Vimla L. Patel, PhD

Professor, Department of Basic Medical Sciences - The University of Arizona College of Medicine—Phoenix in partnership with Arizona State University

Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics - Arizona State University

Vice-Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics - Arizona State University

UA Office Phone: (602) 827-2512
ASU Office Phone: (480) 965-1486
Office: Building ABC1, Room 132
Email: vimla@asu.edu
Website: http://www.fulton.asu.edu/~patel

Education:

PhD, Department of Educational Psychology (Medical Cognition); McGill University, Montreal, Canada; 1981

DSc; University of Victoria, BC, Canada; 1998

MA, Department of Educational Psychology (Measurement & Evaluation); McGill University, Montreal, Canada; 1980

Background:

Vimla L. Patel, PhD, DSc, is Professor and Vice-Chair of the Arizona State University’s Department of Biomedical Informatics and Professor of Basic Medical Sciences at the University Of Arizona College Of Medicine in Phoenix. She is also the director of the Center for Decision Making and Cognition in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. She came to Arizona from Columbia University, where she was professor of biomedical informatics and psychiatry. Dr. Patel is recognized as a leader in applied cognitive science and biomedical informatics that provides scientific foundation for models of decision-making in health care and for medical education. An elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Social Sciences) and also of the American College of Medical Informatics, she was a recipient of the annual Swedish "Woman of Science" award in 1999. Her research interests include competent performance in the workplace, team decision-making, patient safety and medical errors, cognitive assessment of learning and instruction, and human-computer interaction in health-care domains. She serves as associate editor for the Journal of Biomedical Informatics and is on the editorial board of three other health science and informatics journals. Her research is funded from the NIH, NIMH and the U.S. Army.

Research Interests:

Research Interests:

Medical cognition

Medical decision-making and reasoning

Patient safety and medical errors

Socio-cognitive studies of patient safety and human-computer interaction

Cognitive assessment of learning and instruction

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www.fulton.asu.edu/~patel/journals.php

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Selected Publications:

1. Malholtra, S., Jordan, D., Shortliffe, E.H., & Patel, V.L. (2007). Workflow in critical care: Piecing together your own puzzle. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 40, 81-92.
2. Patel, V. L., & Zhang, J. (2007). Cognition and patient safety in healthcare. In F. T. Durso, R. S. Nickerson, S. Dumais, S. Lewandowsky & T. Perfect (Eds.), Handbook of applied cognition (2nd edition, pp. 307-331). John Wiley & Sons.
3. Cohen, T., Blatter, B., Almeida, C., Shortliffe, E., & Patel, V. (2006). Distributed cognition in the Psychiatric Emergency Department: A cognitive blueprint of a collaboration in context. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 37, 73-83.
4. Laxmisan, A., Hakimzada, A. F., Sayan, O.R., Green, R.A., Patel, V.L. (2006). The multitasking clinician: Decision-making and cognitive demand during and after team handoffs in emergency care. International Journal of Medical Informatics. [epub ahead of print]
5. Patel VL, Arocha, JF, Zhang, J (2005). Thinking and Reasoning in Medicine. In K. Holyoak and Morrison (Eds.), Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (pp. 2298-2538). Cambridge University Press.
6. Patel, V.L., Arocha, J.F., Chaudhari, S., Karlin, D.R., & Briedis, D.J. (2005). Knowledge integration and reasoning as a function of instruction in a hybrid medical curriculum. Journal of Dental Education, 69, 1186-211.
7. Patel, V.L., Arocha, J.F., Branch, T., & Karlin, D.R. (2004) Relationships between Small Group Problem-Solving Activity and Lectures in Health Science Curricula. Journal of Dental Education 68(10):1058-80.
8. Patel VL, Kaufman DA, Arocha JF. (2002) Emerging paradigms of cognition and medical decision making, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 35:52-75.
9. Patel, V.L., Arocha, J.F. & Kaufman, D.R (2001) A Primer on Aspects of Cognition for Medical Informatics. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 8; 324-343.
10. Patel, V.L., Arocha, J., & Lecissi, M. (2001) Impact of Undergraduate Medical Training on Housestaff Problem Solving Performance, Implications for Health Education in Problem-based Curricula. Journal of Dental Education.65 (11) 1199-1218.