Core Faculty
Joan Ash, Ph.D., M.L.S., M.S., M.B.A.
Professor and Vice Chair
Research Areas: Implementation of Clinical Information Systems, Computerized Physician Order Entry.
ash@ohsu.edu I 503-494-4540 |
Nancy Carney, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor
Research Interests:
carneyn@ohsu.edu I 503-494-4502 |
Michael F. Chiang, M.D.
Professor
Research Areas: Telemedicine. Computer-based image analysis for clinical diagnosis. Implemntation and evaluation of EHR systems.
chiangm@ohsu.edu I 503-418-3087 |
Roger Chou, M.D.
Associate Professor
Director, Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center
Research Interests: Development of evidence-based guidelines for both health screening and the management of pain conditions.
chour@ohsu.edu I 503-494-5367 |
Aaron M. Cohen, M.D., M.S.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Biomedical text-mining, development and application for biomedical researchers.
cohenaa@ohsu.edu I 503-494-4502 |
David Dorr, M.D., M.S.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Care Management Plus project: coordination of care, collaborative care, chronic disease management, and clinical information system requirements to support the above areas.
dorrd@ohsu.edu I 503-418-2387 |
Karen Eden, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Patient and clinician decision-making. Design and evaluation of computerized decision aids for obstetrics, mammograms, smoking-cessation, safety planning for abused women, and fertility preservation for young women.
edenk@ohsu.edu I 503-494-2456 |
Mark Engelstad, D.D.S., M.D., M.H.I.
Associate Professor, School of Dentistry
Research Interests: Oral, dental, and cranio-facial related informatics research.
engelsta@ohsu.edu I 503-494-3259 |
Justin Fletcher, Ph.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Policy definition and security implementation related to EHR implementation from the executive perspective.
fletchju@ohsu.edu I 503-494-4494 |
Paul Gorman, M.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Use of information by clinicians and experts in real-world problem-solving focused on patient care. Naturalistic decision-making, information needs, distributed cooperative problem-solving, distributed cognition, and social informatics.
gormanp@ohsu.edu I 503-494-4502 |
Jeanne-Marie Guise, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor
Research Interests:
guisej@ohsu.edu I 503-494-7351 |
Melissa Haendel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Development of anatomical and phenotype ontologies for relating genotypes to phenotypes, Semantic Web technologies, researcher networking, scientific reproducibility, data curation, and user interface design and testing.
haendel@ohsu.edu I 503-494-4502 |
Mark Helfand, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor
Interests: Use of systematic reviews to inform clinical and public policy.
helfand@ohsu.edu I 503-494-4502 |
William Hersh, M.D.
Professor and Chair
Research Interests: Use of knowledge-based information by healthcare practitioners and researchers. Design of information retrieval systems and educational technologies.
hersh@ohsu.edu I 503-494-4502 |
Michelle Hribar, Ph.D.
Instructor
Research Interests: Usability for medical informatics and high performance computing applications.
hribarm@ohsu.edu I 503-418-0180 |
Holly Jimison, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Technology for successful aging. User models for adaptive interfaces for consumer health information, and cognitive monitoring through computer interactions.
jimisonh@ohsu.edu I 503-418-2227 |
Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Ph.D., M.S.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Use of image processing and machine learning techniques for medical image analysis and retrieval, imaging for radiation therapy and survival analysis for cancer.
kalpathy@ohsu.edu I 503-494-3731 |
Michael Lieberman, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Clinical quality measurement.
liebermm@ohsu.edu I 503-494-2670 |
Judith Logan, M.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Dr. Logan's research interests center around the secondary use of clinical data for research, with attention on user interfaces, underlying controlled vocabularies, and data structures.
loganju@ohsu.edu I 503-494-5902 |
Robert Lowe, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor
Research Interests: Relationship between emergency department use and access to primary care, especially among vulnerable populations.
lowero@ohsu.edu I 503-494-7134 |
Marian McDonagh, Pharm.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Comparative systematic reviews methodology and evidence-based medicine as applied to competing interventions.
mcdonagh@ohsu.edu I 503-494-4502 |
Shannon McWeeney, Ph.D.
Professor and Head of Division of Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Research Interests: Development and application of statistical and computational methodologies for functional genomics data such as gene expression (microarray and RNA-seq), chIP-Seq and proteomics.
mcweeney@ohsu.edu I 503-494-8347 |
Vishnu Mohan, M.B.B.S., M.B.I.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Dr. Mohan is interested in how clinicians make decisions, how they interact with technology, and how technology influences their decision-making.
mohanv@ohsu.edu I 503-494-4469 |
Michael Mooney, Ph.D.
Instructor
Research Interests: Development of statistical and computational for understanding how DNA variation influences human disease.
mooneymi@ohsu.edu I 503-494-2248 |
Cynthia Morris, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor and Vice Chair
Research Interests: Etiology and epidemiology of congenital heart disease and epidemiology of cardiovascular disease.
morrisc@ohsu.edu I 503-494-4502 |
Heidi Nelson, M.D., M.P.H.
Research Professor
Research Interests: Treatment of menopausal symptoms, osteoporosis screening, diagnosis, and treatment, BRCA genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility, and screening for speech and language delay in children, among others.
nelsonh@ohsu.edu I 503-494-4502 |
Susan Norris, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: The use of nonrandomized studies for questions of intervention benefit; the effect of financial and intellectual conflict of interest on selective outcome reporting and clinical practice guideline recommendations.
norriss@ohsu.edu I 503-418-1432 |
Kathryn I. Pyle, A.M.L.S., M.A.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Scientific writing and communication.
pylek@ohsu.edu I 503-494-4502 |
Robert Schuff, M.S.
Instructor
Research Interests: Clinical research informatics. Design and implementation of tools and methods for clinical and translational research. Secondary use of clinical data for research.
schuffr@ohsu.edu I 503-494-5654 |
Kemal Sonmez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Computational biology and automatic speech recognition, areas which are at the forefront of CSLU and CSEE. Primary areas of expertise include systems theory, information theory, machine learning, pattern recognition, neural computation, and statistical signal processing.
sonmezk@ohsu.edu I 503-494-4502 |
Carlo Torniai, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Semantic Web, Ontology Engineering, Biomedical Ontologies, Knowledge management
torniai@ohsu.edu I 503-418.2499 |
Annette Totten, Ph.D.
Adjunct Research Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
totten@ohsu.edu I 503-494-4502 |
Joanne Valerius, M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Human resource development in health care settings. Her focus is on a holistic approach to the workplace and how diversity impacts the workplace.
valerius@ohsu.edu I 503-494-6019 |
Beth Wilmot, Ph.D.
Instructor
Research Interests: Development and application of statistical and computational methodologies for analysis of genomic data (gene expression, SNP variation and copy number variation).
wilmotb@ohsu.edu I 503-494-7510 |
Thomas Yackel, M.D., M.S.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Applied medical informatics, specifically, the use of clinical information systems to improve patient care.
yackelt@ohsu.edu I 503-494-8562 |
Christina Zheng, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Understanding gene regulatory models in relation to disease progression through the development and application of computational/statistical methods for functional genomics (large scale sequencing, DNA, RNA).
zheng@ohsu.edu I 503-494-8462 |
