Rachel Richesson is a professor in the Department of Learning Health Sciences, School of Medicine, at the University of Michigan. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Health Informatics and a Master's of Public Health. She conducts original research on the quality and usability of data from electronic health records (EHRs) for research and has fostered numerous interdisciplinary research collaborations. She has directed the implementation of data standards for a number of multi-national multi-site clinical research and epidemiological studies.