Michelle R. Hribar, Ph.D., M.S.

  • Assistant Professor of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, School of Medicine

Biography

My research focuses on the secondary use of electronic health record (EHR) data to research in both operational and clinical domains.  Some examples of research projects have included using audit log data for studying and improving clinical workflows, studying EHR documentation, using clinical data for predictive modeling, and studying the quality of EHR data.  This research combines my educational background in mathematics, operations research, and computer science, my IT experience working with clinicians, and my training as a National Library of Medicine (NLM) postdoctoral fellow.  After studying high performance computing and parallel algorithms in graduate school, my professional career started with building parallel software tools for high performance computers at NASA and continued later with developing clinical informatics applications at Oregon Health & Science University. Throughout my professional career I have taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels, focusing on improving students’ problem solving, research, and project management skills.

Education and training

    • M.S., 1994, Northwestern University
    • Ph.D., 1997, Northwestern University
  • Fellowship

    • NLM Clinical Informatics Fellowship, OHSU, 2013 - 2015

Areas of interest

  • Clinic Informatics
  • Data Science
  • Operations Research
  • Discrete Event Simulation
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Visualization
  • Usability

Honors and awards

  • 2014 AMIA Student Design Competition Winner
  • 2015 AMIA Student Design Competition Winner
  • 2015 - 2020 NIH/NLM K99-R00 Pathway to Independence Award

Publications

Selected publications

  • a.    Hribar MR, Read-Brown S, Goldstein IH, Reznick LG, Lombardi L, Parikh M, Chamberlain W, Chiang MF. Secondary use of electronic health record data for clinical workflow analysis. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2018 Jan 1;25(1):40-46. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocx098. PubMed PMID: 29036581
  • a.    Read-Brown S, Hribar MR, Reznick LG, Lombardi LH, Parikh M, Chamberlain WD, Bailey ST, Wallace JB, Yackel TR, Chiang MF. Time Requirements for Electronic Health Record Use in an Academic Ophthalmology Center. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2017 Nov 1;135(11):1250-1257. doi: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2017.4187. PubMed PMID: 29049512; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5710390.
  • a.    Goldstein IH, Hribar MR, Read-Brown S, Chiang MF. Association of the Presence of Trainees With Outpatient Appointment Times in an Ophthalmology Clinic. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2018 Jan 1;136(1):20-26. doi: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2017.4816. PubMed PMID: 29121175; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5766373.

Publications

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