Laura Wiley, PhD

Dr. Wiley develops methods for using data from electronic health records for precision medicine discovery and implementation. She is a principal investigator in the Institute for Informatics, Data Science, & Biostatistics and an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at Washington University in St. Louis. She completed undergraduate degrees in chemistry and molecular biology at the University of Denver followed by a Masters in biomedical informatics (2010) and a PhD in human genetics at Vanderbilt University (2016). Her published work involves developing computational phenotyping algorithms for use in EHR-linked biobanks and investigating new algorithms for precision dosing of warfarin in African Americans. Her current work focuses on clinical evidence generation from electronic health records and informatics implementation, serving as the lead informatician on an NIH Cancer Moonshot-funded project to create a comprehensive tobacco cessation service at the University of Colorado Cancer Center. Dr. Wiley is actively involved in the informatics community. She has served as an ex officio member of the American Medical Informatics Association Board of Directors and is Vice-Chair of the AMIA 2019 Annual Symposium. Further she has co-developed the Coursera Clinical Data Science Specialization - a series of six MOOCs designed to teach clinical research informatics skills. For more on her informatics journey, check out her "Faces of AMIA" profile: https://www.amia.org/about-amia/leadership/spotlight-1/laura-wiley-phd