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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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All BIME Core & Extended Faculty


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Barry Aaronson, MD, FACP, SFHM

  • Associate Professor
  • Adjunct
  • BHI

barry.aaronson@vmmc.org

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

neila@uw.edu

UW Faculty website

School of Public Health profile

LinkedIn

Google Scholar citations

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).


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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, 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

brinkley@uw.edu

Website

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

dcapurro@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Clinical informatics, secondary uses of electronic clinical data, phenotyping, temporal abstractions, and Clinical Data Warehouse.


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Jan Carline, PhD

  • Professor Emeritus
  • Primary
  • MEE

carlinej@uw.edu

Interests:

Medical education and its evaluation.


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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, and 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, and 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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Matthew Cunningham, PhD

  • Assistant Professor
  • Primary
  • MEE

cunningm@uw.edu

Interests:

Evaluation of curricular innovations and educational programs.


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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

  • Professor
  • Adjunct
  • BHI

daggett@uw.edu

Daggett Research Group

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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Kristina Dzara, PhD, MMSc

  • Associate Professor
  • Affiliate
  • MEE

dzara@uw.edu

CLIME Website

CLIME Teaching Scholars Program Website

Interests:

Educator development, science of teaching and learning, program evaluation, curriculum development, social media, and educational scholarship.


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Jared M. Erwin, PhD

  • Lecturer
  • Primary
  • BHI

erwinj@uw.edu

Interests:

Genomics, pharmacogenomics, research methods, causality, and 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, and 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, and 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, and biological aging.


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Amanda “Mandi” Hall, PhD

  • Assistant Professor
  • Affiliate
  • BHI

mandiha@uw.edu

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.


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Andrea Hartzler, PhD

  • Professor
  • Primary
  • BHI

andreah@uw.edu

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

heckerma@hotmail.com

Website

Interests:

Genomics, vaccine design, computational biology, and 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

  • Associate Professor
  • Adjunct
  • BHI

shuaih@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Disease modeling, monitoring, prognostics, biomarker discovery, and medical decision-making.


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Jonathan Ilgen, MD, MCR, FACEP

  • Professor
  • Adjunct
  • MEE

ilgen@uw.edu

Interests:

Clinical and diagnostic reasoning, and medical education scholarship and assessment.


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Misbah Keen, MD, MBI, MPH

  • Professor
  • Adjunct
  • BHI
  • MEE

mkeen@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Medical education, decentralized clinical education, and clinical informatics education.


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Sara Kim, PhD

  • Research Professor
  • Adjunct
  • MEE

sarakim@uw.edu

Interests:

Educational Continuous Quality Improvement, healthcare communication skills, and conflict management negotiation research.


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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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Amanda Kost

  • Professor
  • Adjunct
  • MEE

akost@uw.edu


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Su-In Lee, PhD

  • Professor
  • Adjunct
  • BHI

suinlee@cs.washington.edu

Website

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

mgl27@uw.edu

Interests:

Medical education and translating innovations into practice in ways that improve patient care and clinical outcomes.


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Chen Liang, PhD, FAMIA

  • Assistant Professor
  • Primary
  • BHI

cl0512@uw.edu

Link to CV

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.


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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 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

klybarge@gmu.edu

Interests:

Machine learning, natural language processing, and clinical informatics.


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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.


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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

  • Associate Professor
  • Adjunct
  • BHI

pcm10@uw.edu

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

mylerpj@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

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


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Pamela Nagasawa, PhD

  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • Joint
  • MEE

pnaga22@uw.edu

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.


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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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Mark Phillips, PhD

  • Professor
  • Adjunct
  • BHI

markp@uw.edu

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:

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.


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Brian Piening

  • Assistant Professor
  • Affiliate
  • BHI

bpiening@uw.edu


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Ari Pollack, MD, MSIM

  • Associate Professor
  • Adjunct
  • BHI

apollack@uw.edu

Interests:

Clinical informatics, human-computer interaction, information architecture, information visualization, and 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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Abhishek Pratap, PhD

  • Assistant Professor
  • Affiliate
  • BHI

apratap@uw.edu


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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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Lynne Robins, PhD

  • Professor Emeritus
  • Primary
  • MEE

lynner@uw.edu

Interests:

Educator development and mentorship, curriculum development, the science of teaching and learning, communication in the health professions, and qualitative research.


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Timothy Robinson, PhD, MS

  • Professor
  • Affiliate
  • MEE

tjrobin@uwyo.edu

Interests:

Design of experiments, response surface methodology, categorical data analysis, and applications in engineering, medicine and the environment.


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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, and 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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Janice A. Sabin, PhD, MSW

  • Research Professor
  • Primary
  • MEE

sabinja@uw.edu

Website

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.


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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, and comparability of performance across training sites within the 5-state WWAMI program.


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Craig Scott, PhD

  • Professor Emeritus
  • Primary
  • MEE

scottcs@uw.edu

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.


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Linda Shapiro, PhD

  • Professor
  • Adjunct
  • BHI

shapiro@uw.edu

Faculty Web Page

Interests:

Research in object and pattern recognition, facial expression recognition, medical imaging including cancer biopsy analysis, and biomedical information systems.


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Jane Shelby, PhD

  • Professor
  • Affiliate
  • MEE

njshelby@uw.edu

Interests:

Medical education and evaluation.


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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, and software safety.


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Angad Singh, MD

  • Assistant Professor
  • Affiliate
  • BHI

apsingh@uw.edu

Interests:

Clinical informatics, preventative medicine, and ambulatory care and health equity.


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Kari Stephens, PhD

  • Professor
  • Adjunct
  • BHI

kstephen@uw.edu

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

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

  • Professor
  • Joint
  • BHI

amturner@uw.edu

HPRC

NWCPHP

CPHI

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

vane@uw.edu

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

lucy_vanderwende@live.com

Website

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

LinkedIn

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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Marjorie Wenrich, PhD, MPH

  • Associate Professor
  • Affiliate
  • MEE

maxter@uw.edu

Interests:

Medical education, physician assessment, change management in medical education, and metacognition in teaching and learning.


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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, and 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 and the 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 and information extraction.


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Meliha Yetisgen, PhD

  • Professor
  • Primary
  • BHI

melihay@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Statistical natural language processing, text mining, and information retrieval.


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Wen-wai Yim, PhD

  • Assistant Professor
  • Affiliate
  • BHI

yimwenwai@microsoft.com

Interests:

Natural language processing, information extraction, and language and semantics.


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Brenda Zierler, PhD, RN, FAAN

  • Professor
  • Adjunct
  • BHI

brendaz@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Biomedical and health informatics.