Daniel Liu, M.D., and Jacob Wooldridge, M.D., have joined the faculty of the Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program, housed in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI). Both are 2022 alumni of the fellowship program. Dr. Liu is an assistant professor of pediatrics and biomedical informatics. His research interests include machine learning and data analytics. His senior research […]
Clinical Informatics Fellowship Welcomes New Fellows
The Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program welcomed its new fellows for the ’22-’23 academic year in July. Azriel Stinson, D.O., joins the fellowship program after completing a pediatrics residency at Geisinger Health System in Danville, Penn. He will train at Arkansas Children’s Hospital, working closely with fellowship Program Director Dr. Pele Yu, Jr. Nicolas Nadim Ghanem, […]
Clinical Informatics Fellow Dr. Wong Publishes 2 Papers
Graduating senior fellow Lori Wong, M.D., MPH, has published two papers of original research in informatics as the first author in peer-reviewed journals. “Elective Operations Delay and Emergency Department Visits and Inpatient Admissions During COVID-19” has been published in Surgery in Practice and Science. “Covid-19 Positivity Differences Among Patients of a Rural, Southern US State […]
Clinical Informatics Fellowship Celebrates First Graduating Class
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]