Technology Accelerating Knowledge to Improve Human Health
A department within the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Biomedical Informatics is led by Dr. Fred Prior, Professor and Chair. We develop computational tools to assess and manage medical and public health information. We serve as the campus leader for such projects. Located on the fourth floor of the Jack T. Stephens Spine Institute, our staff is available for consultation. Call 501-603-1766 to schedule an appointment.
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DBMI Faculty Awarded $75,000 for Research of Remote Care for People with Parkinson’s Disease
Translational Research Institute announced DBMI associate professor, Tuhin Virmani, M.D., Ph.D., as the recipient of its first $75,000 Team Science Champion Award, allowing his further investigation of the potential benefit for remote assessment of people with Parkinson’s disease. Read full article.
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Clinical Informatics Fellow Wooldridge Wins Best Presentation at Fellows Research Day
Senior Clinical Informatics Fellow Jacob Wooldridge, M.D., won Best Fellow Presentation at the UAMS Department of Pediatrics Fellows Research Day, hosted May 19 at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. “Identification of Lymphoma in Pathology Whole-Slide Images” is his senior project with the Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program. Dr. Wooldridge is attempting to use machine learning to sort through […]
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DBMI Awarded Funding to Establish Creativity Hub: AI for Health
The Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) has been awarded a $300,000 investment to establish a “Creativity Hub” focusing on Artificial Intelligence for Health. The project is one of four inaugural Creativity Hubs funded by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine and the Office of the UAMS Vice Chancellor for Research […]
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Clinical Informatics Fellowship’s Drs. Yu & Liu Present at AMIA Informatics Summit
UAMS Clinical Informatics Program Director Pele Yu, Jr., M.D., and senior fellow Daniel Liu, M.D., presented their artificial intelligence (AI) research at at AMIA 2022 Informatics Summit. The poster, “Evaluating vendor-derived pediatric sepsis predictive model in acute care settings,” was part of the AI Evaluation Showcase at the summit, held March 21-24 in Chicago, Ill. […]
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