All seminars are held at the University Center Tower 7000 Fannin Street, 6th floor (UCT E-612 & E-614), Houston, TX 77030 at 12 p.m. (noon) CT.
All seminars are archived on the Seminar Archive page.
View live and online at go.uth.edu/LiveSeminar.
Research Seminars Innovation Seminars
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| Date | Speaker | Advisor | Topic |
| 8/28/2024 | Andy Draper, PhD / Dean Sittig, PhD | Dean Sittig, PhD | i-CLIMATE: a "clinical climate informatics" action framework to reduce environmental pollution from healthcare |
| 9/4/2024 | Joshua Lin, MD, ScD | Elmer Bernstam, MD | Combining unstructured EHR with claims data for high-dimensional proxy confounding adjustment in comparative effectiveness research |
| 9/11/2024 | Jiaqi Gu, PhD | Elmer Bernstam, MD | Supporting care transitions: From ICU to general medical teams |
| 9/18/2024 | Yiming Li / Jianping He | Licong Cui, PhD / Degui Zhi, PhD | RefAI: a GPT-powered retrieval-augmented generative tool for biomedical literature recommendation and summarization / Advancing Pancreatic Cancer Prediction with a Next Visit Token Prediction Head on top of Med-BERT - View Seminar Link |
| 9/25/2024 | Bingyu Mao / Sheikh Muhammad Saiful Islam | Degui Zhi, PhD | Benchmarking Disease Prediction: Prompted/Fine-tuned Large Language Models vs. Structured EHR Clinical Foundation Model / Enhanced Genetic Insights from Brain Region-Specific GWAS Using Deep Unsupervised Learning Derived Endophenotypes on UK Biobank T1-Weighted MRI Data - View Seminar Link |
| 10/2/2024 | Yan Hu / Yaobin Ling | Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD | Improving Large Language Models for Clinical Named Entity Recognition via Prompt Engineering / MALLM-GAN: Multi-Agent Large Language Model as Generative Adversarial Network for Synthesizing Tabular Data”. - View Seminar Link |
| 10/9/2024 | Jeremy Hill, DO | Peter Killoran, MD /Elmer Bernstam, MD | A Standard for Physician Scheduling - View Seminar Link |
| 10/16/2024 | Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, PhD | Elmer Bernstam, MD | Decision Making, Risk, and AI: Ethical Considerations |
| 10/23/2024 | Amy Franklin, PhD & Dean Jiajie Zhang, PhD | Celebrating McWilliams Day | |
| 10/30/2024 | Wentao Li / Alan Pan | Xiaobo Zhou, PhD / Yejin Kim, PhD | From Genes to Brain: A spatial Genome-Wide Association Study method that decodes the genomic data with spatial information / Variability in 1-Year Home Time among Acute Ischemic Stroke Survivors: Analysis of Clinical and Claims Linked Data using Clustering Techniques and Ensemble Learning - View Seminar |
| 11/6/2024 | Dulin Wang / Rongbin Li | Wenjin (Jim) Zheng, PhD / Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD | Applications of named entity extraction in healthcare / Employ Large Language Model for Novel Gene Set Annotation - View Seminar |
| 11/13/2024 | Shikha Tripathi / Apollo McOwiti | Luca Giancardo, PhD / Laila Bekhet, PhD | Disease-Specific Self-Supervised Learning with Keystroke Dynamics and Neuroimaging / Determination of Unwarranted Clinical Variation Risk at the Clinic Level for Children being Treated for Acute Viral Pharyngitis at an Academic Clinic - View Seminar |
| 11/20/2024 | Yifang Dang / Zehan (Leo) Li | Licong Cui, PhD / Hongfang Liu, PhD | Social Determinants of Health Ontology / Explainable Multi-label Classification of Suicidal Tendencies from Psychiatric Evaluation Notes Using Large Language Models - View Seminar |
| 11/27/2024 | Hao Xubing / Warren Manuel | Licong Cui, PhD | Vocabulary alignment in the UMLS / Standardization and Harmonization of Vaccine Vocabularies for Real-World data-based Vaccine Research - View Seminar |
| 12/4/2024 | John D'Amore, MS '11 | Elmer Bernstam, MD | Interoperability & Informatics: the Peanut Butter and Jelly of Health IT |
Updated: 12/05/2024