The UAMS Clinical Informatics Fellowship faculty from the College of Medicine attended this year’s Epic Users Group Meeting (UGM) in Verona, WI. The UGM provided a platform for networking and knowledge exchange among physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other Epic users. This annual conference is a significant event for Epic customers, attracting thousands of healthcare and […]
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DBMI Team Publishes on Virtual Diversity Curriculum
A team of researchers from the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) has published its work developing and testing a diversity, equity and inclusion curriculum for use in higher education. The paper, “Experiences with Developing and Implementing a Courageous Conversations Pilot Classroom Through Synchronous Meetings via Zoom,” appears in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. […]
Dr. Cari Bogulski Outlines Tips for Improving Accessibility in Presentations
Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) Assistant Professor Cari Anne Bogulski, Ph.D., outlined tips for making presentations more accessible for people with disabilities as part of a UAMS panel discussion recognizing National Disability Employment Awareness Month. The UAMS Division for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DDEI) hosted the panel, “Disability through the Lens of Accessibility,” online on […]
Intawat Nookaew, Ph.D., Among Recipients of Inaugural Musculoskeletal Creativity Hub Grants
Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) Associate Professor Intawat Nookaew, Ph.D., is among the inaugural recipients of pilot grants awarded by the College of Medicine Musculoskeletal (MSK) Creativity Hub. These researchers and teams will receive one-year grants of $20,000: Jesús Delgado-Calle, Ph.D., Physiology and Cell Biology; and Intawat Nookaew, Ph.D., Biomedical Informatics: Role of Extrachromosomal Circular […]
Donald Johann Jr., M.D., Published Again in Nature, Receives NIH Equipment Grant
Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) Professor Dr. Donald Johann Jr. has received a $245,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to purchase three Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) instruments, specifically a NextSeq2000 and two iSeq-100 desk top NGS systems. Johann is also coauthor of a new paper published in Nature Scientific Data – “Ultra-deep sequencing […]
DBMI Researcher Receives Arkansas Breast Cancer Research Grant
Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) Associate Professor Horacio Gomez-Acevedo, Ph.D., has been selected to receive one of five grants from the Arkansas Breast Cancer Research Program for 2022-23. Dr. Gomez-Acevedo’s project title is “Framework for Breast Tumor Shape and Implications for Staging and Deep Learning Segmentation of MRIs.” Dr. Gomez-Acevedo, who is also director for […]
NIH Funds UAMS Effort to Close Patient Outcome Gaps Across U.S. Level 1 and 2 Trauma Centers
Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) researchers are hoping to help close wide gaps in trauma patient outcomes across the United States by harnessing new data to help trauma center leaders improve outcomes. Led by Mathias Brochhausen, Ph.D., and Kevin Sexton, M.D., the researchers will test which organizational features affect patient outcomes at 230 Level 1 and Level […]
Clinical Informatics Fellowship Alumna’s Research on EHR Upgrades Published
Research by UAMS Clinical Informatics Fellowship alumna Lori Wong, M.D., MPH, on the impact of electronic health record (EHR) system upgrades on physicians has been published in the October issue of Applied Clinical Informatics Open. Dr. Wong is the first author on the paper, “The Impact of an Organization-Wide Electronic Health Record (EHR) System Upgrade […]
KL2 Meeting Sparks DBMI Faculty Collaboration, Three Publications
A routine monthly meeting hosted by the Translational Research Institute (TRI), a comment and a question were the genesis for three publications this year by two TRI KL2 Mentored Research Career Development Program scholars from the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI). Maryam Garza, Ph.D., MPH, MMCi, and Tremaine Williams, Ed.D., who became KL2 scholars in […]
DBMI Faculty Mentor Students Through Cancer Research Internship
Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) faculty worked with medical students interested in cancer research through the Health Partnership in Cancer Research (PCAR) summer research program. The program is funded by a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health and is led by Dr. Thomas Kelly, Professor of Pathology and Associate Director of Cancer Research Training […]