Blanca Himes, PhD

Blanca Himes, Ph.D. obtained a Ph.D. in medical physics and bioinformatics from the Division of Health Sciences and Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and she was a biomedical informatics research fellow at Harvard Medical School in the Computational Health Informatics Program. After serving as a faculty member of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, she moved to the University of Pennsylvania in 2014, where she has been a tenured Associate Professor of Informatics since 2020. Dr. Himes’ research focuses on gaining insights into pathogenesis and treatment of asthma and other pulmonary diseases using biomedical informatics approaches, including via the use Electronic Health Record (EHR) and omics data. At Penn, she is the Director of the Exposure Biology Informatics Core of the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology. She is an American Thoracic Society Fellow and a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association.