05/16/2012
Biomedical Informatics Online Certificate Program Approved
Great News! The University of Pittsburgh and the School of Medicine have approved the Biomedical Informatics Online Certificate program and will begin with the spring term in January, 2013.
05/15/2012
2011 Training Program Graduate Robyn Reed accepts position at Penn State Hershey
Robyn Reed, B.S., M.A., M.L.I.S. (2011, Biomedical Informatics Health Sciences Library Certificate, 2010, Library & Information Science, University of Pittsburgh) happily announces she has obtained an exciting new position as a Biomedical Informatics and Emerging Technologies Librarian at Penn State Hershey in the George T.
05/08/2012
Biomedical Informatics Training Program Graduate Heather Piwowar Makes the News
Former University of Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics Training Program student, Heather Piwowar, challenges Elsevier (publisher of medical and scientific literature) to allow text-mining of their content - and wins!
Heather's Blog
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04/05/2012
Doctoral Fellow Zachary Landis-Lewis has been invited to participate in the JAMIA Student Editorial Board for 2012-2013
Doctoral Fellow Zachary Landis-Lewis has been invited to participate in the JAMIA Student Editorial Board for 2012-2013.
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03/26/2012
Doctoral Student Ian Wong Awarded Scholarship
Doctoral Student in the Biomedical Informatics Track of the Intelligent Systems Program and NLM Fellow Ian Wong and his adviser Shyam Visweswaran, MD, PhD recently learned that Ian Wong has been awarded the Medical Student Training in Aging Research (MSTAR) Program scholarship. This eight- to twelve-week summer scholarship will allow the team to continue to work towards developing computer-based explanation systems for predictive models that are useful in clinical medicine including geriatric medicine.
01/31/2012
Newsmaker: NLM Fellow Patrice Thorpe-Jamison
Masters Student and NLM Fellow Patrice-Thorpe Jamison and her adviser Steven Handler, MD, PhD recently learned that their work to determine the impact of a paper-based computer-generated rounding report in nursing homes was awarded AMDA Foundation/Pfizer Quality Improvement Award. The $7500 award will allow the team to continue to work towards an information system that improves physician efficiency and documentation completeness, while reducing some of the commonly reported barriers to providing patient care in the nursing home setting.
01/20/2012
DBMI activities at 2012 AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science (March 19-23, 2012)
Papers
The Role of Complementary Bipartite Visual Analytical Representations in the Analysis of SNPs: A Case Study in Ancestral Informative MarkersSuresh Bhavnani, Shyam VisweswaranDate: 3/20/12 Time: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Session: AMIA-0
09/20/2011
Newsmaker: BMI Doctoral Graduate Jonathan L. Lustgarten
Click here to read the latest news about BMI Doctoral Graduate John Lustgarten.
06/27/2011
Summer Student Internship In Global Health Informatics - Center for Health Informatics for the Underserved
Training Program faculty members Gerry Douglas and Harry Hochheiser will lead the first DBMI Global Health Informatics Summer Internship, traveling to Lilongwe, Malawi with DBMI students Jhon Camacho, Arturo Pineda, and Fernando Obando in July. DBMI students will collaborate intensively with three members of the Lilongwe-based Baobab Health Team on a ten-day internship combining classroom activities and practical research fieldwork aimed at addressing important challenges in maternal and child health.
06/15/2011
Intensive One Week Course on Grantsmanship!
The Biomedical Informatics Training Program taught it's first intensive course on granstmanship in Biomedical Informatics Monday, May 23, 2011 - Friday, May 27, 2011. The course was taken by eleven senior graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Plans are underway for a second session this year. Once again it will provide a 20 hour intensive immersion experience for trainees who wish to learn how to write a successful NIH or NSF biomedical informatics proposal. Dissertation awards, fellowships and K awards are emphasized.
