Michelle H. Nguyen

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Department of Biomedical Engineering
ude.imhj@97eyugnm

Education

PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, 2026

Dissertation: Modern Tools for Stakeholder-Aligned Family Health History Information Extraction and Data Collection
Area of Concentration: Biomedical Data Science

MS, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, 2024

Area of Concentration: Biomedical Data Science

BS, Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Honors College, 2020

Magna cum laude
Area of Concentration: Biomaterials and Biomechanics, Minor: Mathematics

Research Experience

2020-present: Research Assistant, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, PI: Dr. Casey Overby Taylor

2018-2020: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Engineering, Richmond, VA, PI: Dr. Seth Weinberg

2017-2018: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Engineering, Richmond, VA, PI: Dr. Raiyan Zaman

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant: Biomedical Data Design (Fall 2022-Spring 2023), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Teaching Assistant: Honors Rhetoric (Fall 2017-Spring 2020), Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Papers

April 2026: Nguyen M.H., Soley N., Zirikly A., Sedoc J., Taylor C.O. FHexchange: Resources for Family Health History Extraction and Normalization From Consumer Dialog Sources. [Submitted to BioNLP @ ACL 2026]

November 2025: Nguyen M.H., Applegate C., Murray B., Zirikly A., Tichnell C., Pendleton C., Gordon C., Yanek L.R., James C.A. Taylor C.O. (2025). Generating Real-World Evidence of Genetic Counseling Efficiency with Natural Language Processing. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocaf190

December 2024: Wang N., Lu Y.L., Treewaree S., Zirikly A., Nguyen M.H., Agarwal B., Shah J., Stevenson J.M., Taylor C.O. (2024). Prompt Engineering to Generate Synthetic Patient Portal Drug-Related Communications. Journal of Biomedical Informatics https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2024.104752

September 2024: Nguyen M.H., Sedoc, J., & Taylor, C. O. (2024).Usability, engagement, and report usefulness of chatbot-based family health history data collection: Mixed-methods analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research. https://doi.org/doi:10.2196/55164

June 2023: Soley N., Klein A., Taylor C.O., Nguyen M., Ewachiw G., Shah H., Bodurtha J. Feasibility of the Genetic Information Assistant Chatbot to Provide Genetic Education and Study Genetic Test Adoption Among Pancreatic Cancer Patients at Johns Hopkins Hospital. AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc. 2023 Jun 16;2023:497-504. PMID: 37350913; PMCID: PMC10283105.

Presentations

November 2024: Speaker, “Strolr: An LLM-enabled Chatbot to Support Pregnant Women’s Quick and Easy Information Seeking from Trustworthy Sources. ” . AMIA National Symposium 2024, San Francisco, CA. Systems Demonstration.

November 2024: Speaker, "Automated Genetic Counseling Efficiency Measure Extraction with Rules based Natural Language Processing Methods." AMIA National Symposium 2024, San Francisco, CA. Podium Abstract.

March 2023: Poster, “Randomized Intervention Study of Form-based and Chatbot-based Methods for Family History Data Collection,” AMIA Informatics Summit 2023, Seattle, WA.

March 2023: Poster, “Detecting Phenotypes Among Patients Suspected of Rare Mendelian Disorders,” AMIA Informatics Summit 2023, Seattle, WA.

November 2022: Poster, “Piloting Family Health History Chatbot with Crowd-Sourced Data Collection,” AMIA National Symposium 2022, Washington, D.C.

November 2021: Speaker, “mAMIA: mHealth dashboard to support pregnant women’s health information seeking and emotional and social wellbeing.” AMIA National Symposium 2021, San Diego, CA

April 2022: Poster, “Design and Implementation of Web-based Methods for Family Health History Collection,” ACTS Translational Science 2022, Chicago, IL

May 2018: Poster, “Modeling Heart Rate Variability with ECG-based Patient Data,” Honors Summer Undergraduate Research Program, Richmond, VA

April 2017: Poster, “Piano Practice as Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Therapy”, 9th VCU Poster Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creativity, Richmond VA

Other Experience

2018-2020: VCU Engineering Student Council Executive Board Member

2018-2020: Tau Beta Pi Epsilon Chapter Vice President

2017-2020: Co-Editor-in-Chief and Webmaster of Auctus: The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creativity at VCU

2019: FIRST Chesapeake NextUP RVA Robotics Instructor, Richmond,VA

Honors & Awards

2021-2022: NIH/NCATS ICTR Pre-doctoral Clinical Research Training Grant, TL1 TR003100

2021: AMIA Student Design Challenge Finalist (1/5 team winners)

2020-2021: NIH/NIGMS Pre-Doctoral Training Program in Computational Medicine, CMT32

2019-2020: Tau Beta Pi Scholarship

2017-2019: Western Union Global Foundation Scholarship

2017: VCU Launch Award

2016-2020: VCU Provost Scholar