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Annie T. Chen is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Washington, specializing in Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education. She holds a PhD in Information Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Science in Information Science. Her research interests focus on information behaviors in the context of long-term health management, including information interaction in online communities and the use of natural language processing and visualization methods to study linguistic patterns and psychosocial communicative processes. Professor Chen is actively engaged in digital humanities research, co-leading the Svoboda Diaries Project, which offers students interdisciplinary opportunities to engage with international collaborators, primarily historians. This project involves historical preservation of handwritten manuscripts, transcription, metadata assignment, and textual analysis, synchronized with courses in information/knowledge organization, archival management, and digital humanities. She has received multiple Excellence Teaching Awards from her department, and has presented extensively at conferences, contributing valuable insights into health information behaviors and collaborative interpretive practices.
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