RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Departments / Divisions

Medicine / General Internal Medicine (Primary)

Experience

Education

• Degrees
  • BS; University of Pittsburgh, College of Arts and Sciences (1987)
  • MPH; Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health (1994)
  • MS; Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine (2006)
• Training
  • Johns Hopkins University, Doctorate of Science (ScD) Candidate (1997-2001)
  • National Library of Medicine, Informatics Training Fellow (2003-2005)

Professional Experience

Research Focus

I am a Research Associate in the Biomedical Informatics & Data Science (BIDS) Section of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. My duties within the section involve advising master’s students in our MS Applied and MS Research programs and managing the required capstone. I also support our growing PhD program providing primary advising to Year 1 PhD students, serving on Qualifying Exam Committees, and working with advisors to support student progress. From 2007 to 2020, I served as a Senior Health Informatics Advisor and Senior Research Advisor at Jhpiego, Inc., a JHU-affiliated global health and capacity development organization that supports health systems across Asia and Africa. Major accomplishments included designing a framework for testing clinical decision rules for an intrapartum point-of-care application and leading the field testing for a mobile data capture tool to support quality improvement. My informatics skills were complemented with competencies and experience in problem analysis, rapid software prototyping, interactive data visualization, descriptive epidemiology, data analysis, human subjects research, ethics, and open data.

Educational Focus

I have 10+ years of experience supporting graduate students and academic programs in public health and health informatics. Responsibilities have included: pre-admissions advising; admissions review and assessment; professional goals analysis and academic advising; career advising; classroom and online teaching; teaching abroad; course design; course management; TA hiring and supervision; capstone and practicum oversight; curriculum review; committee leadership; and accreditation support. I bring a personal, learner-centered approach to my work and interactions with students. My work as an educator is informed by 15+ years of hands-on professional experience in a number of relevant sectors and areas: federal intramural research; local and state public health; global health; and independent consulting.

Publications

• Pickworth WB, Bunker E, Welch P, Cone E. Intravenous buprenorphine reduces pupil size and the light reflex in humans. Life Sciences. 1991; 49(2), 129-138.
• Fosnaugh, JS, Bunker EB, Pickworth WB. Daily variation and effects of ambient light and circadian factors on the human light reflex. Methods Find Exp Clin Pharmacol. 1992; 14(7), 545-553.
• Cohen C, Pickworth WB, Bunker EB, Henningfield, JE. Caffeine antagonizes EEG effects of tobacco withdrawal. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 1994; 47(4), 919-936.
• Pickworth, WB, Bunker EB, Henningfield JE. Transdermal nicotine: reduction of smoking with minimal abuse liability. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 1994; 115(1-2), 9-14.
• Fant RV, Heishman SJ, Bunker EB, Pickworth WB. Acute and residual effects of marijuana in humans. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 1998; 60(4), 777-784.
• Twose C, Swartz P, Bunker E, Roderer NK, Oliver KB. Public health practitioners' information access and use patterns in the Maryland (USA) public health departments of Anne Arundel and Wicomico Counties. Health Info Libr J. 2008; 25(1), 13-22.
• Beglaryan M, Petrosyan V, Bunker E. Development of a Tripoloar Model of Technology Acceptance: Hospital-based physicians’ perspectives on EHR. Int J Med Inform. 2017; 102, 50-61.
• Taher A, Bunker E, Chartiera L, Ostrow O, Ovens H, Davis B, Schulla M. Application of the Informatics Stack framework to describe a population level emergency department return visit continuous quality improvement program. Int J Med Inform. 2020; 133, 1-8.
• Rosburg T, von Allmen D, Langewitz H, Weber H, Bunker E, Langewitz W. Patient centeredness in psychiatric work disability evaluations and the reproducibility of work capacity estimates. Patient Education and Counseling. 2024; 119, 1-8.

Contact Information

Phone: 410-502-3768
Email: [email protected]
Visit my Google Scholar profile to learn more about my research.