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Doctoral Program Subcommittee on Biomedical Informatics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.; Full-Time/Part-Time: Free-Standing M.A.

Interim Chair: George Hripcsak, M.D., M.S.
622 West 168th Street, VC-5
Tel: 212.305.6896


Graduate Program Director: Stephen B. Johnson, Ph.D.
622 West 168th Street, VC5
Tel: 212.305.1858


Faculty

Dimitris Anastassiou:
Professor (Electrical Engineering), Ph.D., University of California, 1979
Interests: Genomic Information Science and Technology; Digital image/video communications and processing with emphasis on multimedia applications; genomic information science and technology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Suzanne Bakken:
Professor, R.N., D.N.S., E.A.A.N., California (San Francisco), 1989
Interests: Patient care applications, nursing informatics, and qualitative evaluation; Internet health care
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Harmen Bussemaker:
Assistant Professor (Structural and Computational Biology & Molecular Biophysics), Ph.D., Utrecht, 1995
Interests: Computational analysis of genome sequences and DNA microarray data;Sequence-based modeling of gene expression regulation; Outpatient applications, practice guidelines, prevention, computer-based medical records
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Andrea Califano:
Professor, Ph.D., Florence, 1985
Interests: Systems biology of cancer: Lymphomas;The exploration and the application of pattern and association discovery algorithms in the context of sequence, structure and microarray data; the reverse engineering of metabolic and gene regulatory networks using dynamical and statistical predictive models that can be validated in an experimental setting; the dissection of complex genetic traits in a whole genome context, using association discovery techniques and their related statistical models
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Michael F. Chiang:
Assistant Professor, M.D., M.A., Harvard, Columbia, 1996, 2004
Interests: Ophthalmology applications of biomedical informatics -- telemedicine, electronic healthrecords, evaluation of information systems
James J. Cimino:
Professor, M.D., NY Medical College, 1981
Interests: Medical concept representation and the exploitation of that representation to provide clinical decision support
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Karina Davidson:
, Ph.D.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Bruce H. Forman:
Associate Clinical Professor, M.D., Harvard, 1983
Interests: Methods and standards for data interchange in health care informatics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Carol Friedman:
Professor, Ph.D., NYU, 1989
Interests: Medical language processing, controlled medical vocabulary, knowledge representation, user interfaces, statistical methods for vocabulary development
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Richard A. Friedman:
Lecturer, Ph.D., NYU, 1978
Interests: Application of bioinformatic methods to biomedical problems
Richard Goldstein:
Assistant Professor, M.D., NYU, 1976
Interests: Knowledge discovery, clinical outcomes, and quality determinations
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Donald Harrington:
Adjunct Professor, M.D., Marquette (Wisconsin), 1966
Interests: Radiology reporting, PACS development, digital imaging, radiology vocabulary development
Joy Hirsch:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1977
Interests: Studies of brain behavior and therapy induced cortical changes using functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques, computational models, electrophysiology and behavioral measures
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Barry Honig:
Professor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, Tel Aviv; Weizman Institute of Sciences (Israel), 1964, 1968
Interests: Using computational and theoretical methods to study the structure and function of proteins, nucleic acids and membranes
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
George Hripcsak:
Professor, M.D., M.S., Columbia, 1985
Interests: Automated decision support; data acquisition and access; mobile computing
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Celina Imielinska:
Associate Research Scientist, Ph.D., Rutgers University New Brunswick, 1993
Interests: Medical image processing and 3D medical visualization
Stephen B. Johnson:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., NYU, 1987
Interests: Natural language processing; text mining; information retrieval; database design
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Desmond Jordan:
Associate Clinical Professor, M.D., Brown, 1979
Interests: Clinical anethesiology aspects in medical informatics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David Kaufman:
Associate Research Scientist, Ph.D., McGill, 1993
Interests: Applying cognitive science methods of analysis to a range of problems in the study of medical cognition, human-computer interaction, and technology-mediated decision making
Rita Kukafka:
Assistant Professor, Dr.P.H., Columbia, 1993
Interests: Public health informatics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Albert Lai:
Associate Research Scientist, Ph.D.
Andrew F. Laine:
Professor, D.Sc., Washington University, 1989
Interests: Mathematical analysis and quantification of medical images, signal and image processing, computer-aided diagnosis
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Christina Leslie:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Berkeley, 1998
Interests: Applying machine learning and data mining techniques to analyze biological data, including protein and DNA sequences and gene expression data from microarray experiments
Kathleen R. McKeown:
Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1982
Interests: Natural language generation, summarization of language data
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Eneida A. Mendonca:
Assistant Professor, M.D., Ph.D., Pelotas, Columbia, 1982, 2002
Interests: Knowledge technologies, information retrieval, decision support, evidence-based practice, infectious diseases
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Pat Molholt:
Assistant Vice President and Associate Dean, Ph.D., Rensselaer, 1992
Interests: Knowledge navigation; computer-based curriculum development
Kenneth Ong:
, M.D., M.P.H.
Satishchandra S. Pai:
Assistant Professor, D.D.S., M.D.S., M.S.I., M.P.H., Mangalore, Ireland, Michigan, 1992, 1996, 2002
Interests: Imaging; clinical information systems; knowledge management
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Vimla Patel:
Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., McGill, 1981
Interests: Problem solving and comprehension; cognitive assessment of learning and instruction; development of scientific knowledge for clinical reasoning; modeling lay understanding of health and disease; learning in the workplace; sociocognitive studies of human-computer interaction
Maxine L Rockoff:
Senior Lecturer, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1964
Interests: Development and field trial of internet-accessible consumer health information, especially in disadvantaged communities
Burkhard Rost:
Associate Professor, Dr.rer.nat., Heidelberg, 1994
Interests: Theory of biomedical structure and function; electrostatistics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Cornelia M Ruland:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, R.N., Ph.D., Case Western Reserve, 1998
Interests: Development, implementation and evaluation of decision support systems (DSS) for preference- and evidence- based patient care
Gerald Segal:
Chief Information Architect, M.S., Bank Street, 1979
Interests: Telemedicine and psychiatry, computer graphics, network topology, child development and geometry, integration of technology into the curriculum
Soumitra Sengupta:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., SUNY, 1987
Interests: Networking; security; systems architecture; distributed computing systems
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jason Shapiro:
, M.D., M.S.
Steven Shea:
Professor, M.D., Columbia, Harvard, 1979, 1984
Interests: Cardiovascular diseases; Epidemiological studies of factors that lead to heart disease; telemedicine in monitoring the control of diabetes
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Edward H. Shortliffe:
Adjunct Professor, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford, 1976, 1975
Interests: Integrated decision support systems; network based collaborative methodologies; component-based architecture
Justin B. Starren:
Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1997
Interests: Medical language processing; human computer interfaces; image processing; knowledge encoding and representation; decision support systems
Peter D. Stetson:
Assistant Professor, M.D., M.A., Columbia, 1996, 2002
Interests: The detection and prevention of adverse medical events; clinical quality assessment and improvement
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Dennis Vitkup:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Brandies, 1999
Interests: Computational network and structural biology, bioinformatics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Lynn Vogel:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1978
Interests: Information systems strategic planning; implementation and management
David Wajngurt:
Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor, M.D., M.A., SUNY (Brooklyn), Columbia, 1973, 1999
Interests: Clinical databases, dictionaries and interfaces; infectious diseases in geriatrics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Adam Wilcox:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 2000
Interests: Evaluation of clinical data exchange, information systems to support chronic disease management, and clinical information systems architecture and design
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
John L. Zimmerman:
Associate Professor, D.D.S., Temple, 1980
Interests: Dental informatics; informatics training; WWW; information technologies in education; electronic oral health records
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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