John D. Osborne

Dr. John D. Osborne is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), with a secondary appointment in the same department. He specializes in Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly in biomedical text analysis and clinical phenotyping. His work focuses on applications such as drug repurposing and identifying patient cohorts for research and clinical care.

Dr. Osborne’s research interests include the relationship between genotype and phenotype, microbial bioinformatics, and developing NLP systems to support healthcare. He previously contributed to the Disease Ontology at Northwestern University and worked at the CDC and UAB’s Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center.

His lab at UAB develops integrated registry systems to identify patients with conditions like reportable cancers, multiple myeloma, delirium, and opiate use disorder. No scientific awards or specific grants are mentioned in the provided text.