Marc Triola, M.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, NYU School of Medicine
Chief, Section of Medical Informatics, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, NYU School of Medicine
Director, Division of Educational Informatics, NYU School of Medicine

Dr. Triola's research experience and expertise includes computer-based medical education, the use of Virtual Patients, factors affecting the usability and impact of clinical information systems, and the assessment of change in knowledge and attitudes resulting from online patient education programs. He is the Chief of the Section of Medical Informatics at NYU School of Medicine, an academic research group focused on both educational and clinical Informatics. Dr. Triola is also Associate Director of the Advanced Educational Systems laboratory at NYUSM, one of the largest Educational Informatics laboratories in the country. In addition, Dr. Triola is a member of the Clinical Informatics service at the New York Harbor Health Care System of the Veterans Health Administration.

Dr. Triola is the Principal Investigator of an NIH/NLM funded IAIMS grant evaluating the use of technology in medical education of health care providers and patients and has participated in several multi-center trials evaluating both clinical and educational Informatics interventions. He is a national expert on Virtual Patients and serves on the national advisory board for creating standards for Virtual Patients and as a Project Chair of an AAMC subcommittee on distance learning in education.

Dr. Triola is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the NYU School of Medicine. He completed residency training in Internal Medicine at NYU School of Medicine and subsequently served as Chief Resident for the Internal Medicine Training Program. He completed a Research Fellowship in Medical Informatics at the NYU and Mount Sinai Schools of Medicine. Dr. Triola is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and is a practicing Hospitalist at the Manhattan Veterans Affairs Medical Center in New York City. He is an invited Lecturer on Medical Informatics at two NIH K-30 programs in New York City and the Courant Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science. His first textbook, “Biostatistics for the Biological and Health Sciences”, was recently published by Addison Wesley. Dr. Triola's is the principal author of the software program Statdisk, one of the most popular statistical software packages used in undergraduate education.

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Coles Lab, 2, 202
New York University Langone Medical Center
New York, NY 10016, USA
Phone: +1-212-263-2053

Administrative contact: Lynn Fischoff (212-263-2053) lynn.fischoff@nyumc.org