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 […]
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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 […]
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 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 […]
Clinical Informatics Fellowship’s Drs. Yu & Liu Present at AMIA Informatics Summit
UAMS Clinical Informatics Program Director Pele Yu, Jr., M.D., and senior fellow Daniel Liu, M.D., presented their artificial intelligence (AI) research at at AMIA 2022 Informatics Summit. The poster, “Evaluating vendor-derived pediatric sepsis predictive model in acute care settings,” was part of the AI Evaluation Showcase at the summit, held March 21-24 in Chicago, Ill. […]
Clinical Informatics Faculty Dr. Antipolo Presents at Epic XGM
Ashley Antipolo, M.D., presented “3…2…1…Launch Your MISL Program: Physician Informatics Engagement and Leadership in the Academic Healthcare Setting” on May 2 at Epic XGM 2022. Dr. Antipolo shared how Arkansas Children’s established a Medical Informatics Specialty Leadership (MISL) program to solidify provider engagement in the post-go-live optimization phase of an Epic launch. This successful grassroots […]
Clinical Informatics Fellowship Sets Virtual Open House Dates
Speak directly with Program Director Dr. Pele Yu at our upcoming virtual open house dates for the UAMS/ACH Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program: 1 p.m. (Central Time) on Wednesday, June 8, 2022 – Click here to register (Zoom) 4 p.m. (Central Time) on Thursday, July 7, 2022 – Click here to register (Zoom) 3 p.m. (Central […]
Transforming Cancer Medicine
Dr. Donald Johann, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Internal Medicine, authored a paper in the high-impact journal Nature Scientific Data on the analytic validity of liquid biopsies. The use of routine blood draws to diagnose and monitor the status of cancer patients, rather than tissue biopsies, is revolutionizing the practice of clinical oncology and […]