“Beyond Model Performance: What Kind of Care Does AI Enable?”

Speaker:

Wendy Chapman, Ph.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine
Director, Center for Clinical Informatics
UT Southwestern Medical Center

About Wendy Chapman:

Dr. Chapman holds a bachelor’s degree in linguistics from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, where she also earned her doctorate in medical informatics. She conducted postdoctoral research in biomedical informatics at the University of Pittsburgh before joining the faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2003. In 2010, she was appointed Associate Professor at the University of California, San Diego, where she remained until 2013, when she joined the faculty as Professor and Chair of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah. Before joining the UT Southwestern faculty in 2025, she served as Associate Dean of Digital Health & Informatics at the University of Melbourne in Australia. 

Dr. Chapman’s research primarily focuses on natural language processing (NLP) of clinical texts. She has developed algorithms to extract information from clinical notes, aiming to improve decision support systems and quality assurance in healthcare. Her work includes creating tools for mapping text to medical concepts and enhancing the usability of NLP outputs for clinical research and decision support.

A recognized leader in the field of medical informatics, Dr. Chapman is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, a recipient of the American Medical Informatics Association’s Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.