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, and 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, and using games to improve evidence-based information-seeking behavior and incorporating it into clinical practice.
Daniel Capurro, MD, PhD, FAMIA
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Clinical informatics, secondary uses of electronic clinical data, phenotyping, temporal abstractions, and 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
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Medication safety, specifically pharmacogenomic biomarker-guided medication use and adverse drug events.
Kristina Dzara, PhD, MMSc
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- MEE
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Interests:
Educator development, science of teaching and learning, program evaluation, curriculum development, social media, and educational scholarship.
Justin Guinney, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Heterogeneity of colorectal cancer, precision oncology, computational methods for cancer biology, open science and DREAM challenges, and 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, and games for health and human factors.
David Heckerman, MD, PhD
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Genomics, vaccine design, computational biology, and machine learning.
Eric Horvitz, MD, PhD
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Computational foundations of intelligent sensing, reasoning, and action.
Shuai Huang, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Disease modeling, monitoring, prognostics, biomarker discovery, and medical decision-making.
Jonathan Ilgen, MD, MCR, FACEP
- Professor
- Adjunct
- MEE
Interests:
Clinical and diagnostic reasoning, and medical education scholarship and assessment.
Misbah Keen, MD, MBI, MPH
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
- MEE
Interests:
Medical education, decentralized clinical education, and clinical informatics education.
Sara Kim, PhD
- Research Professor
- Adjunct
- MEE
Interests:
Educational Continuous Quality Improvement, healthcare communication skills, and 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, and clinical informatics.
Kevin Lybarger, PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Machine learning, natural language processing, and clinical informatics.
Patrick Mathias, MD, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Laboratory medicine and pathology informatics, clinical decision support, laboratory stewardship, quality improvement, and 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.
Mark Phillips, PhD
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Multiobjective optimization, utility measurements, probabilistic modeling of clinical outcomes in radiation oncology, and decision modeling in oncology.
Ari Pollack, MD, MSIM
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Clinical informatics, human-computer interaction, information architecture, information visualization, and 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, and 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, and software safety.
Angad Singh, MD
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Clinical informatics, preventative medicine, and ambulatory care and health equity.
Kari Stephens, PhD
- Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
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.
Paul Sutton, MD, PhD, FAMIA
- Associate Professor
- Adjunct
- BHI
Interests:
Biomedical and health informatics.
Eric Tham, MD, MS
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
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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, and improving technology for bedside clinical use.
Lucy Vanderwende, PhD
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Automated acquisition of semantic knowledge, information extraction from clinical records, and robust, broad-coverage language analysis.
Marjorie Wenrich, PhD, MPH
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate
- MEE
Interests:
Medical education, physician assessment, change management in medical education, and metacognition in teaching and learning.
Thomas Wetter, MSc, PhD
- Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Consumer health informatics, patient-generated health data, and global health.
Wen-wai Yim, PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate
- BHI
Interests:
Natural language processing, information extraction, and language and semantics.
