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Sherrilynne Fuller , Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, School
of Medicine
Professor, Information School
Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Services, School of Public
Health
Co-Director, Center for Public Health Informatics
Box 35-4985
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
Email -- sfuller@u.washington.edu
Web -- http://faculty.washington.edu/sfuller/
Center for Public
Health Informatics
Brief Biographical Sketch:
Fuller is Professor, Biomedical and
Health Informatics, School of Medicine ; Professor (Adjunct) Health Services,
School of Public Health and Professor (Joint), Information School, and senior
advisor, Dean, University Libraries all at the University of Washington,
Seattle, Washington. She received her BA (Biology) and MLS (information
Science) degrees from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA and her PhD
(Information Science) from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles
California, USA. Fuller has led several large-scale campus and
regional research and development projects in the areas of biomedical and health
informatics, telemedicine and information technology. One of the
first web-based medical record systems in the world (Mindscape), which still in
use at UW Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center, was a product of her
IAIMS (Integrated Academic Information Management System) program leadership
for the UW Academic Health Sciences Center. As Director, Health
Sciences Libraries, University of Washington for over twenty years she led the
development of state of art library and information systems with particular
emphasis on linking library resources to clinical information systems in
the UW Medical Centers and development of knowledge mining and mapping
systems. As Co-Director, Center for Public Health Informatics Fuller has
led the development of innovative computing and information systems projects to
improve public health practice nationally and internationally with a particular
focus on open source decision support tools and knowledge
management systems. She was a
contributor to the development of EpiVue, an open source data visualization
tool for public health.
Fuller has lectured, led training
programs and consulted throughout the world on the development of interoperable
health information systems for low resource environments and on the creation of
education and research programs in biomedical and health
informatics. Examples of international courses and workshops she has led
in recent years include: Introduction to Public Health Informatics
Principles in Health Information Systems Development Within the Vietnam Health
System (Hanoi School of Public Health, Hanoi, Vietnam);
Improving Health Outcomes through Interoperability (Ministry of
Health leaders and university faculty from throughout the Mekong Basin region
countries and beyond); Health Informatics for
HIV/AIDS Data Management Fellowship Program (University of Nairobi,
Kenya); Biomedical and Health Informatics Resources, Tools and
Technologies (multiple courses over past ten years in collaboration with
Cayetano-Heredia University, Lima, Peru). She is currently part of
an international collaboration contributing to Strengthening HIV Strategic
Health Management Information Systems in Tanzania with particular
responsibility for supporting the development of the Enterprise Architecture
and e-health strategy.
Fuller served as the
founding head of the Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, School of
Medicine (1997-2001) and as the Director, Health Sciences Libraries and
Associate Dean of Libraries (1988-2008). Fuller was a member
of the President's (White House) Information Technology Advisory Committee
(PITAC) and co-chaired the PITAC SubCommittee on Transforming
Healthcare; the Board of Regents of the National Library
of Medicine and on the Boards of the American Medical Informatics Association
and the Medical Library Association. She is an elected fellow of the Medical
Library Association and the American
College of Medical Informatics.
Current Research:
Principal Investigator
Strengthening
HIV Strategic Health Management Information System (HMIS) Activities in the
United Republic of Tanzania to Improve Informatics
and Data Use within the Health Sector under the President's Emergency Plan for
AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Grantee: PEPFAR
Grant to Research Triangle Institute (RTI) with subcontract to UW 2010-2015
Principal Investigator
QUIPU:
The Andean Global Health Informatics Research and Training Center. Fogarty
International Center Award to Cayetano-Heredia University with subcontract to
UW. Caytano-Heredia PI, Dr. Patricia Garcia. 2009-2014
Training HIV Program
Managers for Kenya Grantee: University of
Nairobi 2008-2012 Role:
Lead UW Educator in Public Health Informatics
Prior Recent Research:
Principal Investigator
Building
the Global Partners in Public Health Informatics. The goal of
this work is to support the development of an international network of
individuals, institutions and organization focused on building capacity in
public health in low and middle income
settings. Rockefeller
Foundation. 2008-2010
Principal Investigator
Mahidol
University, Center of Excellence in Biomedical and Public Health
Informatics Training and Support with particular emphasis on The
Mekong Basin Region. 2008-2010
Selected Publications:
BOOKS
Chen HC, Fuller SS,
Friedman C, Hersh W. co-editors. Medical Informatics: Knowledge
Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine. NY, Springer, 2005
Norris TE, Fuller S,
Tarczy-Hornoch P, Goldberg H, co-editors. Informatics in Primary
Care. New York, Springer-Verlag, 2002.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Revere D, Bugni PF,
Dahlstrom L, Fuller SS myPublicHealth: Utilizing
Knowledge Management to Improve Public Health Practice and Decision
Making. In: Liebowitz J, Schieber RA, Andreadis JD. Knowledge
Management in Public Health, CRC Press, 2010
Fuller SS, Masuda D, Gorman
PN, Lindberg DAB. Medical Informatics and Information Access. In: Geyman JP,
Hart G, Norris T., eds. Textbook of Rural Health Care. New
York, McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Revere D, Fuller SS. “Characterizing
biomedical concept relationships: Concept relationships as a pathway
for knowledge creation and discovery.” In: Chen, HC,
FULLER SS, Friedman C, Hersh W. Medical Informatics: Knowledge
Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine. New York, Springer,
2005.
Watson L, Fuller SS. “Managing
and leveraging organizational knowledge: Commentary.” In:
Detmer D, Steen E. The Academic Health Center: Leadership and
Performance. Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press,
2005.
REFEREED ARTICLES
Fuller, S "From
Intervention to Prevention Informatics "
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science 38 (1): 36-41, 2011.
Fuller S Tracking the
Global Express: New Tools Addressing Disease Threats Across the World Epidemiology 21(6):1-2,
2010 (In Press) [Invited]
Curioso WH, Fuller S,
Garcia PJ, Holmes KK, Kimball AM. Ten Years of International Collaboration in
Biomedical Informatics and Beyond: The AMAUTA Program in Peru. J Am Med
Inform Assoc 2010;17(4):477-480.
Kimball AM; Curioso WH,
Arima Y, Fuller SS, Garcia PJ, Segovia-Juarez, J, Castagnetto
JM, Leon-Velarde F, Holmes KK Developing Capacity in
Health Informatics in a Resource Poor setting: a Case Study from
Peru. Human Resources for Health 2009
Doctor JN, B. J., Lober WB,
Davies J, Kobayashi J, Karras BT, Fuller S. (2008). "Time-Tradeoff
Utilities for Identifying and Evaluating a Minimum Data Set for Time-Critical
Biosurveillance.. ." Med Decis Making.28(May-Jun;(3)):
351-8, 2008,
Yi Q, Hoskins RE, Hillringhouse EA,
Sorensen SS, Oberle MW, Fuller SS, Wallace JC. Integrating
open-source technologies to build low-cost information systems for improved
access to public health data. International Journal of Health Geographics 2008,
7:29/
Curioso W, Hansen J,
Centurion-Lara A, Garcia P, Wolf F, Fuller S, Holmes K, Kimball A, Nodell B. Evaluation
of a Joint Bioinformatics and Medical InformaticsInternational Course in Peru. BioMed Central Medical Education,
8:1, 2008.
Anderson N, Lee ES, Brockenbrough JS, Minie M,
Fuller S, Brinkley J, Tarczy-Hornoch P. Issues in Biomedical
Research Data Management and Analysis: Needs and Barriers. J Am Med Inform Assoc 14(4): 478-88,
2007.
Revere D, Turner A, Madhavan A,
Rambo N, Bugni PF, Kimball AM, Fuller SS. Understanding the
information needs of public health practitioners: a literature review to inform
design of an interactive digital knowledge management system. Journal of Biomedical Informatics,
2007 Special Issue on Public Health Informatics.
Fuller SS, Revere D,
Bugni, P, Martin, G. A knowledgebase system to enhance scientific
discovery: Telemakus Biomedical
Digital Libraries 1:2-15, 2004 URL:
http://www.bio-diglib.com/content/1/1/2
Press NO, Sahali R,
Burroughs CM, Frank K, Rambo N, Wood FB, Siegel ER, Fuller SS. Program
Management and Policy Issues in Information Outreach: Lessons from Tribal
Connections. Journal of
Health and Social Policy, 17(3):1-20, 2003.
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