Directory
This Directory includes Faculty, Staff, Students, and Alumni selectable by category, search or alphabetical by last name. Over 110 students have graduated from the Department of Biomedical Informatics (25+ PhD, 50+ MS, 25+ Certificate). The diversity of careers available to DBMI alumnus is evident in their biographies. Many of our graduates are teaching and performing research in academic institutions, such as Vanderbilt University, Arizona State University, and New York University while others have entered private industry with companies such as Cerner Corporation and Boston Scientific; some have positions in government agencies, such as the NIH and AHRQ, while others are at major medical centers, serving in roles such as Chief Medical Information Officer. We maintain a database of the career paths of our graduates. If you are an alumnus, please contact us if you would like to submit or update information!
Andrew King
Biography
Personal Statement:
Dr. King is a clinical informaticist and Research Assistant Professor in the University of Pittsburgh Department of Critical Care Medicine. HIs long-term goal is to become an independent scientist studying ways to leverage novel technology to improve the outcomes of critically ill patients by augmenting the knowledge and abilities of health care providers. He has a PhD in Biomedical Informatics with training in artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and system design. He also has extensive experience using electronic health record data for research and clinical decision support applications, specifically those involving critically ill patients admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU).
Dr. King’s past work has been recognized with two best student paper awards and ten first-author publications in journals and conferences, demonstrating early productivity and potential as an independent investigator. In addition, during the coronavirus pandemic he applied his informatics skills to automate the completion of Case Reporting Forms from two different electronic health records systems (Cerner and Epic) for a multi-treatment COVID-19 platform clinical trial. These contributions led to co-authorship on four publications, including two in the New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrating both his skills as a bioinformaticist and his aptitude for cross-cutting collaborative research. He has been particularly productive during the last year with accepted work including two co-authored publications related to uses of the HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard; a co-authored book chapter related to the integration of artificial intelligence in clinical decision support; and three first-authored publications including studies using machine learning to assess the quality of oral case presentations of junior physicians, evaluating a nurse-based assessment tool for tracking the discussion of evidence-based practices during