Researchers from the UAMS/ACH Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program received recognition and presented research at the MIS Virtual Summit, an international meeting for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) research. The Medical Intelligence Society (MIS) Virtual Summit was held online July 29-30. Then-senior fellow, now faculty member, Daniel Liu, M.D., and Program Director Feliciano “Pele” […]
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Clinical Informatics Fellowship Graduate Dr. Wong Joins University of Southern California
Lori Wong, M.D., MPH, has accepted a position at the University of Southern California (USC) as a Data Innovation Clinical Informatician. Dr. Wong is a 2022 graduate of the UAMS Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program. She published several papers and gave multiple presentations during her time with the two-year fellowship program. She is moving into a […]
Clinical Informatics Fellows Train with Peers at Epic
Nadim Nicolas Ghanem, M.D., (UAMS) and Azriel Stinson, D.O., (Arkansas Children’s) are among a group of new Clinical Informatics fellows from across the nation training together this week at Epic software’s training center in Verona, Wisc. The group took Epic’s Notecraft course online last week and are meeting in-person this week for the Physician Builder […]
Drs. Wooldridge, Liu Join Clinical Informatics Fellowship Faculty
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 […]
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. […]