Organizing Committee
Jorie Butler, PhD, Lead Chair
Dr. Butler is a behavioral scientist by training who has worked in biomedical informatics, particularly sociotechnical systems, since 2010. She received her PhD from University of California, Irvine. She began her informatics career at the Salt Lake City Veterans Affairs Medicine Center with the Consortium for Natural Language Processing. She is faculty in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Department of Internal Medicine at University of Utah. Much of her work is focused on understanding how clinicians and patients think and identifying and developing informatics solutions to support decision-making across clinical contexts. Her work as single or multiple PI has been funded by AHRQ, NIH, and VA HSR&D.
Michael Matheny, MD, Co-Chair
Dr. Matheny is the Director for the Center for Improving the Publics’ Health with Informatics and part-time primary care physician board certified in internal medicine and clinical informatics, and Associate Director of HSR&D VINCI at the Tennessee Valley Healthcare System VA, Nashville, TN. He is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation. Dr. Matheny’s relevant work has focused on developing and adapting machine learning algorithms to support risk stratification for population health and natural language processing and risk model assisted clinical decision support tools.
Peter Taber, PhD, Co-Chair
Dr. Taber is a sociocultural anthropologist and clinical informaticist who received his PhD from the University of Arizona (Sociocultural Anthropology) and MA from the University of Utah (Biomedical Informatics). Dr. Taber is faculty within the University of Utah Department of Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Taber brings theoretical and methodological expertise as an anthropologist and ethnographer to understand the interaction of organizational context, work routines and lived experience; and as an informaticist to understand the technical dimensions of care, with an emphasis on clinical decision support. His research interest focuses on using the combined insights of anthropology and informatics to ensure that the development of novel clinical technologies a) responds to the nature of healthcare settings as intrinsically social and cultural contexts; and b) recognizes that clinical technology development and implementation is an inevitably social and political intervention that requires participatory approaches.