:
Multimodal longitudinal modeling for mechanistic understanding and clinical decision support.
Andrea Hartzler, PhD
Interests:
Human-centered design, health equity, personal health informatics, patient-provider interaction, and clinical informatics.
David Heckerman, MD, PhD
Interests:
Genomics, vaccine design, computational biology, and 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, and medical decision-making.
Misbah Keen, MD, MBI, MPH
Interests:
Medical education, decentralized clinical education, and 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
Interests:
Machine learning, computational biology, and clinical informatics.
Michael Leu, MD, MS, MHS, FAAP, FAMIA
Interests:
Medical education and translating innovations into practice in ways that improve patient care and clinical outcomes.
Chen Liang, PhD, FAMIA
Interests:
Electronic Health Records (EHR), multi-modal health data integration, common data models, biomedical ontology, EHR-based deep phenotyping and data mining, machine-learning-based clinical predictive models to be used for augmenting Clinical Decision Support Systems, diagnostics, screening, comorbidity reasoning, prognosis prediction, and evidence-based intervention.
Bill Lober, MD, MS
Clinical Informatics Research Group website
Interests:
Clinical, public health, and global health informatics.
Gang Luo, PhD
Interests:
Health and clinical informatics (data and predictive analytics and software system design and development), big data, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, and database systems.
Kevin Lybarger, PhD
Interests:
Machine learning, natural language processing, and clinical informatics.
Daniel Masys, MD, FACMI
UW faculty page for Daniel Masys
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
Interests:
Laboratory medicine and pathology informatics, clinical decision support, laboratory stewardship, quality improvement, and characterizing and preventing diagnostic errors.
Peter Myler, PhD
Center for Global Infectious Disease Research website
Interests:
Bioinformatics, genomics, molecular parasitology, systems biology, structural genomics, and biodefense.
William Stafford Noble, PhD
Interests:
Development and application of machine learning and statistical methods for interpreting genomics and proteomics data
Patrick O’Carroll, MD, MPH
Interests:
Epidemiology, informatics, and public health systems development.
Mark Phillips, PhD
Interests:
Multiobjective optimization, utility measurements, probabilistic modeling of clinical outcomes in radiation oncology, and decision modeling in oncology.
Jim Phuong, MSPH, PhD
Interests:
Natural disaster preparedness, climate adaptation, injury prevention, health equity research and allied research to support people with disabilities, population health, maturity models, biomedical informatics and cybersecurity, geocoding methods and spatial-temporal data analytics, common data models (e.g., OMOP, PCORNet), social determinants of health data engineering, data-driven research and process modeling, data engineering, DevOps, data linkage, research data science, and environmental health and toxicology.
Ari Pollack, MD, MSIM
Interests:
Clinical informatics, human-computer interaction, information architecture, information visualization, and population health.
Hoifung Poon, PhD
Interests:
Advancing machine reading for precision health by unlocking structured information from text.
Wanda Pratt, PhD, FACMI
UW faculty page for Wanda Pratt
Interests:
Personal health informatics, human-computer interaction, design of information technology, patient-provider communication, support for vulnerable populations, and patient empowerment.
Eric Rose, MD
Interests:
Electronic medical record design and implementation, evidence-based medicine, terminology systems, and automated decision-support.
Anthony Rossini, ScD
Interests:
The intersection and combination of interventional and non-interventional clinical studies.
Linda Shapiro, PhD
Faculty Web Page for Linda Shapiro
Interests:
Research in object and pattern recognition, facial expression recognition, medical imaging including cancer biopsy analysis, and 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, and software safety.
Angad Singh, MD
Interests:
Clinical informatics, preventative medicine, and ambulatory care and health equity.
Kari Stephens, PhD
Interests:
Disparities in mental health and services, post-traumatic 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
Interests:
Biomedical and health informatics.
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI
UW faculty page for Peter Tarczy-Hornoch
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
eric.tham@seattlechildrens.org
Interests:
Biomedical and Health Informatics
Hilaire Thompson, PhD, RN, ARNP, CNRN, AGACNP-BC, FAAN
Interests:
Innovative interventions, symptom science, lifespan health
Anne M. Turner, MD, MLIS, MPH, FACMI
Health Promotion Research Centre
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
UW Center for Public Health Informatics
School of Public Health faculty page for Anne Turner
Dept of Health Systems and Population Health faculty page for Anne Turner
Decision-making in Alzheimer’s Research (DMAR) website
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 assessment for public health, public health workflow and evaluation of public health information technologies, improving language access and use of informatics methods to improve communication with Limited English Proficiency populations, human-centered design, and qualitative methods.
Erik Van Eaton, MD, FACS
Interests:
Enhancing clinical information systems for workflow, communication and handoffs, integrating research and registry informatics to clinical care, and improving technology for bedside clinical use.
Patrick Wedgeworth, MD, MISM
LinkedIn page for Patrick Wedgeworth
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), and descriptive and predictive analytics (using analytics to understand the drivers behind health outcomes and the effects of interventions).
Thomas Wetter, MSc, PhD
Interests:
Consumer health informatics, patient-generated health data, and 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 and the genomics of head and neck tumors (squamous cell carcinoma, infantile hemangiomas, lymphatic malformations).
Meliha Yetisgen, PhD
UW faculty page for Meliha Yetisgen
Interests:
Clinical Natural Language Processing, Outcomes analysis
Wen-wai Yim, PhD
Interests:
Natural language processing, information extraction, and language and semantics.
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Neil Abernethy, PhD
UW Faculty page for Neil Abernethy
School of Public Health profile for Neil Abernethy
Google Scholar citations for Neil Abernethy
Interests:
Artificial intelligence in medicine (AI safety/reliability, grounding, machine learning, knowledge representation and extraction, multi-modal models, and decision making under uncertainty), biomedical data science (data integration, visualization, network analysis), computational biology (pathway analysis, protein structure), and public health informatics (disease surveillance, epidemic models, molecular epidemiology).
Oliver J. Bear Don’t Walk IV, Apsáalooke, PhD
Interests:
Natural language processing, machine learning, community engagement, Indigenous knowledge, epistemological justice, social drivers of health, ethics, intersectionality, and fairness.
James Brinkley, MD, PhD
Structural Informatics Group personnel page for Jim Brinkley
Interests:
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.
Annie Chen, MSIS, PhD
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, and 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, and clinical cognition.
Valerie Daggett, PhD
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.
Jared M. Erwin, PhD
Interests:
Genomics, pharmacogenomics, research methods, causality, and FHIR.
Sherrilynne Fuller, PhD, FACMI
UW faculty page for Sherrilynne Fuller
Interests:
Knowledge discovery, integrated information systems design, human factors, and information retrieval and management.
John Gennari, PhD
UW faculty page for John Gennari
Interests:
Ontologies, knowledge representation, reproducibility, FAIR, and knowledge sharing.
Jennifer Hadlock, MD
Interests:
Multimodal longitudinal modeling for mechanistic understanding and clinical decision support.
Andrea Hartzler, PhD
Interests:
Human-centered design, health equity, personal health informatics, patient-provider interaction, and clinical informatics.
Michael Leu, MD, MS, MHS, FAAP, FAMIA
Interests:
Medical education and translating innovations into practice in ways that improve patient care and clinical outcomes.
Chen Liang, PhD, FAMIA
Interests:
Electronic Health Records (EHR), multi-modal health data integration, common data models, biomedical ontology, EHR-based deep phenotyping and data mining, machine-learning-based clinical predictive models to be used for augmenting Clinical Decision Support Systems, diagnostics, screening, comorbidity reasoning, prognosis prediction, and evidence-based intervention.
Bill Lober, MD, MS
Clinical Informatics Research Group website
Interests:
Clinical, public health, and global health informatics.
Gang Luo, PhD
Interests:
Health and clinical informatics (data and predictive analytics and software system design and development), big data, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, and database systems.
David Masuda, MD
Interests:
Applied informatics educational program development with a focus on leadership in health information technology and clinical informatics.
Daniel Masys, MD, FACMI
UW faculty page for Daniel Masys
Interests:
Development of informatics infrastructure for conducting clinical and translational research, and genome-phenome correlation using phenotype data derived from electronic medical records.
Peter Myler, PhD
Center for Global Infectious Disease Research website
Interests:
Bioinformatics, genomics, molecular parasitology, systems biology, structural genomics, and biodefense.
Jim Phuong, MSPH, PhD
Interests:
Natural disaster preparedness, climate adaptation, injury prevention, health equity research and allied research to support people with disabilities, population health, maturity models, biomedical informatics and cybersecurity, geocoding methods and spatial-temporal data analytics, common data models (e.g., OMOP, PCORNet), social determinants of health data engineering, data-driven research and process modeling, data engineering, DevOps, data linkage, research data science, and environmental health and toxicology.
Ari Pollack, MD, MSIM
Interests:
Clinical informatics, human-computer interaction, information architecture, information visualization, and population health.
Wanda Pratt, PhD, FACMI
UW faculty page for Wanda Pratt
Interests:
Personal health informatics, human-computer interaction, design of information technology, patient-provider communication, support for vulnerable populations, and patient empowerment.
Linda Shapiro, PhD
Faculty Web Page for Linda Shapiro
Interests:
Research in object and pattern recognition, facial expression recognition, medical imaging including cancer biopsy analysis, and biomedical information systems.
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI
UW faculty page for Peter Tarczy-Hornoch
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
Health Promotion Research Centre
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
UW Center for Public Health Informatics
School of Public Health faculty page for Anne Turner
Dept of Health Systems and Population Health faculty page for Anne Turner
Decision-making in Alzheimer’s Research (DMAR) website
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 assessment for public health, public health workflow and evaluation of public health information technologies, improving language access and use of informatics methods to improve communication with Limited English Proficiency populations, human-centered design, and qualitative methods.
Patrick Wedgeworth, MD, MISM
LinkedIn page for Patrick Wedgeworth
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), and descriptive and predictive analytics (using analytics to understand the drivers behind health outcomes and the effects of interventions).
Mark Whipple, MD, MS, FACS
Interests:
Developing predictive models of head and neck tumor metastasis from sparse data sources using formal anatomic knowledge representations and the genomics of head and neck tumors (squamous cell carcinoma, infantile hemangiomas, lymphatic malformations).
Meliha Yetisgen, PhD
UW faculty page for Meliha Yetisgen
Interests:
Clinical Natural Language Processing, Outcomes analysis
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Barry Aaronson, MD, FACP, SFHM, FAMIA
barry.aaronson@commonspirit.org
LinkedIn page for Barry Aaronson
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, Epic Physician Builder, and informatics governance and team building.
Uba Bačkonja, PhD, RN
Interests:
Community-based health informatics, data visualization, health inequities, women’s health, and health promotion
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, and using games to improve evidence-based information-seeking behavior and incorporating it into clinical practice.
Daniel Capurro, MD, PhD, FAMIA
Interests:
Clinical informatics, secondary uses of electronic clinical data, phenotyping, temporal abstractions, and Clinical Data Warehouse.
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
Interests:
Biomedical and health informatics.
Valerie Daggett, PhD
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.
Nic Dobbins, PhD
Interests:
Developing intuitive, user-centered tools for scientific discovery and data extraction from electronic health records, with a focus on natural language processing (NLP), large language models and autonomous agents, cohort discovery, and clinical trials.
Justin Guinney, PhD
Interests:
Heterogeneity of colorectal cancer, precision oncology, computational methods for cancer biology, open science and DREAM challenges, and biological aging.
Jennifer Hadlock, MD
Interests:
Multimodal longitudinal modeling for mechanistic understanding and clinical decision support.
Amanda “Mandi” Hall, PhD
Interests:
Research focusing on the design, usability, and evaluation of consumer health information technologies including mobile applications, wearable devices, and healthcare robotics; health education and behavior change interventions, and games for health and human factors.
David Heckerman, MD, PhD
Interests:
Genomics, vaccine design, computational biology, and 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, and medical decision-making.
Misbah Keen, MD, MBI, MPH
Interests:
Medical education, decentralized clinical education, and 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
Interests:
Machine learning, computational biology, and clinical informatics.
Kevin Lybarger, PhD
Interests:
Machine learning, natural language processing, and clinical informatics.
Patrick Mathias, MD, PhD
Interests:
Laboratory medicine and pathology informatics, clinical decision support, laboratory stewardship, quality improvement, and characterizing and preventing diagnostic errors.
William Stafford Noble, PhD
Interests:
Development and application of machine learning and statistical methods for interpreting genomics and proteomics data
Patrick O’Carroll, MD, MPH
Interests:
Epidemiology, informatics, and public health systems development.
Mark Phillips, PhD
Interests:
Multiobjective optimization, utility measurements, probabilistic modeling of clinical outcomes in radiation oncology, and decision modeling in oncology.
Ari Pollack, MD, MSIM
Interests:
Clinical informatics, human-computer interaction, information architecture, information visualization, and population health.
Hoifung Poon, PhD
Interests:
Advancing machine reading for precision health by unlocking structured information from text.
Eric Rose, MD
Interests:
Electronic medical record design and implementation, evidence-based medicine, terminology systems, and automated decision-support.
Anthony Rossini, ScD
Interests:
The intersection and combination of interventional and non-interventional clinical studies.
Andrew Simms, PhD
Interests:
Representation of structured and unstructured biomedical data, data analytics, visualization, process mining, large-scale computing, clinical decision support, study feasibility, and software safety.
Angad Singh, MD
Interests:
Clinical informatics, preventative medicine, and ambulatory care and health equity.
Kari Stephens, PhD
Interests:
Disparities in mental health and services, post-traumatic 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
Interests:
Biomedical and health informatics.
Eric Tham, MD, MS
eric.tham@seattlechildrens.org
Interests:
Biomedical and Health Informatics
Hilaire Thompson, PhD, RN, ARNP, CNRN, AGACNP-BC, FAAN
Interests:
Innovative interventions, symptom science, lifespan health
Erik Van Eaton, MD, FACS
Interests:
Enhancing clinical information systems for workflow, communication and handoffs, integrating research and registry informatics to clinical care, and improving technology for bedside clinical use.
Thomas Wetter, MSc, PhD
Interests:
Consumer health informatics, patient-generated health data, and global health.
Wen-wai Yim, PhD
Interests:
Natural language processing, information extraction, and language and semantics.
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Matthew Cunningham, PhD
Interests:
Evaluation of curricular innovations and educational programs.
Kristina Dzara, PhD, MMSc
Center for Educator Development, Advancement and Research
Interests:
Educator development, science of teaching and learning, program evaluation, curriculum development, social media, and educational scholarship.
Jonathan Ilgen, MD, MCR, FACEP
Interests:
Clinical and diagnostic reasoning, and medical education scholarship and assessment.
Misbah Keen, MD, MBI, MPH
Interests:
Medical education, decentralized clinical education, and clinical informatics education.
Sara Kim, PhD
Interests:
Educational Continuous Quality Improvement, healthcare communication skills, and conflict management negotiation research.
Pamela Nagasawa, PhD
Interests:
Educating a diverse workforce by priming students to serve rural, undeserved, and culturally diverse patient populations, impact assessment by the teaching and learning of science, curricular and institutional effectiveness, medical education, and student identity formation.
Lynne Robins, PhD
Interests:
Educator development and mentorship, curriculum development, the science of teaching and learning, communication in the health professions, and qualitative research.
Timothy Robinson, PhD, MS
Interests:
Design of experiments, response surface methodology, categorical data analysis, and applications in engineering, medicine and the environment.
Janice A. Sabin, PhD, MSW
Google Scholar Citations page for Janice Sabin
Interests:
The science of implicit (unconscious) bias and effects on medical care, workforce diversity, health equity and social determinants of health, healthcare delivery to health-disparity populations, patient-provider communication, culturally tailored health communication, and faculty development.
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, and comparability of performance across training sites within the 5-state WWAMI program.
Craig Scott, PhD
Interests:
Mind/body medicine, evaluation of scientific innovation, medical student stress management, performance-based teaching and evaluation (including TBL, PBL, flipped classrooms, objectively-structured clinical examinations and standardized patients), clinical skills development and assessment, medical school admissions, international medical education, and assessment of outcomes of National Science Foundation research centers.
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI
UW faculty page for Peter Tarczy-Hornoch
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.
Marjorie Wenrich, PhD, MPH
Interests:
Medical education, physician assessment, change management in medical education, and metacognition in teaching and learning.
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Matthew Cunningham, PhD
Interests:
Evaluation of curricular innovations and educational programs.
Kristina Dzara, PhD, MMSc
Center for Educator Development, Advancement and Research
Interests:
Educator development, science of teaching and learning, program evaluation, curriculum development, social media, and educational scholarship.
Pamela Nagasawa, PhD
Interests:
Educating a diverse workforce by priming students to serve rural, undeserved, and culturally diverse patient populations, impact assessment by the teaching and learning of science, curricular and institutional effectiveness, medical education, and student identity formation.
Lynne Robins, PhD
Interests:
Educator development and mentorship, curriculum development, the science of teaching and learning, communication in the health professions, and qualitative research.
Janice A. Sabin, PhD, MSW
Google Scholar Citations page for Janice Sabin
Interests:
The science of implicit (unconscious) bias and effects on medical care, workforce diversity, health equity and social determinants of health, healthcare delivery to health-disparity populations, patient-provider communication, culturally tailored health communication, and faculty development.
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, and comparability of performance across training sites within the 5-state WWAMI program.
Craig Scott, PhD
Interests:
Mind/body medicine, evaluation of scientific innovation, medical student stress management, performance-based teaching and evaluation (including TBL, PBL, flipped classrooms, objectively-structured clinical examinations and standardized patients), clinical skills development and assessment, medical school admissions, international medical education, and assessment of outcomes of National Science Foundation research centers.
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI
UW faculty page for Peter Tarczy-Hornoch
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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Jonathan Ilgen, MD, MCR, FACEP
Interests:
Clinical and diagnostic reasoning, and medical education scholarship and assessment.
Misbah Keen, MD, MBI, MPH
Interests:
Medical education, decentralized clinical education, and clinical informatics education.
Sara Kim, PhD
Interests:
Educational Continuous Quality Improvement, healthcare communication skills, and conflict management negotiation research.
Timothy Robinson, PhD, MS
Interests:
Design of experiments, response surface methodology, categorical data analysis, and applications in engineering, medicine and the environment.
Marjorie Wenrich, PhD, MPH
Interests:
Medical education, physician assessment, change management in medical education, and metacognition in teaching and learning.