Research 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 clicking the seminar titles below, which link to the recorded presentations.

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All seminars are available on the SBMI Seminar Vimeo channel.

Research Seminar Schedule

Date	Speaker	Advisor/Introducer	Topic
Jan. 21	Trudy Millard Krause & Cecelia Ganduglia Cazaban	Elmer Bernstam	Use of Claims Data in Health Services in Research
Jan. 28	Amber Johnson	Elmer Bernstam	Information challenges in personalized cancer therapy
Feb. 4	Hadley Wickham	Todd Johnson	Pipelines for Data Analysis
Feb. 11	Sina Madani		Use of Natural Language Processing in Enterprise Terminology Development
Feb. 18	Kirsten Ostherr	Peter Killoran	From Motion Pictures to Mobile EHRs: Using Technology to Communicate Medical Information
Feb. 25	Wei Zhao	Elmer Bernstam	Molecular Characterization and Clinical implementation of Breast Cancer Genomics Using Massive Parallel Sequencing and Microarray
Mar. 4	Erez Lieberman		How Genes Fold
Mar. 11	No seminar		Spring Break
Mar. 18	Lex Frieden		Tips for Improving NIH Proposals
Apr. 1	Mia Markey		3-D Modeling-based Decision Support for Optimizing Quality of Life following Breast Reconstruction
Apr. 8	Guergana Savova		Semantic processing of clinical text: methods and applications
Apr. 15	Chen Liang / Min Jiang	Yang Gong / Trevor Cohen	Knowledge representation for patient safety reports / TBA
Apr. 22	Stanley Yu / Katherine Pepper	Todd Johnson / Julie Brixey	TBA / Concept Map versus Mind Map: Contributions to a Conceptual Analysis of Social Network Analysis
Apr. 29	Muhammad Amith / Barbara Berkovich	Cui Tao / Trevor Cohen	Construction and Evaluation of a Vaccine Information Ontology for Patients / Use of a Custom Registry for Coumadin Management Across Inpatient and Ambulatory Settings
May 6	No Seminar		Finals Week