Joyce Mitchell, PhD, FACMI, FACMG
Professor, Biomedical Informatics
Department Chair, Biomedical Informatics
Biomedical Informatics
26 South 2000 East
Room 5775 HSEB
Salt Lake City, Ut 84112
Office: 5700 HSEB
Office Phone: (801) 581-4080
Email:
Degrees:
1976 PhD Population Genetics University of Wisconsin
Dr. Mitchell obtained her PhD in Population Genetics from the University of Wisconsin with postdoctoral training in clinical genetics. She is certified as a Medical Geneticist by the American Board of Medical Genetics and the American College of Medical Genetics. Her postdoctoral training was in Medical Informatics Sciences and she was elected to be a Fellow in the American College of Medical Informatics. Dr. Mitchell spent 25 years on the faculty of the University of Missouri School of Medicine in two departments: Child Health (Section on Medical Genetics) and Health Management and Informatics (Division Leader of Health Informatics). Administratively, she has served as the Director of the Medical Informatics Group, the Associate Dean for Information Technology for the School of Medicine, and the Chief Information Officer for University of Missouri Health Care. She spent a sabbatical year at the National Library of Medicine in 2001-02 and developed the Genetics Home Reference [http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov] to bridge the genomics research results with consumer health interests in genetic diseases. Dr. Mitchell was recruited in 2005 by the University of Utah to serve as Department Chair for Biomedical Informatics.
Research Statement
Current research interests are focused on Informatics of Personalized Medicine; Biomedical Informatics and the CTSA grant; i2b2 Partnership between the University of Utah and Harvard; Genetics Home Reference (including a GHR evaluation of the InfoRX for newborn screening; Newborn screening registry; Genetics testing and genetics data in the EMR (including relating genotype to phenotype); Decision support systems for genetic data in the EMR; Pharmacogenetics and decision support for the EMR.
Research Projects
NLM Training Grant
Current Courses
BMI 6030-1 Foundations of Bioinformatics
BMI 7050-1 Research in Medical Informatics
Courses I Teach
BMI 6030 Foundations of Bioinformatics
BMI 6950 Special Topics
BMI 6970 Thesis Research: M.S.
BMI 6980 Faculty Consultation: M.S.
BMI 7050 Research in Medical Informatics
BMI 7970 Dissertation Research: Ph.D.
BMI 7980 Faculty Consultation: Ph.D.
BMI 7990 Continuing Registration: Ph.D.