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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) CT. Seminar viewers and attendees are encouraged to fill out theseminar survey.

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Research Seminars Innovation Seminars

MCWILLIAMS SEMINAR SCHEDULE
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”.
10/9/2024 Jeremy Hill, DO Peter Killoran, MD /Elmer Bernstam, MD A Standard for Physician Scheduling
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
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
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
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
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
12/4/2024 John D'Amore, MS '11 Elmer Bernstam, MD Interoperability & Informatics: the Peanut Butter and Jelly of Health IT


Updated: 09/25/2024