Clinfowiki:About

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Editor: Vishnu Mohan MD MBI is a clinician-educator and clinical informatician, and Assistant Professor of Medical Informatics, Medicine,and Management at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon. He is board certified in clinical informatics and internal medicine, and is interested in how clinicians make decisions with the assistance of (or despite) technology, and how these decisions can influence patient safety. Before joining the faculty at DMICE, Vishnu was Associate Program Director at Legacy Health’s internal medicine training program, and was involved in the design and implementation of a comprehensive electronic health record.


Associate Editor: Neal Goldstein MBI holds a master's degree in biomedical informatics from Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, OR), and is currently a doctoral candidate in the department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA). Neal's research interests include public health informatics, vaccination, infectious diseases, maternal and child health, and history of public health. Prior to starting the PhD at Drexel, Neal worked in the medical device field with a specific focus on women's health.


Founder: Clinfowiki was created on 27 July 2005 by Dean F. Sittig PhD, Professor in the School of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Texas, Health Sciences Center at Houston. Dean's goal for this resource was "to provide clinical informaticians around the world a place to document and discuss many of the most important lessons they have learned in their day to day activities.". Prior to moving to Houston, Dean was faculty at DMICE in Portland, oregon.