15 Dec ITHS Welcomes New Biomedical Informatics Director
ITHS is delighted to announce Dr. Shawn Murphy, MD, PhD will be joining as our new head of informatics for our Data Science Core.
Dr. Shawn Murphy
Dr. Murphy joins the University of Washington at large as a new member of core faculty in Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education (BIME) with a joint appointment in Neurology. In addition to being a core BIME faculty member and attending in an outpatient neurology clinic, he will be serving as UW Medicine Chief Research Information Officer in IT Services, and the Director of the Institute for Medical Data Sciences (IMDS). About the new position, Dr. Murphy says:
I am honored and excited to join the Data Science workforce at the University of Washington. I have always admired the closeness UW students have to the top teachers in the tech industry. I am hoping to enable Clinical and Informatics Research to use this and take Data Science and AI to a new level at UW
