Instructors

Laura K. Wiley, PhD

Assistant Professor, Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine

Dr. Wiley develops methods for using data from electronic health records for precision medicine discovery and implementation. She developed computational phenotyping algorithms for use in EHR-linked biobanks, investigated new algorithms for precision dosing of warfarin in African Americans, and has served as the lead informatician on an NIH Cancer Moonshot-funded project to create a comprehensive tobacco cessation service at the University of Colorado Cancer Center. She is a principal investigator in the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She has served as an ex officio member of the American Medical Informatics Association Board of Directors and is Vice-Chair of the AMIA 2019 Annual Symposium.

Michael G. Kahn, MD, PhD

Professor of Clinical Informatics

I am a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Denver; Biomedical Informatics Core Director of the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute; co-Director of the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine; and Director of Research Informatics at Children’s Hospital Colorado.I also lead Health Data Compass, a cloud-based research data warehouse that combines data from four clinical, financial and research institutions plus state and federal sources. I participates in multiple regional, national, and international clinical data research networks. My informatics research focus areas are data model harmonization and developing sharable data quality measures in distributed research networks.