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Melissa Clarkson PhD, MDes, MA ude.yku@noskralcm
ORCID: 0000-0001-9979-176X |
Specializations
- Biomedical ontologies
- Information visualization
- Human-centered design
Academic appointment
- Assistant Professor, Division of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Internal Medicine
Education
- PhD in Biomedical and Health Informatics; University of Washington; Seattle, WA
- MDes in Communication Planning and Information Design; Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh, PA
- MA in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; University of Kansas; Lawrence, KS
- BS in Biochemistry, Microbiology; Kansas State University; Manhattan, KS
Biography
Melissa Clarkson works at the intersection of informatics, design, and life sciences. The overarching goal of her work is to increase the understanding of data and knowledge generated within the life sciences. Her research has two areas of emphasis. The first addresses the gap between complex information and the people who need to understand it. This work in “human-information interaction” consists of understanding the information needs of researchers and clinicians, designing visualizations and interfaces, and evaluating the designs. Her second area of emphasis is the representation of information within systems. She studies how biomedical ontologies can be used to structure information and provide semantic consistency, as well as the role ontologies can play in making interfaces more useful and usable.
Publications and other works
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- journal article | 2021
- Ethics and informatics in the age of COVID-19: challenges and recommendations for public health organization and public policy
- J Am Med Inform Assoc
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- editorial | 2019
- Abandon the term "second victim"
- BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
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- conference paper | 2019
- Employing knowledge patterns for auditing the Foundational Model of Anatomy
- 2nd International Workshop on Quality Assurance and Enrichment of Biological and Biomedical Ontologies and Terminologies at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 2019)
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- other | 2019
- Promoting patient safety and responding to patient harm: Opportunities for informatics to advance patient-centered healthcare
- AMIA Informatics Summit
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- conference paper | 2019
- Using visual representation to support knowledge representation: Defining relations between graphics in a graphic library
- 2nd Annual Knowledge Representation and Semantics Pre-Symposium Workshop of the AMIA 2019 Annual Symposium
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- conference paper | 2019
- Visual representation for knowledge representation: Graphics libraries to support anatomy terminologies and ontologies
- 10th Annual International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO)
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- conference paper | 2018
- Does the Foundational Model of Anatomy ontology provide a knowledge base for learning and assessment in anatomy education?
- 9th International Conference on Biological Ontology (ICBO 2018)
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- other | 2018
- Speaking about science: A student-led training program improves graduate students’ skills in public communication
- Journal of Science Communication
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- journal article | 2018
- Variation in the representation of human anatomy within digital resources: Implications for data integration
- AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
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- conference paper | 2016
- Communication training for scientists and engineers: A framework for highlighting principles common to written, oral, and visual communication
- IEEE International Professional Communication Conference