Ashley Griffin
Instructor at VETERANS AFFAIRS PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolAshley Griffin, PhD, MSPH is an Instructor at Stanford Medicine and an Investigator at the VA Palo Alto Center for Innovation to Implementation with a decade of experience at the intersection of health informatics, policy, and patient-centered design. She develops and evaluates tools to advance health data access and interoperability, focusing on patient-generated health data (PGHD), EHRs, and portals to empower shared decision-making. Her research blends rigorous academic training—a PhD in Biomedical and Health Informatics from UNC—with pragmatic systems work from roles at Duke, UNC Health, Blue Cross NC, and Stanford. In 2025 she received a VA Health Systems Research Career Development Award to build a novel clinical decision support tool that harmonizes PGHD for chronic pain care. Known for translating complex data flows into usable clinical tools, she brings both statistical modeling experience and hands-on implementation skills to improve patient engagement and care decisions. Based in Palo Alto, she uniquely bridges VA and academic settings to drive scalable, patient-centered interoperability solutions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Biology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Biology at Appalachian State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Biomedical and Health Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biomedical and Health Informatics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (15)
healthkit7
health5
network-analysis5
researchkit5
network4
firebase4
mhealth4
swift3
rapid3
java2
rapid-development2
google-cloud2
machine-learning2
ios2
react1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
inls718/digital-prototypes
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:22 PRs, 21 pushes, 20 branches in 1 day
placewizardprototypesgnuradio
TeamMango/cavatica
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
network analysis of network analysis publications --- split by software
Contributions:43 pushes in 3 days
networksplitnetwork-analysispublications
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