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!
Sandra Kane-Gill
Biography
Sandra L. Kane-Gill, PharmD, MS, FCCM, FCCP, is a Professor of Pharmacy and Therapeutics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. Additionally, she is the current Interim Chair of the Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics. She has secondary appointments in the School of Medicine in the Clinical Translational Science Institute, Department of Critical Care Medicine and the Department of Biomedical Informatics. She also serves as Professor for the Center for Critical Care Nephrology. In addition to her academic appointments, Dr. Kane-Gill is a Critical Care Medication Safety Pharmacist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in the Department of Pharmacy.
Research Interests: Dr. Kane-Gill’s interests focus on the assessment of clinical, economic and quality outcomes for critically ill patients. Her goal is to build a pharmacovigilance program to identify effective approaches for the detection, prevention, and management of medication errors and adverse drug events as to improve quality of care and patient safety. She led several pharmacoepidemiology evaluations that improved patient safety surveillance systems, prevented medication errors and adverse drug events (ADEs) and used health information technology (clinical decision support systems, telemedicine, simulation) to improve services. She applies implementation science strategies to ensure the adoption of evidence-based medication safety practices. Dr. Kane-Gill is a federally funded researcher serving as Principal Investigator (AHRQ, NIDDK) and Co-Investigator (AHRQ, NCCIH, NLM, Jewish Healthcare Foundation) on several research grants in this area of study.