Muhammad F Walji PhD

...Associate Professor at UTHealth

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Muhammad F Walji

Muhammad F Walji Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences,
Director of Informatics, Office of Technology Services and Informatics
School of Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston 

7500 Cambridge, SOD 4178, Houston, TX 77054
Phone: 713-486-4275
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Muhammad Walji received a B.S. in Biology in 2001 from the University of Texas at Dallas, and a M.S and Ph.D. in Health Informatics from University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences in December 2003, and December 2006 respectively. From 2003 to 2006, he was a National Library of Medicine (NLM) funded pre-doctoral fellow. He joined the Department of Diagnostic Sciences as Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Dental Branch in January 2007.

He currently serves as Principal Investigator of a NLM funded grant to develop an Inter-university Oral Health Data Repository from EHR data that will allow end users to directly explore and extract information to support their specific research or decision making needs. In addition, he serves as co-investigator on the NICDR funded project seeking to apply a cognitive approach to refine and enhance use of a Dental Diagnostic Terminology and user interface in EHRs. He is also a Project Leader for Project 1: Work-Centered Design of Care Process Improvements in HIT, which is part of the National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare (NCCD).

He has also done extensive work in consumer-health informatics where he has presented and published numerous papers on issues relating to E-health. He is a member of the American Medical Informatics Association, Health Information Management Systems Society, American Dental Education Association, and the Consortium of Oral Health Related Informatics.

Last Updated on Friday, 31 August 2012 08:58
 

Projects


1. Development of an Inter-University Oral Health Research Database

The major goals of this project are to establish an Oral Health Data Repository that can accept and integrate data from disparate dental data sources, and allow end users to explore and extract information to support their specific research or decision making needs

Funding: National Library of Medicine / NIH (PI MF Walji)


2. A Cognitive Approach to Refine and Enhance Use of a Dental Diagnostic Terminology

The major goals of this project are to increase utilization of diagnosis terms, decrease error rates of term entry, increase provider satisfaction with the entry process, and increase the number of dental schools that adopt the dental diagnosis module.

Funding: National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) / NIH (PI E Kalenderian)

 
3. National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare
The major goals are to conduct short-term research that addresses the urgent usability, workflow, and cognitive support issues of Health Information Technology (HIT) as well as long-term, breakthrough research that can fundamentally remove the key cognitive barriers to HIT adoption and meaningful use.
 
Funding: Office of National Coordinator for Health IT, DHHS (PI J Zhang)
 
For more information see: www.SharpC.org 
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Publications

1.    Kalenderian, E., Walji, M.F., Ramoni, R.  What Does Meaningful Use Mean for Dental Schools? Journal of Dental Education. In Press.

2.    Tokede, O., White, J.M., Stark, P.C., Vaderhobli, R., Walji, M.F., Ramoni, R., Schoonheim-Klein, M.E., Kimmes, N.S., Tavares, A., Kalenderian, E. Assessing the use of a standardized dental diagnostic terminology in an electronic health record. J Dent Educ. In Press

3.  Ramoni RB, Walji MF, White J, Stewart D, Vaderhobli R, Simmons D, Kalenderian, E. From good to better: Toward a patient safety initiative in dentistry. J Am Dent Assoc. 2012;143(9):956-60. Epub 2012/09/04.
 

4.    Walji, M.F., Kalenderian, E., Tran, D., Kookal, K.K., Nguyen, V., Tokede, O., White J.M., Vaderhobli, R., Ramoni, R., Stark, P.C., Kimmes N.S., Schoonheim-Klein M.E., and Patel, V. Detection and characterization of usability problems in structured data entry interfaces in dentistry. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 2012 Jun 29.

5.    Tokede, O., Walji, M.F., Ramoni, R., Schoonheim-Klein, M.E., White, J.M., Vaderhobli, R., Stark, P.C., Kimmes, N.S., Patel, V., Kalenderian, E. Treatment planning in dentistry using an electronic health record: implications for undergraduate education. European Journal of Dental Education. Article Published Online: 18 May 2012. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0579.2012.00759.x

6.    Zhang J, Walji M. TURF: Toward a Unified Framework of EHR Usability. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2011, doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2011.08.00.

7.    Longoria JM, English J, O'Neill PN, Tan Q, Velasquez G, Walji M. Factors involved in choosing an orthodontist in a competitive market. J Clin Orthod. 2011 Jun;45(6):333-7.

8.    White, J.M., Kalenderian, E., Stark, P.C., Ramoni, R., Vanderhobli, R., Walji, M.F.  Evaluating a Dental Diagnostic Terminology in an Electronic Health Record. Journal of Dental Education. 2011.75(5): 605-615.

9.    Kalenderian, E., Ramoni, R., White, J.M., Schoonheim-Klein, M.E., Stark, P.C., Kimmes, N.S., Zeller, G.G., Willis, G.P., Walji, M.F. The Development of a Dental Diagnostic Terminology. Journal of Dental Education. 2011.75(1): 68-76.

10.    Stark, P., Kalenderian, E., White, J., Walji, M.F., Stewart, D., Kimmes, N., Meng, T., Willis, G., DeVries, T., Chapman, R. Consortium for Oral Health Related Informatics: Improving Dental Research, Education and Treatment. Journal of Dental Education. 2010. 74(10): 1051-1065.

11. Glick, A., Taylor, D., Valenza, J., Walji, M.F.  Assessing the Content, Presentation, and Readability of Dental Informed Consents. Journal of Dental Education. 2010 Aug;74(8):849-61.

12. Saitwal, H. Feng, X., Walji, M., Patel, V., Zhang, J. Assessing Performance of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) Using Cognitive Task Analysis. Int J Med Inform. 2010 Jul;79(7):501-6. Epub 2010 May 7.  

13. Zhang, Z., Walji, MF., Patel, V., Gimbel, RW., Zhang, J. Functional Analysis of Interfaces in U.S. Military Electronic Health Record System using UFuRT Framework. Proc AMIA Symp 2009: 730-734.

14. Walji, M., Taylor, D., Langabeer, J., Valenza, J. Factors Influencing Implementation and Outcomes of a Dental Electronic Patient Record. J Dent Educ. 2009 May;73(5):589-600.

15. Langabeer, J., Walji, M., Taylor, D., Valenza, J. Economic Outcomes of a Dental Electronic Patient Record. J Dent Educ. 2008 Oct;72(10):1189-200.

16. Bernstam EV, Walji MF, Sagaram S, Sagaram D, Johnson CW, Meric-Bernstam F. Commonly cited Web site quality criteria are not effective at identifying inaccurate online information about breast cancer. Cancer. 2008 Mar 15;112(6):1206-13.

17. Walji MF, Zhang J. Human-centered Design of Persuasive Appointment Reminders. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (CD-ROM), January/2008, Computer Society Press, 2008 (10 pages).

18. Meric-Bernstam F, Walji M, Sagaram S, Sagaram D, Bernstam E. Currency of online breast cancer information. Medinfo. 2007;12(Pt 2):973-6.

19. Ghoshal M, Walji M. Quality of medication information available on retail pharmacy Web sites. Res Social Adm Pharm. 2006 Dec;2(4):479-98.

20. Walji M, Sagaram S, Meric-Bernstam F, Johnson C, Bernstam E. Searching for cancer-related information online: Unintended retrieval of complementary and alternative medicine information. Int J Med Inform. 2005 Aug;74(7-8):685-93.

21. Bernstam E, Sagaram S, Walji M, Johnson C, Meric-Bernstam F. Usability of quality measures for online health information: Can commonly used technical quality criteria be reliably assessed? Int J Med Inform. 2005 Aug;74(7-8):675-83.

22. Bernstam EV, Shelton DM, Walji M, Meric-Bernstam F. Instruments to assess the quality of health information on the World Wide Web: what can our patients actually use? Int J Med Inform 2005;74(1):13-9.

23. Rinkus S, Walji M, Johnson-Throop KA, Malin JT, Turley JP, Smith JW, et al. Human-centered design of a distributed knowledge management system. J Biomed Inform 2005;38(1):4-17.

24. Walji M, Sagaram S, Sagaram D, Meric-Bernstam F, Johnson C, Mirza NQ, Bernstam EV. Efficacy of Quality Criteria to Identify Potentially Harmful Information: A Cross-sectional Survey of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Web Sites. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2004;6(2):e21.

25. Sagaram S, Walji M, Meric-Bernstam F, Johnson C, Bernstam E. Inter-observer Agreement for Quality Measures Applied to Online Health Information. Medinfo 2004;2004:1308-12. 

26. Walji M, Sagaram S, Meric-Bernstam F, Johnson C, Bernstam E. Cancer-related Complementary and Alternative Medicine Online: Factors Affecting Information Retrieval. Medinfo 2004;2004:1318-22.

27. Brixey, J.J., Walji, M., Zhang, J., Johnson, T.R., & Turley, J. P. Proposing a Taxonomy and Model of Interruption. The 6th International Workshop on Enterprise Networking and Computing in Healthcare Industry "Healthcom 2004". 2004 June 28-29, Odawara, Japan.

28. Walji M, Brixey J, Johnson-Throop K, Zhang J. A theoretical framework to understand and engineer persuasive interruptions. 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 2004 Aug 5-7, Chicago.

29. Sagaram S, Walji M, Bernstam E. Evaluating the prevalence, content and readability of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) web pages on the internet. Proc AMIA Symp. 2002;:672-6.

 

Last Updated on Wednesday, 26 September 2012 21:49