The KSL Team
The Knowledge Systems Lab (KSL) is a multidisciplinary team of researchers. Our expertise spans across information and library sciences, healthcare, public health, software development, and infrastructure.
Charles P. Friedman, PhD
Chair, Department of Learning Health Sciences
Josiah Macy Jr. Professor of Medical Education
Professor of Information
Professor of Public Health
Director, Knowledge Systems Lab
Research Interests: Creation of a national-scale learning health system, development and sustainability of enterprise level knowledge resources, knowledge-based applications to support decisions by care providers and consumers, methods for studying the effectiveness of technologically-based interventions, technologically-based innovations in education
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3395-5199
Websites: LinkedIn, Department of Learning Health Sciences
Marisa Conte, MLIS
Associate Director, Knowledge Systems Lab
Health Infrastructures and Learning Systems (HILS) PhD Student
Department of Learning Health Sciences
Research Interests: computable phenotypes, representation and curation of computable biomedical knowledge, sociotechnical infrastructure for knowledge management and dissemination.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7377-163X
Websites: LinkedIn, Department of Learning Health Sciences
Allen Flynn, PhD, PharmD
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Department of Learning Health Sciences
Research Interests: Health informatics, learning systems, interoperability, advice-giving systems, expert systems, medication-related knowledge representation, medication use information, medication advice, and medication-related decision-making
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3471-3063
Websites: LinkedIn, Department of Learning Health Sciences
Zach Landis-Lewis, PhD, MLIS
Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Department of Learning Health Sciences
Research Interests: Message tailoring in learning health systems, implementation science in low-income countries, knowledge-based design of performance feedback interventions, cognitive theories of feedback and advice
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9117-9338
Websites: Display Lab, LinkedIn, Department of Learning Health Sciences
Rachel Richesson, PhD, MPH, MS, FACMI
Clinical Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Department of Learning Health Sciences
Research Interests: Biomedical informatics (including Clinical Research Informatics and Public Health Informatics), evaluating and implementing data standards (including terminologies and classifications such as SNOMED CT, ICD, LOINC, RxNorm, CTCAE and MedDRA, and condition-specific ‘common data elements’), knowledge representation (including formal ontologies, heterogeneous data integration), the design of patient registries, and rare diseases research advocacy.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0279-7036
Websites: LinkedIn, Department of Learning Health Sciences
Peter Boisvert, MFA
Lead Developer
Research Interests: Knowledge engineering for interoperability, meta-modeling, open systems as an enabler of healthcare access
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4198-4176
Websites: LinkedIn, Department of Learning Health Sciences
Farid Seifi, PhD
Senior Developer
Research Interests: Mobilizing computable biomedical knowledge, machine learning and data mining, robotics
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4454-5826
Websites: LinkedIn, Department of Learning Health Sciences
Ayshwarya Jagadeesan
Programmer Analyst Senior
Research Interests: Feedback, Artificial Intelligence
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7321-3543
Websites: LinkedIn, Github, Department of Learning Health Sciences
Philip Barrison
Health Infrastructures and Learning Systems (HILS) PhD Student
MD Student, University of Michigan Medical School
Research Interests: CBK for clinical decision support, healthcare workflow and process automation, business process modeling, qualitative methodologies, human centered design
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8099-8506
Websites: LinkedIn, Department of Learning Health Sciences
