William Hersh, MD

FACMI, FAMIA, FACP

Professor and Chair
Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE)
Oregon Health & Science University

Email: hersh@ohsu.edu
Web: www.billhersh.info
Blog: informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/billhersh
Twitter: @williamhersh

Last updated: July 17, 2019

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Some Key Resources

A five-minute video of the OHSU Biomedical Informatics Program
The blog of the OHSU Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Health Data, Information, and Action
My blog, Informatics Professor
Overview of the 10x10 ("ten by ten") course
A Wordle of my scientific publishing from Sciverse
A citation profile in Google Scholar (Last I checked, my h-index of 69 ranks 35th all-time among biomedical informatics researchers and 18th all-time among information retrieval researchers.)
My Web page, What is Biomedical and Health Informatics?, which provides an overview of the field via links and a voice-over-Powerpoint lecture
Seventh edition of a general textbook of health informatics, co-edited with Robert Hoyt, MD, Health Informatics: Practical Guide, which is available in paper and eBook format
Third edition of my book, Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective

Biography

William Hersh, MD, FACMI, FAMIA, FACP is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon, USA. Dr. Hersh is a leader and innovator in biomedical informatics both in education and research.

In education, he serves as Director of OHSU's Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program, which includes two master's degrees (research and professional), a PhD degree, and Graduate Certificate. Dr. Hersh also spearheaded OHSU's efforts in distance learning for biomedical informatics, which is available up to the master's degree level. He also conceptualized and implemented the first offering of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 10x10 ("ten by ten") program, which has provided education to over 2500 health care professionals and others in biomedical informatics. He also serves as Co-Editor with Robert Hoyt, MD of the textbook, Health Informatics: Practical Guide, Seventh Edition (Lulu.com, 2018), which is available in paper and eBook format.

Dr. Hersh also serves as Director of OHSU's Research Fellowship in Biomedical Informatics, which is funded by a training grant from the National Library of Medicine, and as Associate Program Director of OHSU's ACGME-accredited Clinical Informatics Fellowship. Dr. Hersh has also been involved in other global efforts to expand informatics capacity through education, collaborating with colleagues at Hospital Italiano of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in Singapore, and elsewhere.

He also co-leads efforts to teach clinical informatics to other health professions students. He helped define competencies and shape the curriulum for OHSU medical students. He has also been involved in the teaching of nursing, graduate basic science, and undergraduate health science majors (at Portland State University).

Dr. Hersh has also made many contributions in research. His research originally focused in the area of information retrieval, where he has authored over 150 scientific papers as well as the book, Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective (Springer, 2009), now in its third edition and which has an associated Web site. Dr. Hersh is also co-editor of the book (with Robert Hoyt, MD) Health Informatics: Practical Guide, which is available in paper and eBook format. He has also been involved in the leadership of various aspects of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Dr. Hersh is also active in clinical research informatics. He served as Director of the Biomedical Informatics Program of the Oregon Clinical & Translational Research Institute (OCTRI) from 2006-2014 and was Chair of the National Informatics Steering Committee of the Clinical & Translational Science Award (CTSA) program of the National Institutes of Health from 2006-2008.

Dr. Hersh has won numerous awards for his innovations. These include the OHSU Faculty Senate Distinguished Faculty Award for outstanding teaching in 2007; the 2008 AMIA Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics; being named among the Modern Healthcare Top 25 Clinical Informaticists in 2010, 2011, and 2012; and the HIMSS Physician Leadership Award in 2015. He is an elected Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the American College of Physicians. He is among the inaugural 121 members of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics.

Dr. Hersh also maintains the Informatics Professor blog.

Dr. Hersh obtained his B.S. in Biology from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1980 and his M.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1984. After finishing a residency in Internal Medicine at University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago in 1987, he completed a Fellowship in Medical Informatics at Harvard University in 1990. Dr. Hersh has been at OHSU since 1990.

Recent Presentations

Slides and references from my talk, The Clinical Impact of Clinical Informatics, Dermatology Faculty Forum, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, July 17, 2019
Slides and references from my talk, The Clinical Impact of Clinical Informatics, Clifford G. Pilz Memorial Lectureship, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL, April 16, 2019
Slides and references from my talk, Information Retrieval from Electronic Health Records for Patient Cohort Discovery, at University of Missouri Informatics Institute, Columbia, MO, March 7, 2019
Video and slides and references from my talk, Information Retrieval from Electronic Health Records for Patient Cohort Discovery, at Oregon State University College of Public Health & Human Sciences, Corvallis, OR, February 8, 2019
Video and slides and references from OHSU Department of Medicine Grand Rounds, Update in Clinical Informatics: Machine Learning, Interoperability, and Professional Opportunities, December 11, 2018
Slides from presentation at AMIA Learning Showcase, The Full Spectrum Biomedical and Health Informatics Education at Oregon Health & Science University, San Francisco, CA, November 5, 2018
Slides and references from my annual lecture to OHSU first-year medical students, Information is Different Now That You're a Doctor, August 31, 2018
The new 7th edition of the textbook, Health Informatics: Practical Guide, co-edited by Robert Hoyt and myself
Slides and references from my presentation, Biomedical and Health Informatics: Careers and Opportunities for Graduate Study, at the Oregon Computer Science Teachers Association, Newberg, OR, March 17, 2018
Slides and references from my presentation, Caveats and Recommendations for Re-Use of Large-Scale Operational Electronic Health Record Data, Association for Medical and Bio-Informatics, Singapore (AMBIS) and National Supercomputing Centre, Singapore, February 22, 2018
Slides and references from my presentation, IR Meets EHR: Retrieving Patient Cohorts for Clinical Research Studies, Centre International de Mathematiques et d'Informatique, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France, February 8, 2018
Slides and references from my presentation, Biomedical and Health Informatics: Careers and Opportunities for Graduate Study, at Willamette University, Salem, OR, November 30, 2017
Slides and references from my talk to the Portland State University New Beginnings in Computer Science Program, Biomedical and Health Informatics: Careers and Opportunities at the Intersection of Computer Science and Biomedicine, October 6, 2017
Slides and references from my talk at the OHSU School of Medicine Educators' Collaborative Grand Rounds, A Quarter-Century of Innovation in Informatics Education at OHSU: History and Lessons Learned, October 4, 2017
Slides and references from my Webinar, Research in Biomedical Information Retrieval at OHSU, Pacific Northwest National Lab and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, July 13, 2017
Slides and references from my Webinar, Implementing Clinical Informatics in the MD Curriculum and Beyond, Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada, June 13, 2017
Slides and references from my lecture, Biomedical Information Retrieval, in the OHSU course, CSE 535/635: Information Retrieval: Methodologies, Implementation, Evaluation, Portland, OR, May 18, 2017
Slides and references from my Webinar, Big Data Is Not Enough: People and Systems Are Needed to Benefit Health and Biomedicine, H3ABioNet Seminars series, Pan African Bioinformatics Network for H3Africa, April 18, 2017
Slides and references from my course lecture at the NLM Georgia Biomedical Informatics Course entitled, What is Biomedical Informatics?, Young Harris, GA, April 3, 2017 (updated from previous course lectures on April 4, 2016 and September 12, 2016)
Slides and references from my talk, Failure to Translate: Why Have Evidence-Based EHR Interventions Not Generalized?, at The Patient, the Practitioner, and the Computer, Providence, RI, March 19, 2017
Slides and references from my talk, Big Data Is Not Enough: People and Systems Are Needed to Benefit Health and Biomedicine, at Data Day Health, Austin, TX, January 15, 2017

Presence

Address

Education

Postdoctoral Training

Professional Positions

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Papers

2. Kronfol NO, Hersh WR, Barakat MM, Effects of 25(OH)-Vitamin D in hypocalcemic patients on chronic hemodialysis, Transactions of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, 1987, 33: 289-292.

4. Greenes RA, Tarabar DB, Krauss M, Cope L, Slosser E, Hersh WR, Pattison-Gordon E, Abendroth T, Rathe R, Snydr-Michal J, Explorer-2: an object-oriented framework for knowledge management, MEDINFO 89, 1989, 29-33.

6. Hersh WR, Greenes RA, Information retrieval in medicine: state of the art, M.D. Computing, 1990, 7: 302-311.

8. Hersh WR, Evaluation of Meta-1 for a concept-based approach to the automated indexing and retrieval of bibliographic and full-text databases, Medical Decision Making, 1991,11: S120-124.

9. Evans DA, Hersh WR, Monarch IA, Lefferts RG, Handerson SK, Automatic indexing of abstracts via natural language processing using a simple thesaurus, Medical Decision Making, 1991, 11: S108-S115.

11. Hersh WR, Hickam DH, A comparative analysis of retrieval effectiveness for three methods of indexing medical literature, American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1992, 303: 293-300.

12. Hersh WR, Evans DA, Monarch IA, Lefferts RG, Handerson SK, Gorman PN, Indexing effectiveness of linguistic and non-linguistic approaches to automated indexing, MEDINFO 92, 1992, 1402-1408.

13. Evans DA, Chute CG, Handerson SK, Yang Y, Monarch IA, Hersh WR, Mapping vocabularies using “latent semantics,” MEDINFO 92, 1992, 1462-1468.

15. Hersh WR, Hickam DH, A comparison of two methods for indexing and retrieval from a full-text medical database, Medical Decision Making, 1993, 13: 220-226.

21. Hersh WR, Elliot DE, Hickam DH, Wolf SL, Molnar A, Leichtenstein C, Towards new measures of information retrieval evaluation, Proceedings of the 18th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care , 1994, 895-899. (Also published in Proceedings of the 18th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 1995, 164-170.)

26. Hersh WR, Leone TJ, The SAPHIRE server, Proceedings of the 19th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, 1995, 858-862.

30. Ertle AR, Campbell EM, Hersh WR, Automated application of clinical practice guidelines for asthma management, Proceedings of the 1996 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1996, 552-556.

31. Evans DA, Brownlow ND, Hersh WR, Campbell EM, Automating concept identification in the electronic medical record: an experiment in extracting dosage information, Proceedings of the 1996 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1996, 388-392.

32. Spackman KA, Hersh WR, Recognizing noun phrases in medical discharge summaries: an evaluation of two natural language parsers, Proceedings of the 1996 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1996, 155-158.

34. Detmer WM, Barnett GO, Hersh WR, MedWeaver: integrating decision support, literature searching, and Web exploration using the UMLS Metathesaurus, Proceedings of the 1997 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1997, 490-494.

35. Hersh W, Leen T, Rehfuss S, Malveau S, Automatic prediction of trauma registry procedure codes from emergency room dictations, MEDINFO 98, 1998, 665-669.

38. Ash JS, Gorman PN, Hersh WR, Physician order entry in U.S. hospitals, Proceedings of the 1998 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1998, 235-239.

39. Munoz FR, Hersh WR, MCM Generator: a Java-based tool for generating medical metadata, Proceedings of the 1998 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1998, 648-652.

40. Zacks MP, Hersh WR, Developing search strategies for detecting high quality reviews in a hypertext test collection, Proceedings of the 1998 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1998, 663-667.

44. Hersh WR, “A world of knowledge at your fingertips”: promise, reality, and future directions, Academic Medicine, 1999, 74: 30-33.

45. Ash JS, Hersh WR, Krages KP, Morgan JE, Schumacher R, The Oregon IAIMS: then and now, Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 1999, 37: 347-349.

46. Hersh W, Price S, Kraemer D, Chan B, Sacherek L, Olson D, System and user attributes associated with successful searching, Advances in Digital Libraries ’99, 1999, 60-70.

47. Lowe HJ, Antipov I, Hersh WR, Smith CA, Representing images in the multimedia electronic medical record combining semantic indexing and image content-based representation to support knowledge-based retrieval of medical images, Methods of Information in Medicine, 1999, 38: 303-307.

50. Caton K, Hersh W, Williams J, Implementation and evaluation of a virtual learning center for distributed education, Proceedings of the 1999 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1999, 491-495.

51. Ash JS, Gorman PN, Hersh WR, Poulsen SB, Perceptions of house officers who use physician order entry, Proceedings of the 1999 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1999, 471-475.

53. Hersh W, Turpin A, Price S, Kraemer D, Chan B, Sacherek L, Olson D, Do batch and user evaluations give the same results?, Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2000, 17-24.

56. Selsky D, Eisenberg F, Spena R, Hersh W, Price S, Buitendijk I, Knowledge integration: insight through the e-Portal, Journal of Healthcare Information Management, 2001, 15: 13-24.

58. Turpin A, Hersh W, Why batch and user evaluations do not give the same results, Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2001, 225-231.

66. Hersh WR, Gorman PN, Ruback T, Implementation and evaluation of a medical informatics curriculum for physician assistant students, Perspective on Physician Assistant Education, 2002, 13: 7-10.

72. Huang Y, Lowe HJ, Hersh WR, A pilot study of contextual UMLS indexing to improve the precision of concept-based representation in XML-structured clinical radiology reports, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2003, 10: 580-587.

73. Turpin A, Hersh W, Do clarity scores for queries correlate with user performance?, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Australasian Database Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2004, 85-91.

74. Ash JS, Gorman PN, Seshadri V, Hersh WR, Computerized physician order entry in U.S. hospitals: results of a 2002 survey, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2004, 11: 95-99.

75. Cohen AM, Stavri PZ, Hersh WR, A categorization and analysis of the criticisms of Evidence-Based Medicine, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2004, 73: 35-43.

Other Papers

2. Evans DA, Lefferts RG, Grefenstette G, Handerson SK, Hersh WR, Archbold AA, CLARIT TREC Design, Experiments, and Results, Proceedings of the First Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-1), 1993, 251-286.

3. Hersh WR, Lunin LA, Perspectives on medical informatics: information technology in health care, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1995, 46: 726-728.

4. Hersh WR, Day B, A comparison of Boolean and natural language searching for the TREC-6 interactive task, Proceedings of the Sixth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-6), Gaithersburg, MD, 1998, 585-595.

5. Hersh W, Price S, Kraemer D, Chan B, Sacherek L, Olson D, A large-scale comparison of Boolean and natural language searching for the TREC-7 interactive track, Proceedings of the Seventh Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-7), Gaithersburg, MD, 1999, 491-500.

6. Hersh WR, OHSU’s 2-for-1 proposition: the fusion of medical informatics and outcomes research, M.D. Computing, 1999, 16(5): 35-37.

7. Hersh W, Over P, TREC-8 interactive track overview, Proceedings of the Eighth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-8), Gaithersburg, MD, 2000, 57-64.

8. Hersh WR, The quality of information on the World Wide Web, Journal of the American College of Dentists, 1999, 66: 43-45.

9. Hersh W, Turpin A, Sacherek L, Olson D, Price S, Further analysis of whether batch and user evaluations give the same results with a question-answering task, Proceedings of the Ninth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-9), Gaithersburg, MD, 2001, 407-416.

10. Hersh W, Over P, SIGIR workshop on interactive retrieval at TREC and beyond, SIGIR Forum, Spring 2000.

11. Hersh W, Over P, TREC 2001 interactive track structure, Proceedings of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) 2001, Gaithersburg, MD, 38-41.

12. Hersh W, Sacherek L, Olson D, Observations of searchers: OHSU TREC 2001 interactive track, Proceedings of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) 2001, Gaithersburg, MD, 434-441.

13. Hersh W, Medical Informatics: a career for librarians, Info Career Trends, 2002.

14. Hersh W, Over P, TREC 2002 interactive track report, Proceedings of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) 2002, Gaithersburg, MD, 40-45.

15. Hersh W, Sacherek L, Olson D, More statistical power needed: The OHSU TREC 2002 interactive track experiments, Proceedings of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) 2002, Gaithersburg, MD, 505-511.

16. Hersh WR, Bhupatiraju RT, TREC genomics track overview, The Twelfth Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2003, 14-23.

17. Hersh WR, Bhupatiraju RT, Price SL, Phrases, boosting, and external knowledge resources for genomic information retrieval, The Twelfth Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2003, 503-509.

20. Hersh W, Bhupatiraju RT, Ross L, Johnson P, Cohen AM, Kraemer DF, TREC 2004 genomics track overview, The Thirteenth Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2004, 13-24.

21. Cohen AM, Bhupatiraju RT, Hersh W, Feature generation, feature selection, classifiers, and conceptual drift for biomedical document triage, The Thirteenth Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2004.

32. Müller H, Deselaers T, Lehmann, Clough P, Kim E, Hersh W, Overview of the ImageCLEFmed 2006 medical retrieval and annotation tasks, in Peters C, Clough P, Gey F, Karlgren J, Magnini B, Oard DW, de Rijke M, Stempfhuber M, Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval - 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4730, 595-608.

33. Hersh W, Cohen AM, Roberts P, Rekapalli HP, TREC 2006 Genomics Track overview, The Fifteenth Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2006.

38. Müller H, Deselaers T, Kim E, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Deserno TM, Hersh W, Overview of the ImageCLEF 2007 medical retrieval and annotation tasks, in Peters C, Jijkoun V. Mandl T, Müller H, Oard DW, Peňas A, Petras V, Santos D, Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval, 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Budapest, Hungary, Springer Lecture Notes for Computer Science, Vol. 5152, 2008, 472-491.

39. Kalpathy-Cramer J, Hersh W, Medical image retrieval and automatic annotation: OHSU at ImageCLEF 2007, in Peters C, Jijkoun V. Mandl T, Müller H, Oard DW, Peňas A, Petras V, Santos D, Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval, 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Budapest, Hungary, Springer Lecture Notes for Computer Science, Vol. 5152, 2008, 623-630.

45. Müller H, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Kahn C, Hatt W, Bedrick S, and Hersh W, Overview of the ImageCLEFmed 2008 medical image retrieval task, in Peters C, Giampiccol D, Ferro N, Petras V, Gonzalo J, Penas A, Deselaers T, Mandl T, Jones G, Kurimo, M, Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access, 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5706, 512-522.

46. Kalpathy-Cramer J, Bedrick S, Hatt W, and Hersh W, Multimodal medical image retrieval OHSU at ImageCLEF 2008, in Peters C, Giampiccol D, Ferro N, Petras V, Gonzalo J, Penas A, Deselaers T, Mandl T, Jones G, Kurimo, M, Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access, 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5706, 744-751.

47. Müller H, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Eggel I, Bedrick S, Radhouani S, Bakke B, Kahn CE, Hersh W, Overview of the CLEF 2009 Medical Image Retrieval Track, Working Notes for the CLEF 2009 Workshop.

48. Radhouani S, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Bedrick S, Bakke B, Hersh W, Multimodal medical image retrieval: improving precision at ImageCLEF 2009, Working Notes for the CLEF 2009 Workshop.

58. Pederson B, Vasilevsky N, Hersh W, McWeeney S, Haendel M, Wirz J. Big Data to Knowledge open educational resources: development and dissemination considerations, Proceedings of EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2016, 1729-1733.

Books

2. Lindell CK, Hersh WR, Internet Medical & Health Searching & Sources Guidebook, Osceola, WI: KC Press. - 1st Edition, 1998
- 2nd Edition, 1999
- 3rd (Millenium) Edition, 2000
- 4th Edition, 2001
- 5th Edition, 2002

3. Chen H, Fuller S, Friedman C, Hersh W (eds.), Medical Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2005.

Book Chapters/Sections

Reports

Editorials and Commentaries

Abstracts/Posters

2. Hersh, WR, Hickam DH, Impact of a computerized information system in a university general medicine clinic, Clinical Research, 1992, 40: 567A.

3. Zacks M, Hersh W, Indexing the Cochrane systematic reviews, Colloquium Handbook, Fourth International Cochrane Colloquium, Adelaide, Australia, 1996, A-19.

5. Lowe HJ, Hersh W, Smith CA, The multimedia medical record as a virtual library: a multidimensional model for indexing the content of medical images using the Unified Medical Language System, Final Program and Abstract Book, 1998 AMIA Annual Spring Congress, 1998, 83.

6. Hersh WR, Price S, Identifying randomized controlled trials in conference proceedings abstracts. Abstract Book, Sixth International Cochrane Colloquium, 1998, 52.

7. Hersh WR, Malveau SE, DynamiQuest: a system for asking clinical examination questions based on content viewed, Proceedings of the 1998 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1998, 1013.

9. Rose LL, Crabtree K, Hersh WR, Factors influencing successful use of information retrieval systems by nurse practitioner students, Proceedings of the 1998 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1998, 1067.

12. Hersh WR, Web-based distance learning in medical informatics, Conference Notebook: Blending People & Technology to Improve Practice - Conference on Public Health Informatics & Distance Learning, New Orleans, LA, 2000.

14. Hersh W, Distance learning techniques for medical informatics, Proceedings of the 2000 Annual AMIA Symposium, 2000, 1170. PMC2243969.

15. Hersh WR, Helfand M, Shapiro SE, Wallace JA, Eilers GM, Coverage and quality of diagnostic and outcomes studies of telemedicine services, Abstract Book, Eighth International Cochrane Colloquium, 2000, 49.

18. Price S, Logan J, Hersh W, The role of computer science and computing skills in a medical informatics curriculum, Proceedings of the 2001 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1003.

19. Hiruki T, Olson D, Onogi Y, Hersh W, An automated MeSH mapping tool to facilitate searching of the English-language Web by Japanese users, Technology and Health Care, 2001, 9: 495-496.

20. Turpin A, Hersh W, User interface effects in past batch versus user experiments, Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2002, 431-432.

21. Hersh WR, Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) Genomics Pre-Track, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 2003, 83.

22. Hersh W, Tidmarsh P, Ilg A, Distance learning in medical informatics: who, what, and why?, Proceedings of the 2003 International Medical Informatics Association Working Group on Education Conference, 2003, CD-ROM.

23. Yackel TR, Gorman P, Ilg A, Ash J, Audiss D, Hersh W, Teaching applied informatics: the benefits of an internship model, Proceedings of the 2003 International Medical Informatics Association Working Group on Education Conference, 2003, CD-ROM.

26. Yang J, Cohen AM, Hersh WR, Functional gene group summarization by clustering MEDLINE abstract sentences, Proceedings of the AMIA 2006 Annual Symposium, CD-ROM.

27. Hersh WR, Bhupatiraju RT, Greene PS, Smothers V, Cohen C, Frodis M, Mapping and accessing competencies and learning objects, Slice of Life 2007, http://slice.utah.edu/2007/schedule/documents/53WilliamHersh1.pdf.

28. Feldman S, Hersh W, Evaluating the AMIA-OHSU 10x10 program to train health care professionals, Proceedings of the AMIA 2007 Annual Symposium, 2007, CD-ROM.

29. Hersh W, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Müller H, The ImageCLEFmed medical image retrieval task test collection, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2008 Scientific Abstract Book, 2008, 13-15.

30. Kalpathy-Cramer J, Hersh W, Bedrick S, Müller H, Query analysis to improve medical image retrieval, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2008 Scientific Abstract Book, 2008, 127-128.

31. Hersh WR, Wright A, Characterizing the health information technology workforce: Analysis from the HIMSS Analytics™ Database, AMIA Spring Congress 2008, CD-ROM.

32. Valerius J, Hersh W, How well does a biomedical informatics curriculum map to health information management knowledge clusters? Analysis of a program, Proceedings of the AMIA 2008 Annual Symposium, 2008, 967.

33. Kahn CE, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Hersh WR, Image retrieval in medicine: the ImageCLEF challenge, RSNA 94th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, 2008.

34. McClay J, Nielson J, Wadman M, Hersh W, The Emergency Informatics Transition Course: a flexible, on-line course in health informatics for emergency medicine clinicians and trainees, Innovations in Emergency Medicine Education 2009 Annual Meeting, 2009.

35. Kalpathy-Cramer J, Bedrick S, Radhouani S, Hersh W, Eggel I, Müller H, Web-based medical image retrieval systems: a demonstration of the utility of text, images, and user input in retrieving relevant images, MEDINFO 2010.

36. Mohan V, Hersh WR, Development and evaluation of an electronic health record configuration and customization laboratory course for clinical informatics students, MEDINFO 2013.

37. Williamson J, Safran C, Shortliffe EH, Starren J, Hersh W, The new clinical informatics medical subspecialty in the United States, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2013, 192: 1232.

38. Hersh W, Williamson J, Otero P, Margolis A, The AMIA 10×10 ("Ten by Ten") program: an international approach to building informatics capacity, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2013, 192: 1233.

39. Margolis A, Joglar F, de Quirós FG, Baum A, Fernández A, García S, Arredondo AL, Hersh WR, 10x10 comes full circle: Spanish version back to United States in Puerto Rico, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2013, 192: 1134.

40. Mejicano G, Boudrot T, Brunett P, Bumsted T, Carney P, Deiorio N, Hersh W, Ito T, Kahl L, Preparing future physicians: a bold proposal for Oregon and beyond, Harvard Macy Institute 20th Anniversary Symposium, 2014.

41. Haendel M, Dorr DA, Hersh W, Vasilevsky N, McWeeney S, Improving knowledge discovery through development of a big data to knowledge skills course, OHSU Research Week, Portland, OR, 2015.

42. Hersh W, McWeeney S, Haendel M, Vasilevsky N. Open educational resources for big data science. improving knowledge discovery through development of a big data to knowledge skills course. OHSU Research Week, Portland, OR, 2015.

43. Hersh W, Haendel M, McWeeney S, Vasilevsky N, Pederson B, Wirz J, Open educational resources for big data science: goals and challenges, NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) All-Hands Meeting, Bethesda, MD, 2015.

44. Dorr D, Haendel M, Vasilevsky N, Pederson B, Wirz J, Hersh W, McWeeny S. Improving knowledge discovery through development of big data to knowledge skills course, NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) All-Hands Meeting, Bethesda, MD, 2015.

45. Vasilevsky N, Wirz J, Pederson B, Laderas T, McWeeney S, Hersh W, Dorr D, Haendel M. Data science education resources for everyone, Medical Library Association Pacific Northwest Chapter Meeting, Portland, OR, 2016.

46. Timmons T, Hersh W, Wu S, Creating topics for cohort identification in patient-level information retrieval, 4th Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop: NW-NLP 2016, 2016.

47. Vasilevsky N, McWeeney S, Hersh S, Dorr DA, Laderas T, Wirz J, Pederson B, Haendel M. Improving knowledge discovery through development of big data to knowledge skills courses and open educational resources, OHSU BICC 25th Year Anniversary, Portland, OR, 2016.

48. Laderas T, Vasilevsky N, Haendel M, McWeeney S, Dorr D, Get real: a synthetic dataset illustrating clinical and genetic covariates, NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) All-Hands Meeting, Bethesda, MD, 2016.

49. Vasilevsky N, Pederson B, Wirz J, McWeeney S, Haendel M, Hersh W. Data science educational resources for anyone, anywhere, NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) All-Hands Meeting, Bethesda, MD, 2016.

50. Laderas T, Haendel M, Vasilevsky N, Pederson B, Wirz J, Hersh W, Dorr DA, McWeeney S. Getting your hands dirty with data, NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) All-Hands Meeting, Bethesda, MD, 2016.

Letters

4. Hersh W, Reply to: Electronic information retrieval by physicians and medical librarians, Journal of the American Medical Association, 1999, 281: 1272-1273.

5. Hersh W, The telemedicine curriculum, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 2003, 9: 353-354.

6. Mohan V, Hersh WR, EHRs and health care quality: correlation with out-of-date, differently purposed data does not equate with causality, Archives of Internal Medicine, 2011, 171: 952-953.

Reviews

2. Hersh WR, Review of: Berg M, Rationalizing Medical Work: Decision-Support Techniques and Medical Practices, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997, Information Processing and Management, 1998, 34: 133-134.

3. Hersh WR, Review of: Witten IH, Moffat A, Bell TC, Managing Gigabytes - Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 1999, Information Retrieval, 2001, 4: 79-83.

5. Hersh W, Review of: Goodman K, Ethics, Medicine, and Information Technology, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2017, 66: 159-160.

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