Research Seminars

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) CST.

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All seminars are archived on the SBMI Seminar Archive page.

View live and online at go.uth.edu/LiveSeminar.

SBMI SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Date	Speaker	Topic
Jan. 08	Peter Hanik	On the Nature of Problems and Solutions
Jan. 15	Health Goodrum	Automatic Classification of Scanned Electronic Health Record Documents
Jan. 22	Elmer V. Bernstam	Precision oncology from an informatics perspective
Jan. 29	Michael Smolensky	Biological Time: Often Neglected Variable in Bioinformatics
Feb. 5	Tim Miller	Clinical Natural Language Processing with Machine Learning
Feb. 12	Licong Cui	Finding Needles in a Haystack: Debugging Large Biomedical Ontologies to Identify Hierarchical Defects
Feb. 19	Thomas Deserno	Accident and emergency informatics
Feb. 26	Sarah May	Developing Models to Predict Risk of HIV Infection Using Electronic Health Record Data
Mar. 4	GQ Zhang	Clinical Research Informatics in Action: a Data Science Perspective
Mar. 11	Muhammad Amith	An ontology driven dialogue manager for supporting HPV vaccine counseling
Mar. 18		SPRING BREAK
Mar. 25	Wei Zhang	Mathematical network approaches enhance understanding of brain architecture of pediatric epilepsy *Note: Audio Issues Prevented Recording*
Apr. 1	Yuqi Si/Surabhi Datta	Patient Representation Learning from EHRs: Challenges and Methods
Apr. 8	Carlos Perez-Aldana/Laila Gindy Bekhet	Clinical Events Predictive modeling using EHR datasets(LGB)
Apr. 15	Jiajie Zhang	State of the School
Apr. 22	Maryam Garza	HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR):Standardized Health Information Exchange for Streamlining Data Collection in Multi-Site Clinical Research Studies