Doctoral Fellow of Biomedical Informatics

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Research Interests

Thankam Thyvalikakath is working on an improved interface for electronic dental records.

Education

• MS, University of Pittsburgh, Biomedical Informatics, 2006.
• MDS, University of Calicut, Dental College, India, 1994.
• BDS, University of Kerala, Dental College, India, Dental Material Sciences, 1991.

Publications

Thyvalikakath TP, Monaco V, Thambuganipalle H, Schleyer T. Comparative study of heuristic evaluation and usability testing methods. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2009;143:322-7. PMID: 19380955 PMCID: PMC2736678

Spallek H, Butler BS, Schleyer TK, Weiss PM, Wang X, Thyvalikakath TP, Hatala CL, Naderi RA. Supporting emerging disciplines with e-communities: needs and benefits. J Med Internet Res. 2008 Jun 30;10(2):e19. PMID: 18653443 PMCID: PMC24835921

Thyvalikakath TP, Monaco V, Thambuganipalle HB, Schleyer TK. Usability Evaluation of Four Commercial Dental Computer-based Patient Records. Accepted by Journal of American Dental Association 2008 Dec; 139(12):1632-42. PMID: 19047669 PMCID: PMC2614265

Thyvalikakath TP, Schleyer TK, Monaco V. Heuristic evaluation of clinical functions in four practice management systems. Journal of the American Dental Association, 2007; 138(2): 209-18. 17272376[PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]

Schleyer TKL, Thyvalikakath TP, Malatak P, Marotta M, Shah T, Phanichphant P, Price G, Hong J. Feasibility of a three dimensional charting interface for general dentistry. Journal of the American Dental Association, 2007; 138(8): 1072-82. 17670873 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]

Schleyer TK, Thyvalikakath TP, Hong J. What is user-centered design? J Am Dent Assoc. 2007; 138(8):1081-2. 17670874 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]

Schleyer TK, Thyvalikakath TP, Spallek H, Torres-Urquidy MH, Hernandez P, Yuhaniak J. Clinical Computing in General Dentistry J Am Med Inform Assoc 2006 May;13(3):344-52. 16501177 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]