CURRICULUM VITAE

October 2008

Andrea L. Civan

 

Personal Data:

PhD Candidate

Division of Biomedical & Health Informatics, School of Medicine

Box 357240

University Washington

Seattle, WA 98195-2840

 

Phone: (206) 616-4626

Web: http://staff.washington.edu/andreah/

Education:

1996       B.S. in Psychology, Cum Laude, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

2006       PhD Candiate in Biomedical and Health Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Informatics Positions Held:

2006

Research Assistant, Department of Radiation Oncology, School Of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

2007

Research Assistant, Keeping Found Things Found Project, The Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

2007-present

Research Assistant, PIM-Health Project, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Honors and Awards:

1992-1996

Dean’s List, University of Washington

1995

Psi Chi National Honor Society

1995

National Dean’s List

1995

Golden Key National Honors Society

1996

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society

2003-2006

National Library of Medicine Predoctoral Training Fellowship

2006

Nomination for Best Paper Award at HICSS:

Civan A & Pratt W. (2006) Supporting Consumers by Characterizing the Quality of Online Health Information: A Multidimensional Framework. Proc. 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), IEEE publication, January 4-7, Kauai, Hawaii., Vol 5, p. 88a.  

2006

University of Washington GSFEI Graduate Student Travel Award

2007

Nomination for Distinguished Paper Award at AMIA:

Civan A & Pratt W. (2007) Threading Together Patient Expertise, Proceedings of the AMIA Annual Fall Symposium Nov. 2007, Chicago IL., p. 140-144.

2007

University of Washington GSFEI Graduate Student Travel Award

2008

Biomedical & Health Informatics Research Training Travel Award

Organizations:

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)

Editorial Responsibilities:

2008                JAMIA Student Editorial Board

Ad Hoc Reviewer for the journals:

              e-Service Journal, Special Issue on “e-Health” (2006)

European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Special Issue on "Healthcare Information Systems Research, Revelations and Visions" (2007)

                  Methods of Information in Medicine (2007)

                  Transactions on Information System, Special Issue on Personal Information Management (2007)

                  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) (2007)

                  Communications of the ACM (CAIS) (2008)

Reviewer for the conferences:

                 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Fall Symposium (2007-2008)

                 Hawaii International Conferences on System Sciences (HICSS) (2006-2007)

Teaching Responsibilities:

2006                   Guest lecture, INSC 498, Special Topics in Informatics: Personal Information Management, University of Washington

2007                   Guest lecture, INSC 310, Individual Perspectives on Information Systems, University of Washington

2007                   Instructor, MEBI 591, Personal Health Informatics Seminar, University of Washington

2008                   Guest lecture, MEBI 498, The Personal health approach to health informatics

2008                   Guest lecture, MEBI 537. Qualitative Methods

 

Student Volunteer Activities

NSF IDM Conference, September 14-16, 2003, Seattle, Washington

NSF Invitational Workshop on Personal Information Management. January 27-29, 2005, Seattle, Washington

SIGIR, PIM Workshop, August 10-11, 2006, Seattle, Washington

ASIS&T Annual meeting, October 24-29, 2008, Columbus, Ohio

Student Advising

Undergraduate Advisees

Amelia Lacenski 2005-2006

Grace Preyapongpisan 2005-2006

Peer-Reviewed Full-Length Publications: (in chronologic order)

1.      Teller DY, Pereverzeva M, & Civan A (2003). Adult brightness vs. luminance as models of infant photometry: variability, biasability, and spectral characteristics for the two age groups favor the luminance model. Journal of Vision3(5):333-46.

2.      Teller, DY, Civan A, & Bronson-Castain K. (2004) Infants' spontaneous hue preferences are not due solely to adult-like brightness variations. Visual Neuroscience 21(3):397-401.

3.      Civan A, Teller DY & Palmer J. (2005) Relations Between Spontaneous Preferences, Familiarized Preferences, and Novelty Effects: Measurements With Forced-Choice Techniques. Infancy, 7(2):111-142

4.      Civan A & Pratt W. (2006) Supporting Consumers by Characterizing the Quality of Online Health Information: A Multidimensional Framework. Proc. 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), IEEE publication, January 4-7, Kauai, Hawaii., Vol 5, p. 88a.  (Best paper award nomination)

5.      Pratt W, Unruh K, Civan A & Skeels MM. (2006) Personal Health Information Management. Communications of the ACM (CACM), Special Issue on Personal Information Management, 49(1):51-55.

6.      Civan A, Skeels MM, Stolyar A, & Pratt W. (2006) Personal Health Information Management: Consumers' perspectives. Proceedings of the AMIA Annual Fall Symposium, Washington DC., p.156-160.

7.      Civan A & Pratt W. (2007) Threading Together Patient Expertise, Proceedings of the AMIA Annual Fall Symposium Nov. 2007, Chicago IL., p. 140-144. (Distinguished paper award nomination)

8.      Civan A & Pratt W. (2007) Information Systems and Healthcare XXII: Characterizing and Visualizing the Quality of Health Information. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, vol. 20, article 18. (an extended version of the HICSS 2006 conference paper)

9.      Jones W, Klasnja P, Civan A, & Adcock M. (2008) The Personal Project Planner: Planning to organize personal information. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’08) April, 2008, Florence, Italy., p. 681-684.

10. Civan A, Jones W, Klasnja P, & Bruce H. Better to Organize Personal Information by Folders Or by Tags?: The Devil Is in the Details. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, October, 2008, Columbus, Oh.

Peer-Reviewed Extended Abstracts: (in chronologic order)

1.      Peterzell DM, Chang SK, Kelly JP, Hartzler AL, Teller DY. The development of spatial frequency covariance channels for colour and luminance: Psychophysical (FPL) and electrophysiological (sweep VEP) studies.  Perception, 26(6): 759. (Presented at the 6th Meeting of the Child Vision Research Society (CVRS). June, 1997, Pisa, Italy.)

2.      Lia B., Dobkins K.R., Hartzler A., Palmer J., & Teller D.Y. (1997). Three-month-old infants respond to quadrature motion of isoluminant gratings. Perception, 26(6): 760. (Presented at the 6th Meeting of the Child Vision Research Society (CVRS). June, 1997, Pisa, Italy.)

3.      Lia B., Dobkins K.R., Hartzler A., Palmer J., & Teller D.Y. (1997). Three-month-old infants respond to color-defined quadrature-shifted apparent motion stimuli. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Fort Lauderdale, FL.

4.      Teller, DY, Civan A, & Bronson-Castain K. (2003) Are infants' spontaneous hue preferences determined by saturation differences? 17th Symposium of the International Color Vision Society, Seattle, WA.

5.      Teller D, Civan A, Bronson-Castain K, & Pereverseva M. (2003) Infants' spontaneous hue preferences are not solely due to variations in perceived brightness. Journal of Vision 3(9);142a

6.      Civan AL, Teller DY & Palmer J. (2003) Infant Color Vision: Spontaneous preferences versus novelty preferences as indicators of chromatic discrimination among suprathreshold stimuli. Journal of Vision 3(9);712a

7.      Civan A & Pratt W. (2004) Online Health Information: Multiple Dimensions of Quality. Proc MEDINFO , p.1557

8.      Civan A & Pratt W. (2004) Health information on the World Wide Web: A Multidimensional framework of Quality. National Library of Medicine Informatics Training conference 2004, Indianapolis, IN., p.58

9.      Civan A, Doctor JN & Wolf FM. (2005) What Makes a Good Format: Frameworks for Evaluating the Effect of Graphic Risk Formats on Consumers’ Risk-Related Behavior. Proceedings of the AMIA Annual Fall Symposium, p. 927

10.  Civan A, Skeels MM, Stolyar A, & Pratt W. (2006) Exploring Personal Health Information Management. National Library of Medicine Informatics Training conference 2006, Nashville, TN., p.41

11.  Civan A, Gennari JH, & Pratt W. (2006) Integrating protocol schedules with patients' personal calendars. Proceedings of the AMIA Annual Fall Symposium, p. 892, Washington DC.

Conference Presentations:

1.   Civan A & Pratt W. Supporting Consumers by Characterizing the Quality of Online Health Information: A Multidimensional Framework. 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Kauai, Hawaii. January, 2006. (Best paper Award nomination)

2.   Civan A, Skeels MM, Stolyar A, & Pratt W. Exploring Personal Health Information Management. National Library of Medicine Informatics Training conference, Nashville, TN., June, 2006

3.   Civan A, Skeels MM, Stolyar A, & Pratt W. Personal Health Information Management: Consumers' perspectives. American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Fall Symposium, Washington DC. November, 2006

4.   Bruce, H, Civan A. & Klasnja P. Personal Information Management: The role of structure and metaphor. iEdge Conference, Seattle, WA. March, 2007

5.   Civan A & Pratt W. Threading Together Patient Expertise, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Fall Symposium, Chicago, IL., November, 2007  (Distinguished Paper Award nomination)

6.   Civan A, Jones W, Klasnja P, & Bruce H. Better to Organize Personal Information by Folders Or by Tags?: The Devil Is in the Details. American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Annual meeting, Columbus, Ohio, October, 2008.