Faculty and Trainees

Joan Ash, Ph.D., M.L.S., M.S., M.B.A.
Professor
Health and Clinical Informatics

Steven Bedrick, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Health and Clinical Informatics

Eilis Boudreau, M.D.
Associate Professor
Bioinformatics and Computational Biomedicine

Amy Cantor, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor
Investigator, Pacific Northwest Evidence Based Practice Center
Clinical Epidemiology

Nancy Carney, Ph.D.
Professor
Clinical Epidemiology

Roger Chou, M.D.
Professor
Director, Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center
Clinical Epidemiology

Khaya Clark, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Health and Clinical Informatics

Aaron M. Cohen, M.D., M.S.
Professor
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Health and Clinical Informatics/Bioinformatics and Computational Biomedicine

David Dorr, M.D., M.S.
Professor and Vice Chair
Health and Clinical Informatics

Karen Eden, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chair
Director of Clinical Track in Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program
Health and Clinical Informatics

Cort Garrison, M.D., M.B.A.
Assistant Professor
Chief Health Information Officer
Health and Clinical Informatics

Paul Gorman, M.D.
Professor
Health and Clinical Informatics

William Hersh, M.D., FACMI, FAMIA, FACP
Professor and Chair
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Health and Clinical Informatics

Chris Hoekstra, D.P.T., M.B.I.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Health and Clinical Informatics

Michelle Hribar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Health and Clinical Informatics

James Jacobs, M.D., M.P.H.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Bioinformatics and Computational Biomedicine

Lisa Karstens, Ph.D., M.B.I.
Assistant Professor
Bioinformatics and Computational Biomedicine

Michael I. Lieberman, M.D.
Associate Professor
Health and Clinical Informatics

Judith Logan, M.D.
Professor Emerita
Health and Clinical Informatics

Robert Lowe, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor Emeritus
Clinical Epidemiology

Marian McDonagh, Pharm.D.
Professor
Clinical Epidemiology

Shannon McWeeney, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chair
Head of Division of Bioinformatics and Computational Biomedicine

Vishnu Mohan, M.D., M.B.I.
Associate Professor
Health and Clinical Informatics

Michael Mooney, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Bioinformatics and Computational Biomedicine

Cynthia Morris, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor and Vice Chair
Clinical Epidemiology

Heidi Nelson, M.D., M.P.H. M.A.C.P., F.R.C.P.
Professor Emerita
Clinical Epidemiology

Ben Orwoll, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Health and Clinical Informatics

Kathryn I. Pyle, A.M.L.S., M.A.
Assistant Professor
Health and Clinical Informatics

Robert P. Searles, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Bioinformatics and Computational Biomedicine

Shelley Selph, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor
Clinical Epidemiology

Xubo Song, Ph.D.
Professor
Bioinformatics and Computational Biomedicine

Annette Totten, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Clinical Epidemiology

Joanne Valerius, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Health and Clinical Informatics

Nicole G. Weiskopf, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Health and Clinical Informatics

Beth Wilmot, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Bioinformatics and Computational Biomedicine

Dana Womack, Ph.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor
Health and Clinical Informatics

Guanming Wu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Bioinformatics and Computational Biomedicine

Christina Zheng, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Bioinformatics and Computational Biomedicine
Kristine Alpi, M.L.S., M.P.H., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Library
alpi@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
Rongwei 'Rochelle' Fu, Ph.D.
Professor
fur@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.
Associate Professor
haneye@ohsu.edu
Mark Helfand, M.D.
Professor
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Linda L. Humphrey, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor
Richard I. Lowensohn, M.D.
Affiliate Associate Professor
Motomi Mori, Ph.D., M.B.I.
Professor
Maya E. O'Neil, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
oneilm@ohsu.edu
Somnath Saha, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor
Reid Thompson, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
thompsre@ohsu.edu
Amanda Vinson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
vinsona@ohsu.edu
Bonita Altus, M.S.
Adjunct Professor
altus@ohsu.edu
Anisha Abdul-Ali, D.N.P., M.P.H., R.N.
Clinical Assistant Professor
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
bikram.day@medicalinformaticscorp.com
Tracy Edinger, N.D., M.S.
Affiliate Assistant Professor
edingert@ohsu.edu
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
Brian Hazlehurst, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
brian.hazlehurst@kpchr.org
Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Ph.D.
Affiliate Assistant Professor
kalpathy@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Blake J. Lesselroth, M.D.
Affiliate Associate Professor
blake.lesselroth@va.gov
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
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, P.M.P
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 2020-2021 Fellows: