Dr. Vimla Patel, PhD, DSc — Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University
Bio:- Vimla Patel, PhD, DSc, FRSC, FACMI, FIAHSI, is an adjunct professor in the department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. She is also a former Senior Research Scientist and the director of the Center for Cognitive Studies in Medicine and Public Health at the New York Academy of Medicine. She holds a BSc in Biochemistry and Microbiology from the University of Otago in New Zealand and an MA and a Ph.D. in Educational and Cognitive Psychology (Medical Cognition) from McGill University in Montreal. As a Professor of Medicine and the director of the Cognitive Science Center at McGill, her early research focused on the scientific foundations of medical and health education, particularly the cognitive foundations of medical decision-making. As the principal investigator (PI), Dr. Patel was funded by the Canadian Medical Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Subsequently, she expanded these research activities with an informatics focus at Columbia (CU) (2000-2007), Arizona State University (ASU) (2007-2009), and the University of Texas-Houston (UTH) (2009-2011). Adjunct appointments as a professor at NY Psychiatric Institute (Columbia), Computer Science (ASU), and Behavioral Health Science (UTH) allowed her to explore the relationship among Cognitive, behavioral, and information sciences in the biomedical domain.