Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology

Fellows: Michael Mooney

Biography & Education

Michael is a pre-doctoral NLM Fellow in the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology. His main interests revolve around making the vast amount of data produced by molecular biology researchers, particularly genetic and genomic data, more accessible and useful to clinicians. Specifically he is interested in the areas of pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics. Before joining the department, Michael worked as a staff research associate at UCLA studying the genetics of polycystic kidney disease, and later as an assistant editor at MAMM, a health magazine for breast cancer survivors.

Oregon Health & Science University
Doctoral student in Biomedical Informatics
National Library of Medicine Training Fellowship: July 2007 – Present

New York University
M.A. in Journalism, January 2005
Certificate in Science and Environmental Reporting, January 2005

University of California, Los Angeles
B.S. in Cybernetics, June 2001 

Publications & Presentations

Cross-Platform Comparisons of Microarray Data: Implications for the Role of Annotation. Illumina, Inc. Customer Seminar. November 2007, Vancouver, BC and Seattle, WA.