Laurie Novak, PhD, MHSA, is Assistant Professor and Director of the Center of Excellence in Applied Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Her research aims to improve the beneficial alignment of technology and social life. Currently her work is focused on user-centered design and implementation of artificial intelligence and other informatics tools in a variety of clinical environments and creating new ways of understanding and supporting patient and caregiver management of chronic illness in everyday life.
She earned a PhD in anthropology from Wayne State University, and a masters degree in health services administration from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Dr. Novak has collaborated successfully with data scientists, computer scientists, engineers, clinicians, ethicists, and humanities scholars. She has led research funded by the National Library of Medicine, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Stead Foundation, and co-led or participated in studies funded by NSF, NIH, PCORI, AHRQ, CMS, and IBM Corporation.
She is an active mentor for graduate students in biomedical informatics and directs courses on technology and society, and workflow, user centered design, and implementation.