Doctoral Candidate, Department of Biomedical Informatics

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Research Interests

Currently a PhD student focusing on Dental Informatics. Research interests include voice interfaces, human computer interaction, and user-centered design. [Biomedical Informatics Doctoral Program/dental informatics concentration]

Education

• BA (2000: major Letters, Arts & Sciences, minor Psychology) Pennsylvania State University
• MS (2006; Biomedical Informatics) University of Pittsburgh

Publications

Christensen L, Harkema H, Irwin JY, Haug P, Chapman WW. MEDUSA: Medical Understanding and Semantic Analysis. BioNLP2009 Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, June 4-5, 2009.

Irwin JY, Torres-Urquidy MH, Schleyer TK, Monaco V. A Preliminary Model of Work During Initial Examination and Treatment Planning Appointments. British Dental Journal 2009 Jan 10;206(1):E1; discussion 24-5. Epub 2009 Jan 2. PMID: 19119286 PMC Journal – In process.

Irwin JY, Harkema H, Christensen LM, Schleyer T, Haug PJ, Chapman WW. Methodology to Develop and Evaluate a Semantic Representation for NLP. Accepted AMIA Fall Symposium 2009.

Spallek H, Yuhaniak Irwin J, Schleyer T, Butler BS, Weiss PM. Supporting the Emergence of Dental Informatics with an Online Community. International Journal of Computerized Dentistry. Accepted 2007

Yuhaniak Irwin J, Fernando S, Schleyer T, Spallek H. Speech Recognition in Dental Software Systems: Features and Functionality. Medinfo - Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health Informatics. 2007;129:1127-31.

Schleyer T, Thyvalikakath TP, Spallek H, Torres-Urquidy HM, Hernandez P, Yuhaniak J. Clinical Computing in General Dentistry. JAMIA. 2006 May-Jun;13(3):344-52

Grants

Co-investigator for NIDCR (PI: R. Katz) “NYU Oral Cancer RAAHP Center”. The major goal of this project is to conduct studies to reduce oral health disparities in oral cancer.