Volume 4, Issue 8          March 31, 2014  

SBMI Career Day

All SBMI students are invited to the SBMI 2014 Career Day Thursday, April 10, 9:30 am to 6 pm at the IMM Atrium, Saraofim Research Building. At this event, you will:

To be fully prepared, students need to:

1. Review Chapter 3 of Sheryl Dawson’s e-book, “Job Search: The Total System,” available for download here.
2. Revise your current Resume to follow the standards outlined in the e-book
3. Bring copies of the resume for potential on-site interviews
4. Dress professionally! In a sea of qualified students and alumni, this is your chance to stand out. Wearing professional attire can increase your confidence and grab recruiters’ attention. Don’t wear tennis shoes, jeans or T-shirt.

Voting open for the John P. McGovern Award for outstanding teaching

SBMI students have nominated the following SBMI professors for the 2013-2014 John P. McGovern Award for Outstanding Teaching:

Previous recipients

Students can now vote for the next McGovern Award winner from SBMI. If you haven’t voted, review your email for a message from Survey Monkey to vote. Please do not forward this message because the link is uniquely tied to the survey. Voting will close on April 6 at midnight. The award will be given to the winning faculty member at SBMI’s commencement ceremony on May 8.

UTHealth Student Perception Survey

Student Perception Survey is now open till Monday, March 31. The survey is a triennial, comprehensive and confidential survey of the student experience at UTHealth.  Input and feedback from current students are important and provide campus- and school-based leaders with information needed to improve the quality of student services across UTHealth.

Take the survey here

Department of Health and Human Services health informatics internship

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation is seeking a student intern with background in health informatics for summer 2014 to work on the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research in the Health Quality and Outcomes Division.

Contact Katherine Warren at 202-205-8677 or Katherine.Warren@hhs.gov with questions.

SBMI at HIMSS14

UTHealth SBMI was proud to participate as an exhibitor at the HIMSS14 annual conference held in Orlando. The conference brings together 37,000+ health IT professionals, clinicians, executives and vendors from around the world. Exceptional education, world-class speakers, cutting-edge health IT products and powerful networking are hallmarks of this industry-leading conference.

SBMI was not only an exhibitor, but an avid twitterer while at the conference, ranking in the top ten Twitter handles for #HIMSS14. We were Tweeting live from the education sessions, interviewing faculty member Dean Sittig, and catching up with our very own MS student Anu Gururaj, who served as a student volunteer.

Video of Dean Sittig
Video of Anu Gururaj

The impact of “meaningful use” on providers and EHR use
SBMI Professor Dean Sittig, PhD, was featured in MedPage Today’s Hot Topics

As Stage 1 of meaningful use is wrapping up to a close, Sittig thinks it has been successful with EHR adoption rate close to 90 percent in hospitals and probably 70 percent for ambulatory practices. He also emphasizes that it is important for physicians to start preparing for new requirements for exchanging information with providers and patients, more structured data entry, and other challenges in Stage 2.

Dr. James Langabeer returns to UTHealth
The Houston Business Journal reported on Dr. Langabeer's return to UTHealth

SBMI faculty shares thoughts on protecting the use of service animals
Featuring SBMI Professor Lex Frieden, MA, LLD (hon)

Upcoming events

SBMI seminars

All seminars are held from noon to 1 p.m. at the University Center Tower 7000 Fannin Street, room 1414, Houston, TX 77030. Individuals who are unable to attend in person can watch the seminar afterward by visiting the research seminar page and clicking on the seminar titles, which link to the recorded presentations. Past seminars recorded before January 2014 can be viewed on the School of Biomedical Informatics webcast.

Seminar viewers and attendees are encouraged to fill out the seminar survey. Join the conversation! Follow the key points if you can't attend or tweet your feedback of the SBMI seminars: #SBMIseminar.

Important dates