Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Philadelphia,
PA
USA
19104
Email:
jhholmes@mail.med.upenn.edu
Biographical Sketch:
John H. Holmes, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Medical Informatics in Epidemiology at HUP. He has been with the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania since 1982, holding a variety of research staff positions. He joined the standing faculty at Penn in 2001. He holds appointments in the Graduate Groups in Biostatistics and Epidemiology and in Public Health and a secondary appointment in the School of Nursing. He directs the doctoral training program in epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Holmes’ research interests are focused on several areas in medical informatics. Specifically, his interests are in evolutionary computation and machine learning approaches to knowledge discovery in clinical databases (data mining), interoperable information systems infrastructures for epidemiologic surveillance, clinical decision support systems, semantic analysis, and information systems user (physician and patient) behavior. Dr. Holmes is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, a member of the American College of Epidemiology, a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and a Senior Fellow of the Center for Public Health Initiatives at Penn.