Dept. of Biomedical Informatics - The University of Utah School of Medicine

06/12/2023

📢 Exciting Announcement! Dr. Sejal Mistry has been awarded the prestigious Hatch prize in T1DM research! Join us for her lecture next week.

🗓️ Thursday, June 15 2023
🕓 4:00 PM-5:00 PM
📍Health Sciences Education Building Room 1700

05/22/2023

🎓🌟 Congratulations to our exceptional graduates in Biomedical Informatics! 🧬💻
We are thrilled to celebrate this momentous occasion as our talented students proudly received their well-deserved Master's Degrees in Biomedical Informatics! We are proud to call you alumni, and we eagerly await the impact you will make as you embark on your future endeavors.

04/17/2023

Don't miss Huntsman Cancer Institute's CORI Seminar Series on 4/24 at 2 p.m. via Zoom! Join Dr. Joseph Finkelstein, an expert in biomedical informatics, as he discusses machine learning in cancer care delivery, early cancer identification models, and identifying determinants of cancer survival disparities. It's a great opportunity to learn from top researchers and foster new collaborations!

04/17/2023

Just a friendly reminder about the upcoming event! Join us on April 26th for this highly anticipated event, where Senthil Nachimuthu MD, PhD will be presenting "NightingaleOS: A Collaboration to Accelerate Machine Learning Research and Teaching using Large Open Data Sets"
Don't miss out!


💻 RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gCP4PHGm

04/10/2023

Please join us for our IABtalks 4/26 event, "NightingaleOS: A Collaboration to Accelerate Machine Learning Research and Teaching using Large Open Data Sets" presented by Senthil K. Nachimuthu, MD, PhD

💻RSVP here: https://redcap.link/April23IABTalks

03/08/2023

Our outstanding student, Sejal, is defending her thesis and we couldn't be more excited! Join us in celebrating her hard work, perseverance, and dedication to her research. Tune in to support our future scholar!

10/07/2022

Coming up soon! Don't forget to register.

We’re baaackk! 🎉🥳Please join us for our 𝗶𝗻-𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 IABtalks event, “Graphite’s Pursuit of Semantic Interoperability” Presented by Stanley M. Huff, MD, FACMI.
Register here💻: https://bit.ly/3Aw0Dst

08/30/2022

We’re baaackk! 🎉🥳Please join us for our 𝗶𝗻-𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 IABtalks event, “Graphite’s Pursuit of Semantic Interoperability” Presented by Stanley M. Huff, MD, FACMI.
Register here💻: https://bit.ly/3Aw0Dst

05/09/2022

Each year at Commencement,
The University of Utah recognizes the achievements of exceptional faculty members in teaching, research, mentorship, and service. This year, one of the six honorees as Distinguished Professor is our very own faculty member, Dr. Julio Facelli🎉💻:https://bit.ly/3M1eueU

04/07/2022

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03/16/2022

Excited to announce our next IABtalks event! 🤩✨
“Interoperability: The Vendor Perspective" by Shannon Sims, MD, Ph.D. It will be held on Thursday, April 21, 2022, via Zoom from 6:00-8:00 pm MT. Register Here: https://bit.ly/3MYdd94

12/08/2021

Congratulations to one of our faculty members, Julio Facelli, PhD, FACMI who has been elected to serve on the AMIA Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee. This committee guides and executes AMIA’s strategic goals and objectives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. He has also been selected to serve as a co-Chair on the Retention and Advancement subcommittee. This subcommittee focuses on growing a diverse set of AMIA leaders.

Dr. Facelli is honored to participate on a national level to address the impact of health disparities across the domains of informatics.

11/11/2021

🎉You are invited to a virtual open house on Wednesday, November 17th at 5:00-6:00pm MST via Zoom. Learn more about our department’s education programs and research opportunities from our faculty, current students and recent graduates. Register here https://bit.ly/3ktNVU2 !!🥳

11/09/2021

We are proud to announce that our department has reached a new milestone in educating over 500 Phd and MS students (520 grads to be exact)! We currently have 3 MD/PhD students, 18 PhD students, and 69 MS students.

Granting our first informatics PhD in the United States in 1965, we have graduated more PhDs than any other program in the world. Our department has also granted more MD/PhDs than any other department in the University of Utah’s School of Medicine.

Kudos go to our education team, Dr. Damian Borbolla, Dr. Karen Eilbeck, Barb Saffel, Robert Barber and Shiva Sanavi who work hard to elevate our students’ educational experience! Congratulations!

10/01/2021

In February 2021, Dr. Yves Lussier joined our department as our new chair. He is excited to lead our department and feels like it’s an opportunity of a lifetime to carry on the legacy started by Homer Warner, MD, PhD, a pioneer in the field of Biomedical Informatics. Read more!
https://bit.ly/3uwAd6l

As he embarks on his leadership journey as department chair for biomedical informatics, Yves Lussier, MD, feels as if his path has come full circle. Joining the institution that had such an important impact on his career feels like an opportunity of a lifetime. Lussier is committed to carrying on th...

10/01/2021

✨Come join the annual Imaging Elevated: Utah Symposium for Emerging Investigators being presented by the Dept. of Radiology and Imaging Sciences at the University of Utah. Our new chair, Dr. Yves A. Lussier will present the Keynote presentation on Saturday!✨

09/23/2021

Super excited to announce our upcoming IABtalk event! 🎉🎉 Register here! (https://bit.ly/39xLqtW)

09/10/2021

We presented Catherine Staes and Damian Borbolla with the Reed M. Gardner Award for Faculty Excellence yesterday. This award was created by students to acknowledge the achievements of faculty members in the areas of teaching, mentoring, and service to the department of Biomedical Informatics and Nursing Informatics. Congratulations to Catherine and Damian who represent our faculty well!

09/08/2021

Congratulations to one of our faculty members, Aaron Quinlan, PhD, whose team was just awarded a grant through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) for Essential Open Source Software. Dr. Quinlan’s project, “Improving the Analytical Flexibility of bedtools” was one of 35 awarded.

08/30/2021

Congratulations to Seonggyun Han, a Dept. of Biomedical Informatics PhD candidate who is the first author on a paper just published in the Nature Journal titled “ADAS-viewer: web-based application for integrative analysis of multi-omics data in Alzheimer’s disease”.

08/13/2021

The Department of Biomedical Informatics would like to welcome back all students. Currently we have 20 PhD and 77 MS students. Registration for all classes is open and if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the Education Team. We're excited to have in-person, online, and hybrid courses this semester.

Student News:
Michael Watkins successfully defended his PhD thesis on July 15th and is currently doing a postdoc with University of Chicago.
Alex Au, MD, successfully finished the masters in Biomedical Informatics this summer while attending his residency in Reno, Nevada.

08/06/2021

Congratulations to Drs. Guilherme Del Fiol and David Wetter on receiving funding for their Public Health and Health Systems Partnerships to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening grant through the CDC.

08/06/2021

It is our pleasure to announce that Jeffrey Bernhardt is the recipient of the Rolland H. Reiter Scholarship. Please see (bit.ly/3io0pLY) to learn more.

07/15/2021

We’re proud to announce the winners of the Reed M. Gardner Award for Faculty Excellence for 2020 and 2021: Catherine Staes (2021) and Damian Borbolla (2020). Please read more about it here(https://bit.ly/3B13xEW).

07/15/2021

Congratulations to Professor Karen Eilbeck, (DBMI), and Professor Simon Fisher (Internal Medicine) who were recently awarded an NIDDK T32 Training Grant – “Computational Approaches to Diabetes & Metabolism” for the amount of $2M over the next five years. Please see here(https://bit.ly/3z1isNv) for more information.

07/15/2021

Congratulations to Adriana Payan-Medina, a chemical engineering student in her junior year and a biomedical informatics research assistant who was awarded an NIH National Library of Medicine fellowship. This award will fund her tuition and research stipend for the upcoming fall semester.

06/25/2021

The Digital Healthcare Research Program at AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) recently highlighted Dr. Ken Kawamoto’s research project, “Decision Precision+: Increasing Lung Cancer Screening for At-Risk Patients”, which was funded by AHRQ for $1,184,380. See HERE (https://medicine.utah.edu/dbmi/news/2021/06/kawamoto.php)

06/17/2021

Congratulations to Dr. Shobha Phansalkar, an alumnus of our department (Class of 2007) and the current Chair of our department’s Alumni Committee, who recently joined Innovaccer’s leadership team as the Senior Director of Health Outcomes to lead the clinical research field and define the company’s health outcomes portfolio. See (https://medicine.utah.edu/dbmi/news/2021/06/shobha.php) to read more about Shobha’s role in building the future of health with Innovaccer.

05/27/2021

Congratulations to one of our faculty members, Damian Borbolla, Asst. Professor, who was one of several editors of “Leveraging Data and Information Systems on the Sustainable Development Goals” in a special issue of the International Journal of Medical Informatics. See https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-journal-of-medical-informatics/special-issue/10XP78JFKK2.

05/24/2021

New NLM-funded Video Series Profiles DBMI Alumnus Lance Pflieger, PhD

After completing his PhD in biomedical informatics at the University of Utah, Lance Pflieger PhD’17 became a staff scientist at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Institute where he is working on complex cancer research. See HERE (link: http://connections.careers/7/) to hear about Lance’s path from growing up in a small rural town of 9,000 in Utah to a scientist working on exciting, challenging research related to breast cancer and ovarian cancer.