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Dr. Embi is founding Director of the UC Center for Health Informatics, is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, and is Director of Clinical and Translational Informatics for the UC Medical Center. He is actively involved in applied and academic informatics activities across the UC academic health center.
Dr. Embi’s informatics research interests span the domains of clinical, educational, and clinical research informatics. In support of his research, Dr. Embi is the recipient of numerous research grants, including one of the first National Library of Medicine's Early Career Development Award for Informatics (K22), and an R01 research grant from the NIH/NLM in 2008.
He is also a leader at the national level in professional associations including the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the American College of Rheumatology (ACR). He currently serves on the ACR Board of Directors, on the AMIA Ethics Committee, as chair-elect of AMIA's Clinical Research Informatics Working Group, and as a member of AMIA's Clinical Research Informatics Steering Task Force. He is also a regular contributor to educational sessions on health information technology use by clinicians for such organizations as the American College of Physicians and the American College of Rheumatology.
In addition to his informatics endeavors, Dr. Embi is a practicing rheumatologist at the Cincinnati VAMC and is an active educator of medical students, residents, and graduate students in both clinical medicine and medical informatics.
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Background:
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- Titles:
- Director, UC Center for Health Informatics;
- Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
- Director, Clinical and Translational Informatics
- Education:
- BS, University of Florida, 1993;
- MD, University of South Florida College of Medicine, 1997;
- MS, Oregon Health & Science University, 2002
- Post-Graduate Training:
- Internal Medicine Internship and Residency, Oregon Health & Science University, 1997-2000;
- Internal Medicine Chief Resident, Oregon Health & Science University, 2000-2001;
- Medical Informatics Fellowship, Portland VAMC/Oregon Health & Science University, 2000-2002;
- Rheumatology & Immunology Fellowship, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 2002-2004
- Informatics Interests:
- Development and evaluation of computerized decision support tools for clinical research and practice;
- Socio-cultural impacts of information technologies in healthcare;
- Evaluation of information technologies for medical education and consumer health
- Clinical Interests:
- General rheumatology;
- Vasculitis
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