Christina Eldredge

Associate Professor of Instruction

Christina Eldredge MD, PhD, FAMIA is an Associate Professor of Instruction in Health Informatics at the University of South Florida School of Information (iSchool) where she leads the growth of their Health Informatics (HI) program. Dr. Eldredge also holds an adjunct professor position at USF Health Morsani School of Medicine where she teaches graduate level courses in HI and participates in medical student education. She began her career as a Family Physician in the U.S. Navy where she used the earliest forms of electronic medical records (EMRs) to manage her patient panel. After seeing the benefits of EMRs, she completed a Masters in Medical Informatics at the Milwaukee School of Engineering during her Primary Care Research Fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Her research experience during her post-doctoral fellowship inspired her to complete another doctoral degree, a PhD in Biomedical and Health Informatics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dr. Eldredge serves nationally on the Board of Directors for the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM) and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Academic Forum Executive Committee. She has presented nationally on health informatics education at numerous conferences and participated in the development of foundational domains and accreditation standards in this area. Her long history of contributions to the field of health informatics led to her recent distinction as a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA). In addition to her passion for health informatics education, Dr. Eldredge leads the iSchool Health Informatics Research Lab (iSHIRL) with Dr. Jim Andrews and is the faculty advisor for the Student Health Informatics Club at USF. Her research interests and published work involve the use of controlled terminologies to study adverse events in clinical care and clinical trials, especially hypersensitivity and anaphylaxis events, and metadata standards.

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