Qing Zeng

Qing Zeng has spent more than 20 years working at the intersection of language, data, and health. Her research focuses on natural language processing and consumer health informatics, and she has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles while leading research projects funded by the NIH, VA HSR&D, and the Department of Defense. Before joining GW, she was a professor at the University of Utah and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, where she developed HITEx, the first open-source comprehensive clinical NLP system in the country. At GW and the Washington DC VA Medical Center, she continues to build tools and standards that help patients and clinicians make better use of health information. Her team also produced the Consumer Health Vocabulary, the first of its kind to be incorporated into the Unified Medical Language System.