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About me...
I am finishing up my PhD in Biomedical and Health Informatics at the University of Washington. My advisor is Wanda Pratt . I am a member of the iMed research group.
In my dissertation, I am investigating expertise sharing among patients for solving problems that arise in their health situations. My research focuses on the rich context of breast cancer, where integrating and making sense of a broad range of often complex and unfamiliar personal health information can be challenging. People who have experienced breast cancer can offer other patients a unique and valuable form of expertise (i.e., “patient expertise”). Patient expertise is shared through the advice and tips patients offer one another to deal with day-to-day problems that arise during the breast cancer experience. My goals are to (1) deepen our understanding of the characteristics of patient expertise, (2) understand the practices patients use to exchange their experise, and (3) use this knowledge to facilitate patient expertise sharing through health informatics support.
Other research projects I have been involved with:
Imed : Using Mobile Technologies to Uncover Barriers to Healthy Behavior in Heart Disease Patients; Supported through an award from Miscrosoft.
PI: Wanda Pratt, PhD, Information School and Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, University of Washington
Keeping found things found (KFTF): Better to Organize Personal Information by Folders Or by Tags?: The Devil Is in the Details; Supported through an award from Google.
PIs: William Jones, PhD & Harry Bruce PhD, Information School, University of Washington
Using multi-attribute utility theory to incorporate patient preferences into IMRT planning decisions for prostate cancer.
PI: Mark Phillips PhD, Radiation Oncology, University of Washington.
Probability format and expected utility vioalations.
PI: Jason Doctor PhD, School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California.
Visualizing the quality of consumer health information on the Internet.
Advisor: Wanda Pratt, PhD, The Information School & Biomedical and Health Informatics
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