Qing T. Zeng,Ph.D.

Research Interests

• Consumer Health Informatics
• Natural Language Processing
• Semantic Integration of Information

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Academic Bio

Qing T. Zeng earned her PhD degree in Medical Informatics from Columbia University. She is an Associate Professor in the University of Utah’s Department of Biomedical Informatics, and an IDEA Center Principal Investigator at the University of Utah and the VA Hospital.

Her expertise is in clinical and consumer health information extraction, analysis, and presentation. In 2011, Dr. Zeng was elected Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. She is an associate editor of the journal Computers in Biology and Medicine and an editorial board member of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Three of Dr. Zeng’s papers were selected by the International Medical Informatics Association’s yearbooks.

Prior to joining the Biomedical Informatics Department in 2009, she was an Associate Professor at the Harvard Medical School. From 2008-2010, she chaired the American Medical Informatics Association, Consumer Health Working Group.

“When I applied to the medical Informatics PhD program in Columbia, a faculty told me many hospitals were less computerized than supermarkets. Now, Electronic Medical Records are commonplace, but informatics has not yet fundamentally changed how medicine is practiced. So, more work lies ahead.”