The Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program graduated its first class in June 2022. Daniel Liu, M.D.; Lori Wong, M.D., MPH; and Jacob Wooldridge, M.D., made up the first graduating class. The program is the first Clinical Informatics Fellowship in Arkansas and one of about 50 nationwide. Its application was approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate […]
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Pharmacogenomics Research Featured in Arkansas Medical News
Dr. Pele Yu’s pharmacogenomics work, bringing precision medicine to Arkansas Children’s Hospital at the intersection of pharmacology and genomics, is featured in Arkansas Medical News. Dr. Yu is director of the Clinical Informatics (CI) Fellowship Program, a pediatrician, Chief Medical Information Officer at Arkansas Children’s, and a professor of Pediatrics, Biomedical Informatics, and Public Health […]
Dr. Donald Johann coauthors paper on Next-Generation Sequencing in High-Impact Journal
Dr. Donald Johann, professor of Biomedical Informatics, is an author on an article in the high-impact journal Genome Biology on ways to improve Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) assays that use fixed tissue. Precision medicine approaches are revolutionizing the practice of clinical oncology. However, formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE), a routine pathology practice, brings challenges for the […]
DBMI Professor Reaches Students from Across Arkansas Free Genomics Workshop
Raymond Otoo was just starting the second day of a free three-day genomics workshop at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), but he was already seeing its value. “This workshop is great for adding knowledge to my existing repertoire of bioinformatics,” he said during a break as attendees from schools across the state […]
DBMI Ph.D. Student Selected for Prestigious AI Summer Program
Catherine “Cat” Shoults, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI), has been accepted into the Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden) Institute for Artificial Intelligence Summer Scholar Program. Shoults was selected for the prestigious program after drawing international attention for her promising work in artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, the program was canceled this year […]
Clinical Informatics Fellow Dr. Wong Presents at MIE2022
Senior Clinical Informatics Fellow Dr. Lori Wong presented a poster at MIE2022 in Nice, France. Dr. Wong’s poster was titled “COVID-19 Positivity Differences Among Patients of a Rural, Southern U.S. State Hospital System Based on Population Density, Rural-Urban Classification, and Area Deprivation Index.” The Medical Informatics Europe conference was hosted May 27-30 by the European […]
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.
Clinical Informatics Fellows Present at AMIA CIC
The UAMS Clinical Informatics fellows participated in AMIA CIC in Houston, Texas, starting with the fellows pre-conference retreat on May 23. The official AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference was May 24-26. The AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows’ Retreat was May 23, organized by the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows. It is the largest annual gathering of CI fellows. […]
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 […]
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 […]