Vimla L. Patel

Vimla Lodhia Patel is a Fijian-born Canadian/American cognitive psychologist and biomedical informaticist.

She is renowned for her pioneering work in health informatics, cognitive psychology, and medical decision-making. Her research has significantly advanced understanding of how technology mediates clinical performance, medical errors, and decision-making in high-stakes environments.

Patel has worked in the area of biomedical informatics, in particular studying the mediating roles of technology on performance. Her work includes studies of medical reasoning and decision making, errors and error reduction in emergency care and other critical medical environments (including telephone triage). Her past work in health cognition includes medical reasoning, studies of risk-taking behavior and sexual decision making related to HIV in youth and adolescents. Her current work focuses mostly on cognition and learning, and the role of AI in augmenting human cognition in healthcare. Provided by Wikipedia