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Jim Phuong, MSPH, PhD

  • Acting Assistant Professor
  • Primary
  • BHI

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.

Background:

Dr. Jim Phuong is an Acting Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics. His research focuses on secondary-use of health system electronic health records (EHR) to make spatial-temporal inferences for widespread natural disasters preparedness (e.g., hurricanes, floods, pandemic) and Population Health research. He is involved in collaborative data sharing research networks, disaster preparedness and injury prevention research, data engineering for common data models, and reproducible analytical pipelines in biomedical data research.

Current projects:

  • NIH All of Us Research Program Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data (CLAD)
  • UW ADVANCE Clinical Research Network (CRN)
  • OHDSI Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)
  • CDC Public Health Emergency Preparedness Response (PHEPR) data ecosystem planning
  • Polygenic Risk Methods in Diverse Populations (PRIMED)
  • Trauma Transfusion Research Interest Group (TTRIG)
  • Institute of Medical Data Science-funded (IMDS) Trauma-registry blood-bank linked data engineering

Teaching:

  • Environmental Health and Informatics
  • Data Architecture
  • Research data sharing

Representative publications:

Phuong J, Bandaragoda C, Istanbulluoglu E, Beveridge C, Strauch R, Setiawan L, Mooney SD. Automated retrieval, preprocessing, and visualization of gridded hydrometeorology data products for spatial-temporal exploratory analysis and intercomparison. Environmental Modelling & Software. 2019 Jun 1;116:119-30. DOI:10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.01.007

Phuong J, Bandaragoda CJ, Haldar S, Stephens K, Ordonez P, Mooney SD, Hartzler A. Information needs and use-cases to improve population health research in future hurricanes and floods: a research focus for disaster preparedness. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2021 Feb;28(2):249-60. DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa195

Phuong J, Hong S, Palchuk MB, Espinoza J, Meeker D, Dorr DA, Lozinski G, Madlock-Brown C, Adams WG. Advancing Interoperability of Patient-level Social Determinants of Health Data to Support COVID-19 Research. In AMIA Joint Informatics Summit Proceedings 2022 (Vol. 2022). American Medical Informatics Association. Accepted 2021 Dec 9. PMID: 35854720. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9285174/]

Phuong J, Zampino E, Dobbins N, Espinoza J, Meeker D, Spratt H, Madlock-Brown C, Weiskopf NG, Wilcox A. Extracting Patient-level Social Determinants of Health into the OMOP Common Data Model. In AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings 2021 (Vol. 2021, p. 989). American Medical Informatics Association. Published 2022 Feb 21. PMID:35308947. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8861735]

Phuong J, Riches NO, Madlock-Brown C, Duran D, Calzoni L, Espinoza JC, Datta G, Kavuluru R, Weiskopf NG, Ward-Caviness CK, Lin AY. Social Determinants of Health Factors for Gene–Environment COVID-19 Research: Challenges and Opportunities. Advanced Genetics. 2022 Mar 09. 2100056. DOI:10.1002/ggn2.202100056

Madlock-Brown C, Wilkens K, Weiskopf N, Cesare N, Bhattacharyya S, Riches NO, Espinoza J, Dorr D, Goetz K, Phuong J, Sule A. Clinical, social, and policy factors in COVID-19 cases and deaths: methodological considerations for feature selection and modeling in county-level analyses. BMC Public Health. 2022 Dec;22(1):1-3. Published 14 Apr 2022. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-13168-y

Ali M, Liu Z, Taylor M, Orcutt T, Bledsoe A, Phuong J, Stansbury LG, Arbabi S, Robinson B, Bulger E, Vavilala MS, Hess JR. Blood product availability in the Washington State trauma system. Transfusion. 2022 Jun;62(6):1218-29 Transfusion. DOI:10.1111/trf.16888

Gebregiorgis HT, Hasan RA, Liu Z, Phuong J, Stansbury LG, Khan J, Tsang HC, Vavilala MS, Hess JR. Drivers of blood use in paediatric trauma: A retrospective cohort study. Transfusion Medicine. 2022 Oct;32(5):383-93. DOI:10.1111/tme.12901

Phuong J, Riches NO, Calzoni L, Datta G, Duran D, Lin AY, Singh RP, Solomonides AE, Whysel NY, Kavuluru R. Toward informatics-enabled preparedness for natural hazards to minimize health impacts of climate change. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2022 Dec;29(12):2161-7.

Champieux R, Solomonides A, Conte M, Rojevsky S, Phuong J, Dorr DA, Zampino E, Wilcox A, Carson MB, Holmes K. Ten simple rules for organizations to support research data sharing. PLoS computational biology. 2023 Jun 15;19(6):e1011136. DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011136

Phuong J, Ordóñez P, Cao J, Moukheiber M, Moukheiber L, Caspi A, Swenor BK, Naawu DK, Mankoff J. Telehealth and digital health innovations: A mixed landscape of access. PLOS Digital Health. 2023 Dec 15;2(12):e0000401. DOI:10.1371/journal.pdig.0000401

Espinoza JC, Sehgal S, Phuong J, Bahroos N, Starren J, Wilcox A, Meeker D. Development of a social and environmental determinants of health informatics maturity model. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 2023 Dec;7(1):e266. DOI:10.1017/cts.2023.691

Phuong J, Ordóñez P, Cao J, Moukheiber M, Moukheiber L, Caspi A, Swenor BK, Naawu DK, Mankoff J. Telehealth and digital health innovations: A mixed landscape of access. PLOS Digital Health. 2023 Dec 15;2(12):e0000401. DOI:10.1371/journal.pdig.0000401″