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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BHI Core & Extended
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Barry Aaronson, MD, FACP, SFHM
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
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, and informatics governance and team building.
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Neil Abernethy, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Primary
- BHI
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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Tania P. Bardyn, MLIS, AHIP
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
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.
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James Brinkley, MD, PhD
- Professor Emeritus
- BHI
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.
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Daniel Capurro, MD, PhD, FAMIA
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Clinical informatics, secondary uses of electronic clinical data, phenotyping, temporal abstractions, and Clinical Data Warehouse.
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Annie Chen, MSIS, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Primary
- BHI
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.
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Trevor Cohen, MBChB, PhD, FACMI
- Professor
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Mental health informatics, post-marketing drug surveillance, drug repurposing, analysis of health-related online social media, distributed representations, distributional semantics, and clinical cognition.
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David Crosslin, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
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.
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Walter H. Curioso, MD, MPH, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Biomedical and health informatics.
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Valerie Daggett, PhD
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
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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Beth Devine, PhD, PharmD, MBA
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Medication safety, specifically pharmacogenomic biomarker-guided medication use and adverse drug events.
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Jared M. Erwin, PhD
- Lecturer
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Genomics, pharmacogenomics, research methods, causality, and FHIR.
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Sherrilynne Fuller, PhD, FACMI
- Professor Emeritus
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Knowledge discovery, integrated information systems design, human factors, and information retrieval and management.
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John Gennari, PhD
- Professor
- Graduate Program Director
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Ontologies, knowledge representation, reproducibility, FAIR, and knowledge sharing.
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Justin Guinney, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Heterogeneity of colorectal cancer, precision oncology, computational methods for cancer biology, open science and DREAM challenges, and biological aging.
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Andrea Hartzler, PhD
- Professor
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Human-centered design, health equity, personal health informatics, patient-provider interaction, and clinical informatics.
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David Heckerman, MD, PhD
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Genomics, vaccine design, computational biology, and machine learning.
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Eric Horvitz, MD, PhD
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Computational foundations of intelligent sensing, reasoning, and action.
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Shuai Huang, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Disease modeling, monitoring, prognostics, biomarker discovery, and medical decision-making.
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Misbah Keen, MD, MBI, MPH
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- MEE
Interests:
Medical education, decentralized clinical education, and clinical informatics education.
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Diane M. Korngiebel, DPhil
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
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.
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Su-In Lee, PhD
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Machine learning, computational biology, and clinical informatics.
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Michael Leu, MD, MS, MHS, FAAP, FAMIA
- Professor
- Clinical Informatics Fellowship Director
- Joint
- BHI
Interests:
Medical education and translating innovations into practice in ways that improve patient care and clinical outcomes.
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Bill Lober, MD, MS
- Professor
- Joint
- BHI
Interests:
Clinical, public health, and global health informatics.
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Gang Luo, PhD
- Professor
- Primary
- BHI
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.
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Kevin Lybarger, PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Machine learning, natural language processing, and clinical informatics.
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Daniel Masys, MD, FACMI
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
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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Patrick Mathias, MD, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Laboratory medicine and pathology informatics, clinical decision support, laboratory stewardship, quality improvement, and characterizing and preventing diagnostic errors.
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Peter Myler, PhD
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Bioinformatics, genomics, molecular parasitology, systems biology, structural genomics, and biodefense.
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William Stafford Noble, PhD
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Development and application of machine learning and statistical methods for interpreting complex biological data sets.
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Patrick O’Carroll, MD, MPH
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Epidemiology, informatics, and public health systems development.
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Thomas Payne, MD, FACMI
- Professor
- Joint
- BHI
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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Mark Phillips, PhD
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Multiobjective optimization, utility measurements, probabilistic modeling of clinical outcomes in radiation oncology, and decision modeling in oncology.
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Jim Phuong, MSPH, PhD
- Acting Assistant Professor
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Integrating clinical and spatial-temporal data types to support data engineering and research data science applications, secondary use and integration of electronic health records, disaster preparedness and injury prevention research, Social Determinants of Health, including research consortial data engineering in areas of population health and precision medicine research.
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Ari Pollack, MD, MSIM
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Clinical informatics, human-computer interaction, information architecture, information visualization, and population health.
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Hoifung Poon, PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Advancing machine reading for precision health by unlocking structured information from text.
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Wanda Pratt, PhD, FACMI
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
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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Eric Rose, MD
- Assistant Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Electronic medical record design and implementation, evidence-based medicine, terminology systems, and automated decision-support.
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Anthony Rossini, ScD
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
The intersection and combination of interventional and non-interventional clinical studies.
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Linda Shapiro, PhD
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Research in object and pattern recognition, facial expression recognition, medical imaging including cancer biopsy analysis, and biomedical information systems.
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Andrew Simms, PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Representation of structured and unstructured biomedical data, data analytics, visualization, process mining, large-scale computing, clinical decision support, study feasibility, and software safety.
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Angad Singh, MD
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Clinical informatics, preventative medicine, and ambulatory care and health equity.
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Kari Stephens, PhD
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
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.
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Paul Sutton, MD, PhD, FAMIA
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Biomedical and health informatics.
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Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI
- Professor
- Chair, BIME
- Primary
- BHI
- MEE
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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Eric Tham, MD, MS
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
eric.tham@seattlechildrens.org
Interests:
Biomedical and Health Informatics
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Hilaire Thompson, PhD, RN, ARNP, CNRN, AGACNP-BC, FAAN
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Innovative interventions, symptom science, lifespan health.
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Anne M. Turner, MD, MLIS, MPH, FACMI
- Professor
- Joint
- BHI
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 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.
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Erik Van Eaton, MD, FACS
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Enhancing clinical information systems for communication and handoffs, integrating research and registry informatics to clinical care, and improving technology for bedside clinical use.
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Lucy Vanderwende, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Automated acquisition of semantic knowledge, information extraction from clinical records, and robust, broad-coverage language analysis.
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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), and descriptive and predictive analytics (using analytics to understand the drivers behind health outcomes and the effects of interventions).
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Thomas Wetter, MSc, PhD
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Consumer health informatics, patient-generated health data, and global health.
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Mark Whipple, MD, MS, FACS
- Professor
- Joint
- BHI
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).
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Meliha Yetisgen, PhD
- Professor
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Statistical natural language processing, text mining, and information retrieval.
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