Peter Tarczy-Hornoch's Home Page

Contact information:
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch MD, FACMI
University of Washington
Department of Pediatrics
Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics
Box 357240
Seattle WA 98195-7240

EMAIL: pth@u.washington.edu

Local Positions

Professor, Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics
Professor, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics
Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Division Head, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics
Program Director, NLM funded University of Washington Biomedical and Health Informatics Research Training Program and PI of related Public Health Informatics Training Track
Deputy Program Coordinator, Graduate Program in Biomedical and Health Informatics
Director Web & Data Integration, UW Medicine Information Technology Services
Director of the Biomedical Informatics Core of the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (CTSA)
Attending Staff, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle WA
Attending Staff, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle WA

Selected National Positions

Scientific Advisory Committe, Gene Ontology Consoritium
External Advisory Committee, Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside
Steering Committee, AMIA Academic Forum

Informatics Projects

Active Projects

Uncertainty in Information Integration: Incorporating uncertainty about sources, links, and results into a biological data integration system [NSF, co-PI along with Alon Halevy and Dan Suciu of Computer Science and Engineering)
Biomedical Informatics Core of the Institute of Translational Health Sciences [NIH CTSA, Director of Core]
Detecting Errors in Blood Labs Using Bayesian Networks [Subcontract PI, PI: Jason Doctor at USC]
UW Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics: Member of advisory group

Prior Projects
- Data Integration
- Genetic database grants
- Telemedicine grants[Clinical Director]
- IAIMS Grant [Clinical Informatics Consultant]
- Neonatology Informatics Projects [Supervisor]
- Planning Grant for National Center of Excellence in Biomedical Computing [co-PI, co-Director]
  - Development projects:
    - Project 1: Develop generalizable anatomical structure based methods for representing and managing biological information (Lead: Brinkley)
    - Project 2: Develop methods and tools for ontology alignment, whereby ontologies are linked by a set of explicit mapping relations that provide coherent semantics across multiple ontologies and their data (Lead: Gennari)
    - Project 3: Develop a peer data management system (Bio-PDMS) and toolkit for sharing of heterogeneous biological data from diverse existing data sources leveraging new and existing ontologies (Lead: Tarczy-Hornoch)

Teaching

MEBI 530 Introduction to Biomedical and Health Informatics (Fall)
MEBI 590 Biomedical and Health Informatics Lecture Series (Fall, Winter, Spring)
HuBio 590 Medical Information for Decision Making (Winter)

Publications & Editorial Responsibilities

PubMed search for Tarczy-Hornoch P
Editorial Board, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Editorial Board, Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Prior Positions

Clinical Informatics Advisory Committee, University of Washington Academic Medical Centers
Clinical Computing Steering Committee, University of Washington Academic Medical Centers
American Medical Informatics Association, Finance and Audit Committee
Scientific Program Committee, AMIA 2003 Fall Symposium
Chair 2002-2005, AMIA Genomics Working Group
AMIA Co-Chair Scientific Program Committee, Chair of Foundations Track, AMIA 2005 Symposium