Medical Assistant
Resume:
Chih-Lin Chi
S*** John Pappajohn Business Building Office phone: 319-***-****
The University of Iowa Cell phone: 319-***-****
Iowa City, IA 52242-1000 Email: abnurm@r.postjobfree.com
Homepage: http://dollar.biz.uiowa.edu/~cchi/
Education
Ph.D. Health Informatics, The University of Iowa, Summer 2009 expected
M.B.A. Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, June 2000
B.S. Zoology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, June 1998
Dissertation
Title: Machine learning-based decision support systems for personalized medical care
Advisor: Associate Professor W. Nick Street
Brief description: This dissertation describes three new algorithms for constructing
machine learning-based decision support systems. All three acquire and update medical
knowledge automatically from data and utilize nonlinear forms of knowledge to provide
personalized decision support. These new methods are applied to: (1) individualized
multi-objective hospital referral that estimates personalized survival probabilities in each
hospital and facilitates more flexible and better hospital selection; (2) individualized,
cost-effective diagnosis that determines individualized testing sequences to speed up
diagnoses and reduce testing cost without losing diagnostic performance; (3)
individualized lifestyle recommendation that constructs patient-specific lifestyle
changes based on the individual characteristics to reduce the risk of cardiovascular
disease.
Research interests
Machine learning
Data mining
Decision support systems
Cost-effective diagnosis
Hospital quality
Database design
Research experience
Graduate Research Assistant: 2004-present
Information Systems and Optimization Research (ISOR) Laboratory
The University of Iowa
Supervisor: Associate Professor W. Nick Street
Description: identify research questions and develop solutions
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Without Compensation Employee (WOC): 2007-present
Iowa City VA Medical Center
Supervisor: Dr. Terry L. Wahls
Description: use machine-learning approaches to investigate the relationship between
treatment of delay and outcomes
Internship: 2005 Summer
Cerner, KC, MO
Supervisor: Karen Widenski
Description: apply data mining to discover the gap between intervention and outcome
Research Assistant in Database Design Project: 2005 Spring
The University of Iowa
Supervisor: Professor Connie White Delaney
Description: design an ER model and interface for Nursing Management Minimum
Dataset
Publications
Chih-Lin Chi, W. Nick Street. The optimal diagnostic decision sequence. American
Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, page 902, Washington, DC,
November 2008 (poster paper).
Chih-Lin Chi, W. Nick Street, Marcia M. Ward. Building a hospital referral expert
system with a prediction and optimization-based decision support system algorithm.
Journal of Biomedical Informatics 41(2):371-386, April 2008.
Chih-Lin Chi, W. Nick Street, William H. Wolberg. Application of artificial neural
network-based survival analysis on two breast cancer datasets. Proceedings of the 2007
American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, pages 130-134,
Chicago, IL, November 2007.
Chih-Lin Chi, W. Nick Street. A data mining technique for risk-stratification diagnosis.
Proceedings of the 2007 American Medical Informatics Association Annual
Symposium, page 909, Chicago, IL, November 2007 (poster paper).
Chih-Lin Chi. The e-mail advertising effectiveness enhancing mechanism by using
neural network model. MBA thesis, The Department of Business Administration, Feng
Chia University, Taiwan, 2000.
Working papers
Chih-Lin Chi, W. Nick Street, David A. Katz. A decision support system for cost-
effective diagnosis. Journal submission, under review.
Chih-Lin Chi, W. Nick Street, Jennifer G. Robinson. Healthy lifestyle expert system.
Journal submission, in preparation.
Der-Fa Lu, Chih-Lin Chi, W. Nick Street, Terry L. Wahls. Delay-outcome relationships
in prostate cancer patients. Journal submission, in preparation.
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Chih-Lin Chi, Hui-Chen Tseng, Margrét Ó lafsdóttir Thorlacius, Connie White Delaney,
Diane L. Huber. The database design of Nursing Management Minimum Dataset.
Journal submission, in preparation.
Abstract and invited talk
Building a hospital referral expert system with a prediction and optimization-based
decision support system algorithm. Management Sciences Seminar Series, Iowa City, IA,
March 2008.
Active feature learning for medical diagnosis, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA,
November 2007.
Health informatics, Iowa School Counselor Association, Ames, IA, October 2005
Health informatics, Iowa School Counselor Association, Bettendorf, IA, April 2005
Teaching experience
Teaching Assistant, Department of Management Sciences, University of Iowa: 2003-
2004
Web Programming (06K:126 and 06K:226): helped to solve students’ Visual Basic
programming problems in the lab session
Computer Analysis (06K:070): helped students with questions in Microsoft Office in
office hours
Teaching Assistant, Department of Business Administration, Feng Chia University,
Taiwan: 1999-2000
Statistics: teaching SAS software
Awards and honors
Academic Honors from Alumni Association of the Department of Business
Administration of Feng Chia University (1999 and 2000, top 3 MBA students)
Bronze Award of Technology Innovation Competition from Advantech (1999, 7 of 430
competitors)
Professional activities
Reviewer
American Medical Informatics Association, 2008
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2007, 2008
Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2008
ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining,
2006, 2007
Professional memberships
INFORMS 2007-present
AMIA 2006-present
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Proposals
Intelligent PowerPlan proposal for Cerner (2005)
Patents and disclosures
The drink bottle of cap on cap and sipper attached-PRC Patent (1999)
The structure of pen cap for automatic flexible protection-ROC Patent (1997)
The envelops of self-gluing seal and stamp (1996)
The structure of multiples force unit (1996)
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