Mailing Address
Center for Spoken Language Understanding
Oregon Health & Science University
20000 NW Walker Road
Beaverton, Oregon 97006

Phone & Email
+1 (503)-748-2007 (work)
+1 (503)-341-5588 (home)
bedricks@ohsu.edu (work)
steve@bedrick.org (home)

Educational Background

• Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
  Doctor of Philosophy, Biomedical Informatics, May 2011. Thesis title: Increasing access to medical knowledge using multilingual search interfaces; Supervisor: Dr. William Hersh

• The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
  Bachelor of Arts, Biology, May 2003

Employment

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Oregon Health & Science University Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Portland, OR (2011 – Present)
• Independent Consultant (2005 – Present) for clients including:
  • Vital Wave Consulting
  • Multnomah County Health Department
• Systems Programmer, A-CTI/Solestruck, Tualatin, OR (2003 – 2005)
• Section Editor, Advertising Designer, Computer Administrator, Cutler Publications, Colorado Springs, CO (1999 – 2003)

Research Interests

Publications & Presentations

Teaching

• CS506/606: Txt Nrmlztn, Fall 2011
• Guest Lecturer, Portland State University CS 510: Information Retrieval, Spring 2010
• Primer Curso Intensivo de Investigación Clinica, Guayaquil, Ecuador, Fall 2009
• BMI 507: Scripting for Scientists, Fall 2009
• BMI 540: Introduction to Computer Science, Fall 2008

Service Activities

• Student Editorial Board, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Jan. 2008 – Jan 2010
• Webmaster, OHSU Student Research Forum, 2007 – 2010
• Student Volunteer at MEDINFO 2007, Brisbane, Australia, Aug. 2007
• Curriculum Committee Student Representative, Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health and Science University, Sep. 2006 – Dec. 2007

Awards

• National Library of Medicine Predoctoral Fellowship, September 2005 – September 2010
• Finalist, 2008 AMIA Student Paper Competition, November 2008
• E.K. Gaylord Award for Student Publications, Spring 2003
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grant, Spring 2002

Professional Societies

• Association for Computational Linguistics (2011 – Present)
• American Medical Informatics Association (2005 – Present)
• Society for Developmental Biology (2001 – 2003)

Research Background

• Research Assistant, Office of Institutional Research & Planning at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO (2002 – 2003)
• Research Assistant, Danilchik Lab, Oregon Health and Science University School of Dentistry, Portland, OR (1999 – 2002)