University of Utah
Department of Biomedical Informatics
26 South 2000 East
HSEB 5775
Salt Lake City,
UT
USA
84112
Email:
catherine.staes@hsc.utah.edu
Biographical Sketch:
Catherine Staes is faculty in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the School of Medicine, University of Utah. Dr. Staes received her PhD in Medical Informatics from the University of Utah in 2006, a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in 1987, and a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from Georgetown University in 1981. Dr. Staes was an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1990-92), worked as a public health epidemiologist for 15 years, and has numerous publications concerning epidemiology and biomedical informatics. Currently, Dr. Staes’ research and teaching concerns the domain of public health informatics and the development of decision support tools and applications to support surveillance and public health goals.