Personal Health Informatics / Cognitive Informatics in Biomedicine and Healthcare (PDF)

and is an invited special issue editor in Frontiers in Public Health, Sensors Journal and Journal of America Medical Informatics Association [JAMIA OPEN].



Prof. (em.) Dr. Thomas Wetter is a Medical Informatics scholar with twelve years of experience in industry research and 30 years of experience in academic research and teaching in Biomedicine. A graduate and PhD in Mathematics from Aachen Technical University he worked most of his career on applying formal methods to biomedical problems. After eight years of physiological research in Aachen he joined the IBM Heidelberg Scientific Center. Here he researched and published on Human Computer Interface design, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Voice Recognition, and Software Quality. In 1997 he was appointed a full professor for Medical Informatics at Heidelberg University. Besides teaching in the curricula Medical Informatics and Medicine his research interests were in clinical applications of Voice Recognition and Artificial Intelligence and later in Consumer Health Informatics. In the years till 2018 his assignments included the management of a CME academy, the Heidelberg part of an international student exchange program (IPHIE), associate editor of the International Journal of Medical Informatics, and deputy chair and later chair of the IMIA WG Consumer Health Informatics. Besides various articles in scientific journals he is the editor of conference proceedings in artificial intelligence and author of the Springer 2016 textbook "Consumer Health Informatics. New Services, Roles, and Responsibilities." During his active time Dr. Wetter spent sabbaticals at the University of Utah and the University of Washington. After his retirement he was engaged by Ben-Gurion-University of the Negev in Be'er Sheva, Israel to help develop a curriculum in Medical Informatics.







Xinxin (Katie) Zhu, MD, PhD, FAMIA, FIAHSI. Executive Director, Center for Biomedical Data Science, Yale University. Dr. Xinxin Zhu is a clinician and healthcare informatics professional with more than a decade of experience in health management, biomedical informatics, and data science. In addition to her medical training and practice in anaesthesiology, she also received her M.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics from Columbia University under the National Library of Medicine fellowship. Prior to joining Yale faculty, Dr. Zhu served as an External Advisory Board member to the Center for Advanced Technology at Columbia University, physician scientist lead of pervasive health at the Center for Computational Health at IBM Watson Research, Chief Medical Information Officer at Kforce Government Solutions, associate medical director at Pfizer, clinical project manager at Philips, and healthcare subject matter expert at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. She is the recipient of many excellence awards, and author of high-impact scientific publications and more than a dozen issued patents. She served as the area editor for the Health Systems Journal, and co-editor of the book "Digital Health: Mobile and Wearable Devices for Participatory Health Applications". Dr. Zhu has also served as Co-Chair for the American Medical Informatics Association's Global Health Informatics Working Group, VP of Membership for the Consumer and Pervasive Health Informatics Working Group, as well as Scientific Program and Women Leadership Committee member. She is currently the Co-Chair for the International Medical Informatics Association's Organizational and Social Issues in Healthcare Working Group. She was elected to the fellowship of the American Medical Informatics Association and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics.