Melanie A Sutton, PhD

Position: Co-Director, Medical Informatics Program, SAHLS, UWF
SAHLS Membership: Advisory Committee/Medical Informatics Working Group (2002-present), Mobile and Wireless Solutions Working Group (2006-present)
Contact: msutton@uwf.edu
Melanie A. Sutton is currently a tenured Associate Professor in SAHLS and serves as the Co-Director of the Certificate in Medical Informatics Program at UWF and as one of the co-developers of SAHLS's Medical Informatics Resource Site. She teaches courses in medical terminology, bioinformatics, health information systems, medical informatics, and computer applications in public health. Her research interests and publications span these areas, as well as computer vision, robotics, digital mammography, and web-based instruction and assessment. In 2008, Dr. Sutton received the U-Make A Difference Award from the UWF Excellent Matters Faculty and Staff Reward and Recognition Program, and in 2007, she received an Appreciation Award from the Pensacola chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers for helping to promote safety and health along the Gulf Coast. She received the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and Advising Award in 2002 and the Outstanding Instructor of the Semester Award in 1998. In 1999-2003 she served as the Principal Investigator of a $200,000 grant from The Whitaker Foundation for the project, Development and Assessment of Protocols for Efficient Utilization of Large-Scale Digital Mammography Databases. While pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science at the University of South Florida (USF), she worked with Harris Space Systems in Rockledge, Florida, on the CORE project, a redesign of the Launch Processing System for the Space Shuttle. She subsequently received her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at USF in the area of computer vision and robotics under Drs. Kevin Bowyer and Louise Stark.