William R. Hersh

William R. Hersh is a Professor of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health & Science University. His research focuses on health informatics, information retrieval, and data science, with recent work exploring generative artificial intelligence in clinical settings, including few-shot prompting for clinical note classification and evaluating large language models in medical contexts. He has also investigated voice biomarkers for vocal fold lesions and clinical document metadata extraction. His 2025 publications appear in venues such as the Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science, the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and npj Digital Medicine. A senior professor, he contributes to advancing digital health and biomedical informatics education and research.