Public Biography
Titus Schleyer is a Research Scientist at the Center for Biomedical Informatics of the Regenstrief Institute and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
He leads the Learning Health Informatics Program, which uses everyday patient care and other data to improve the health of and healthcare for people in Indiana and beyond. A recent focus of his is the intersection of climate change, health and informatics. Climate-related exposures such as extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and temperature fluctuations have increasingly serious implications for human health. Biomedical informatics, as the academic field focused on data, information, knowledge, and wisdom as related to human health, is essential to support our attempts to understand, mitigate, and adapt to climate change. Dr. Schleyer is the founder and chair of the AMIA Climate, Health and Informatics Working Group.
An award-winning educator, Dr. Schleyer is focused on educating the next generation of biomedical informaticians. He co-directs the National Library of Medicine-funded Public & Population Health Informatics Fellowship at Indiana University. In addition, he continuously mentors trainees in several other training programs.
Dr. Schleyer holds DMD and PhD degrees from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, a DMD degree from Temple University, Philadelphia, and an MBA degree in Health Administration from Temple University. He is a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the American Medical Informatics Association, and is an AMIA Certified Health Informatics Professional. His research is primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health.
He leads the Learning Health Informatics Program, which uses everyday patient care and other data to improve the health of and healthcare for people in Indiana and beyond. A recent focus of his is the intersection of climate change, health and informatics. Climate-related exposures such as extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and temperature fluctuations have increasingly serious implications for human health. Biomedical informatics, as the academic field focused on data, information, knowledge, and wisdom as related to human health, is essential to support our attempts to understand, mitigate, and adapt to climate change. Dr. Schleyer is the founder and chair of the AMIA Climate, Health and Informatics Working Group.
An award-winning educator, Dr. Schleyer is focused on educating the next generation of biomedical informaticians. He co-directs the National Library of Medicine-funded Public & Population Health Informatics Fellowship at Indiana University. In addition, he continuously mentors trainees in several other training programs.
Dr. Schleyer holds DMD and PhD degrees from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, a DMD degree from Temple University, Philadelphia, and an MBA degree in Health Administration from Temple University. He is a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the American Medical Informatics Association, and is an AMIA Certified Health Informatics Professional. His research is primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Historic ACMI Biography
Dr Schleyer received his Doctorate of Dental Medicine from the University of Frankfurt am Main in Germany, and a PhD in Molecular Biology. He emigrated to the USA and received another DMD degree, from Temple University, along with an MBA in Health Administration. He stayed on at Temple and rose to Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Dental Informatics in the School of Dentistry. In 2005 he moved to the University of Pittsburgh to become Associate Professor of Dental Medicine and Director of the Center for Dental Informatics, and Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics. His nomination notes that Dr Schleyer is a pioneer in the discipline of dental informatics, a field that only recently has begun to mature. He is currently the highest-published author in the field of dental informatics. At the time of his election to the College, Dr Schleyer was principal investigator on a NIH RO1 grant entitled ëA Controlled Terminology for Diagnoses and Findings in General Dentistryí. Prior to this award, no investigator in the USA had ever received an R01 award for a dental informatics research project. He is the fourth dentist to be elected to Fellowship in the College, among the approximately 150?000 active dental practitioners in the country. He has been an active contributor to the CTSA consortium and chairs the CTSA Communications workgroup. He has also chaired two ANSI standards committee working groups, for educational software and dental electronic health record information models. His election to the College recognizes these technical and professional service contributions.
Affiliations
Fellows of AMIA (FAMIA)
FAMIA stands for “Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association” and it recognizes the contributions and professional accomplishments of AMIA members who apply informatics skills and knowledge to their practice – be that in a clinical setting, a public or population health capacity, or as a clinical researcher.
Year Inducted
2019
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
2009
AMIA Certified Health Informatics Professional (ACHIP) Diplomates
AMIA Certified Health Informatics Professional (ACHIP)
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Climate, Health and Informatics
Working Group
Chair
Global warming gives rise to destructive climate change, an important and increasingly urgent threat to human health, ecosystems and economies, with negative impacts already being felt and likely to worsen considerably in our lifetimes.
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