Research goals

Connect public health and clinical data

Use technology to improve health care organizational systems

Current research areas

Clinical decision support using public health data

• Using local antimicrobial resistance data to guide antibiotic usage
• A new architecture for data exchange and decision support for electronic clinical decision support

Automated public health reporting

• Determining how data elements required for reporting can be collected from unstructured data
• Syndromic surveillance using natural language processing

Quality

• Implementation and evaluation of patient-centered information system for transitions of care

Organizational systems

• Using network analysis to guide organizational decisions in local health departments

De-identification

• Using MedLEE to de-identify clinical notes

Communication

• Detecting logical argument patterns in public health behavior change messages
• Using breast cancer communications to characterize emotional themes

Collaborations

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene: Primary Care Information Project and the Public Health Informatics Center of Excellence

Institute for Family Health

Background

MD University of Southern California

MPH Columbia University

MA Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University

Research fellowship, Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics

Preventive Medicine Residency, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene