CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Andrea L. Civan

April 2008

 

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 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.  

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.

Organizations:

American Medical Informatics Association

Editorial Responsibilities:

2008

JAMIA Student Editorial Board

Ad Hoc Reviewer for the journals:

 

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

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

(3)   Methods of Information in Medicine (2007)

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

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

Reviewer for the conferences:

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

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

 

Teaching Responsibilities:

2006

Guest lecturer, INSC 498, Special Topics in Informatics: Personal Information Management. The Information School, University of Washington

2007

Guest lecturer, INSC 310, Individual Perspectives on Information Systems, The Information School, University of Washington

2007

Instructor, MEBI 591, Personal Health Informatics Seminar, Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, University of Washington

2008

Guest lecturer, MEBI 498, Transformational Technologies for Biology, Medicine, and Health. Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Washington

 

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

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. The Personal Project Planner: Planning to organize personal information. To Appear in Proc. CHI 2008

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. Accepted for presentation at ASIS&T Annual Meeting, October, 2008.

Peer-Reviewed Extended Abstracts: (in chronologic order)

1.      Lia B., Dobkins K., Hartzler A., Palmer J., & Teller D.Y. (1996). Three-month-old infants respond to color-defined quadrature-shifted apparent motion stimuli. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Fort Lauderdale, FL.

2.      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.

3.      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

4.      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

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

6.      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

7.      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

8.      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

9.      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:

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)

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

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

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

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