Faculty Research Areas

Faculty Member Title Research Areas
Noriaki Aoki, MD, PhD Assistant Professor decision science/clinical decision support, data mining/modeling in healthcare, clinical informatics in extreme environments
Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSE Professor clinical practice guideline classification, information retrieval, CTSA Director
Trevor Cohen, PhD Assistant Professor distributional semantics, knowledge discovery, mechanisms of error recovery
Kim Dunn, MD, PhD Assistant Professor use of hand held computer devices in knowledge capture and data verification, telemedicine/consultation
Amy Franklin, PhD Assistant Professor psycholinguistics, conversational negotiation/deception, reduction of medical errors
Lex Frieden, MA, LLD (hon) Professor disability informatics, rehabilitation technology and robotics, healthcare access, effectiveness and costs
Yang Gong, MD, PhD Associate Professor

clinical informatics, human factors, patient safety, human-centered design in healthcare
Chiehwen Ed Hsu, PhD Associate Professor emergency preparedness for bioterrorism situations, delivery to emergency responders and health professionals
M. Sriram Iyengar, PhD Assistant Professor develop software for Palm and web technologies, biomedical/statistical modeling, using algorithms in diverse areas
Craig Johnson, PhD Associate Professor conducting design, analysis, interpretation and publication of health oriented studies, human learning
Allison McCoy, PhD Assistant Professor clinical decision support, computerized provider order entry, health information technology, electronic health records, evaluation methods, patient safety
Dean Sittig, PhD Professor design of new features and functions within CISs, implementation methods and strategies for CISs, evaluation/monitoring of existing CISs implementations
Jack W. Smith, MD, PhD Professor  artificial intelligence, modeling complex human problem-solving, application of cognitive science to understanding
James P. Turley, PhD, RN Associate Professor visual display of complex clinical data, impact of data display on decision making by clinicians and lay persons
Robert Vogler, DSN Associate Professor quality of care for terminally ill hospitalized patients, blood pressure reactivity, un-witnessed patient falls
Hongbin Wang, PhD Professor computational modeling of human attention, cognitive-affective interactions in human decision making, modeling human spatial cognition
Jiajie Zhang, PhD Professor & Interim Dean  human-centered computing, medical errors, information display and visualization