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 Faculty
Neil Abernethy, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Primary
- BHI
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).
James Brinkley, MD, PhD
- Professor Emeritus
- BHI
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.
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, 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; clinical cognition.
Matthew Cunningham, PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Primary
- MEE
Interests:
Evaluation of curricular innovations and educational programs
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, FHIR,
Sherrilynne Fuller, PhD, FACMI
- Professor Emeritus
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Knowledge discovery, integrated information systems design: human factors, information retrieval and management.
John Gennari, PhD
- Professor
- Graduate Program Director
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Ontologies, knowledge representation, reproducibility, FAIR, knowledge sharing
Andrea Hartzler, PhD
- Professor
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Human-centered design, health equity, personal health informatics, patient-provider interaction, clinical informatics
Michael Leu, MD, MS, MHS, FAAP, FAMIA
- Professor
- Clinical Informatics Fellowship Director
- Joint
- BHI
Interests:
Translating innovations into practice in ways that improve patient care and clinical outcomes; and medical education.
Gang Luo, PhD
- Professor
- Primary
- BHI
Interests:
Health/clinical informatics (data/predictive analytics and software system design/development), big data, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, and database systems.
David Masuda, MD
- Lecturer
- 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
Sean Mooney, PhD, FACMI
- Professor
- Chief Research Information Officer
- Primary
- BHI
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.
Peter Myler, PhD
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Bioinformatics, genomics, molecular parasitology, systems biology, structural genomics, biodefense
Pamela Nagasawa, PhD
- Associate Teaching Professor
- Joint
- MEE
Interests:
Educating a diverse workforce – priming students to serve rural, undeserved, and culturally diverse patient populations; impact assessment – teaching and learning of science, curricular and institutional effectiveness, medical education, student identity formation.
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
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.
Lynne Robins, PhD
- Professor Emeritus
- Primary
- MEE
Interests:
Educator development and mentorship; curriculum development; science of teaching and learning; communication in the health professions, qualitative research.
Janice A. Sabin, PhD, MSW
- Research Professor
- Primary
- MEE
Interests:
The science of implicit (unconscious) bias and effects on medical care; workforce diversity; health equity and social determinants of health; health care delivery to health disparity populations; patient-provider communication; culturally tailored health communication, faculty development.
Doug Schaad, PhD
- Professor
- Division Head, MEE
- Primary
- MEE
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.
Craig Scott, PhD
- Professor Emeritus
- Primary
- MEE
Interests:
As an emeritus faculty member he serves the National Science Foundation as an assessment coordinator and evaluator for numerous centers in the Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program. He recently completed his 33 year of service on the UWSoM Admissions Committee
Linda Shapiro, PhD
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Research in a) object and pattern recognition, b) facial expression recognition c) medical imaging including cancer biopsy analysis, and d) 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
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 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.
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), 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. 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, information retrieval