Dr.Ogunyemi holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Barnard College andan M.S.E. and Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include computerized medical decision support, reasoning under uncertainty, 3D graphics and visualization, telehealth, and machine learning. Her research focuses on developing and evaluating novel computerized decision support systems for different biomedical domains with an emphasis on assisting clinicians in medically undeserved settings. She is currently principal investigator on a National Library of Medicine (NLM)-funded study to diagnose diabetic retinopathy from patient medical records and retinal image data using different machine learning strategies. She has been principal investigator on anNLM-funded study of computerized decision support for penetrating trauma, and on a National Cancer Institute-funded study of individualized breast cancer risk prediction using Bayesian networks. She is currently co-director of the biomedical informatics function for CDU's Accelerating eXcellence Intranslational Science (AXIS) grant and a co-chair of the UCLA CTSI’s biomedical informatics program, representing CDU.
Before moving to CDU in 2007 to become the Director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics, Dr. Ogunyemi was biomedical informatics faculty in the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School from 1999 until 2007. She was also a member of the affiliated faculty in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology from 2003 until 2007. She has taught graduate level biomedical informatics courses atCDU, in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, at UCLA,and short courses on informatics at the University of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal),Durban, South Africa. She served on the National Library of Medicine's Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee study section from 2003-2007, on the National Library of Medicine's Literature Selection and Technical Review Committee as a member (2010-2014), and as chair (2013-2014),on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Health Information Technology Research study section (2016 - 2019) and is an editorial board member of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (2015 - 2022).
