Clinical Natural Language Processing

Dr. Laura K. Wiley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, where she also serves as Chief Data Scientist for Health Data Compass. Her research focuses on leveraging electronic health record (EHR) data to enhance precision medicine through the development of computational phenotyping algorithms and innovative approaches to clinical data science.Dr. Wiley has led significant projects, including work on precision dosing algorithms for warfarin in African Americans and serving as the lead informatician on a comprehensive tobacco cessation service funded by the NIH Cancer Moonshot initiative. She is a principal investigator in the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine and has published extensively on topics related to health informatics and medical technology.In addition to her research, Dr. Wiley is actively involved in the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), having chaired various summits and served on the board of directors. She has co-developed the Coursera Clinical Data Science Specialization, which includes courses designed to teach essential skills in clinical research informatics.Her courses on Coursera include "Introduction to Clinical Data Science," "Advanced Clinical Data Science," and "Predictive Modeling and Transforming Clinical Practice," aimed at equipping students with the knowledge necessary for data-driven healthcare solutions