Timothy  Patrick, Ph.D. 

Assistant Professor 

Interests and Expertise
Dr. Patrick is developing ways to support biomedical information sharing among users with diverse perspectives and interests. In particular he is interested in developing controlled biomedical terminology and ontology systems that allow for diverse perspectives to support biomedical information sharing and use among mutually heterogeneous user groups.

Recent Publications
Patrick TB, Craven CK, Folk LC. The Need for a Multidisciplinary Team Approach to Life Science Workflows. Journal of the Medical Library Association, forthcoming July 2007.

Timothy B. Patrick, Lillian C. Folk, Catherine K. Craven. Report on the 2004 Lindberg Fellowship: Evidence-Based Information Retrieval in Bioinformatics. In: Proceedings of the 106th annual meeting of the Medical Library Association, by Frances H. Lynch and Judith L. Rieke, J Med Libr Assoc. 2007 January; 95(1): e21 - e24.

Su K, Waldren S, Patrick T. Differences in the Effects of Filters on Health Information Retrieval From the Internet in Three Languages from Three Countries: A Comparative Study (2006). In: Eysenbach G. (ed.) Improving Public Health Through the Internet. Abstracts Book, 11th World Congress on Internet in Medicine, Toronto, Oct 14-19th, 2006 (pg. 104). Toronto, ON: JMIR Publications.

Presentations:
Hong Y, Patrick TB. Review of HON Approved Online-Appointment Web Sites. MEDINFO 2007, iin press.

John Lynch, Timothy Patrick. Health Care Informatics Undergraduate and Graduate Programming in a Health Care Administration Program. AUPHA annual meeting, Seattle, WA, June 22-25, 2006.

Timothy B. Patrick, Lillian C. Folk, Catherine K. Craven. Asymmetries in Retrieval of Gene Function Information. MLA '06 Abstract: a supplement to the Official Program, p. 17. Medical Library Association Annual conference, May 2006.

Patrick TB. Three Dimensions of Interoperability. International Workshop on Interoperability of Biological Information Resources (IBIR), National Institute of Genetics, Tokyo, Japan, March 17, 2006.

Catherine Arnott Smith, James Andrews, Steven Maccall, Timothy Patrick. Biomedical Informatics and LIS: Integration of the Interdisciplinary. Panel presentation, Association For Library And Information Science Education (ALISE), January 16, through Thursday, January 19, 2006 in San Antonio, Texas.

Grants:
Co-PI on "Early Childhood Integrated Database System (ECIDS): Implementation and Evaluation", Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program, $449,691 (Tim Patrick and Paula Rhyner,Co-PIs), 07/01/2007 - 06/30/2010.

Co-investigator on "Collaborative Intelligent Health Information Systems Initiative (CIHISI)", NSF, $598,549 (Sally Lundeen, PI), 03/01/2007 - 02/28/2009.

PI on "Academic Partnership with Aurora Healthcare Care Management Databases", Center for Urban Population Health, Center Scientist Development Program, $10,560; 01/2007-06/2007.

Co-PI on "Development of a comprehensive, integrated database to address children with developmental disabilities", Helen Bader Foundation, $139,000; UWM grant fund 133-GQ67, 2004-2007.

Speaker Topics 
Health Informatics
Health Care Terminology
Digital Libraries

Education
Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, Logic/Philosophy, 1992
M.S., University of Missouri-Columbia, Computer Science, 1990
M.A., University of Missouri-Columbia, Analytic Philosophy, 1982
B.A., University of Missouri-Columbia, Philosophy, 1979