Amy Franklin, Ph.D. came to UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics (SBMI) in 2009 after teaching in the Cognitive Science Department at Rice University. In September of 2018, she earned the title of Assistant Dean. She is interested in how cognition and communication interact and impact each other and how this plays out in a medical context. This has led Franklin to studying decision making in the emergency department, the use of electronic health records and how people and computers interact in the health care field. She also focuses her research in patient safety, usability and communication. Franklin teaches courses in cognitive engineering, computer-supported collaborative work, research methods and information and knowledge representation.
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