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
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
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; using games to improve evidence based information seeking behavior and incorporating it into clinical practice.
Daniel Capurro, MD, PhD, FAMIA
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Clinical Informatics, Secondary Uses of Electronic Clinical Data, Phenotyping, Temporal Abstractions, Clinical Data Warehouse
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.
Walter H. Curioso, MD, MPH, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Biomedical and health informatics
Beth Devine, PhD, PharmD, MBA
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
medication safety, specifically pharmacogenomic biomarker-guided medication use and adverse drug events
Justin Guinney, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Heterogeneity of colorectal cancer, precision oncology, computational methods for cancer biology, open science and DREAM challenges, biological aging,
Amanda “Mandi” Hall, PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
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
David Heckerman, MD, PhD
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Genomics, vaccine design, computational biology, machine learning
Eric Horvitz, MD, PhD
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Computational foundations of intelligent sensing, reasoning, and action
Shuai Huang, PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Disease modeling, monitoring, prognostics, biomarker discovery, medical decision making
Jonathan Ilgen, MD, MCR, FACEP
- Professor
- Adjunct
- MEE
Interests:
Clinical and diagnostic reasoning; medical education scholarship; and assessment
Misbah Keen, MD, MBI, MPH
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- MEE
Interests:
Medical Education especially decentralized clinical education. Clinical Informatics Education.
Sara Kim, PhD
- Professor
- Adjunct
- MEE
Interests:
Educational continuous quality improvement, healthcare communication skills, conflict management negotiation research
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.
Su-In Lee, PhD
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Machine learning, computational biology, clinical informatics
Patrick Mathias, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Laboratory medicine and pathology informatics; clinical decision support; laboratory stewardship; quality improvement; characterizing and preventing diagnostic errors.
William Stafford Noble, PhD
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Development and application of machine learning and statistical methods for interpreting complex biological data sets
Patrick O’Carroll, MD, MPH
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Epidemiology, informatics, and public health systems development
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
Mark Phillips, PhD
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Multiobjective optimization, utility measurements, probabilistic modeling of clinical outcomes in radiation oncology, decision modeling in oncology.
Ari Pollack, MD, MSIM
- Assistant Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Clinical informatics; Human-Computer Interaction; Information Architecture; Information Visualization; Population Health.
Hoifung Poon, PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Advancing machine reading for precision health by unlocking structured information from text.
Timothy Robinson, PhD, MS
- Professor
- Affiliate
- MEE
Interests:
Design of Experiments, Response Surface Methodology, Categorical Data Analysis and applications in engineering, medicine and the environment.
Eric Rose, MD
- Assistant Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Electronic Medical Record design and implementation, Evidence-Based Medicine, Terminology Systems, Automated Decision-Support
Anthony Rossini, ScD
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
The intersection and combination of interventional and non-interventional clinical studies
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, software safety
Kari Stephens, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
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.
Eric Tham, MD, MS
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
eric.tham@seattlechildrens.org
Interests:
Biomedical and Health Informatics
Hilaire Thompson, PhD, RN, ARNP, CNRN, AGACNP-BC, FAAN
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Innovative interventions, symptom science, lifespan health.
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; improving technology for bedside clinical use.
Lucy Vanderwende, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Automated acquisition of semantic knowledge; information extraction from clinical records; robust, broad-coverage language analysis
Marjorie Wenrich, PhD, MPH
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- MEE
Interests:
Medical education, physician assessment, change management in medical education, metacognition in teaching and learning
Thomas Wetter, MSc, PhD
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Consumer Health Informatics, Patient Generated Health Data, Global Health
