Patrick Thalken joined the Advanced Pulmonary Physiomic Imaging Lab in March 2017 as a database administrator. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa with a Bachelor's Degree in Informatics. He participated in a summer internship in the Information Technologies department at Mercy Iowa City during the summer of 2014.

Patrick's focus is on web application development and management of the I-CLIC APPIL website. He is also responsible for database integrity and data retrieval, under the supervision of Mark Escher the Senior Database Manager.