Doctoral Candidate, Department of Biomedical Informatics

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Research Interests

Velma Payne is a doctoral student in Biomedical Informatics. Her research interests included cognitive aspects of medical decision making, intelligent tutoring systems and knowledge structures such as ontologies and semantic networks.

Education

• BS (1984, Computer Science) Oral Roberts University
• MS (1996, Computer Information Systems) Robert Morris University
• Masters of Business Administration (1997, MBA) Robert Morris University
• MS (2008, Biomedical Informatics) University of Pittsburgh

Publications

Payne VL, Medvedeva O, Legowski E, Castine M, Tseytlin E, Jukic D, Crowley RS. Effect of a limited-enforcement intelligent tutoring system in dermatopathology on student errors, goals and solution paths. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, August 2009 (in press). Best Student Paper - 2009 University of Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics Training Program Retreat

Saadawi GME, Azevedo R, Castine M, Payne V, Medvedeva O, Tseytlin E, Legowski E, Jukic D, Crowley R; Factors effecting metacognitive gains in an intelligent medical training system - the role of immediate feedback and metacognitive affordances. Advances in Health Sciences Education, Published online: 12 May 2009; DOI 10.1007/s10459-009-9162-6;

Payne V, Crowley RS.: Assessing Use of Cognitive Heuristic Representativeness in Clinical Reasoning. AMIA Annual Symp Proc November, 2008 6:571-5. PMID: 18999140 PMCID: PMC2656076

V. Payne, D. Metzler, (2005) Hospital Care Watch (HCW), An Ontology and Rule-based Intelligent Patient Management Assistant in Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (IEEE CBMS 2005), June 23-24, 2005 at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. 479 - 484. Online article

V. Payne, J. Kiel. Web-based Communication to Enhance Outcomes: A Case Study in Patient Relations, Journal of Healthcare Information Management, Volume 19, Number 2, 2005. 56-63 PMID: 15869214

V. Payne. Evidence-Based Medicine: Enabling Physicians to Make Better Decisions in Healthcare Information Management Systems Cases, Strategies and Solutions, Third Edition. M. J. Ball, C. A. Weaver, & J. M. Keil, Editors, Springer-Verlag, 2004.