Andrew J. King, PhD
Director of Precision Education Technology
Assistant Professor of Informatics
Andrew J. King, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Informatics in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics (DBEI) and the Director of Precision Education Technology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He joined the faculty in 2026 after 18 years of informatics training and experience at the University of Pittsburgh, including a BS in Bioinformatics, a PhD in Biomedical Informatics, a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Critical Care Informatics, and an appointment as Assistant Professor of Critical Care Medicine.
Dr. King’s research focuses on medical education, with an emphasis on developing novel assessments of learner clinical reasoning using multimodal data streams, including ambient listening, clinical documentation, EHR interactions, and gaze patterns.
He is developing Penn Edge, a Learning Education System based on the American Medical Association’s Precision Education Framework. His work also applies methods from Bayesian adaptive multifactorial platform trials to medical education, with the goal of supporting competency-based, time-variable clerkships.
Dr. King is a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA).