Holly Jimison, PhD

Holly Jimison received her bachelorís degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois and her PhD in medical information science from Stanford University. She has been at the University of Oregon Health & Science University in Portland for the past 13 years in various capacities and is currently Associate Professor of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology there. Her research interests have ranged over a wide area, including methods for representation of probabilities and utilities within decision support applications, development of pattern recognition algorithms for automated electrocardiography analysis and ultrasound tissue characterization, adaptive algorithms for control of ventilators, use of multimedia for improving the informed consent process, and consumer health informatics. She is currently attempting to invent a new subspecialty of informatics named neural informatics, which is the understanding of how information processing occurs in the central nervous system. She is also is principal investigator of a research project entitled ëëTechnology for Early Detection and Intervention of Cognitive Decline.íí Her election to the College recognizes the depth and breadth of her varied contributions to the field.