Hongfang Liu, PhD

I am a professor in biomedical informatics from Department of Health Sciences Research at Mayo Clinic, directing Mayo Clinic's clinical natural language processing (NLP) program with the mission of providing support to access clinical information stored in unstructured text for research and practice. Administratively, I serve as the section head for Medical Informatics in the Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics. My primary research interest is in biomedical NLP and data normalization. I have been developing a suite of open-source NLP systems for accessing clinical information, such as medications or findings from clinical notes. I also conduct collaborative research in utilizing existing knowledge bases for high-throughput "omics" profiling data analysis and functional interpretation.