Alexa McCray, PhD
Professor
Clinical Informatics
Contact Information
| Email: | amccray@bidmc.harvard.edu |
| Address: | 330 Brookline Ave Boston, MA 02215 |
Advanced Degree And Training
| Year | Institution | Area or Rank |
| 1981 | Georgetown University | Linguistics |
| 1997 | Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications | Director (1997-2004) |
Major Research Theme
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Dr. McCray conducts research in biomedical informatics, including research in scientific collaboration, scholarly communication, ontologies, phenotype-genotype correlations, and health communication/literacy. A current research focus is on methodologies designed to unlock the potential of multiple, distributed, and heterogeneous datasets by devising informatics strategies that effectively bridge the gap between molecular biology and medicine. |
Publications
External Recognition
| Dr. McCray was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2001. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. She is a past member of the board of both the American Medical Informatics Association and the International Medical Informatics Association. She serves as senior consulting editor of Methods of Information in Medicine, and she is a past member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. |
Major Collaborative Activities
| Investigator, Harvard-wide Clinical and Translational Science Award |
Investigator's Lab Web Site
| Research Lab URL | McCray Research Lab |
| Harvard Catalyst Site: | McCray Harvard Catalyst Web Site |
