Ashley Windham DO
Clinical Informatics Fellow
“What is clinical informatics” and “what do you do all day” are questions I often get when I tell people I am currently doing a clinical informatics fellowship. I’m not a wordy person (typically) and sometimes just talking fatigues me. So I thought I would create this blog to chronicle my time in my fellowship and hopefully answer these questions.
First, a bit of background. I am pathologist. I went to medical school at UNTHSC and then completed my pathology residency at BSW. My training career is a little confusing when it concerns my subspecialty training. Long story short, I have completed fellowships in hematopathology and combined my clinical informatics fellowship (only allowed by the ABP) with a transfusion medicine fellowship that I completed this past year (June 2021). Now, I am a full time clinical informatics fellow at UTHSCSA.
How did I even get here? Back when I was just a first year resident, sometime in the latter part of 2015, I attended a utilization conference. One of the speakers at this conference was a Dr. Brad Brimhall, a pathologist who gave a presentation about utilization and cost savings. Now I know that is likely not too exciting to the average person, but I was quite intrigued by his talk. During the break, I approached him to ask where can I learn to do the cool things he presented on. He really didn’t have a great answer for me, so he created a fellowship and I became his first fellow. So here I am.
This blog is intended to demystify clinical informatics as well as provide some education in the field. I hope you join me on this journey.
I am a…
- Physician subspecialized in hematopathology, transfusion medicine & clinical informatics
- Mom of one beautiful daughter, Alexis, and two small dogs Ellie & Rex
- Wife to one wonderful and sometimes exhaustingly energetic family medicine physician
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