Brian Patterson, MD, MPH

Clinical information Publications

LEADERSHIP POSITIONS HELD

Physician Administrative Director for Clinical AI, UW Health
Medical Informatics Director for Predictive Analytics and Clinical Decision Support, UW Health

AFFILIATE FACULTY

Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
Industrial & Systems Engineering

EDUCATION & BIOGRAPHY

Undergraduate: Pennsylvania State University
Graduate: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Residency: Northwestern Memorial Hospital – Chief Resident

Dr. Patterson is a tenured associate professor, as well as the inaugural Medical Informatics Director for Predictive Analytics and Clinical Decision Support at UW Health. In this role, Dr. Patterson works with hospital leadership to best use information technology to improve healthcare quality, operational efficiency, educational programs, and research. He has led efforts to develop predictive analytics and machine learning algorithms that have improved patient care, including models for predicting sepsis and assessing fall risks at home. In 2024, UW Health also named Dr. Patterson the inaugural Physician Administrative Director of Clinical Artificial Intelligence (AI), focusing on Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs).

Beyond UW Health, Dr. Patterson is active in national AI leadership. He is a member of the Health AI Partnership (HAIP) and the CHAI AI Maturity Model workgroup, and has contributed to the AI Maturity Roadmap for the Health Management Academy (HMA). He has spoken on AI governance at various prestigious institutions, including Stanford’s Human Centered AI group, the Health Management Academy, Scottsdale Institute, Marsal and Alvarez, and Epic.

His research interests are in clinical informatics and geriatric emergency medicine. Dr. Patterson’s work aims to use routinely collected clinical data to generate actionable insights to improve the quality and safety of emergency care for older adults. To achieve these goals, Dr. Patterson works in collaboration with investigators from the business and engineering schools as well as in the department of biostatistics and medical informatics. His current work focuses on automated risk scoring to identify older adults at high risk for falling after emergency department visits and automating referral to interventions to prevent future falls.

SELECT HONORS & AWARDS

• Dr. Patterson named to new clinical AI leadership role at UW Health (2024)
• Dr. Patterson invited as a guest lecturer as part of the Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Geronotlogy’s Health Science and Care Research Program seminar series. The title of his seminar, “Development of an Automated Screening and Referral Intervention to Prevent Falls Among Older Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department,” was presented on June 14, 2021.
• Scholar, Tideswell at UCSF, AGS, and ADGAP Emerging Leaders in Aging Program (2019-2020)
• Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine (AGEM) Author Spotlight, April 2019. Dr. Patterson was highlighted for his research and ongoing efforts to apply informatics-based approaches to generate actionable insights to improve emergency care for older adults.
• Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship, BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine (2015 & 2019)

FUNDING

Currently funded:

• AHRQ R18 (2021-2026): Principal Investigator — Preventing Future Falls in Older Adult ED Patients: Evaluating the Implementation and Effectiveness of a Novel Automated Screening and Referral Intervention
• NIA U19 (2023-2028): Co-Investigator — ED-LEAD: Emergency Departments Leading the Transformation of Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care
• NIA/NIH P30: Co-Investigator — Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center: Care Research Core

Previously funded:

• UW–Madison American Family Insurance Data Science Institute (2022): Co-Principal Investigator — Quasi-Experimental Designs for Learning Systems
• AHRQ R18 (2018-2022): Collaborator — Engineering Safe Care Journeys for Vulnerable Populations
• AHRQ K08 (2016-2021): Principal Investigator — Preventing Future Falls Among Older Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department
• AHRQ R01 (2014-2018): Co-Investigator
• Wisconsin Partnership Program: Co-Principal Investigator — WIsconsin Real-time Emergency Department Surveillance and Responsive Training (WIRED-RT)