Faculty and Trainees
Joan Ash, Ph.D., M.L.S., M.S., M.B.A.
Professor and Vice Chair
Eilis Boudreau, M.D.
Associate Professor
Matthew H. Brush, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Amy Cantor, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor
Investigator, Pacific Northwest Evidence Based Practice Center
Nancy Carney, Ph.D.
Professor
Michael F. Chiang, M.D.
Professor
Roger Chou, M.D.
Professor
Director, Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center
Aaron M. Cohen, M.D., M.S.
Professor
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David Dorr, M.D., M.S.
Professor and Vice Chair, Clinical Informatics
Karen Eden, Ph.D.
Professor
Director of Clinical Track in Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program
Shahim Essaid
Research Assistant Professor
Cort Garrison, M.D., M.B.A.
Assistant Professor
Chief Health Information Officer
Paul Gorman, M.D.
Professor
Melissa Haendel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
William Hersh, M.D., FACMI, FAMIA, FACP
Professor and Chair
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Michelle Hribar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
James Jacobs, M.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Lisa Karstens, Ph.D., M.B.I.
Assistant Professor
Steven Z. Kassakian, M.D., M.S., FACP
Assistant Professor
Ted Laderas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Michael I. Lieberman, M.D.
Associate Professor
Judith Logan, M.D.
Professor Emerita
Robert Lowe, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor Emeritus
Marian McDonagh, Pharm.D.
Professor
Shannon McWeeney, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chair
Head of Division of Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Vishnu Mohan, M.D., M.B.I.
Associate Professor
Michael Mooney, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Cynthia Morris, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor and Vice Chair
Heidi Nelson, M.D., M.P.H.
Research Professor and Vice Chair
Ben Orwoll, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Kathryn I. Pyle, A.M.L.S., M.A.
Assistant Professor
Rob Schuff, M.S.
Instructor
Robert P. Searles, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Shelley Selph, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
Xubo Song, Ph.D.
Professor
Annette Totten, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Joanne Valerius, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Nicole Vasilevsky, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Nicole G. Weiskopf, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Beth Wilmot, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Dana Womack, Ph.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor
Guanming Wu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Christina Zheng, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Stephen Bedrick, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
bedricks@ohsu.edu
David Buckley, M.D.
Associate Professor
buckleyd@ohsu.edu
Lucia Carbone, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
carbone@ohsu.edu
Debbie Cohen, Ph.D., M.A.
Associate Professor
cohendj@ohsu.edu
Erika Cotrell, Ph.D., M.P.P.
Assistant Professor
cottrele@ohsu.edu
Jennifer DeVoe, M.D., D.Phil.
Chief Research Officer
devoej@ohsu.edu
Bud Garrison, M.B.A.
Instructor
garrisob@ohsu.edu
Jeff Gold, M.D.
Professor
goldje@ohsu.edu
Jeanne-Marie Guise, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor
guisej@ohsu.edu
Elizabeth Haney, M.D.
Assistant Professor
haneye@ohsu.edu
Devan Kansagara, M.D.
Assistant Professor
kansagar@ohsu.edu
Blake Lesselroth, M.D., M.B.I.
Assistant Professor
blakelesselroth@va.gov
Motomi Mori, Ph.D.
Professor
morim@ohsu.edu
Somnath Saha, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor
sahas@ohsu.edu
Marian Beth Smith, D.O.
Assistant Professor
smithbet@ohsu.edu
Amanda Vinson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
vinsona@ohsu.edu
Bonita Altus, M.S.
Adjunct Professor
altus@ohsu.edu
Dian Chase, Ph.D., M.S.N., M.B.A.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
chased@ohsu.edu
Homer Chin, M.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
homer.l.chin@kp.org
Bikram Day, M.S.
Adjunct Instructor
bikramday@capsuletech.com
Tracy Edinger, N.D., M.S.
Affiliate Assistant Professor
tracyedinger@yahoo.com
Jay Eisenberg, M.D.
Adjunct Professor
jeisenbe@swmedicalcenter.org
Justin Fletcher, Ph.D., M.S.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
fletchju@ohsu.edu
Richard Gibson, M.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Ph.D.
Affiliate Assistant Professor
kalpathy@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Brian Hazlehurst, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
brian.hazlehurst@kpchr.org
Richard Lowensohn, M.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor
lowensoh@ohsu.edu
J.A. Magnuson, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
magnusoj@ohsu.edu
David Maier, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
maier@cs.pdx.edu
Fred "Chip" E. Masarie, M.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
cmasarie@comcast.net
James McCormack, Ph.D.
Adjunct Instructor
jmccormack@coipa.org
Carmit K. McMullen, Ph.D.
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Carmit.McMullen@kpchr.org
Ilya Shmulevich, Ph.D.
Affiliate Professor
Deborah Woodcock, M.S., M.B.A.
Adjunct Instructor
woodcocd@ohsu.edu
Jianji Yang. Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Andrew D. Zechnich, Ph.D.
Affiliate Associate Professor
Trainees are PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and clinical informatics fellows enrolled in the biomedical informatics graduate program. Trainees come from a variety of backgrounds including librarianship, medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, computer science, and other disciplines. In the admissions process, demonstration of self-motivation and ability to complete projects is of paramount importance. The program also values intellectual diversity, aiming to achieve a complementary mix of students with varied backgrounds. Here are our 2019-2020 Fellows: