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Clinical Information Systems and Electronic Health Records, Clinical Decision Support, Knowledge Discovery (Data Mining, Text Mining, Web Mining), Knowledge Representation, Natural Language Processing, Structured Documentation, Mobile Computing, Adaptive Systems

Elizabeth S. Chen, PhD is the Associate Director of Biomedical Informatics in the Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Vermont. She received a BS in Computer Science from Tufts University and PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Columbia University.

Dr. Chen's research primarily focuses on exploring informatics approaches for improving access to and use of information in biomedicine and healthcare. Specific interests include enhancing systems (e.g., electronic health record and clinical decision support systems), applying standards to promote semantic interoperability, and developing computational techniques (e.g., natural language processing and data mining) for supporting patient care, decision support, quality, public health, and research. In particular, she has applied these techniques for understanding the information needs of clinicians and researchers, acquiring disease-specific knowledge from clinical notes and biomedical literature, and enhancing problem lists in the electronic health record. Dr. Chen has previously held positions at Partners HealthCare System/Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Columbia University.