About

I am an associate professor at the University of Michigan Medical School, in the Department of Learning Health Sciences. My background is in clinical and health informatics. My work has focused on electronic health records (EHRs), system implementation, workflow, secondary use of clinical data, clinical information retrieval, data mining, consumer-health informatics, research networks, and more. Much of my work is highly collaborative.

I direct Clinical Research Informatics for the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)-supported Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR) through the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA). I lead development teams creating enterprise-grade research software that is running at institutions nationwide. One is a public-facing participant recruitment platform, generically named YourHealthResearch; the other is a search engine/text processing tool for EHRs called the Electronic Medical Record Search Engine (EMERSE).