I am a Research Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI), Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, SUNY (UB).

My research focuses on the design and creation of scoping reviews of the literature with an emphasis on biomedical informatics research projects. I teach and mentor UB graduate and undergraduate students interested in learning how to conduct a scoping review which has resulted in several published manuscripts. The students may be enrolled in one of the required, elective, or selective BMI courses that I teach, or they may be enrolled in a mentored research project with me. The projects vary in length from one semester to two semesters with the later frequently serving as the master's student's final culminating project.

In BMI I serve as the division chief for the section on Public Health Informatics and I am the program director for the master's program. Prior to joining BMI, I was a health sciences librarian focusing on instructing health care professionals and biomedical scientists the importance of evidence-based practice, medical informatics, and lifelong learning. I taught learners and practitioners in all health care and biomedical science disciplines how to conduct quality searches of the literature, and how to use information to create new knowledge. I have expanded these skills by teaching BMI and public health students the importance of consumer health education from a public health informatics perspective. I have taught learners the significance of creating educational programs for patients and their families, at a level that is understandable and meaningful, thereby ensuring that individauls will be capable of accessing quality, reliable, understandable health information. I use artificial intelligence (AI) to demonstrate to students the value-added outcomes that can be achieved by working with AI.