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 […]
Department News
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. […]
Meet Our New CI Fellows
Meet Sheryl P. De Leon-Dial, M.D., and Bradley Walker, M.D., MPH
First Dual Fellow in Pediatrics Hematology/Oncology and Clinical Informatics Receives Top Honors, Job Offer
The fellowship is the first at UAMS that combines three years of subspecialty training in pediatric hematology-oncology with two years of subspecialty training in clinical informatics, condensed into a four-year program with the approval of the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Preventive Medicine.
Student Tai Robins Showcases Research at Fall Conferences
Ph.D. student Taiquitha “Tai” Robins put her best foot forward for Biomedical Informatics as she crisscrossed the county in fall 2024, showcasing her research at conferences and interviews. Supported by her mentors, Christopher Wardell, Ph.D., and Tremaine Williams, Ed.D., she attended three events. SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science Tai presented her research, “Advancing […]
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
UAMS Receives $31.7 Million Grant for Clinical Trials and Research
UAMS has now received a $31 million grant to help with research and to help improve healthcare here in the Natural State. “We are thrilled to receive this award, which keeps us in strong and close association with around 60 other institutions across the United States. This is called a CTSA award, and that abbreviation […]
DBMI Mentors Summer Interns
The UAMS Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) is sponsoring several college and high school students this summer, mentoring them as they developed projects in the field of biomedical informatics. DBMI faculty Tremaine Williams, Ed.D.; Mathias Brochhausen, Ph.D.; David Ussery, Ph.D.; and Fred Prior, Ph.D., are teaching the students the fundamentals conducting well-designed research. “The students […]
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.