Richard Boyce, PhD

Dr. Boyce is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics training program at the University of Pittsburgh. He has 20 years of research experience at the intersection of health informatics, clinical research, clinical research informatics, and medication safety. He is currently investigating the 1) intersection and synergy of knowledge-bases and generative models applied to patient safety, 2) intelligent clinical decision support interventions that advance health information technology standards, and 3) advanced pharmacovigilance signal generation, validation and investigation.
 
He has made significant contributions to the development of intelligent clinical decision support systems that aim to reduce preventable medication errors, particularly those arising from drug-drug interactions and affecting older adults. He has also conducted research using biomedical knowledge graphs to help drug safety practitioners investigate pharmacovigilance signals. He expanded this work into pioneering efforts to detect interactions between botanical medicinal products and prescription drugs. He also led and assisted with multiple projects to design interventions to prevent harm to older adults from medication therapy, addressing challenges like alert fatigue in clinical settings. His publication record includes more than 80 peer reviewed journal articles and 15 peer-reviewed conference papers on topics related to these efforts.