Bill Lober

I began my career with a strong interest in computer engineering, which I studied both as an undergraduate and graduate student, and became a principal in two technology startups. I grew more interested in applications of technology, particulary in health, and became first a paramedic, and then became interested further clinical training.  I  completed medical school at the UC Berkeley and UCSF Joint Program. My MS thesis combined engineering and medicine to examine the heart’s electrical activity during cardiac arrest. I completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Arizona, with a brief stint as a Registrar at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, Queensland, Australia. I came to UW as a board certified ED physician, practiced for a few years at UWMC, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Medical Informatics (NIH/NLM F38 Applied Medical Informatics) with Dr. Jim Brinkley. I joined the School of Nursing faculty in 2005 and have been happily pursuing my interests across health informatics, across the Nursing, Medicine, and Public Health, since that time. For more information about the Clinical Informatics Research Group, please see: https://cirg.uw.edu