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Vimla L. Patel

Visiting Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Department of Biomedical Informatics

 

 

 

 

Dr. Patel is the director of Decision Making and Cognition, Vice Chair and professor in the department of Biomedical Informatics in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. She is also a professor of basic medical sciences at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix. She came to Arizona State University from Columbia University in 2007, where she was professor of biomedical informatics and psychiatry. As the past director of Center for Medical Education and of Cognitive Science Center at McGill University in Montreal, she has a strong background in education and training. Dr. Patel is recognized as a leader in applied cognitive science that provides scientific foundation for models of decision-making in health care and for medical education. Her research interests include competent performance in the workplace, team decision-making, patient safety and medical errors, learning and instruction, and human-computer interaction in health-care domains. She serves as associate editor for the Journal of Biomedical Informatics and is on the editorial board of three other health science and informatics journals. Her research is funded from the James S. McDonnell Foundation, NIH, NIMH, the U.S. Army and Science Foundation Arizona.

Education

D.Sc. - University of Victoria, Canada 1998
Ph.D. Educational Psychology - McGill University, Canada 1981
M.A. Educational Psychology - McGill University, Canada 1980

Contact Info

Office Location: ABC 132
Phone: 602.827.2512
Email: vimla@asu.edu
Website: http://www.fulton.asu.edu/~patel/

Research/Areas of Expertise

- Medical cognition
- Decision-making and reasoning
- Patient safety and medical errors
- Socio-cognitive studies of human-computer interaction
- Cognitive assessment of learning and instruction

Research Center Involvement

- Decision Making & Cognition

Courses Taught

- BMI 501 Introduction to Biomedical Informatics
- BMI 502 Foundations of Biomedical Informatics Methods
- BMI 541 Cognition and Decision Making in Healthcare

Honors and Distinctions

- 1994 "Woman of Science" for the year (Sweden)
- 1996 Fellow, The Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Social Sciences)
- 1996 Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics
- 1998 D.Sc. (honorary), University of Victoria, BC, Canada
- 2004 Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine.
- 2004 Associate Editor, Journal of Biomedical Informatics
- 2007 Selected for Marquis Who’s Who in the World
- 2007 Member, Clinical Research Review Committee, The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)

Selected Publications

http://fulton.asu.edu/~patel/journals.php