Public Biography
Hongfang Liu is an internationally recognized leader in biomedical informatics, translational artificial intelligence (AI), digital health, and real-world data science. She currently serves as the inaugural chair of the Department of Quantitative and Systems Health Sciences and chief translational AI and informatics officer at Dell Medical School, where she also holds the Carolyn and Kenneth Shine Endowed Chair in Artificial Intelligence. In this role, she leads strategic efforts to integrate AI, data science, and systems-level approaches across research, education, healthcare delivery, and operational innovation to advance a next-generation AI-enabled academic health ecosystem. Dr. Liu’s research focuses on transforming large-scale biomedical and clinical data into actionable knowledge to accelerate precision medicine, translational science, learning health systems, and healthcare delivery innovation. Her work spans biomedical NLP, machine learning, knowledge representation, bioinformatics, digital health, explainable AI, and real-world evidence generation. She has maintained continuous federal funding since 2003 and currently serves as a principal leader of ReCARDO, a multi-institutional initiative funded by the National Institute on Aging to harmonize real-world clinical data for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia research.
Historic ACMI Biography
Dr. Liu is an internationally recognized investigator in biomedical natural language processing (NLP). Her current work includes research and development on improving the usability, interoperability, and adaptability of clinical NLP systems. She is also working on broadening the community engagement of Open Health NLP (OHNLP) for clinical and translational research.
Affiliations
The American College of Medical Informatics
ACMI is a college of elected Fellows from the U.S. and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. It is the central body for a community of scholars and practitioners who are committed to advancing the informatics field.
Year Elected
2016
Intensive Care Informatics
Working Group
Member-at-Large
The goal of the Intensive Care Informatics Working Group is to improve outcomes of critically ill and injured patients with the help of medical informatics.
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Primary Care Informatics
Working Group
Chair Elect
The Primary Care Informatics Working Group's mission is to provide an environment for discussion of, education about, and research into primary-care informatics, for the benefit of AMIA members involved in or working with the practice, research, or teaching of primary-care disciplines.
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Nominating Committee
Member
The Nominating Committee’s primary function is to ensure the effective and appropriate involvement of AMIA members in the organization through the annual election process.
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Learning Health Systems
Working Group
Member-at-Large
The goals of the AMIA LHS-WG are to build a community of LHS practitioners and researchers in AMIA, foster LHS research and applications, and establish connections among the group from different scientific backgrounds including outside of informatics, and countries.
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