The Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) played a pivotal role in the second annual Innovations in Artificial Intelligence Conference, championing the foundational principles for the responsible and effective integration of AI into health care. Faculty from the DBMI set the essential groundwork for attendees—clinicians, researchers, and […]
Undergraduate Student Presents Summer Research to DBMI
On Thursday, August 7, 2025, Summer Research Intern Ford Love presented his poster “Neural Networks Extract Quantitative Features from MoCA Trails B Task to Detect Mild Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease” to the UAMS DBMI faculty. Ford is a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is studying Statistics and Music. […]
Artificial Intelligence Conference Examines Impacts on Health care, Research, Education
Held in the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute’s Fred Smith Auditorium, more than 200 UAMS faculty, staff and employees attended the inaugural Innovations in Artificial Intelligence Conference, which was also livestreamed to a virtual audience of 80. Read more
DBMI Student Sudip Panday Brings Home Second Place in Graduate Student Poster Competition at the DART Annual Conference
2024 Staff Excellence Award for Administration Goes to Robin Rogers, B.A.
Robin Rogers, B.A., has been crucial to the growth of biomedical informatics programs at UAMS as the administrative leader for a team of over 50 researchers and other personnel in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI). Read more about the recognition Robin received.
DBMI Team Members Support Walk for the Cure
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 […]
UAMS Researchers Find Changes in Monkeypox Genome That May Explain Its Recent Rapid Spread
The rapid spread of monkeypox is unlike the virus’ past outbreaks and may be a result of genetic mutations identified by Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) researchers. Led by UAMS DBMI’s David Ussery, Ph.D., the team published its findings this month in the Journal of Applied Microbiology. The team compared the genomes of the 2022 virus […]
Webinar: Guidelines for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging
Dr. Fred Prior and Dr. Charles Kahn will present ‘Guidelines for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging,’ a free International Cancer Imaging Society webinar. The webinar takes place November 9, 2022 at 12pm CST. Registration to open soon.
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.