Expertise and Research Interests:

Anna Ripple, MLS currently serves as the Acting Branch Chief for the Applied Clinical Informatics Branch (ACIB), Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC). Ms. Ripple is a 1991/92 alumna of the NLM Associate Fellowship Program, a one-year postgraduate training program for Librarians. Ms. Ripple joined the LHNCBC in 1992. She was involved with the early days of UMLS and ClinicalTrials.gov. Other projects spanning her career focused on novel applications of MEDLINE to support data discovery and drug safety. Recently, Ms. Ripple was a member of the Data Science @NLM Training Program team and served as a co-chair on one of the three NLM Racial and Ethnic Equity Program REEP Implementation Committees.

Publications:

Sorbello A, Haque S, Hasan R, Jermyn R, Hussein A, Vega A, Zembrzuski K, Ripple A, Ahadpour M. Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Software Prototype to Inform Opioid Pharmacovigilance From Electronic Health Records: Development and Usability Study. JMIR AI 2023;2:e45000 URL: https://ai.jmir.org/2023/1/e45000 DOI: 10.2196/45000.

Harpaz R, DuMouchel W, Schuemie M, Bodenreider O, Friedman C, Horvitz E, Ripple A, Sorbello A, White RW, Winnenburg R, Shah NH. Toward multimodal signal detection of adverse drug reactions. . J Biomed Inform. 2017 Dec;76:41-49. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2017.10.013. Epub 2017 Nov 1.

Sorbello A, Ripple AM, Tonning J, Munoz M, Hasan R, Ly T, Francis H, Bodenreider O. Harnessing scientific literature reports for pharmacovigilance. Prototype software analytical tool development and usability testing. Appl Clin Inform. 2017 Mar 22;8(1):291-305. doi: 10.4338/ACI-2016-11-RA-0188.

Sorbello A, Ripple AM, Bodenreider O. A pilot study to support prospective detection of emerging adverse drug events [Poster]. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2015:1699.

Winnenburg R, Sorbello A, Ripple AM, Harpaz R, Tonning J, Szarfman A, Francis H, Bodenreider O. Leveraging MEDLINE indexing for pharmacovigilance - Inherent limitations and mitigation strategies. J Biomed Inform. 2015 Oct;57:425-35. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2015.08.022. Epub 2015 Sep 2.

Ripple AM, Mork JG, Schmidt SC, Thomson H, Knecht LS. Performance Comparison of MEDLINE Structured Abstract to Unstructured Abstracts [Poster]. 2014 NIH Research Festival.

Ripple AM, Mork JG, Humphreys BL, Knecht LS. A retrospective cohort study of structured abstracts in MEDLINE, 1992-2006. J Med Libr Assoc. 2011 Apr;99(2):160-3. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.99.2.009.

Resnick MP, Ripple AM, Auston I, Rindflesch TC. An Ontology for Public Health to Support Enhanced Information Retrieval. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2010

Kilicoglu H, Fiszman M, Rodriguez A, Shin D, Ripple AM, Rindflesch TC. Semantic MEDLINE: A Web Application for Managing the Results of PubMed Searches. Proc. Third Int'l Symposium for Semantic Mining in Biomedicine, 69-76

Ripple AM, Tse T, Zarin D. ClinicalTrials.gov scope expanded. NLM Tech Bull. 2005 Jul-Aug;(345):e6.

Tse T, Johnson SO, Ripple AM. Update: Expanded ClinicalTrials.gov search capabilities. NLM Tech Bull. 2002 Jul-Aug;(327):e5.

McCray AT, Dorfman E, Ripple A, Ide NC, Jha M, Katz DG, Loane RF, Tse T. Usability Issues in Developing a Web-Based Consumer Health Site. Proc AMIA Symp. 2000:556-60.