No. 794 Joyce Mitchell, 2012

File — Box: 74, Folder: 11

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Dr. Joyce Mitchell, nationally prominent in the field of bioinformatics and retiring head of the University of Utah’s Department of Bioinformatics, discusses her life and long career, first at the University of Missouri and ten at the University of Utah. A Wyoming native, she attended Stephens College in Missouri and then earned a PhD in population genetics at the University of Wisconsin. She spent twenty-five years on the faculty of the University of Missouri, and left in 2005 for the University of Utah. The first interview covers Dr. Mitchell’s experience at Stephens, postdoctoral work, and her early and ongoing involvement with computer systems. Interview two explores her career at the University of Missouri, which ranged from working on artificial intelligence to IAIMS grants to Y2K compliance and beyond, and discusses Dr. Mitchell’s longstanding relationship with the National Library of Medicine and her service to the Board of Regents. The interview finishes with a look at Dr. Mitchell’s move to the University of Utah in 2005 and her work in linking the University of Utah’s medical infrastructure and its connectedness with the Veterans Administration, Intermountain Healthcare, and the Utah Department of Health and other institutions. The third and final interview continues with Dr. Mitchell’s work at the University of Utah. Dr. Mitchell focuses on key contemporary issues with health informatics, further discusses the cross-institutional medical record infrastructure she helped grow, and also discusses her work teaching summer intensive courses at the Woods Hole Summer of Science. Note: The interview contains supplemental materials. See enclosed speech “Health Science Library Anniversary Symposium Program, University of Missouri, Columbia,” Wednesday, September 28, 2011.
Project: University of Utah oral history project.
Interviewer: Anne P. Peterson

Dates

2012

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