Sarah Maulden, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Sarah Maulden is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Utah and a Medical Informaticist in the Chief Health Informatics Office of the Department of Veterans Affairs. After receiving her BA in Literature from Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois), she matriculated with an MD from the University of Utah in 1998. She completed an internal medicine internship and neurology residency at the University of Utah, followed by a Master’s Degree in Medical Informatics which was sponsored by the National Library of Medicine. She currently practices general neurology at the Salt Lake VA Medical Center.
As a clinical informaticist, Dr. Maulden contributes to development of high quality, maintainable, computationally comparable and interoperable electronic health records and information systems that enable electronic decision support. She plays a leading scientific and technical role in developing reference semantics and ontology in several clinical domains, including laboratory, radiology, pharmaceuticals, clinical documents, orders, allergies, and diagnoses/conditions. She participates in national standards development organizations, such as the Health Information Technology Standards Panel, the Nationwide Health Information Network, Health Level Seven, and the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (C-DISC). Her work also requires facility with clinical terminology systems such as ICD, CPT, HCPCS, SNOMED, UMLS (including RxNorm), LOINC, and various drug coding schemes.
Dr. Maulden is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the American Academy of Neurology and the American Medical Informatics Association. She is the author of several peer-reviewed articles and reviews. Recent presentations include “What’s New in Electronic Medical Records: An Update from the Department of Veterans Affairs” at the University of Utah, and ““Using SNOMED CT as a Mediation Terminology: Mapping Issues, Lessons Learned, and Next Steps Toward Achieving Semantic Interoperability” at the Knowledge Representation in Medicine Conference in Phoenix, Arizona.
Dr. Maulden is married and has two children (ages 2 and 4). Outside of work, she enjoys reading and discussing books, cooking Korean and Thai food, playing violin and piano, skiing, blogging, and spending time with family and friends.
