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Alicia Guidry, PhD

Dr. Alicia Guidry is a HIT Specialist at the Informatics Research Institute at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. On a contract with the Louisiana Department of Health, she works as a Data Analyst in the Business Analytics and Health Economics sections. She uses Medicaid claims data to provide fiscal impact analyses for policy development, inclusion in state and federal reporting, and the Medicaid forecast. Previously, she was the HIT Coordinator for Louisiana Medicaid.  While working on her Ph.D., she traveled to Kenya to help identify the types of data used in the treatment and care of HIV/AIDS patients. She developed ontologies and a data integration system for viewing data in clinical trial systems and electronic medical records systems in one user interface.

Dr. Guidry received her undergraduate degree in computer science from Louisiana State University and a Ph.D. in Biomedical and Health Informatics from the University of Washington.

Education:
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Louisiana State University
Doctor of Philosophy, Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington

Publications:

  • Nnedu ON, John-Steward GC, Singa BO, Piper B, Otieno PA, Guidry A, Richardson BA, Walson J. Prevalence and Correlates of Insecticide-treated Bednet Use Among HIV-1 Infected Adults in Kenya. AIDS Care 2012.24(12):1559-64.
  • Franklin JD, Guidry A, Brinkley JF. A Partnership Approach for Electronic Data Capture in Small-scale Clinical Trials. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 2011. 44 Suppl 1:S103-8.