Associate Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College
I work to help doctors and patients make better, more informed decisions. I pursue this goal by studying how to design information technology that will improve decision-making in health and medicine. My work has led to advances in biomedical informatics, human factors, and decision science. It is also highly practical, and I am gratified that it has been deployed to produce measurable impacts on real-world healthcare. I am also enthusiastic about teaching informaticists, medical students, and the public. I direct Weill Cornell’s master’s program in health informatics, where I teach an innovative multi-method research methods course. I also teach a highly-rated introductory biostatistics course for Weill Cornell medical students, and have been invited by the Columbia Journalism School to guest-lecture on statistics for journalists for nearly 15 years. My work is informed by a career that has focused on effective communication to inform decisions. My first career was in journalism, and I worked as an Associated Press reporter and as medical editing manager at the Cleveland Clinic. A growing fascination with how numbers were used and misused in decision-making led to my career change. After completing an MPH from the Columbia University department of biostatistics and working as a clinical trials statistician, I earned my PhD in biomedical informatics from Columbia before joining the Weill Cornell faculty. Please see my VIVO page for more information about my work (http://vivo.med.cornell.edu/display/cwid-jsa7002).