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
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Box 357240
Seattle WA 98195-7240

EMAIL: pth@uw.edu

Page Updated 9/24/2010

Faculty 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

Other Local Positions

Program Director, NLM funded University of Washington Biomedical and Health Informatics Research Training Program
Deputy Graduate Program Director, Graduate Program in Biomedical and Health Informatics
Chief, Research and Data Integration, UW Medicine Information Technology Services
Director, Biomedical Informatics Core, Institute of Translational Health Sciences (funded by NIH Clinical Translational Science Award - CTSA)
Associate Director and Director of Biomedical Informatics Core, Northwest Institute of Genetic Medicine (funded by The Life Sciences Discovery Fund)
Attending Staff, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle WA
Attending Staff, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle WA

Selected National Positions

External Advisory Committee, Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside
External Advisory Committee, Utah Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CTSA)
Steering Committee, AMIA Academic Forum
Executive Commitee, American College of Medical Informatics

Informatics Projects

Active Projects

Biomedical Informatics Core of the Institute of Translational Health Sciences [NIH CTSA, Director of Biomedical Informatics Core]

The focus of Biomedical Informatics Core (BMIC) is: a) provide the systems and support for investigators to leverage electronic medical record data linked to case report forms and linked to biorepositories (including cross institutional data sharing), and b) create new informatics knowledge about how to foster sustainable reproducible interoperable research information systems in collaboration with other CTSAs

"Adapting the i2b2 architecture to support cross institutional clinical translational research" (CICTR) [Co-Investigator]
Biomedical Informatics Core of the Northwest Institute of Genetic Medicine [LSDF, Director of the Biomedical Informatics Core]

Extracting phenotype from the electronic medical record
Pharmacogenomic decision support in electronic health records

"Surgical Care and Outcomes Assessment Program (SCOAP) Comparative Effectiveness Research Translation Network (CERTN)" [Co-Investigator, Lead of the Health Informatics Core]

The focus of the health informatics core of this research project is to link and validate automated collection of data needed for surgical comparative effectiveness research across multiple different hospitals and other orgianizations

Prior Projects
- Data Integration
- Clinical Systems
- Genetic database grants
- Telemedicine grants[Clinical Director]
- 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) (Past course chair)
MEBI 590 Biomedical and Health Informatics Lecture Series (Fall, Winter, Spring) (Current Course Chair)
HuBio 590 Medical Information for Decision Making (Fall) (Current Course Chair)

Publications & Editorial Responsibilities

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

Selected 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 Fall Symposium (2003)
Gene Ontology Advisory Board (2003-2007)
Chair AMIA Genomics Working Group (2002-2005)
Program Committee, 2nd International Workshop on Data Integration for the Life Sciences DILS (2005)
Co-Chair, IMIA Informatics in Genomic Medicine Working Group (2004-2010)
Co-Chair Scientific Program Committee, Chair of Foundations Track, AMIA Fall Symposium (2005)
Scientific Program Committee, AMIA Summint on Translational Bioinformatics (2008)
Chair, Scientific Program Committee, AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics (2010)

Updated 9/24/2010