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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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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
Informatics governance and team building


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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


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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

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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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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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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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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; games for health; human factors


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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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Jonathan Ilgen, MD, MCR, FACEP

  • Professor
  • Adjunct
  • MEE

ilgen@uw.edu

Interests:

Clinical and diagnostic reasoning; 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 especially decentralized clinical education. Clinical Informatics Education.


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Sara Kim, PhD

  • Professor
  • Adjunct
  • MEE

sarakim@uw.edu

Interests:

Educational continuous quality improvement, healthcare communication skills, 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

  • Associate 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, clinical informatics


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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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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


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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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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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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, 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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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, software safety


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Angad Singh

  • Assistant Professor
  • BHI

apsingh@uw.edu


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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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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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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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Marjorie Wenrich, PhD, MPH

  • Associate Professor
  • Affiliate
  • MEE

maxter@uw.edu

Interests:

Medical education, physician assessment, change management in medical education, 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, Global Health


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Fei Xia, PhD

  • Professor
  • Adjunct
  • BHI

fxia@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Natural language processing, information extraction


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Brenda Zierler, PhD, RN, FAAN

  • Professor
  • Adjunct
  • BHI

brendaz@uw.edu

Website

Interests:

Biomedical and health informatics