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Dr. Zhang is the Dr.
Doris L. Ross Professor and has been the Associate Dean for Research since
2002 at the School of Biomedical Informatics. As a researcher, he has spent
the past two decades doing research in biomedical informatics, cognitive
science, human-centered computing, decision making, and information
visualization. He has authored more than 130 publications. He has been the
principal investigator or co-investigator on more than two dozen grants
from ONC, NASA, Office of Naval Research, Army, NIH, James S. McDonnell
Foundation, State of Texas, and other funding agencies. Most recently he is
the Principal Investigator of a $15 million award for the National Center
for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare under ONC’s
SHARP program for Patient-Centered Cognitive Support. As a teacher, he has
been teaching courses in human-computer interaction, information
visualization, and technology-mediated social dynamics. He has supervised
or co-supervised nearly twenty PhD students and over sixty master’s
students. Dr. Zhang was a recipient of John P. McGovern Outstanding Teacher
Award. As the the Associate Dean for Research he
helped the school increase its research funding and expenditures at a fast
rate. He was instrumental in establishing a few research centers: Center
for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making (Co-Director), Center for
Translational Neuroinformatics (Acting Director),
the Joint UTH-UTMB Center for Personalized Biomedical Informatics, and the
newly ONC-funded National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision
Making in Healthcare (Co-Director). Dr. Zhang also has some training in
academic leadership and business administration. Dr. Zhang is an elected
Fellow of American College of Medical Informatics
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