Schleyer to biomedical informatics at Regenstrief

Titus Schleyer, DMD, PhD, MBA, has been named to lead the Center for Biomedical Informatics at the Regenstrief Institute.
 
Schleyer comes to the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University from the University of Pittsburgh, where he is associate professor of dental public health and founding director of the Center for Dental Informatics in the School of Dental Medicine, as well as co-director of the Biomedical Informatics Training Program in the School of Medicine. Originally from Germany, Schleyer earned a Doctor of Dental Medicine and a PhD in molecular biology at the University of Frankfurt am Main. He subsequently received a second dental degree and an MBA in health administration from Temple University in Philadelphia.
 
Schleyer has been conducting research since 1989, leading seminal studies on clinical computing, electronic dental records, Internet applications, and workflow and human-computer interaction in dentistry, according to the institute's press release. His research on dental computer applications has been primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health. In 2009, he was elected to the American College of Medical Informatics.
 
Schleyer will be the third director of Regenstrief’s Center for Biomedical Informatics. He will also serve as co-director of translational informatics with the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute.