Books By Vimla L. Patel - Author

imla L Patel, PhD, DSc, FRSC, is the Director and Senior Research Scientist of a new Center for Cognitive Studies in Medicine and Public Health at the New York Academy of Medicine. She is Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University, and holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, and of Healthcare Policy and Research at Weill Cornell College of Medicine.  Dr. Patel is an accomplished researcher in the areas of biomedical informatics, cognitive psychology and their application in healthcare settings. She seeks to understand how people learn and evaluate information, whether it's young people, clinicians or the general public, and what factors promote them to act on that learning to make decisions about their health. Dr. Patel is an associate editor of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics and sits on the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Advances in Health Science Education.