Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension
Dr. Guzman underwent Pharmacology and Bioinformatics training at Harvard Medical School, and clinical Nephrology training at the University of Florida. During the past 12 years, Dr Guzman has directed a NIH-funded research laboratory focusing in the areas of Molecular Pharmacology and Cell Signaling. Dr. Guzman joined GWU in the year 2000 after having spent five years at Georgetown University. He serves in the Advisory Board of GWU's Center for Emergency Preparedness (Medical Informatics). Dr. Guzman has also served in the Universal Access and XML Web Services Working Groups of the Federal Architecture and Infrastructure Committee of the CIO Council, and in the Homeland Security WG of the National Health Information Infrastructure program of the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Guzman's background includes extensive experience in Biomedical and Clinical Informatics with a special focus in the areas of Knowledge Representation and Management, Information Assurance, and the use of Open Source and Semantic Web Technologies in Healthcare, Public Health and Homeland Security.