Alison Fohner, PhD, is an Adjunct Investigator specializing in clinical informatics at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research. Her work combines highly granular electronic health record data with genetic data to identify predictors of outcome and drug response among hospitalized patients, with the goal of implementing electronic decision support to improve personalized medicine in acute care. She also is studying the implementation of preemptive pharmacogenetic testing.
Dr. Fohner holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biology from Stanford University, and a PhD in public health genetics from the University of Washington. Her doctoral work focused on genetic and environmental predictors of drug response and health outcomes in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.