Thomas Kannampallil, PhD, FAMIA
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Chief Research Information Officer
School of Medicine
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Thomas Kannampallil, PhD, FAMIA, 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.
Background
Thomas Kannampallil, PhD, FAMIA, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Associate Chief Research Information Officer for the School of Medicine. Dr. Kannampallil’s research interests lies at the intersection of computer science and cognitive science and focuses on applying cognitive, behavioral and computational techniques for studying clinical behaviors in various contexts for studying medication errors, clinical decision support, HIT usability, interactive communication, and clinical workflow. In addition, he specializes in developing scalable infrastructure for informatics research projects including development of registries, cohort identification and longitudinal tracking. His recent research has focused on the development and evaluation of multiple clinical decision rules for evaluating acute care opioid use, medication ordering errors, and chronic diseases. His research has been supported by a combination of grants and contracts by AHRQ, NCATS, NLM and CMS. Previously, Dr. Kannampallil was the Director of Primary Care Informatics at the University of Illinois; prior to that he was the Assistant Director for the Center for Cognitive Informatics in Medicine and Public Health at the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Kannampallil’s research has been published in leading clinical and informatics journals. He has served as a special issue editor for the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (Cognitive informatics methods for interactive clinical systems) and a co-editor for a graduate textbook on Human Computer Interaction.
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
Lab Members
- Sunny S. Lou, MD, PhD, Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellow & ASAP Post-doctoral Fellow, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Department of Anesthesiology
- Ruixuan Dai, MS, PhD Student in Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis, McKelvey School of Engineering
- Eric Liu, MS, PhD Student in Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis, McKelvey School of Engineering
- Ben Warner, Undergraduate Student in Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis, McKelvey School of Engineering
- Lynn Xu, Master's Student in Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis, McKelvey School of Engineering
- Derek Harford, Master's Student in Biomedical Informatics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Institute for Informatics
Selected Publications
- Risk Factors Associated with Physician Trainee Concern Over Missed Educational Opportunities During the COVID-19 Pandemic. BMC Medical Education
- Use of Machine Learning to Develop and Evaluate Models Using Preoperative and Intraoperative Data to Identify Risks of Postoperative Complications. JAMA Network Open
- Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Interventions for Operating Room to Intensive Care Unit Handoffs. BMJ Quality & Safety
- Physician Workflow in Two Distinctive Emergency Departments: An Observational Study. Applied Clinical Informatics
- Systematic Review of Intraoperative Anesthesia Handoffs and Handoff Tools. Anesthesia & Analgesia
- Conceptual Considerations for Using EHR-based Activity Logs to Measure Clinician Burnout and Its Effects. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
- Association Between Paediatric Intraoperative Anaesthesia Handover and Adverse Postoperative Outcomes. BMJ Quality & Safety
- Risk Factors Associated with Medication Ordering Errors. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
- Surgical Complications in Older Adults Predict Decline in Self-Perceived Cognitive Function in the Ensuing Year: A Cohort Study. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
- Work-Related and Personal Factors Associated With Mental Well-Being During the COVID-19 Response: Survey of Health Care and Other Workers. Journal of Medical Internet Research
- Exposure to COVID-19 Patients Increases Physician Trainee Stress and Burnout. PLoS ONE
- Precision Clinical Trials: A Framework for Getting to Precision Medicine for Neurobehavioural Disorders. Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience
- Probabilistic Forecasting of Surgical Case Duration using Machine Learning: Model Development and Validation. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
- Digital Translucence: Adapting Telemedicine Delivery Post-Covid-19. Telemedicine and e-Health
- Transmission Dynamics: Data Sharing in the COVID-19 Era. Learning Health Systems
- When Past Is Not a Prologue: Adapting Informatics Practice During a Pandemic. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
- Cognitive Plausibility in Voice-based AI Health Counselors. npj Digital Medicine
- Effects of CPOE-based Medication Ordering on Outcomes: An Overview of Systematic Reviews. BMJ Quality & Safety
- A Qualitative Study of Perioperative Depression and Anxiety in Older Adults. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
- Effect of an Alternative Newborn Naming Strategy on Wrong-Patient Errors: A Quasi-Experimental Study. Applied Clinical Informatics
- The Impact of Educational Interventions on Antibiotic Prescribing for Acute Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in the Ambulatory Care Setting: A Quasi-Experimental Study. JACCP: Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy
- Listening and Question-Asking Behaviors in Resident and Nurse Handoff Conversations: A Prospective Observational Study. JAMIA Open
- ‘This Is Our Liver Patient…’: Use of Narratives During Resident and Nurse Handoff Conversations. BMJ Quality & Safety
- A Graph-based Approach for Characterizing Resident and Nurse Handoff Conversations. Journal of Biomedical Informatics
- Effect of Number of Open Charts on Intercepted Wrong-Patient Medication Orders in an Emergency Department. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
- Learning from Errors: Analysis of Medication Order Voiding in CPOE Systems. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
- Methodological Framework for Evaluating Clinical Processes: A Cognitive Informatics Perspective. Journal of Biomedical Informatics
- Characterizing the Pain Score Trajectories of Hospitalized Adult Medical and Surgical Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study. PAIN
- Emergency Department-Based Care Transitions for Pediatric Patients: A Systematic Review. Pediatrics
- Role of Cognition in Generating and Mitigating Clinical Errors. BMJ Quality & Safety
- Comparing the Information Seeking Strategies of Residents, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants in Critical Care Settings. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
- Understanding the Nature of Information Seeking Behavior in Critical Care: Implications for the Design of Health Information Technology. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine