{"id":56972,"date":"2021-11-29T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=56972"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:16:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:16:29","slug":"insidetracs-with-emily-pfaff-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/insidetracs-with-emily-pfaff-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"InsideTraCS with Emily Pfaff, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51576\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 235px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/05\/Pfaff_Emily_headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/05\/Pfaff_Emily_headshot-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pfaff_Emily_headshot-NCTraCS-Interview\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/05\/Pfaff_Emily_headshot-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/05\/Pfaff_Emily_headshot-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/05\/Pfaff_Emily_headshot-301x401.jpg 301w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/05\/Pfaff_Emily_headshot.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Emily Pfaff, PhD, MS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/emily-pfaff\/\">Emily Pfaff<\/a>, PhD, MS, assistant professor in the division of endocrinology and metabolism, is co-director of Informatics and Data Science at NC TraCS. She has a PhD in Health Informatics and a master\u2019s in Information Science, both from UNC. Her primary expertise and research interests are in \u201ccomputable phenotyping\u201d and clinical data modeling in support of translational research. We recently spoke with Pfaff about improving\/refining health data collection and analysis, COVID research, and the role of informatics in solving today\u2019s pressing health problems.<\/p>\n<p>NC TraCS recently interviewed Pfaff about health data collection and analysis, COVID research, and the role of informatics in solving today\u2019s pressing health problems.<\/p>\n<p>Read her interview in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/2021\/11\/insidetracs-with-emily-pfaff-phd\/\">NC TraCS News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Pfaff, PhD, MS, assistant professor in the division of endocrinology and metabolism, is co-director of Informatics and Data Science at NC TraCS. She has a PhD in Health Informatics and a master\u2019s in Information Science, both from UNC. Her primary expertise and research interests are in \u201ccomputable phenotyping\u201d and clinical data modeling in support &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/insidetracs-with-emily-pfaff-phd\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about InsideTraCS with Emily Pfaff, PhD\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":51576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[96,2],"tags":[630],"class_list":["post-56972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-endocrinology-metabolism","category-news","tag-630","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>InsideTraCS with Emily Pfaff, PhD | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/insidetracs-with-emily-pfaff-phd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"InsideTraCS with Emily Pfaff, PhD | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Emily Pfaff, PhD, MS, assistant professor in the division of endocrinology and metabolism, is co-director of Informatics and Data Science at NC TraCS. 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