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 of Informatics
Juliana Brixey, RN, PhD Assistant Professor patient safety, interruptions in workflow, social media in distance education
Trevor Cohen, PhD Assistant Professor distributional semantics, knowledge discovery, mechanisms of error recovery
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; health care access, effectiveness and costs
Yang Gong, MD, PhD Associate Professor

clinical informatics, human factors, patient safety, human-centered design in healthcare
Jonathan Ishee, JD, MPH, MS, LLM Assistant Professor legal and ethical issues in biomedical informatics, health information exchange
M. Sriram Iyengar, PhD Associate 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 developing, evaluating and improving clinical decision support; identifying and reducing medication errors, adverse drug events and other patient safety hazards
Dean Sittig, PhD Professor design of new features and functions within Clinical Information Systems, implementation methods and strategies for CISs, evaluation/monitoring of existing CISs implementations
Robert Vogler, DSN Associate Professor quality of care for terminally-ill hospitalized patients, blood pressure reactivity, un-witnessed patient falls
Hongbin Wang, PhD Professor cognitive science, artificial intelligence, machine learning; computational cognitive neuroscience; theoretical informatics
Hua Xu, PhD Associate
Professor 		 named entity recognition, syntactic/semantic parsing, active learning, medication information extraction, informatics approaches to Pharmacogenomics, Drug-ADE detection from EHR
Jiajie Zhang, PhD Professor & Dean  human-centered computing, medical errors, information display and visualization
W. Jim Zheng, PhD Associate Professor bioinformatics, biological data mining and networks, genomics, systems biology, biomedical ontology and knowledge representation