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

Barry Aaronson, MD, FACP, SFHM

Associate Professor

Adjunct

BHI

barry.aaronson@vmmc.org

Website

Interests:

Applied clinical informatics, with focus on using health IT to mistake-proof inpatient quality metrics and safety.

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Neil Abernethy, PhD

Associate Professor

Primary

BHI

neila@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Data management and analytics (data integration, network analysis, information visualization), computational biology (pathway analysis, protein structure), public health (disease surveillance, epidemic models, molecular epidemiology), and artificial intelligence (machine learning, planning, knowledge representation and decision making under uncertainty).

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Tania P. Bardyn, MLIS, AHIP

Assistant Professor

Affiliate

BHI

bardyn@uw.edu

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; using games to improve evidence based information seeking behavior and incorporating it into clinical practice.

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John Brimm,

Assistant Professor

Affiliate

BHI

brimmj2@uw.edu


James Brinkley, MD, PhD

Professor Emeritus

BHI

brinkley@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Retired Professor, Professor Emeritus in Biological Structure. Interests in structural informatics with emphasis on multimedia data management, ontologies, data integration, the semantic web, and visualization as applied to biomedicine; potential applications of structural informatics in areas outside biomedicine, such as music. No longer accepting students.

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Daniel Capurro, MD, PhD, FAMIA

Assistant Professor

Affiliate

BHI

dcapurro@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Clinical Informatics, Secondary Uses of Electronic Clinical Data, Phenotyping, Temporal Abstractions, Clinical Data Warehouse

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David Carrell,

Associate Professor

Affiliate

BHI


Annie Chen, MSIS, PhD

Associate Professor

Primary

BHI

atchen@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Health-behaviors in everyday life, digital health, health-related belief and knowledge representation, health-related social media use, text and visual analytics, research methods, stakeholder-engagement in design and research, digital humanities

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Trevor Cohen, MBChB, PhD, FACMI

Professor

Primary

BHI

cohenta@uw.edu

Interests:

Mental health informatics; post-marketing drug surveillance; drug repurposing; analysis of health-related online social media; distributed representations; distributional semantics; clinical cognition.

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David Crosslin, PhD

Associate Professor

Affiliate

BHI

davidcr@uw.edu

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

wcurioso@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Biomedical and health informatics

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Valerie Daggett, PhD

Interests:

Data management and representation, database, mining techniques, visual analytics, structural bioinformatics, protein folding and design, single-nucleotide polymorphisms, amyloid diseases, and dynameomics.

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Beth Devine, PhD, PharmD, MBA

Associate Professor

Adjunct

BHI

bdevine@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

medication safety, specifically pharmacogenomic biomarker-guided medication use and adverse drug events

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Jared M. Erwin, PhD

Lecturer

Primary

BHI

erwinj@uw.edu

Interests:

Genomics, pharmacogenomics, research methods, causality, FHIR,

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Sherrilynne Fuller, PhD, FACMI

Professor Emeritus

Primary

BHI

sfuller@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

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

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John Gennari, PhD

Professor

Graduate Program Director

Primary

BHI

gennari@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Ontologies, knowledge representation, reproducibility, FAIR, knowledge sharing

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Justin Guinney, PhD

Associate Professor

Affiliate

BHI

justin.guinney@sagebase.org

Interests:

Heterogeneity of colorectal cancer, precision oncology, computational methods for cancer biology, open science and DREAM challenges, biological aging,

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Andrea Hartzler, PhD

Associate Professor

Primary

BHI

andreah@uw.edu

Interests:

Human-centered design, health equity, personal health informatics, patient-provider interaction, clinical informatics

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David Heckerman, MD, PhD

Professor

Affiliate

BHI

heckerma@hotmail.com

Website

Interests:

Genomics, vaccine design, computational biology, machine learning

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Eric Horvitz, MD, PhD

Professor

Affiliate

BHI

horvitz@microsoft.com

Website

Interests:

Computational foundations of intelligent sensing, reasoning, and action

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Shuai Huang, PhD

Assistant Professor

Adjunct

BHI

shuaih@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Disease modeling, monitoring, prognostics, biomarker discovery, medical decision making

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Misbah Keen, MD, MBI, MPH

Professor

Adjunct

BHI, MEE

mkeen@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Medical Education especially decentralized clinical education. Clinical Informatics Education.

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Diane M. Korngiebel, DPhil

Associate Professor

Affiliate

BHI

dianemk@uw.edu

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

suinlee@cs.washington.edu

Website

Interests:

Machine learning, computational biology, clinical informatics

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

Professor

Clinical Informatics Fellowship Director

Joint

BHI

mgl27@uw.edu

Interests:

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

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Bill Lober, MD, MS

Professor

Joint

BHI

lober@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Clinical, public health, and global health informatics

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Gang Luo, PhD

Professor

Primary

BHI

luogang@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

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

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David Masuda, MD

Lecturer, Lecturer Emeritus

Primary

BHI, MEE

Interests:

Applied informatics educational program development with a focus on leadership in health information technology and clinical informatics.

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Daniel Masys, MD, FACMI

Professor

Affiliate

BHI

dmasys@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

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

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Patrick Mathias, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Adjunct

BHI

pcm10@uw.edu

Interests:

Laboratory medicine and pathology informatics; clinical decision support; laboratory stewardship; quality improvement; characterizing and preventing diagnostic errors.

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Sean Mooney, PhD, FACMI

Professor

Chief Research Information Officer

Primary

BHI

sdmooney@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Managing the development of collaborative electronic systems supporting biomedical research with a focus on leading the next generation informatics tools for biomedical research and understanding the underlying molecular causes of inherited genetic diseases and cancer.

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Peter Myler, PhD

Professor

Affiliate

BHI

mylerpj@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

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

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William Stafford Noble, PhD

Professor

Adjunct

BHI

wnoble@uw.edu

Website

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

ocarroll@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Epidemiology, informatics, and public health systems development

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Thomas Payne, MD, FACMI

Professor

Joint

BHI

tpayne@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

The use of the electronic health records in patient care, clinical research, and quality improvement
Notes in electronic records, methods to create them and their content

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Mark Phillips, PhD

Professor

Adjunct

BHI

markp@uw.edu

Interests:

Multiobjective optimization, utility measurements, probabilistic modeling of clinical outcomes in radiation oncology, decision modeling in oncology.

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Brian Piening,

Assistant Professor

Affiliate

BHI

bpiening@uw.edu


Ari Pollack, MD, MSIM

Assistant Professor

Adjunct

BHI

apollack@uw.edu

Interests:

Clinical informatics; Human-Computer Interaction; Information Architecture; Information Visualization; Population Health.

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Hoifung Poon, PhD

Assistant Professor

Affiliate

BHI

hoifung@microsoft.com

Website

Interests:

Advancing machine reading for precision health by unlocking structured information from text.

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Wanda Pratt, PhD, FACMI

Professor

Adjunct

BHI

wpratt@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Personal health informatics, human computer interaction, design of information technology, patient-provider communication, support for vulnerable populations, and patient empowerment.

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Elizabeth A. Putnam, PhD

Associate Professor

Affiliate

BHI

elizabeth.putnam@montana.edu

Interests:

Biomedical and health informatics

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James D. Ralston, MD, MPH

Professor

Affiliate

BHI

ralston.j@ghc.org

Interests:

Biomedical and health informatics

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Eric Rose, MD

Assistant Professor

Adjunct

BHI

emrdoc@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Electronic Medical Record design and implementation, Evidence-Based Medicine, Terminology Systems, Automated Decision-Support

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Anthony Rossini, ScD

Associate Professor

Affiliate

BHI

rossini@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

The intersection and combination of interventional and non-interventional clinical studies

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Doug Schaad, PhD

Professor

Division Head, MEE

Primary

MEE

schaad@uw.edu

Interests:

Career trajectories in the medical profession; survey design and psychometrics; compassion empathy and cynicism in the professional development of physicians; Interprofessional teams and learning outcomes; curriculum enhancement and associated performance; demographic variables associated with rural and underserved practice; comparability of performance across training sites within the 5-state WWAMI program.

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Linda Shapiro, PhD

Professor

Adjunct

BHI

shapiro@uw.edu

Faculty Web Page

Interests:

Research in a) object and pattern recognition, b) facial expression recognition c) medical imaging including cancer biopsy analysis, and d) biomedical information systems.

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Andrew Simms, PhD

Assistant Professor

Affiliate

BHI

asimms@cognitivemedicine.com

Website

Interests:

Representation of structured and unstructured biomedical data, data analytics, visualization, process mining, large scale computing, clinical decision support, study feasibility, software safety

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Angad Singh,

Assistant Professor

BHI

apsingh@uw.edu


Kari Stephens, PhD

Associate Professor

Adjunct

BHI

kstephen@uw.edu

Interests:

Disparities in mental health and services, posttraumatic 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

plsutton@uw.edu

Interests:

Biomedical and Health Informatics

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Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI

Professor

Chair, BIME

Primary

BHI, MEE

pth@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Data integration and knowledge bases as applied to: translational bioinformatics, biospecimen acquisition, clinical/translational research, clinical data repositories, genomic medicine, and comparative effectiveness research

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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

hilairet@uw.edu

Interests:

Innovative interventions, symptom science, lifespan health.

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

Interests:

Public health informatics, older adult decision making and personal health information management, designing discrete choice experiment tools for older adults with dementia and their caregivers, information needs assessments for public health, public health workflow and evaluation of public health information technologies, improving language access/ use of informatics methods to improve communication with Limited English Proficiency populations, human centered design, qualitative methods.

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Erik Van Eaton, MD, FACS

Associate Professor

Adjunct

BHI

vane@uw.edu

Interests:

Enhancing clinical information systems for communication and handoffs; integrating research and registry informatics to clinical care; improving technology for bedside clinical use.

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Lucy Vanderwende, PhD

Associate Professor

Affiliate

BHI

lucy_vanderwende@live.com

Website

Interests:

Automated acquisition of semantic knowledge; information extraction from clinical records; robust, broad-coverage language analysis

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Thomas Wetter, MSc, PhD

Professor

Affiliate

BHI

thomas.wetter@urz.uni-hd.de

Website

Interests:

Consumer Health Informatics, Patient Generated Health Data, Global Health

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Mark Whipple, MD, MS, FACS

Professor

Joint

BHI

mwhipple@uw.edu

Interests:

Developing predictive models of head and neck tumor metastasis from sparse data sources using formal anatomic knowledge representations. Genomics of head and neck tumors (squamous cell carcinoma, infantile hemangiomas, lymphatic malformations).

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Fei Xia, PhD

Professor

Adjunct

BHI

fxia@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Natural language processing, information extraction

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Meliha Yetisgen, PhD

Professor

Primary

BHI

melihay@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Statistical natural language processing, text mining, information retrieval

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Brenda Zierler, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor

Adjunct

BHI

brendaz@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Biomedical and health informatics

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