Donate to DBMI

There are numerous ways to make gifts to the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) at the University of Pittsburgh. All gifts, of any size, are greatly appreciated and are tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law.

Endowment funds play a fundamental role in supporting and helping to advance the mission of DBMI. They are permanent legacies that provide significant donor recognition, as well as vital annual income in perpetuity.

For more information on giving opportunities in our many specialty areas and specific needs within those areas (such as digital imaging, biosurveillance, intellectual tutoring system, and shared pathology informatics), please contact Dr. Michael Becich (becich@pitt.edu).

The following list provides a glimpse into the research interests of our distinguished faculty. Your donation can be applied specifically or generally to the department.

• Computer-Based Education
• Medical Cognition
• Decision Support
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Planning, reasoning, and optimization in the presence of uncertainty
• Applications of AI in medicine and finance
• Construction of Decision-Theoretic Reminder Systems
• Computer-assisted medical decision making
• Data accuracy in computer-based medical records
• Application of probability theory and decision theory to medical informatics problems
• Bayesian Belief Networks
• Causal Discovery
• Data mining application of probability theory and decision theory to medical informatics problems
• Data Mining
• Bioinformatics - Gene Expression Analysis
• Machine Learning - symbolic inductive learning from temporal data, data mining
• Scientific experiment design and planning
• Macromolecular Crystallization

Dr. Michael Becich (becich@pitt.edu) welcome the opportunity to discuss the range of ways in which you can donate to various biomedical informatics research efforts. Please feel free to call us any time at (412) 623-3941.