New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medical Center
525 East 68th Street, Box 130
New York, NY 10065
Work Phone# 212-746-9736
EDUCATION / TRAINING:
2005-2008 Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics
Research Fellowship in Biomedical Informatics
Masters in Biomedical Informatics
Research in clinical alerts and clinician user experience including: clinical alerts taxonomy, alert override reasons, alert monitoring and evaluation, development of new alerts and modifications of existing alerts to maximize usability.
2002-2005 University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals, Seattle, Washington
Internal Medicine Internship and Residency, Traditional Track
1998-2002 Tufts University School of Medicine (AOA)
Doctor of Medicine
1996-1998 Harvard Extension School
Coursework in Biomedical Statistics, Philosophy of Ethics, and Computer Systems Programming
1989-1993 Harvard College
Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science (cum laude)
HONORS / AWARDS / GRANTS:
2008 Student Paper Finalist for AMIA 2008
2005-2008 National Library of Medicine Training grant
2002 Alpha Omega Alpha, Medical Honor Society
Tufts University chapter
2001 Funding from the Tufts University General Clinical Research Center Scientific Advisory Committee for work done on “Diagnostic Markers of Neonatal Sepsis”
BOARD
CERTIFICATION: American Board of Internal Medicine
LICENSURE: New York State
Drug Enforcement Agency
WORK EXPERIENCE:
2009-Present Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Assistant Attending Physician, New York Presbyterian Hospital
Attending for a teaching service including residents, PAs, and medical students for much of the year, and IT projects during the rest of the year.
2008-2009 Consultant, NYCLIX
Consulting on user interface, clinical information validity and user training for the New York Clinical Information Exchange.
2005-2008 Hospitalist Attending, Columbia Medical Center
Night time and weekend inpatient care; extensive use of Eclipsys XA and the Columbia-developed WebCIS system.
Informatics Fellow, DBMI, Columbia University
Developed clinical alerts taxonomy and alert firing report, assisted in the development of new default Eclipsys MD profile, assisted in the specification of multiple clinical alerts, active participant in Joint Clinical Alerts committee.
2002-2005 Internal Medicine Residency, University of Washington Medical Center
Assisted with the implementation of the new Cerner based EMR and CPOE system. Worked with the VA developed CPRS and the University of Washington developed Mindscape EMR and CPOE systems. Extensive experience with patient care and managing patient care teams.
2000-2002 Medical Student Co-Investigator Clinical Research Study, "Diagnostic Markers of Neonatal Sepsis” (Dr. Cynthia Cole, Principal Investigator), Division of Newborn Medicine, New England Medical Center. Developed data-organizing software and collaborated with interim analysis while learning principles of clinical research.
1994-1998 Senior System Administrator, Bolt Beranek & Newman
Large-scale computer infrastructure development and support, culminating in the planning and execution of a million dollar transition to a new data center while providing uninterrupted IT services.
ORGANIZATIONS:
American Medical Informatics Association
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
Alpha Omega Alpha
American College of Physicians
PUBLICATIONS:
Chused, AE; Rivera, S; Kuperman, GJ; Stetson, PD. “Development of a Taxonomy to Aid Management of Computerized Alerts.” Manuscript in Preparation.
Chused, AE; Kuperman, GJ; Stetson, PD. “Alert Override Reasons: A Failure to Communicate.” Presented at AMIA 2008 Annual Symposium.
Wang, X; Chused, AE; Elhadad, N; Friedman, C; Markatou, M. “Automated Knowledge Acquisition from Clinical Narrative Reports.” Accepted for AMIA 2008 Annual Symposium.
Chused, AE; Stetson, PD. “Opportunities for Error in CPOE Alert Responses.” Medinfo. August, 2007.
Chused, AE; Payne P; Starren J. “Novel Techniques for Survey and Classification Studies to Improve Patient Centered Websites.” AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings. 2006, 891.
H.O.Kasaroglu, N.Weinschenk, A.Chused, G. Gupta, J.Hagadorn, J.Griffith, C.H.Cole "Normative Values of IL-6, CRP, CD 11b and CD 66b in Noninfected Infants <1500g." Pediatrics Research, vol 51:2002. Presented as a poster at Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Baltimore, MD, May 4-7, 2002
Casey, B. J; Vauss, Yolanda C; Chused, Amy; Swedo, Susan E."Cognitive functioning in Sydenham's chorea: II. Executive functioning." Developmental Neuropsychology. Vol 10(2), 1994, 89-96.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES:
1989-2007 Multiple singing groups, including Capella (NYC chorus), NYC psinging (NYC community singing group), SLGC (Seattle chorus), Psinging (Boston community singing group), Mather House Singers and the Harvard Radcliffe Chorus.
1990-present Volunteer for Arisia, a 2500 member Boston area convention. Panelist for the 2002, and 2006-2009 conventions. Registration division head for the 2008 convention. Venders’ Liaison for the 1999, 2000 and 2009 conventions.