Teresa Schmidt, PhD, MA

Dr. Teresa Schmidt is an investigator at OCHIN. Teresa holds a doctorate in systems science and has over a decade of experience conducting observational research with medical record data. She studies health care utilization, health policy, and public health issues, including vaccine safety surveillance. She also publishes on the validation of electronic health record data and methodological advancements in network science.  

Teresa is dedicated to augmenting the generalizability of health research by using OCHIN’s data on low-income, uninsured, and publicly insured patients. She is passionate about generating knowledge on the strengths and limitations of electronic health data for scientific, clinical, and public health initiatives. Her goal is to build a research program at OCHIN that integrates data science, EHR data validation, and research on health informatics and health policy. She hopes her scientific applications will help to address public health issues in the United States.