Stanford Biomedical Informatics
Residential Program Alums
PhD and MS
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| Sarah Aerni BS (UC San Diego); PhD (2012) Current: Senior Data Scientist at Greenplum, a Division of EMC |
| Robert Arrigo BS (Illinois State University), MS (2012) Current: Medical student at Stanford University |
| Tiffany Chen BS (Duke University);
MS (Stanford University), PhD (2012) Current: Post Doc at Stanford University, Baxter Laboratory: Nolan Lab |
| Erik Corona BS (UCSD); PhD (2012) Current: Director of Data Science Research, Global Computing Enterprises |
| Peter Kang BMED (Seoul National University); MS (2012) Current: Laboratory Director, Counsyl, Redwood City, CA |
| Wei-Nchih Lee BA, MPH (Columbia University), MD (CUNY Mount Sinai); PhD (2012) Current: Senior Research Scientist, HP Labs |
| Daniel Li
BS (Johns Hopkins); MS (2012)
Current: Software Engineer at WaPo Labs, San Francisco |
| David Maslove MD (University of Toronto) BSC University of Guelph; MS (2012) |
| Linda Liu Miller BS (University of Virginia), PhD (2102) Current: Associate at McKinsey & Company. | Jon Palma MD (University of Florida), BSC (Davidson College); MS (2012) Current: Medical Director of Clinical Informatics (Analytics and Innovation), LPCH; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford |
| Steve Pan MD (University of Pittsburgh),
BS (Columbia University); MS (2012) Current: Fellow, Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford Hospital & Clinics |
| Sam
Pearlman BS (MIT); MS (Stanford), PhD (2012) Current: Post Doctoral Scholar in Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University |
| Nick Tatonetti
BS (Arizona State University); PhD (2012)
Current: Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University |
| David Chen BS (USC), MS (Johns Hopkins); PhD (2011) Current: Senior Research Scientist at Netflix Professional Interests: Interested in novel algorithmic approaches to gene and motif finding; modeling and simulating protein structure and protein interactions in cellular pathways; biomedical data mining; and the development and optimization of biological and medical database systems. |
| Joel Dudley BS (Arizona State University); PhD (2011) Current: Current: Director of Biomedical Informatics & Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences Mount Sinai School of Medicine Professional Interests: large-scale integrative biology and translational bioinformatics for genomic and personalized medicine. Development of novel approaches to application of evolution in medicine. Biotechnology entrepreneurship. |
| Alex Morgan BA (Brandeis); MS (Tufts); MS (Stanford), PhD 2011 Current: Postdoc in Biochemistry with Ron Davis at the Stanford Genome Technology Center Professional Interest: Personalized medicine |
| Chirag Patel BA (UC Berkeley); MS (Stanford), PhD (2011) Current: Post-doctoral fellow at the Stanford Center for Prevention Research (SPRC). Professional Interest: develop translational, computational, and integrative methods to study and model the role of the environment on human health and disease. |
| Brendan Stubbs BSC (Emory ); MS 2011 Current: Software developer, ESPN Professional Interests: Data visualization, human-computer interaction, machine learning, clinical informatics. |
| Rob Tirrell BS (Cornell University); MS 2011 Deceased. |
| Guanglei
Xiong MS (Tsinghua University); Beng (Tsinghua
University); PhD (2011) Current: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ Professional Interest: Image-based modeling of blood flow and vessel wall dynamics in the human arterial system. |
| Noah Zimmerman BS (University of Maryland); PhD (2011) Current: Senior Data Scientist @ EMC/Greenplum Professional Interest: Utilize emerging techniques in knowledge representation and modeling to build more intelligent biomedical research applications. |
| Yael Garten BS (Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel); MS (Weizmann Institute of Science); PhD (2010) Current: Senior Data Scientist at LinkedIn Corporation and Founder, gNetics Systems Inc (Biotech consulting firm) Professional interests: personalized medicine and pharmacogenomics, natural language processing, information extraction, data mining, data visualization. Interested in scalable distributed computing solutions and "Big Data" analytics. |
| Mia Levy BS (Univ Pennsylvania);
MD (Rush University); PhD (2010) Current: Cancer Clinical Informatics Officer for the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine Professional interests: Knowledge representation of the clinical state and its its application to the cancer informatics domain. Research and clinical medicine. |
| Shih-Jui Ray Lin BS/MS Nat’l Taiwan University; PhD (2010) MS (University of Utah) Current: Biostatistician at Genentech Research interests: Data analysis, data mining, and decision support in medicine; Statistical and computer-based models for predicting clinical outcomes. |
| Marina Sirota BS,MS (Stanford), PhD (2010) Current: Senior Scientist at Pfizer Research interests: Developing bioinformatics methods in integrative biology, or reasoning over the many available genome-scale measurements and experimental modalities, and applying these methods to study complex disorders in genomic medicine. |
| Kaustubh Supekar BE (India);
MS (Univ Missouri); PhD (2010) Current: Postdoctoral Research fellow in Psychiatry & Behavioral Science at Stanford Research interests: Knowledge modeling in clinical domain, semantic web based medical applications, knowledge engineering tools and formalisms for non-logicians (e.g. doctors, bioinformaticians) |
| Rong
Xu BS (Beijing University); MSC (Case
Western Reserve Univ); MS (Stanford), PhD (2010) Current:Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve Professional Interest: Natural language processing of clinical trial papers and personalized. |
| Peggy Zhen Yao BS/MS (Nat’l Univ of Singapore); PhD (2010) Current: Software Engineer at Oracle Professional Interest: Use computational approach to study protein structure, function, dynamics and molecular interaction. Hopes to propel the development of structural biology, systems biology and drug design. |
| Sarim Baig BS (Lahore, Pakistan); MS (2009) Current: Bioinformatics and Computer Science instructor in Pakistan. Professional interests: Analysis of biomedical data and knowledge. |
| Nadeem
Riaz BS (Rutgers University); MD (2003); MS (2008) Current: Professional interests: |
| Shirley Wu ScB (Brown University); PhD (2009) Current: Senior Science Content Manager at 23andMe Professional interests: Protein function prediction, machine learning, personalized medicine, open science, and science communication. |
| Genaro Hernandez BS (San Diego State Univ); MS (2008) Current: Staff Scientist, National Library of Medicine, Bethseda, MD Professional interests: Bayesian statistics, machine learning, and graphical models. |
| Maureen Hillenmeyer BS (Notre Dame); PhD (2008) Current: Postdoc in Ron Davis lab at Stanford Professional interests: Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology. |
| Runa Islam BA, MS (Harvard); MS (2008) Current: Senior Analyst, small enterprise software firm in Menlo Park Professional interests: Decision sciences and other analytic methods. |
| Nikesh Kotecha BS (Boston University); PhD (2008) Current: Senior Research Engineer, Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford Professional interests: Applying computational and statistical techniques to address biological problems and providing these in a usable way to biologists; integrating heterogenous data (images, text, etc.) in ways to better understand complex systems. |
| Nadeem Riaz MS/MD, BS (Rutgers University) MS (2008)
Current: Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY, NY Professional interests: Genomics of radiation sensitivity; head and neck cancer; cancer genomics |
| Diane Schroeder BS (Iowa State University); PhD (2008) Current: Postdoc in Janine LaSalle lab, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, UC Davis Professional interests: working with protein structure/function prediction. |
| Lucinda Page Southworth BS (Univ of Pennsylvania); MS (Oxford University); PhD (2008) Current: Visiting Fellow in the Stuart Kim Lab, Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford Professional Interests: Computational biology; computational tools for microarray analysis. |
| Aneel Advani MD, MPH (Johns Hopkins); MS (2007) Current: Associate Director of Technology at the National Center for Public Health Informatics/ CCHIS/CDC; and Instructor in Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School Professional interests: Medical knowledge modeling. public health and preventive medicine; disease and outbreak management; quality of medical care. |
| Michael Cantor BA (Wesleyan Univ); MS (2007), PhD (2009) Current: Computer Scientist, Joint Genome Institute Professional interests: Applications of computer science to biology. |
| Richard Chen BS/MS (Stanford); MS (1998), MD (2007) Current: Chief Scientific Officer @ Personalis Professional interests: Academics/research/translational medicine. |
| Kurt Huang AB (Harvard); MD (2002), MS (2007) Current: CEO and Co-Founder, Peerspin, Inc. Professional interests: AI, statistics, entrepreneurship, innovation, internet, micropayments, social networks. |
| Yang Huang BS (Peking Univ.); MS (Northwestern);
MS (Stanford), PhD (2007) Current: Electronic Medical Informatics Leader, Southern California Permanente Medical group. Professional Interests: Biomedical information retrieval, natural language processing, statistical learning, clinical information systems, electronic health record systems. |
| Kung-Huang (Kevin) Pan, BSEE (Taiwan); MSEE (Stanford), PhD (2007) Current: Post doc at Stanford Professional interests: Create and develop innovative informatics methodologies for solving fundamental biomedical questions. |
| John Park AB (Harvard); MS (2007) Current: Researcher in the Computer Science Dept at the University of Maryland, College Park Professional interests: Researcher, Computer Science department, University of Maryland, College Park Professional interests: Probabilistic reasoning systems. |
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Current: Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, lab of Dr. Frank Slack Professional interests: Image analysis, especially using imaging and other observational tools to measure populations of cells or developing organisms, to understand patterns of variation within those populations. |
| Jing Shi MB (Beijing Medical University); MA (Univ of Maryland); PhD (2007) Current: Senior Research Scientist: Data Analyst, Sirna Therapeutics, San Francisco Professional interests: Statistical analysis, nutritional aspects of aging. |
| Andres Tellez BSC, MS (MIT); PhD (2007) Current: Principal, Business Development Biocodex Professional interests: analytic consulting. |
| Jessica D. Tenenbaum BA (Harvard); PhD (2007) Current:Associate Director for Bioinformatics for DTMI (Duke’s Translational Medicine Institute) Biomedical Informatics Core Professional interests: Knowledge representation and data analysis in the areas of genomics, gene expression, and regulatory pathways. |
| Brian Naughton BS (Trinity College of Dublin);
PhD (2006) Current: Product Manager, 23andMe, Mountain View, CA Professional interests: Bioinformatics, SNP analysis, human genetics, sequence analysis, genomics, machine learning. |
| Serge Saxonov AB (Harvard); PhD (2006) Current: VP Application Development at QuantaLife, Inc. Professional interests: Bioinformatics: analysis of genomics sequences, analysis of protein structures, analysis of expression data. |
| Iwei Yeh BA (Harvard); PhD (2006) Current: Assistant Clinical Professor, Dermatopathology Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco Professional interests: The use of bioinformatics to interpret biological data from a medical standpoint. Basic biological research. |
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Current: Chief Health Strategist at Google, Mountain View Professional interests: Clinical decision support and information retrieval, particularly in the context of electronic health records. |
| Neil
Abernethy BS (NC State University); PhD (2005) Current: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Washington Professional interests: Public health informatics. |
| David
L. Buckeridge MD (Queen's University); MSc (Univ Toronto);
PhD (2005); Completed residency in Community Medicine (Univ Toronto) Current: Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health; McGill University Professional interests: Public health informatics. The development and evaluation of informatics methods for use in public health surveillance systems. |
| Nhan Do BS (Baylor University); MD (George Washington
University); MS (2005) Current: Chief, Clinical Informatics Department at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC Professional interests: Clinical decision support systems, handheld computer applications, effective use of quality indicators, automation tools including the Internet for disease management. |
| Mike Liang BS (UC San Diego); PhD 2005 Current: International Product Manager, Google Professional interests: Expanding Google's worlwide product offerings by identifying new market needs and initiating projects to address them. |
| Zhen Lin MB (Peking Union Medical College,
China), MS (UC San Francisco), PhD 2005, Registered Nurse Current: Assistant Professor of Nursing and Biostatistics, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Profession interests: Application of computational methods to manage and analyze the increasing amount of information in biomedicine, machine learning, genetic/genomic privacy. |
| Irene Liu BS (China); MS (Duke University); PhD (2005) Current: Medical Student, Stanford University School of Medicine Professional interests: Computational biology, sequence analysis, decision-support systems, management of biomedical data. |
| Shuo Liu BS (China); MS (UCLA); PhD (2005) Current: Senior Informatics Scientist, Pharmix Corp Professional interests: Bioinformatics, biological databases and biological data analysis. |
| Dan Zisook BA (UC Berkeley); MD (Loyola University);
MPH (San Diego State Univ); MS (2005) Current: EPIc Implementation Consultant, Medical Informatics, Healthlink, Inc. Professional interests: Clinical informatics including decision support, electronic guideline implementation, outcome analysis, and education. |
| David
Almassian BS
(Stanford University); MS (2004) Current: Senior Software Engineer, Tetracore, Inc., Washington, DC Professional interests: Developing computational and statistical methods for the of data intensivanalysise biomedical problems. |
| Albert
Chan BS (Stanford); MD (UC San Diego), MS (2004) Board
Certified Family Physician; Concurrently completed research
fellowship in Department of Family and Community Medicine,
UCSF (2002-2004) Current: Chief Medical Information Officer at the Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group and Medical Director at David Druker Center for Health Systems Innovation (My Health Online for Sutter Physician Services) Professional Interests: Clinical informatics including clinical information systems, clinical decision support, and patient/physician education. |
| Russ Cucina MD
(UC Davis); BA (UC Berkeley); MS (2004), Board Certified Internist Current: Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, UC San Francisco Professional Interests: Clinical informatics, including computerized provider order entry systems, decision support systems, knowledge modeling, and information storage and retrieval. |
| Rob DeConde BS (Stanford); MS (2004) Current: Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) student (MD,PhD) at UC San Diego Professional interests: Immunology, Oncology, and genetics and the application of math and engineering to these fields. |
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Current: Director, Clinical Integration at the Permanente Federation Professional interests: Accelerating the use of information technology in healthcare and organizations, paying particular attention to how IT fits into communicatioin, coordination, and workflow. |
| Jeffrey Chang BS (Stanford), PhD (2003) Current: Postdoc, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Professional interests: Computational and statistical algorithms for biology, functional genomics, machine Learning, text mining, and software development. |
| Todd Ferris MD (University of Michigan); MS (2003) Current: Director of Privacy and Data Security, IRT, Stanford University School of Medicine Professional interests: Biomedical Informatics |
| Doug Fridsma BS, MD (University of Michigan) PhD (2003) Current: Director, Office of Interoperability and Standards at HHS, Office of the National Coordinator for HIT Professional interests: Development of computational tools based on formal organization theory to study technology introduction, clinical work processes, and collaboration between healthcare providers. |
| Greg Garrison MD (University of Minnesota); MS (2003)
Board Certified, American Board of Family Practice Current:Senior Associate Consultant, Mayo Clinic, Department of Family Medicine and Laboratory of Medical Informatics Professional interests: Focusing on ways to leverage an exisiting electronic medical record system for new initiatives in population based care. Also, providing mentorship for medical students and residents interested in primary care research and informatics. |
| Michelle Green BS (Purdue), PhD (UCSF); MS (2003) Current: Senior Associate, Strategic Consulting Services, Pharsight Corporation Professional interests: Using pharmacodynamic modeling and simulation within a decision analysis framework to optimiza clinical trial designs. Identifying opportunities to bridge the worlds of bioinformatics and clinical drug development. |
| Amit
Singh BS (Univ Texas, Austin); PhD (2003) Current: Entrepreneur and consultant Professional interests: Computational molecular biology and the analysis of protein sequences and their structure and function. |
| Joshua Stuart BA/BS
(University of Colorado), PhD (2003) Current: Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at UC Santa Cruz Professional interests: Computational approaches to biological sequence analysis-protein folding, gene identification, RNA folding. |
| Olga Troyanskaya BS (University of Richmond); PhD (2003) Current:Associate Professor Computer Science at the Lewis-Singer Institute of Integrative Genomics, Princeton University Professional interests: Computational analysis of genomes to interpret genomic sequence and to study relationships among sequence, structure, and function. Automated genome annotation. Use of compuatational and biological lab techniques studying genetic diseases. |
| Phillip Cheng MD (Yale); MS (2002); Completed residency
in Medicine (Hospital of University of Pennsylvania) Current: Fellow in Abdominal Radiology, UCLA Professional interests: Clinical information systems, decision support, knowledge representation. |
| Amar
Das BA (Northwestern), MD (1997); PhD (2002); completed residency
in Psychiatry (Columbia) Current: Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Dartmouth Institute at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Professional interests: Developing temporal database methods and modular decision-support systems, and using informatics in mental health services research. |
| Jonathan Dugan BA (Bowdoin College); MS (University of
Texas); PhD (2002) Current: Director of PLOS Labs, Public Library of Science Professional interests: Communication tools and services for the science community, open access publishing and other research communication. |
| Justin Graham MD (UCSF) MS (2002);
Board Certified Infectious Disease Specialist Current: Chief Medical Information Officer at NorthBay Healthcare Professional interests: Electronic health record implementation in inpatient and outpatient settings; utilization of clinical information systems for quality improvement in healthcare delivery, including decision support and data mining; development of ontologies and vocabulary to support measures of halthcare quality; comparisons of healthcare quality measures between paper-based and electronic health records for pay-for-performance and public reporting; health data exchange and interoperability in regional health information organizations and other entities. |
| Xiaole Shirley Liu BA (Smith College); PhD (2002) Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health Professional Interests: Computational biology, modeling of transcription and post-transcriptional regulation, sequence analysis, ChIP-chip on genome tiling microarrays and ChIP-seq, genome annotation. |
| Joseph Norman AB (Harvard); PhD (2002) Current: Hospitalist Physician, Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor Professional interests: Application of medical informatics to health-care policy. |
| David
Paik BS/MS (Stanford); PhD (2002) Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Stanford University. Professional interests: Medical imaging and image processing with special interest in 3D visualization of MR and CT data. |
| Soumya
Raychaudhuri BA/BS (SUNY Buffalo); PhD (2002) Current: Associate Physician and Instructor at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Divisions of Genetics & Rheumatology, Department of Medicine in Boston, MA and a member of the Partners Center for Personalized Genomics, Affiliate of Broad Institute Professional Interests: Applying computational and mathematical paradigms to problems in biology and medicine. |
| Scott Schmidler BA (UC Berkeley) PhD (2002) Current: Assistant Professor, Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University Professional Interests: Bioinformatics; methodological research in computational molecular biology and statistical genomics. Development of computational and statistical models for protein sequence, structure, and dynamics. |
| George C. Scott BS
(Carnegie Mellon); PhD (2002) Current: Hospitalist and informatics project leader, St. Mary's Hospital, Grand Junction, CO Professional interests: Decision support frameworks: issues involved in design and integration with electronic medical record systems and knowledge bases, impact on quality, cost-effectiveness, and delivery of health care, and acceptance in the practice of medicine. |
| Elmer
Bernstam MD(Univ Michigan); MSE (Univ Michigan;) MS
(2001); Board Certified, American Board of Internal Medicine Current: Associate Professor of Health Informatics and Internal Medicine at the University of Texas (Houston) Professional interests: Clinical information systems, knowledge representation and data visualization. |
| Daniel
Berrios MD(UCSF); MPH (UC Berkeley); PhD
(2001); Completed residency in Clinical pathology (UCSF) Current: Computer Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center (through University of California, Santa Cruz) Professional interests: Development of sophisticated web-based information indexing tools and semantic web technologies. |
| Ramon Felciano BA, BS (Stanford); PhD (2001) Current: Chief Technology Officer & Chief Architect, InGenuity Systems, Inc. Professional interests: Development of systems to integrate information filtering and retrieval tools with conventional visual design and story-telling techniques, in order to build cohesive, interactive narratives that are easy to understand, scan and access. |
| John Michon MD (Univ. Illinois); MS (2001) Diplomate,
American board of Ophthalmology Current: Private practice in Hoffman Estates, IL Professional interests: Medical imaging and image databases, ophthalmic genomics and bioinformatics. |
| Elizabeth
Burnside MD(Tufts) MPH (Tufts) MS
(2000) - Board Certified, Radiology Current: Associate Professor of Radiology, Breast Imaging at the University of Wisconsin Professional interests: Clinical informatics, decision support, and probabilistic reasoning to improve breast cancer screening. |
| Cecil Huang BS
(Carnegie Mellon); PhD (1999), MD (2000) Current: Staff Anesthesiologist and Pain Management Specialist, Loudoun Hospital Center, Leesburg, Virginia Professional interests: Anesthesia; Medical Informatics; Operating Room management. |
| John Nguyen BS (UC Davis);
MS (2000), MD (Stanford) Current: Resident in Anesthesia, Stanford Professional interests: Developing decision support and clinical information systems and studying how these might be integrated into the health care delivery process. |
| Diane Oliver MD (Vanderbilt); PhD (2000) Board Certified,
American Board of Internal Medicine Current: Research Database Strategist at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research Professional Interests: Health care and technology trends and forecasts, consumer informatics, nutrigenomics, text processing of biomedical texts, terminology standards. |
| Daniel Rubin, MD (Stanford); MS (2000) Board Certified
Radiology Current: Assistant Professor of Radiology at Stanford Professional interests: Linking anatomic, physiologic, and molecular data to understand the properties of tissues in space and time using medical imaging, produce integrated computer representations that can be simulated and visualized, and discover image features that predict molecular events in tissues being imaged. Natural language processing in free text radiology reports to discover new image findings predictive of disease. Developing decision support applications to interpret medical images for biologic, physiologic, and pathologic information and clinical diagnosis. |
| John Shon AB (Harvard); MD (Stanford); MS (2000) Board
Certified, American Board of Internal Medicine Current: Senior Director, Roche, Palo Alto, CA Professional interests: Production of applications to support genetics, genomics, and clinical research and practice. Biomedical database integration, pharmacogenetics, tissue repositories, gene expression analysis and clinical decision support. |
| Howard Strasberg MD (University of Western Ontario); MS (2000) Current: Vice-President of Medical Informatics at Wolters Kluwer Health – Clinical Solutions Professional interests: Infobuttons, clinical decision support, order sets, CME, computable guidelines. |
| James
Ze Wang BS (Univ. Minnesota); MS, MSCS (1997), PhD
(2000) Current: Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State, College of Information Sciences and Technology Professional Interests: Multimedia database and medical database management, indexing and retrieval. |
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Current: Associate Professor in Information School and Division of Biomedical & Health Informatics at the University of Washington Professional interests: Understanding and improving the way patients, clinicians, and biomedical researchers search for, manage, and use information. |
| Smadar Shiffman MS (Tel Aviv Univ., Israel); PhD (1999) Current: Senior Applications Engineer and Staff Imaging Specialist, Agility Design Solutions Professional interests: Optimal implementation of image analysis algorithms. |
| Maria Tovar MS in EES (Stanford); MS (1992), PhD (1999) Current: Computer Graphics Technologist and SW Manager at Apple Computer Professional interests: Performance analysis of graphics hardware and algorithms, tuning image-processing algorithms for computer-graphics applications. |
| Liping Wei BS, China
; MS, Brown University; PhD (1999) Current: Professor and Director, Center of Bioinformatics, Peking Univ., Beijing Professional interests: Informatics algorithms, applications, infrastructure, and biological discoveries in sequence analysis, gene expression analysis, and protein structure modeling. |
| Richard Chen BS/MS (Stanford); MS (1998), MD (2007) Current: Resident in Dermatology, Stanford Professional interests: Academics/research/translational medicine. |
| Gillian Sanders AB (Princeton); PhD (1998) Current: Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Duke University Professional interests: Medical decision making and automated development of clinical-practice guidelines from evidence-based decision models. |
| Keith Campbell MD (Univ. Southern California); PhD (1997) Current: Chief Technology Officer, Inoveon Professional interests: Management of controlled terminologies. |
| Chris Flowers BA (Stanford); MD/MS (1997) Current: Assistant Professor, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta Professional interests: Current informatics work centers around developing integrated databases of cancer registry, clinical, and genetic information to facilitate investigation in oncology outcomes research, bioinformatics, and pharmacogenomics. |
| Malcolm Pradhan MB,BS (Australia) PhD (1997) Current: Director of Health Informatics in Faculty of Health Sciences at Adelaide University Professional interests: Exploration of decision theoretic methods to medical decision making and computer-aided instruction. |
| Ida
Sim MD (Stanford); PhD (1997) Current: Associate Professor of Medicine; Associate Director for Medical Informatics, Program in Biological and Medical Informatics, UCSF Professional interests: Knowledge representation of clinical trials; clinical trial registration and reporting, policies and informatics; electronic knowledge-based publication; computing infrastructures for evidence-based decision making; use of electronic medical records in small physician practices. |
| Rhea Tombropolous BA (Harvard); PhD (1997) Current: Software engineer at Stentor, Inc. Professional interests: Computer modelling of biological processes. |
| William
Detmer MD (UCSF); MS (1996) Current: Clinical Assistant Professor in Department of Health Evaluations Sciences, University of Virginia. President, Unbound Medicine, Inc., Charlottesville Professional interests: Medical information retrieval; electronic medical publishing; integration of data and knowledge systems. |
| Tod Klingler BS (Stanford); PhD (1996) Current: Vice President, Information Science, XDx, Inc. Professinal interests: Application of advanced techniques in computer science and information science in biotechnology and drug development, particularly in the uses of protein structure to design novel drugs. |
| Lucila Ohno-Machado MD, MHA (Univ. of Sao Paulo); PhD
(1996) Current: Chief, Division of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Medicine at the UC San Diego School of Medicine Professional interests: Development of neural networks and other classification systems for diagnostic and prognostic purposes. Design and evaluation of decision-support systems. |
| Ramani Pichumani MSEE, EngrD (Stanford); PhD (1996) Current: Senior Member of Consulting Staff, Analog Mixed Signal Solutions R&D, Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Professional interests: Design of algorithms and knowledge-based techniques for visualization of medical data and for modeling and analysis of human anatomy (in particular, the CNS). |
| Alex Poon BA (Stanford); PhD (1996) Current: Co-Founder, Bonfire Media (provides remote information access via mobile phones) Professional interests: Development of patient interviewing systems using medical expert systems and speech recognition. Also interested in human-computer interaction, pen-based computing. |
| Gretchen Purcell BS (Stanford); MD/PhD (1996) Current: Assistant Professor of Surgery and Bioemedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Professional interests: Utility assessment and decision models for pancreatic cancer therapy,information architectures for electronic publishing, evidence-based practice in surgery, nutrition and bariatric surgery. |
| Walter Sujansky AB (Harvard); PhD (1996), MD(Stanford, 1996) Current: President at Sujansky & Associates, LLC, San Carlos, CA Professional interests: Consulting in healthcare informatics and software development. |
| Geoffrey Rutledge MD and CM (McGill); PhD (1995)Board-Certified
in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine Current: Cofounder and Chief Medical Information Officer and Co-founder at HealthTap Professional interests: Computer-assisted medical decision making, especially computer assisted diagnostic evaluation tools for information and reference management. |
| John Egar MD(Case Western) PhD (1994) Current: Physician, Internal Medicine at the Salem Clinic in Salem, Oregon Professional interests: Decision support and system integration for electronic medical records. |
| Adam Galper BA (Yale); MS (1994) Current: CTO and Vice President, Engineering; Xtime, Inc., Burlingame, California Professional interests: Modeling biological processes; intelligent instructional simulations; CAI. |
| Yuval
Shahar MD (Hebrew Univ., Israel), MS (Yale); PhD
(1994) Current: Associate Professor, Head, Medical Informatics Research Center Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Professional interests: Medical computer science research. Emphasis on AI techniques, in particular planning and knowledge acquisition, as well as computer- theoretical considerations. |
| Ingo Beinlich MD (Germany); MS (1993) Current: Partner, CIDAR, San Mateo, CA Professional interests: clinical data standards, clinical data management, document management, information sharing, modelling & simulation, portfolio management, process consulting. |
| H. Christian Davidson MD (University of Utah); MS (1993) Current: Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Utah; Chief of Neuroimaging, VA Salt Lake City Professional interests: Radiological Informatics, digital imaging and PACS, computer-based education, head & neck radiology. |
| David Gilbertson BBA (University of Georgia); MS (1993) Current: Associate Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the University of Connecticut Professional interests: Tele-health, large-scale systems implementation. |
| Eric Horvitz BA (Binghamton University); PhD (1990),
MD (1993) Current: Senior Researcher, Decision Theory Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA. Professional interests: Interested in endowing systems with the ability to reason about problem-solving tradeoffs; decision making under bounded resources, exploring techniques for optimizing performance through analysis of available computational resources and decision-support needs. |
| Manon Kuilboer MD (Univ. of Utrecht), PhD (Erasmus University),
MS (1993) Current: Product Manager Medical Systems at Microbais Automatisering, BV, Amsterdam Professional interests: Decision support systems and their integration into users' daily workflow. Human-computer interface issues. Critiquing systems. Family practice, nursing home care, and pediatrics. |
| David
Heckerman BS and MS (UCLA); PhD (1990); MD (1992) Current: Manager, Machine Learning and Applied Statistics Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA Professional interests: Bayesian statistics, machine learning, and graphical models. |
| Kevin Johnson MD (Johns Hopkins); MS (1992) Current: Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Professional interests: Continuation of work evaluating advanced technologies and the ramifications of their use at the point of care. Also working on development of novel interfaces to improve the adoption of structured reporting tools, and an evaluation of handheld electronic prescribing in ambulatory pediatrics. |
| David Millis MD (Howard); MS (1992) Current: Psychiatrist at the Center for Psychiatric & Addiction Treatment in Manassas, Virginia Professional interests: Case-based reasoning, hypertext, computer applications in medical education. |
| Ricardo Peverini MD (Loma Linda); MS (1992) Current: Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Chief, Division of Neonatology, Loma Linda University Professional interests: Decision support in neonatal intensive care unit, alert and alarm methodologies, documentation tools. |
| Jaap Suermondt BS and MS (Stanford); PhD (1992) Current: Vice President and Director of the Analytics Lab at Hewlett Packard Professional interests: data mining, decision support systems, data de-duplication, electronic health records and patient safety, personalization, and operational efficiency. |
| Michael Walker BS (Queen's Univ); PhD (1992) Current: Consulting biostatistician, Sunnyvale, California Professional interests: Statistical applications in MIS, molecular biology, and clinical trials. |
| Suzanne
Bakken RN, DNSc (UCSF); Postdoctoral fellow (1991-92) Current: Professor of Nursing and of Medical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY Professional interests: Concept representation, decision support, evidence-based practice, web-based educational and behavioral interventions. |
| Brad Farr MD (University of Utah) PhD (1991) Current: Physician Information Systems Director at Intermountain Health Care Inc. in Salt Lake City, UT Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Informatics, University of Utah Professional interests: Development of medical expert systems and psychology of decision making. |
| Eddie Herkovits MD (UCLA); PhD (1991) Current: Associate Professor of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania Professional interests: The application of artificial intelligence techniques to problems in patient management, speech comprehension, visual perception. |
| Harold Lehmann MD (Columbia); PhD (1991) Board Certified
Pediatrician Current: Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Joint with Biomedical Information Sciences and Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University. Professional interests: Intelligent processing of medical literature; Bayesian belief networks. |
| Russ
Altman AB (Harvard); PhD (1989), MD (1990) Current: Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics and Medicine (and Computer Science, by courtesy), Stanford University. Professional interests: Application of computer technology to problems in macromolecular structure prediction and sequence analysis. The uses of probabilistic constraint satisfaction paradigms in biology. |
| Theirry
Barsalou MD (Paris); PhD (1990) Current: Vice President, R&D Informatics, Ipsen (French pharmaceutical company) Professional interests: To exploit database and knowledge-based techniques for developing biomedical information systems. Basic research in database systems. |
| Martin Chavez BS and SM (Harvard); PhD (1990) Current: Managing Director, Goldman Sachs, New York Professional interests: Basic research in knowledge representation, acquisition, and fusion. |
| Eric Horvitz BA (Binghamton University); PhD (1990),
MD (1993) Current: Senior Researcher, Decision Theory Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA. Professional interests: Interested in endowing systems with the ability to reason about problem-solving tradeoffs; decision making under bounded resources, exploring techniques for optimizing performance through analysis of available computational resources and decision-support needs. |
| Holly Jimison BS (Illinois); PhD (1990) Current: Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Informatics at Oregon Health & Science University Research interests: Consumer Health Informatics, with an emphasis on in-home monitoring and technology for successful aging. Professional interests: patient utility assessment, risk communication, medical ethics, computer generated explanation of decision models, cognitive monitoring through computer interactions. |
| Leslie Lenert MD (UCLA); MS (1990) Current: Associate Chair for Ambulatory Care, Dept. of Medicine and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at University of Utah School of Medicine and Principal at Informatics Experts Professional interests: Preference assessment and its applications in decision analysis and assessment of the effectiveness of pharmaceuticals. Applications of medical informatics in quality assessment and improvement. |
| Richard Lin MD and MPH (UCSF); MS (1990) Current: Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology, SUNY Stony Brook Professional interests: Molecular mechanisms that regulate cell growth. |
| Jeanette Polaschek BSN and MS (Boston University); MS
(1990) Current: Hospital Management Consultant Professional interests: Design and development of applications that assist clinicians with direct patient care activities. |
| Eric Sherman MD (NYU); MS (1990) Current: Private practice, New York City Professional interests: Developing and applying decision support tools in the Arden Syntax, vocabulary design and development, and using the medical dictionary to advance decision support. |
| Michael Shwe BS (Stanford); MS (1990) Current: Development Manager, Automation Strategies at Kana Communications Professional interests: Development of decision-theoretic decision-support tools. |
| Russ
Altman AB (Harvard); PhD (1989), MD (1990) Current: Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics and Medicine (and Computer Science, by courtesy), Stanford University. Professional interests: Application of computer technology to problems in macromolecular structure prediction and sequence analysis. The uses of probabilistic constraint satisfaction paradigms in biology. |
| Curt Langlotz AB, MS (Stanford); MD/PhD (1989) Current: Active board-certified radiologist, Vice Chair for Informatics, Dept of Radiology, and Medical Director for Information Services, Univ of Penn Health System Professional interests: Development and evaluation of standard medical vocabularies, image reporting systems, decision support tools to enhance the quality of radiology practice. |
| John Reed BS, MBA (University of Michigan); MS (1989) Current: Managing Director, Risk Management Solutions, Inc, Newark CA. Professional interests: Use modelling techniques to identify and predict trends of disease; design of decision-making tools for critical settings (such as the ICU). |
| George Thomsen MD (Loma Linda); MS (1989) Current: Private practice Pulmonary Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah Professional interests: Studies in pulmonary and critical care medicine. Clinical outcomes and protocol-based control of clinical care. |
| Homer Chin MD (Dartmouth); MS (1988) Current: Medical Director for Clinical Information Systems (Kaiser Permanente Northwest Division) Professional interests: Development and implementation of clinical information systems. |
| Joan Differding BA (Swarthmore); MS (1988) Current: Computer Scientist at NASA/Recom Technologies Professional interests: Technologies for the distribution, integration and coordination of science and engineering data and information. |
| Michael Goldbaum MD (Tulane); MS (1988) Current: Professor of Ophthalmology, Co-director Retina and Vitreous Service, University of California at San Diego. Professional interests: Relate MIS to eye research and surgery, use machine learning to improve diagnosis, management, and knowledge of ophthalmic diseases, and apply image analysis and image understanding to medical images. |
| Michael Kahn MD (UC San Diego); PhD UCSF (1988) Current: Director of Research, Rodeer Systems, Boulder, CO Professional interests: Intelligent interfaces between medical databases and medical decision support systems with special interest in improving temporal reasoning and temporal representation capabilities of medical decision support. |
| Mark
Musen MD (Brown); PhD (1988) Board-Certified Internist Current: Professor of Medicine, Stanford University Professional interests: Medical data base and knowledge base applications, emphasizing intractive environments for knowledge base entry and maintenance. |
| Don Rucker MD (Univ.of Pennsylvania); MBA(1987), MS(1988) Current: Vice President/Chief Medical Officer, Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Corp. Professional interests: Using Medical Informatics and AI program design skills to develop clinical software with a focus on managing volumes of clinical data rather than diagnosis. Speech recognition and graphical user interfaces. |
| Mark
Frisse MD, MBA (Washington Univ.); MS (1987) Current: Director, Regional Informatics Programs and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Professional interests: Clinical information services for managed care clients. |
| Janet McLaughlin MS (UC Davis); MS (1987) Current: Principal, Videre Design Professional interests: Clinical data collection and decision tools on protable devices for specialized medical applications. |
| Leslie Perreault BA (Stanford); MS (1987) Current: Writer and independant consultant, California. Professional interests: Information technology strategic planning for integrated health care delivery systems; computer-based patient records; integrated information systems for clinical, managed care, and strategic decision making. |
| Isabelle de Zegher-Geets MD, MS (Belgium); MS (1987) Current: Chief Data Officer, Development, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland Professional interests: Integration of KBS, hypertext and graphic techniques on top of medical databases. Distributed databases: integration of syntactically and semantically different databases. |
| Stephen Downs BA (Colorado); MD (1985), MS (1986) Current: Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Director, General and Community Pediatrics, Indiana University; Director, Children's Health Services Research, Indiana University; Associate Director for Decision Sciences, Regenstrief Institute Professional interests: Decision analytic clinical guideline and decision support systems. Cost-effectiveness and decision making in pediatrics. Expected utility theory. |
| Glenn Rennels MD (Dartmouth); PhD (1986) Current: Chief Technology Officer and senior physician (Anesthesiology), Permanente Medical Group Professional interests: Computational models of the clinical literature; controlled medical terminology development; clinical databases. |
| Greg
Cooper BS (MIT); PhD (1985), MD (1986) Current: Associate, University of Pittsburgh: Vice Chair of Department of Biomedical Informatics, Co-Director of the Biomedical Informatics Training Program Professional interests: Rsearch involves the application of decision theory, probability theory, machine learning, Bayesian statistics, and artificial intelligence to biomedical informatics research problems. |
| Edward H. Shortliffe AB (Harvard, 1970); PhD (1975),
MD (1976) Current: Clinical Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Senior Advisor, Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; Adjunct Professor Of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY; Scholar in Residence, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Professional interests: informatics education, clinical decision support, health information technology policy, the academic evolution of BMI |
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