David Pieczkiewicz, PhD

David S. Pieczkiewicz, PhD, is Director of Graduate Studies and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Health Informatics. He received a BA with Honors in anthropology from Case Western Reserve University, an MA in biological anthropology from the University of Kansas, and a PhD in health informatics from the University of Minnesota. After receiving his doctorate, he served as a National Library of Medicine-funded postdoctoral fellow at the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation in Wisconsin, until returning to the University of Minnesota in 2010 as a faculty member. David is an active instructor in the informatics program, teaching courses in basic informatics, databases, analytics, programming, and data visualization. In 2015, he was the recipient of the Outstanding Advising and Mentoring Award from the University’s Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. His academic and research interests include data and information visualization, data science and statistics, human-computer interaction and usability, and historical epidemiology.

Awards & Recognition

• Outstanding Advising and Mentoring Award, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly
• Security Health Plan Fellowship in Interactive Clinical Design
• National Library of Medicine Postdoctoral Informatics Training Fellowship
• International Partnership in Health Informatics Education Fellowship
• Madison A. and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship, University of Kansas