My name is Richard Boyce. I am currently an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. My long-term research interest is to become an independently-funded translational scientist that combines comparative effectiveness research and informatics methods to improve medication safety for older adults.

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Current Research Interests

• comparative effectiveness and safety of newer psychotropics in elderly nursing home residents (pharmacoempidemiology, comparative effectiveness research, patient safety)
• knowledge-based approaches to drug-drug interaction prediction and identification (qualitative pharmacokinetic modeling, knowledge representation, biomedical ontology, evidentialism)
• drug safety decision support (unsolicited information retrieval systems, active medication monitoring)
• Semantic Web technologies, such as "linked data", to improve medication safety; for example, see my linked-data version of my Drug Interaction Knowledge Base
• computational methods for simplifying biomedical knowledge-base development, curation, and use (information extraction, Semantic Web)
• applications of truth and belief maintenance systems to biomedical knowledge-representation (Truth Maintenance Systems, non-monotonic and probabilistic logic)