Researcher profile

Brian E. Dixon

Dr. Dixon is the Clem McDonald Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Indiana University (IU) in the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health and Director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics at the Regenstrief Institute. In addition, Dr. Dixon serves as the Director of Public Health Informatics and Research Scientist at the Regenstrief Institute. Dr. Dixon also has a part-time role as a Health Research Scientist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs where he applies informatics to solve challenges facing care delivery to our nation’s heroes. Dr. Dixon’s research focuses on applying informatics methods and solutions to improve population health in clinical as well as public health organizations. Leveraging large-scale clinical and administrative data, Dr. Dixon engineers solutions to optimize information and work flow, enhance surveillance of disease and injury, and improve population health outcomes. Dr. Dixon teaches informatics courses to future clinical as well as public health leaders, and he regularly mentors junior faculty and researchers in informatics, public health, and health services. Dr. Dixon has published over 200 peer-reviewed publications in highly respected journals, including American Journal of Public Health, Pediatrics, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, American Journal of Preventative Medicine, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, Vaccine, Public Health Reports, Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. He has further published 30+ chapters in books, including Nursing Informatics: A Health Informatics, Interprofessional and Global Perspective (2022), Population Health Informatics: Driving Evidence-Based Solutions into Practice (2017), and Clinical Decision Support: The Road to Broad Adoption (2014). He is further the editor of three highly acclaimed books: Clinical Informatics Study Guide: Text and Review (2016 and 2022), Health Information Exchange: Navigating and Managing a Network of Health Information Systems (2016 and 2023), and Public Health Informatics and Information Systems, 3rd Edition (2020). The HIE book received the Book of the Year award from the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) in 2017. In 2018, Dr. Dixon was named a Research Frontiers Trailblazer by IUPUI in 2018. He is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and International Academy of Health Science Informatics (IAHSI). He is also an Elected Member of the American College of Epidemiology. Before joining the faculty at Indiana University, Dr. Dixon managed research and development projects for Regenstrief and the Indiana Health Information Exchange. Dr. Dixon also developed health information applications and systems, including tools supporting the standard clinical vocabulary LOINC®, technology supporting the automated reporting of notifiable conditions to public health agencies, and tools for querying large clinical data repositories. Dr. Dixon earned his Bachelor of Arts in computer science from DePauw University; his Master of Public Affairs from Indiana University; and his Doctor of Philosophy in Health Informatics from Indiana University.