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 Faculty
Neil Abernethy, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Primary
- BHI
School of Public Health profile
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jared M. Erwin, PhD
- Lecturer
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Genomics, pharmacogenomics, research methods, causality, and FHIR.
Sherrilynne Fuller, PhD, FACMI
- Professor Emeritus
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Knowledge discovery, integrated information systems design, human factors, and information retrieval and management.
John Gennari, PhD
- Professor
- Graduate Program Director
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Ontologies, knowledge representation, reproducibility, FAIR, and knowledge sharing.
Andrea Hartzler, PhD
- Professor
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Human-centered design, health equity, personal health informatics, patient-provider interaction, and clinical informatics.
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.
Chen Liang, PhD, FAMIA
- Assistant Professor
- Primary
- BHI
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
- Professor
- Joint
- BHI
Interests:
Clinical, public health, and global health informatics.
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.
David Masuda, MD
- Lecturer Emeritus
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Applied informatics educational program development with a focus on leadership in health information technology and clinical informatics.
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.
Peter Myler, PhD
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Bioinformatics, genomics, molecular parasitology, systems biology, structural genomics, and biodefense.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anne M. Turner, MD, MLIS, MPH, FACMI
- Professor
- Joint
- BHI
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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.
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).
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).
Meliha Yetisgen, PhD
- Professor
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Statistical natural language processing, text mining, and information retrieval.