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Harry Hochheiser

  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Biomedical Informatics

My research has covered a range of topics, including human-computer interaction, information visualization, bioinformatics, universal usability, security, privacy, and public policy implications of computing systems. I have published more than 25 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and two book chapters. I am currently working on the development of highly-interactive, user-centered systems for finding and exploring biomedical datasets, with specific applications ranging from basic research data to electronic health records. Earlier efforts included NSF-funded projects in computer security in introductory computer science classes and computational thinking. In addition to my research experience in computer science education, I have taught and developed several courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels, including Introductory Computer Science, Introduction to Algorithms, Information Visualization, Advanced Web Development, and Human-Computer Interaction. I am a reviewer for several journals, including Information Visualization, ACM Transactions on Human Computer Interaction, Interacting with Computers, Risk Analysis, and Advances in Bioinformatics. I have also served on program committees for several conferences, including the IEEE Information Visualization Symposium (2007-2009), the ACM Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (2009-2010), Advanced Visual Interfaces (2010), and the Security and Privacy in Medical and Home-Care Systems Workshop (2009-2010). I have been a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Computing Machinery's US Public Policy Committee (USACM) since 2004, and I am co-author of Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction (Wiley, 2010).

Institution of Highest Degree

  • University of Maryland

Representative Publications

Katrina M Romagnoli, Richard D Boyce, Philip E Empey, Yifan Ning, Solomon Adams, Harry Hochheiser; Design and evaluation of a pharmacogenomics information resource for pharmacists. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2017 ocx007. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocx007

King AJ, Hochheiser, Visweswaran S, Clermont G, Cooper GF. Eye-tracking for clinical decision support: A method to capture automatically what physicians are viewing in the EMR. Proceedings of the AMIA Joint Summit on Translational Science (2017).

Gaurav Trivedi, Phuong Pham, Wendy W Chapman, Rebecca Hwa, Janyce Wiebe, Harry Hochheiser; NLPReViz: an interactive tool for natural language processing on clinical text. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2017 ocx070.

Hochheiser, H, Castine, M, Harris, D, Savova, G,  Jacobson, RS, An information model for computable cancer phenotypes. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. Sept. 2016: 1-15. doi=10.1186/s12911-016-0358-4

Jonathan Lazar, Julio Abascal, Simone Barbosa, Jeremy Barksdale, Batya Friedman, Jens Grossklags, Jan Gulliksen, Jeff Johnson, Tom McEwan, Loïc Martínez-Normand, Wibke Michalk, Janice Tsai, Gerrit van der Veer, Hans von Axelson, Ake Walldius, Gill Whitney, Marco Winckler, Volker Wulf, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Lorrie Cranor, Janet Davis, Alan Hedge, Harry Hochheiser, Juan Pablo Hourcade, Clayton Lewis, Lisa Nathan, Fabio Paterno, Blake Reid, Whitney Quesenbery, Ted Selker and Brian Wentz (2016), "Human–Computer Interaction and International Public Policymaking: A Framework for Understanding and Taking Future Actions", Foundations and Trends® Human–Computer Interaction: Vol. 9: No. 2, pp 69-149. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/1100000062

McMurry JA, Köhler S, Washington NL, Balhoff JP, Borromeo C, Brush M, Carbon S, Conlin T, Dunn N, Engelstad M, Foster E, Gourdine JP, Jacobsen JO, Keith D, Laraway B, Xuan JN, Shefchek K, Vasilevsky NA, Yuan Z, Lewis SE, Hochheiser H, Groza T, Smedley D, Robinson PN, Mungall CJ, Haendel MA. Navigating the Phenotype Frontier: The Monarch Initiative. Genetics. 2016 Aug;203(4):1491-5. PMID: 27516611 PMCID: PMC4981258 [Available on 2017-08-01]

Hochheiser, H., Ning, Y., Hernandez, A., Horn, J. R., Jacobson, R., & Boyce, R. D. (2016). Using Nonexperts for Annotating Pharmacokinetic Drug-Drug Interaction Mentions in Product Labeling: A Feasibility Study. JMIR Research Protocols, 5(2), e40. http://doi.org/10.2196/resprot.5028 PMID: 27066806 PMCID: PMC4844909

Stein CD, Xiao X, Levine S, Schleyer TK, Hochheiser H, Thyvalikakath TP.J Am Dent Assoc. 2016 May 17. pii: S0002-8177(16)30308-7. doi: 10.1016/j.adaj.2016.03.021. PMID: 27206728

Fisher, A., Ding, M., Hochheiser, H., Douglas, G. (2016) Measuring time utilization of pharmacists in the Birmingham Free Clinic dispensary. BMC Health Services Research 16(1-7)

Research Interests

Developing Interactive Systems Providing Effective Access to Biomedical Data
Usability of Clinical Information Systems
Medication Delivery Devices