Institute for Informatics (I2)
Mentors and Labs for BIDS Summer Internships
BIDS Program Directors
Po-Yin Yen, PhD, RN, FAMIA
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medical Sciences, School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Goldfarb School of Nursing, Barnes Jewish College
Faculty
Chih-Hung Chang, PhD
Professor of Occupational Therapy, Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine
Randi Foraker, PhD, MA, FAHA
Director, Center for Population Health Informatics (CPHI)
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medical Sciences, School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Public Health, Brown School
Thomas Kannampallil, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine
Associate Chief Research Information Officer, School of Medicine
Albert M. Lai, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA
Deputy Director, Institute for Informatics (I2)
Chief Research Information Officer, School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medical Sciences, School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Patrick G. Lyons, MD, MSc
Instructor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine
Healthcare Innovation Fellow, BJC Healthcare Innovation Lab
Andrew P. Michelson, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine
Philip R.O. Payne, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA
Janet and Bernard Becker Professor and Director, Institute for Informatics (I2)
Associate Dean for Health information and Data Science
Chief Data Scientist
Beth Prusaczyk, PhD, MSW
Instructor of Medicine, Division of General Medical Sciences, School of Medicine
Po-Yin Yen, PhD, RN, FAMIA
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medical Sciences, School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Goldfarb School of Nursing, Barnes Jewish College
Faculty Labs
Joanna Abraham, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine
Joanna Abraham, PhD, is focused on improving collaborative practices in healthcare using principles and techniques from informatics to promote patient safety, quality and care continuity.
Research Interests
- Handoffs
- Care Transitions
- Care Coordination
- Decision Making
- Health IT
- Medical Errors
- Mixed Methods
- Systematic Reviews
- Evidence Synthesis
Chih-Hung Chang, PhD
Professor of Occupational Therapy, Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine
Chih-Hung Chang, PhD, is focused on the integration of methodology and technology to advance clinical care, research and education.
Research Interests
- Item response theory
- Rasch measurement
- Computerized adaptive testing
- Psychometrics
- Informatics
- Smart testing smart learning
- Health-related quality of life
- Patient-reported outcomes
- Clinical outcomes
- Shared decision making
- Quality improvement
Randi Foraker, PhD, MA, FAHA
Director, Center for Population Health Informatics (CPHI)
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medical Sciences, School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Public Health, Brown School
Randi Foraker, PhD, MA, FAHA, is focused on applying epidemiology and informatics techniques to solve problems in the population health domain.
Research Interests
- Approaches for the integration of socioeconomic and patient-reported outcome data with electronic health record data
- Interventional approaches to the use of electronic health records in order to address modifiable risk factors for disease and enable patient-centered decision making
- Study design methodology and data analysis
Dennis Goldfarb, PhD
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, School of Medicine
Dennis Goldfarb, PhD, is focused on computational mass spectrometry and proteomics with the goal of achieving comprehensive protein identification and quantification in complex biological samples.
Research Interests
- Novel data acquisition strategies achieved through programmatic control of a mass spectrometer
- Instrumentation and computational approaches for studying protein complexes
- Scalable infrastructure for high-throughput LC/MS data analysis
- Machine learning approaches to mass spectral analysis
- Biological experiments that require custom analysis methods
Thomas Kannampallil, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine
Associate Chief Research Information Officer, School of Medicine
Thomas Kannampallil, PhD, is focused on integrating cognitive, behavioral, and computational informatics techniques for developing health information technology solutions in the areas of clinical decision support, clinical reasoning, and clinical workflow.
Research Interests
- Clinical decision support applications for tracking, monitoring, and evaluating EHR-based activities such as medication/lab orders, decision-making for chronic care, and opioid management
- Tracking and analysis of medical errors in a variety of situations including medication orders, transitions of care, and clinical decision-making and evaluating its impact on clinical outcomes and patient safety
- Use of cognitive and human factors approaches for identifying behavioral, collaborative and workflow challenges in the design and use of health information technology
Albert M. Lai, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA
Deputy Director, Institute for Informatics (I2)
Chief Research Information Officer, School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medical Sciences, School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Albert M. Lai, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, is focused on applying computer science and informatics techniques to solve problems in the clinical domain.
Research Interests
- Clinical research informatics
- Clinical informatics
- Consumer health informatics
- Telemedicine
- Usability
- Natural language processing
- Mobile health
Fuhai Li, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine
Fuhai Li, PhD, is focused on applying statistical, machine learning, deep learning and data mining approaches on diverse biomedical dataset integration and interpretation, to solve the challenges in bioinformatics, systems biology and image informatics.
Research Interests
- Integrative large-scale pharmaco genomics analysis for target, signaling network, drug and drug combination discovery
- Genomics data driven tumor-stromal communication discovery and modeling
Patrick G. Lyons, MD, MSc
Instructor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine
Healthcare Innovation Fellow, BJC Healthcare Innovation Lab
Patrick G. Lyons, MD, MSc, is a clinician-scientist focused on applying informatics and implementation science techniques to improve clinical care delivery in the hospital.
Research Interests
- Creation, evaluation, and implementation of risk prediction models for hospitalized patients
- Leveraging health information technology to improve care transitions for high-risk inpatients
- Human-centered design of health information technology
Andrew P. Michelson, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine
Andrew P. Michelson, MD, is a Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine physician at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and is the Director for Critical Care Informatics Research. His interests revolve around the direct application of emerging healthcare technologies and informatics tools within the hospital system to improve the delivery of precision care.
Research Interests
- Interventional approaches to critical care medicine using artificial intelligence / machine learning to predict modifiable outcomes using electronic health record information
- Improving care quality through the evaluation and implementation of novel health information technologies within the hospital system and expanding the delivery of precision of medicine
Shamim A Mollah, PhD
Assistant Professor of Genetics, School of Medicine
Shamim A Mollah, PhD, is focused on applying network-based models on multi-omics data using machine-learning techniques to understand complex diseases at systems level.
Research Interests
- Cancer systems biology
- Chromatin remodeling in cancer (histone modifications)
- Cancer subtyping
- Tumor microenvironment
- Targeting cancer stemness pathway in breast cancer
- Single-cell approaches to address tumor heterogeneity
- Pharmacodynamics & pharmacokinetics of anti-cancer drugs
- Biomarker discovery in cancer
- Cancer immunotherapy
- Modeling gene regulatory networks
- Genotype-phenotype correlation
- Natural language processing
Philip R.O. Payne, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA
Janet and Bernard Becker Professor and Director, Institute for Informatics (I2)
Associate Dean for Health information and Data Science
Chief Data Scientist
Philip R.O. Payne, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, is the founding director of the Institute for Informatics (I2) at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also serves as the Janet and Bernard Becker Professor and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Previously, Dr. Payne was Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at The Ohio State University.
Research Interests
- Cognitive computing and machine learning based approaches to the discovery and analysis of bio-molecular and clinical phenotypes and the ensuing identification of precision diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in cancer and other clinical conditions
- Interventional approaches to the use of electronic health records in order to address modifiable risk factors for disease and enable patient-centered decision making
- The study of human factors and workflow issues surrounding the optimal use of healthcare information technology
Beth Prusaczyk, PhD, MSW
Instructor of Medicine, Division of General Medical Sciences, School of Medicine
Beth Prusaczyk, PhD, MSW, is interested in how to better translate research findings into real-world practice and policy.
Research Interests
- Strategies to improve the implementation of evidence-based practices for older adults in the healthcare system
- The effect of interpersonal team dynamics on the implementation process
- The use of existing healthcare data and system science methods such as social network analysis to inform and speed the implementation process
Aristeidis Sotiras, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology, School of Medicine
Aristeidis Sotiras, PhD, is focused on developing and applying machine learning and image analysis techniques to extract and integrate relevant information from images and other clinical data toward improving patient-specific diagnosis and prognosis.
Research Interests
- Biomedical image processing and analysis
- Machine learning
- Deep learning
- Computer vision
- Neuroimaging
- Imaging biomarkers of neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders
Po-Yin Yen, PhD, RN, FAMIA
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medical Sciences, School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Goldfarb School of Nursing, Barnes Jewish College
Po-Yin Yen, PhD, RN, FAMIA, is focused on applied clinical informatics research to support clinicians adapting to health information technology.
Research Interests
- Clinical informatics
- Usability
- Technology acceptance
- Human computer interaction
- Literature mining
- Data visualization
- Workflow analysis
- Time motion study