William J. Bosl PhD

Dr. William (Bill) Bosl is currently an associate professor of Health Informatics and Clinical Psychology at the University of San Francisco, where he is also the current and founding director of the master’s degree program in Health Informatics. His primary research focus is in clinical neurophysiology and neurodiagnostics. Projects to discover patterns in infant EEG signals that can serve as biomarkers for autism and other neurodevelopmental pathology continue with collaborations at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) in Developmental Medicine. A proposal to move this work to the bedside is a finalist for a BCH Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator award. Bill is working with neurologists in the BCH Epilepsy clinic to find measures of ‘epileptigenicity’ or tendency to have epileptic seizures.

Together with Professor Andy Nguyen at USF, Dr. Bosl is working on a crowd-sourcing approach to annotation of clinical EEGs for research for the American Society of Electrodiagnostic Technologists. Other projects involve neurodevelopment in premature infants (with Rutgers medical school) and emergence of neurological impairment in Kenyan children following cerebral malaria (with Oxford University). An early-stage effort to detect mTBI following concussive head injuries via EEG analysis is starting to collect data. Clinical applications for all of this work will require integration of EEG-derived information with other patient data in Electronic Health Records, and presentation to clinicians, topics that are being developed with the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children’s Hospital. Professor Bosl has recently been appointed Visiting Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.