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All recordings for the current semester are located on the Research Seminars Schedule page.

McWILLIAMS SEMINAR ARCHIVE
Date Speaker Advisor Topic
12/06/2023 Meera Subash, MD   Patient Perceptions of e-Visits: Qualitative Study of Older Adults to Inform Health System Implementation
11/29/2023 Jeremy Hill, DO   Research Seminar
11/22/2023 No Seminar THANKSGIVING BREAK  
11/15/2023 Two presenters   Yanfei Wang - Estimating Individual Treatment Effect for COVID-19 patients
Yan Chu - Machine Learning Model Guided Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy Plan Optimization for the Mitigation of Radiation-Induced
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11/08/2023 Two presenters   Bingyu Mao - A deep-learning-based two-compartment predictive model (PKRNN-2CM) for vancomycin therapeutic drug monitoring
Sheikh Muhammad Saiful Islam - New phenotype discovery method by unsupervised deep
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11/01/2023 Two presenters   Yiming Li - Temporal and Spatial Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccines Using Reports from Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
Zehan Li - Improving Psychiatry Treatment Responses Prediction with Natural Language
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10/25/2023 Ross Koppel, PhD   Cyber Security for Healthcare Records
10/18/2023 Two presenters   Morgan Foreman - Improving Patient Activation with Digital Solutions: Supporting Black Pregnant Women with Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy
Tongtong Huang - Infer Granger Causality from Pseudo Time-series of Rodent
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10/11/2023 Two presenters   Rongbin Li - Large Language Models in Drug Combination Prediction
Dulin Wang - Deep Clustering Models in AD Subtyping
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10/04/2023 Two presenters   Xubing Hao - Identification of potential missing concepts in SNOMED CT
Yumeng Yang - Text Classification of Cancer Clinical Trial Eligibility Criteria
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09/27/2023 Two presenters   Ishav Desai -Classifying scanned documents using machine learning
Xu Zuo - Extracting Systemic Anti-Cancer and Response Information from the Clinical Notes Following the RECIST Definition
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09/20/2023  Kuldeep Kumar, PhD   Some Issues in Classification Problem with Application in Cancer Detection
09/13/2023 Albert Montillo, PhD   Bridging the Gap: Harnessing innovations in Deep Learning to provide new insights and prediction capabilities from Complex Biomedical Data
09/06/2023 Heather Lyu, MD   Better Data, Better Outcomes: How to Realize the Value of Big Data in Surgical Oncology
08/30/2023 Jeritt Thayer   Past, present, and (potential) future of CDS malfunctions
04/26/2023 Jiajie Zhang   State of the School
04/19/2023 Yuntao Yang   Discover protein structural features of alternative splicing and isoforms using AlphaFold 2
04/12/2023 Peter Killoran, Ryan Walsh   Transition to Epic at Memorial Hermann Hospital System
04/05/2023 Zhao Li   Recognize Biomedical Knowledge from Publications from Named Entity Recognition to Relation Extraction"
03/29/2023 Eric Bergh   Fetal EHR
03/22/2023 Wentao Li   Privacy is all you need: privacy and security in Genome-Wide Association Studies
03/15/2023 No Seminar SPRING BREAK  
03/08/2023 Yifang Dang   Extracting and standardizing social determinants of health factors
03/01/2023 Morgan Foreman   Improving Patient Activation with Digital Solutions: Supporting Black Pregnant Women with Hypertensive Disorders
02/22/2023 Yan Chu   Forecasting Lymphocytes Depletion during Radiotherapy using Time Series Transformers
02/15/2023 Clifton "Dave" Fuller   Imaging, informatics and radiation oncology
02/08/2023 Yanfei Wang / Bingrui Li   Scaling up the Bayesian GPLVM to uncover clinical staging / Investigate the composition changes of cells and exosomes in the tumor microenvironment by novel deconvolution approach
02/01/2023 Zhiyu Wan   Strategic Privacy-Preserving Sharing of High Dimensional Biomedical Data Enabled by Artificial Intelligence
01/25/2023 Jianping He   Applying prompt tuning in biomedical relation extraction
01/18/2023 Michael Jacobs   Computational Radiology: A New Frontier in Integrated Medicine with Radiomics, Machine, and Deep Learning
01/11/2023 David Hanauer   EMERSE: an easy-to-use, self-service, free-text EHR search engine for cohort identification, chart reviews, and more
12/07/2022 Ying Ding   Drug Discovery, PubMed, and Clinical Trial
11/30/2022 Shaun Grannis   Leveraging Health Information, Exchange to Support Population Health and Advanced Analytics: The Indiana Experience
11/23/2022 Thanksgiving Break  
11/16/2022 Jeritt Thayer   Improving Health System Integration by Uncovering Health Data Attributes
11/09/2022 Ivan Coronado /
Yuntao Yang
  Proxy Analysis of Neural Vascular System using Retina Imaging and Deep Neural Networks / AlphaFold 2: applications and deployment in an HPC environment
11/02/2022 Xiaoxuan Cai   Causal inference for multivariate time series in the application of mobile health
10/26/2022 Jingqi Wang /
Nina Smith
  Medical concept normalization using transformers - from string similarity to semantic similarity / Qualitative Research Methods to Study Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology Policy
10/19/2022 Pora Kim   FusionPDB: Fusion Protein Annotation Database
10/11/2022 Charles Friedman   10/11 (At SBMI) and 10/12 (at Dental School) Chuck Friedman
10/05/2022 Hussein Abbas   Dissecting Acute Myeloid Leukemia and its Microenvironment, One Cell at a Time
09/28/2022 Todd Johnson   Causal inference from observational data
09/21/2022 Josh Lin   Data leakage due to care provided outside of the study electronic health record system: potential biases and solutions
09/14/2022 Zachary Siegel   In a world of Stigma, Can a Computer Algorithm Really Predict Overdose Risk?
09/07/2022 Russ Waitman/GPC   PCORNet GPC
08/31/2022 Stephen Wu   Honor Ethics: The Challenge of Globalizing Value Alignment in AI Ethics
04/27/2022 Jiajie Zhang   State of the School
04/20/2022 Alexandra Zingg Guzman   Towards Digital Health Interventions for Perinatal Mental Health Promotion: Lessons Learned from Social Media Listening
04/13/2022 Chunhua Weng   Natural Language Cohort Query at the intersection of AI and HCI
04/06/2022 Carlos Perez Aldana   Social Network Analysis of Online Support Communities for Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors
03/30/2022 Bingrui Li   Investigate the composition changes of tumor microenvironment in various cancers by novel deconvolution approach
03/23/2022 Sarah May   Using Data Science Methods to Facilitate HIV Prevention
03/16/2022 Spring Break  
03/09/2022 Zhao Li / Xu Zuo   Data bias and the performance of deep learning for predicting HCC development among NAFLD patients / An informatics framework for representing, detecting and measuring citations of biomedical datasets
03/02/2022 Alex Turchin   Using EHR Data for Clinical Research
02/23/2022 Karthik Adapa TBA  
02/16/2022 Wejnin (Jim) Zheng   Data Science and Informatics Core for Cancer Research (DSICCR): Resources, Expertise and Services
02/09/2022 Griffin Weber   Leveraging electronic health records across multiple institutions for research
02/02/2022 Yandong Jiang   AI and Anesthesia: how quickly is the field moving forwards?
01/26/2022 Hussein Abbas   Investigating Acute Myeloid Leukemia: From Clinical Studies to Multi-Omic Single Cell Profiling
01/19/2022 Yu-Chiao (Chris) Chiu   Deep learning for predicting the response to chemical and genetic perturbations of cancer
01/12/2022 Xia Ning   Ranking-based Artificial Intelligence: from clinical decision support to precision medicine
12/08/2021 Neil Abernathy   How informatics accelerated the COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials
12/01/2021 Zak Kohane   Learning how to unravel complex disease using phenome-wide scans + genomics: Autism Case History
11/24/2021 Thanksgiving Break  
11/17/2021 Jingqi Wang / Xinyuan Zhang   Medical concept normalization on clinical text / Computer-Aided Supporting Algorithm for Skin Diseases Diagnosis
11/10/2021 Sarah May   Predicting risk of HIV infection using EHR data
11/03/2021 Yanfei Wang   Approach to characterize disease progression
10/27/2021 Yuqi Si   Deep Representation Learning to Enhance Clinical Narrative Understanding
10/20/2021 Tongtong Huang / Ivan Coronado   Drug adverse event prediction using knowledge graph / Towards Stroke Biomarkers on Fundus Retinal Imaging
10/13/2021 Pora Kim   FusionGDB 2.0, fusion gene annotation update aided by deep learning
10/06/2021 Ang Li   Optimizing Cancer Associated Thrombosis Research through Clinical Informatics & EpidemiologyD
09/29/2021 Laila Bekhet   Towards implementable deep learning based predictive models
09/22/2021 Jia Zeng   Utilizing Informatics in Precision Oncology Decision Support
09/15/2021 Christoph Lehmann   International Status of Medical Informatics
09/08/2021 Sahiti Myneni   Towards sustainable digital health ecosystem: convergence of social computing, mHealth and human factors
09/01/2021 Robert Murphy   UT Health Intelligence Platform (UT-HIP)
04/28/2021 Jiajie Zhang   State of the School
04/21/2021 Alexandra Zingg / Tavleen Singh   Formulating Digital Health Technologies for Peripartum Depression Management: A Mixed Methods Inquiry / A qualitative inquiry of speech acts in health-related online peer interaction
04/14/2021 Yi-Ching Tang   Predicting Drug Response and Synergy Using Deep Learning Models
04/07/2021 Roni Matin   Anchoring Bias in Clinical Decision-Making Involving Transitions of Care in the Emergency Department: Identification and Evaluation of Risk Factors
03/31/2021 Nina Smith   Unintended consequences of HIT policy: The case of the Texas prescription drug monitoring program
03/24/2021 Sarvesh Soni   Questioning and Answering from Electronic Health Records
03/17/2021 Spring Break - No Seminar  
03/10/2021 Jian Tang   Graph representation learning for drug discovery
03/03/2021 Laila Bekhet / Xiao Dong   Comprehensive characterization of COVID-19 patients with test re-positivity in a large EHR system across the US
02/24/2021 Linda Li   Predictive algorithm for forecasting laboratory values
02/17/2021 Babatope Fatuyi   TBD
02/10/2021 Gretchen Purcell Jackson   A Framework for Evaluation of AI in Healthcare
02/03/2021 Dina Demner-Fushman   Deciphering consumers' health-related questions (including COVID-19) and finding reliable answers
01/27/2021 Sunil Sheth   Machine learning in Clinical Practice: Applications in Acute Stroke
01/20/2021 Dean Sittig   A Sociotechnical Framework for Safety-related EHR Research Reporting: The SAFER Reporting Framework
01/13/2021 Luca Giancardo   Introduction to Fully Convolutional Neural Networks for Medical Imaging
12/09/2020 Surabhi Datta/Jingqi Wang   Spatial Information Extraction from Radiology Reports / Concept Normalization for Biomedical Text
12/02/2020 Sarvesh Soni/ Roni Matin   Question Answering from Electronic Health Records / Identifying the Risks for Anchoring Bias during Emergency Department Transitions of Care
11/25/2020   Thanksgiving Break  
11/18/2020 Xinyuan Zhang   Ontological Computer-aided Diagnosis for Skin Diseases
11/18/2020 Xiao Dong   COVID-19 TestNorm - A Tool to Normalize COVID-19 Testing Names to LOINC Codes
11/11/2020 Amy Franklin, et al.   COVID-19 Panel
11/04/2020 Yi-Ching Tang   Explainable Drug Sensitivity Prediction through Cancer Pathway Enrichment Scores
10/28/2020 Rebecca Lunstroth / Susan Fenton   AI Ethics
10/21/2020 Maryam Garza   Determining the Utility of HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) Standards in Supporting EHR and EDC-agnostic eSource Implementations for Clinical Research
10/14/2020 Harold Thimbleby   Digital Theater / Calling out seductive digital systems that don't work when they hit reality
10/07/2020 Yuqi Si   Patient Representation Learning to Enhance Clinical Decision Support
09/30/2020 Mary Boland   Developing Informatics Methods to Study Maternal and Child Health Outcomes and their Environmental Contributions
09/23/2020 Harold Lehmann   Data and Software Quality in the National COVID Cohort Collaborative
09/16/2020 Laila Gindy Bekhet   Med-BERT: pre-trained contextualized embeddings on large-scale structured electronic health records for disease prediction
09/09/2020 Hashim Al-Mubaid   Gene mutation disease relationship and functional characterization with computational methods
09/02/2020 James Lewis   Perceived Usability: Usefulness and measurement
04/22/2020 Maryam Garza   HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR):Standardized Health Information Exchange for Streamlining Data Collection in Multi-Site Clinical Research Studies
04/15/2020 Jiajie Zhang   State of the School
04/08/2020 Carlos Perez-Aldana/Laila Gindy Bekhet   Social Network Analysis of Online Communities for Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors
04/01/2020 Yuqi Si/Surabhi Datta   Patient Representation Learning from EHRs: Challenges and Methods
03/25/2020 Wei Zhang   Mathematical network approaches enhance understanding of brain architecture of pediatric epilepsy *Note: Audio Issues Prevented Recording*
03/18/2020 SPRING BREAK  
03/11/2020 Muhammad Amith   An ontology driven dialogue manager for supporting HPV vaccine counseling
03/04/2020 GQ Zhang   Clinical Research Informatics in Action: a Data Science Perspective
02/26/2020 Sarah May   Developing Models to Predict Risk of HIV Infection Using Electronic Health Record Data
02/19/2020 Thomas Deserno   Accident and emergency informatics
02/12/2020 Licong Cui   Finding Needles in a Haystack: Debugging Large Biomedical Ontologies to Identify Hierarchical Defects
02/05/2020 Tim Miller   Clinical Natural Language Processing with Machine Learning
01/29/2020 Michael Smolensky   Biological Time: Often Neglected Variable in Bioinformatics
01/22/2020 Elmer V. Bernstam   Precision oncology from an informatics perspective
01/15/2020 Health Goodrum   Automatic Classification of Scanned Electronic Health Record Documents
01/08/2020 Peter Hanik   On the Nature of Problems and Solutions
12/04/2019 Roni Matin   Identifying Risk Factors for Anchoring Bias for Clinical Diagnoses Involving ED Sign-Outs
11/27/2019 No Seminar - Thanksgiving Week  
11/20/2019 Alexandra Zingg Guzman   Digital Health Systems in Maternal Mental Health: A Qualitative Assessment of Patient Needs and Views
11/13/2019 Fatima Merchant   Computational modeling tools to facilitate shared decision making in breast reconstruction surgery
11/06/2019 Carlos Perez Aldana   Harnessing Online Social Networks for Interventions Targeting Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Survivors
10/30/2019 Leslie Lenert   Desiderata for a Learning Health System
10/23/2019 Thamar Solorio   Named Entity Recognition in Challenging Scenarios
10/16/2019 Nina Smith   The US Opioid Crisis and Prescription Drug Monitoring: Biomedical Informatics Research Needs
10/02/2019 Maryam Garza   Evaluating the Coverage of the HL7 FHIR Standard to Support eSource Data Exchange Implementations for use in Multi-Site Clinical Research Studies
09/25/2019 Steve Jones (tentative) TBA  
09/18/2019 Lance Black   TMC Innovation
09/11/2019 Xiao Dong   Detecting Cancer Preventive Effects of Non-Cancer Drugs Using Real World Data
09/04/2019 Todd Johnson   Causal reasoning in biomedicine
08/28/2019 Lukas Simon   Longitudinal analysis of lung regeneration at cellular resolution
05/01/2019 Todd J. Treangen   The Promise and Perils of Microbial Forensics in the Genomics Era
04/24/2019 Qiang Wei/Jingcheng Du/Xinyuan Zhang   Understanding Health Beliefs regarding HPV vaccine from Twitter / A Study of Deep Learning Approaches for Medication and Adverse Drug Event Extraction from Clinical Text / Automatic Computer-Aided Diagnosis Algorithm for Skin Disease Images
04/17/2019 Henry Jones   Bioinformatics Utilization Of (And Dependence On) Information Technologies: Understanding, Managing, and Risk-Mitigating The Contracting, Intellectual Property, and Other Legal Aspects Of Your Chosen Career Path
04/10/2019 Navin Varadarajan   Advancing cancer immunotherapy one cell at a time
04/03/2019 Jiajie Zhang   State of the School
03/06/2019 Pat McGinnis   Informatics as a tool for Health Insurance
02/27/2019 Andrew Routh   Nanopore sequencing and ClickSeq to characterize viral RNA recombination, mRNA splicing, and polyadenylation
02/27/2019 Xia (Ben) Hu   Human-Centric Machine Learning
02/20/2019   Spring Break - No Seminar  
02/20/2019 Anirban Maitra   Why is Pancreatic Cancer So Hard to Treat and What Can We Do About It?
02/13/2019 Salavat Aglyamov   Dynamic optical coherence elastography for various biomedical applications
02/13/2019 Deevakar Rogith   Computational ethnography: learning from EHR log data
02/06/2019 Jose-Miguel Yamal   Extensions of Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Classification of Objects Based on Measurements of Embedded Observations within Each Object
01/30/2019 David Mayerich   Building High-Throughput Three-Dimensional Models of Tissue at the Cellular Level
01/16/2019 Guoning Chen   Examples of Graph-based Scientific Data Processing and Geometry Processing
12/05/2018 Jiajie Zhang     State of the School
11/28/2018 Yejin Kim   Tensor Factorization for Computational Phenotyping
11/21/2018   Thanksgiving Week  
11/14/2018 Muhammad Amith   Applications of Semantics and Knowledge Representation for Public Health Informatics Research
11/07/2018 Philip W Bradley   HIMSS Analytics – Maturity Model Benefits
10/31/2018 Xiaoqian Jiang   Calibrating Predictive Models for Clinical Decision Making - Distributed data analysis
10/24/2018 Pora Kim   FusionGDB: A Reference Resource of Functional Annotation of Human Fusion Genes
10/17/2018 Akdes Harmanci   Identifying Cancer Biomarkers using Integrative Analysis of Single Cell and Bulk Sequencing Data
10/10/2018 Miran Kim   Homomorphic Encryption for Protecting Genomic Privacy
10/3/2018 W. Jim Zheng   Promote Data Driven Research
09/26/2018 Licong Cui   Ontology Quality Assurance for Biomedical Data Science and Applications
09/19/2018 Amelio Telenti   The data of 150,000 human genomes
09/12/2018 Ying Lin   Large-Scale Personalized Health Surveillance by Collaborative Learning and Selective Sensing
09/05/2018 Kang Hsieh (With Avi Raju, Bin Yao, Adeola Akinfaderin)   Fraud Detection using Clustering Techniques, SBMIners win the MITRE Healthcare Anti-Fraud Academic Competition
08/29/2018 Stephen Wu   Patient Level Search in EHR Text
05/06/2018 No Seminar Finals Week  
04/29/2018 Muhammad Amith / Barbara Berkovich   Construction and Evaluation of a Vaccine Information Ontology for Patients / Use of a Custom Registry for Coumadin Management Across Inpatient and Ambulatory Settings
04/22/2018 Stanley Yu / Katherine Pepper   Improving Retrieval of PubMed Articles Using the TopicalMeSH Representation / Concept Map versus Mind Map: Contributions to a Conceptual Analysis of Social Network Analysis
04/15/2018 Chen Liang / Min Jiang   Knowledge representation for patient safety reports / Semantic Role Labeling of Clinical Text: comparing syntactic parsers and features
04/08/2018 Guergana Savova   Temporal Relation Discovery from the Clinical Narrative
04/01/2018 Mia Markey   3-D Modeling-based Decision Support for Optimizing Quality of Life following Breast Reconstruction
03/18/2018 Lex Frieden   Tips for Improving NIH Proposals
03/11/2018 Vinod Vydiswaran   Mining High-Qualtiy Health Information from Online Resources: The Role of Big Data Analytics
03/07/2018 Joonha Chang   Towards Intoxication Detection via non-invasive Natural Typing
03/04/2018 Erez Lieberman Aiden   How genomes fold: Now in the loop
02/25/2018 Wei Zhao   Molecular Characterization and Clinical implementation of Breast Cancer Genomics Using Massive Parallel Sequencing and Microarray
02/18/2018 Kirsten Ostherr   From Motion Pictures to Mobile EHRs: Using Technology to Communicate Medical Information
02/11/2018 Sina Madani   Use of Natural Language Processing in Enterprise Terminology Development
02/04/2018 Hadley Wickham   Pipelines for Data Analysis
01/28/2018 Amber Johnson   Information challenges in personalized cancer therapy
12/6/2017 Carl Vartian   Risks, Benefits and Safety of Hospital EHRs 
11/29/2017 Peter Killoran    Implementation of an Anesthesia Information Management System – Lessons learned
11/15/2017 Kenna Shaw   Precision Cancer Medicine: Neither Silver Bullet Nor a Dream Illusion
11/8/2017 Xiaobo Zhou   Computational Systems Medicine: Look forward 
11/1/2017 Qiang Wei   Reduction of annotation time for biomedical concepts extraction in practice
10/25/2017 Nadir Weibel   Sensing, Understanding, Intervening: Human-Centered and Ubiquitous Computing for Health
10/18/2017 Safa Fathiamini   Relational vs. Attributional Similarity as a Basis for the Identification of Drug-Gene Relationships
10/11/2017 Henry Wang   Prehospital Endotracheal Intubation: Leveraging Large Data to Advance Acute Care
10/4/2017 Nick Navin   Delineating Tumor Evolution with Single Cell Genomics
9/27/2017 Hua Xu   Toward portable NLP solutions for healthcare – the journey of CLAMP 
9/20/2017 Wendy Chapman   NLP Out of the Box: How Close Are We? - Healthcare Transformation Needs NLP
9/13/2017 William Paiva   Transforming health care with health data analytics and predictive medicine - Center for Health Systems Innovation
9/6/2017 Assaf Gottlieb   Clinical and genetic-based patient profiles help compare and predict drug effects - Estimating effects of 2nd line therapy for T2DM using EHRs
4/26/2017 Jiajie Zhang   State of the School 
4/19/2017 Jun Li    Clinical Trial Management System and Its Interoperability 
4/12/2017 Frank Manion    Ontology Engineering: Soliciting and Validating Knowledge From Domain Experts
4/5/2017 Mark Weiner    Clinical Data Analytics Idiosyncrasies - Truth versus Truthiness in Clinical Data  
3/22/2017 Jingcheng Du   Understanding Twitter contents on vaccinations using multiple machine learning based approaches
3/8/2017 Qiang Wei    Cost Model based Active Learning for Named  Entity Recognition in Clinical Text 
3/1/2017 Devika Subramanian    Computational Thinking
2/15/2017 Luca Giancardo    Detection of Motor Decline in Early Parkinson's Disease by Interaction with Digital Devices
2/8/2017 Joydeep Ghosh    Eliciting Actionable Insights from Complex Medical Data 
2/1/2017 Scott Malec   Using Background Knowledge to Tame Clinical Observational Data, a Use Case in Pharmacovigilance
1/25/2017 Hardeep Singh   Improving Diagnosis in the EHR Era
1/18/2017 Marc Overhage   Instrumenting and learning from the patient, provider, system interaction
1/11/2017 Genevera Allen    Mixed Graphical Models with Applications to Integrative Cancer Genomics
12/2/2016 Janet Wojcicki   Leukocyte Telomere Length as Predictor of Metabolic Disease in Latinos
11/30/2016 Scott Sittig   capABILITY: A mHealth solution for Chronic Disease
11/18/2016 Jiayin Wang   Managing Data as a Product -- Digging by-products in cancer genomic sequencing data pipelines
11/11/2016 Xin Geng   An exome-wide sequencing study of lipid response to high-fat meal and fenofibrate in Caucasians: the GOLDN cohorts
11/9/2016 Degui Zhi   Population Genome Informatics and Precision Cardiovascular Medicine
11/4/2016 Pora Kim / Guangchun Han   Bioinformatics Analysis of Fusion Genes in Cancer Genomes / Transcriptome analysis of Alzheimer’s disease
11/2/2016 Peilin Jia   Multi-omics analyses towards understanding of the polygenicity in schizophrenia - Bioinformatics Analysis of Schizophrenia Genes
10/28/2016 Jennifer “Piper” Below   Functionally oriented association tests in complex traits
10/26/2016 Zhiguo (Stanley) Yu
Min Jiang
  Analyzing Correspondence between MeSH and Topic Model / Using reranking method to improve parser performance on clinical text 
10/19/2016 Kang Lin Hsieh   Developing an algorithm to early identify patients with high risk of T2DM by using EHR
10/14/2016 Jeffrey Chang   Genomic drug repositioning leads to new targets for breast cancer metastasis
10/12/2016 Elmer Bernstam    Big [Clinical] Data in Health Care
10/5/2016 John D'Amore   Striving toward Semantic Interoperability
9/28/2016 Jiajie Zhang   State of the School
9/23/2016 Xiaoming Liu   Whole exome and whole genome functional annotation using dbNSFP and WGSA
9/21/2016 Frank Manion
Scott Malec
  An Ontological Representation of the U.S. Common Rule /
Inferring drug-ADE associations from clinical observational data
9/16/2016 An-Yuan Guo   Transcription factor and miRNA co-regulatory network analysis and its application in complex diseases
9/14/2016 Yidong Chen   Modeling gene regulation and modulation in cancers
9/7/2016 Jiang Qian   Tissue- and single cell-specific gene regulation
8/31/2016 Alan Weiss   Using Problem Lists Across Organizations
5/25/16 Jiguang Wang   Clonal Evolution in Cancer
4/27/16 Murthy Devarakonda   Watson Cognitive Computing - Rethinking the Patient Record
4/20/16 "Tuan" Amith / Chen Liang   Evaluation metrics for biomedical ontologies - Analyzing multifaceted patient safety events - Applying a semiotic evaluation approach for NCBO Bioportal ontologies
4/14/16 Luca Giancardo   Computational Biomarkers with Imaging and Alternative Data Sources
4/13/16 Hua Li   Innovative Multi-modality Imaging in Radiation Therapy: From Simulation Optimization to Tumor Response Assessment
4/6/16 John Frenzel   Behind the Scenes of an Epic install, the MD Anderson Experience
3/30/16 Clifton David Fuller   Informatics, Imaging, and Radiation Oncology
3/24/16 David Fulton   Increasing Statewide Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances (EPCS)
3/16/16 John Calhoun   Policy considerations for healthcare informatics tool development
3/8/16 Lixing Yang    The landscape of Somatic Genome Rearrangements in Human Cancers
3/8/16 Ramdas Menon,
Jason Phipps
  Transforming our Healthcare System with the Aid of Health IT Innovations
3/2/16 Ken Chen   Computational approaches for advancing cancer genomic medicine
2/25/16 George R. Gooch   Increasing the size and scope of HIE while also building trust and confidence
2/24/16 Sahiti Myneni   Towards personalized and data-driven health promotion: role of patient-facing social media and mHealth platforms
2/17/16 Robert Jenders   Plus Ca Change: Health Information Technology Standards for Clinical Decision Support 
2/10/16 Barbara Berkovich   Use of Registries as a Foundation of the Learning Health System
2/3/16 James Langabeer   The comparative effectiveness of mobile telehealth technology in prehospital emergency care
1/27/16 Safa Fathiamini   Automated Identification of Molecular Effects of Drugs (AIMED)
1/20/16 Kirk Roberts   Natural Language in EHRs: Questions, Answers, & Images
1/13/16 Hulin Wu   Precision medicine in the Big Data era: a rocket science perspective
12/2/15 Jiajie Zhang   State of the SBMI
11/11/15 Jingcheng Du   Post-marketing Vaccine Adverse Events Identification and Individual Differences Analysis
11/4/15 Jihad Obeid   From 0 to 60 in 5 years...accelerating clinical and translational science through informatics
10/28/15 Jim Cimino   How do we fix the EHR?
10/21/15 Min Jiang   Transformation of EHR data to OMOP Common Data Model
10/14/15 Ajit Appari   Is EHR meaningful use associated with hospital-acquired infections? Results from a national sample of US hospitals
10/7/15 Barbara Berkovich   Quality Goals for Laboratory Screening: Does 100% Make Sense?
10/1/15 Xiaobo Zhou   Big Data Sciences for Personalized and Precision Medicine
9/30/15 Yongqun Oliver He   Ontology development and applications for clinical and biological adverse event data integration and analysis
9/18/15 Debora Simmons   Healthcare Quality Challenges and How Informatics* (* this means you) Can Save the Day
9/16/15 Jeremy Warner   Leveraging new and emerging standards to improve the care of oncology patients
9/9/15 Scott Sittig   Persuasive Technology: Designing Triggers to Impact Behavior
9/2/15 Kun Huang, PhD   Integration of BIG Biomedical Data in Translational Bioinformatics
9/2/15 Tiffany Champagne   The evolution of health information exchange
8/26/15 Goo Jun   Analysis of large-scale next-generation sequencing data for genetics of complex traits
7/20/15 Mary F. McGuire   Patients (More) Like Me
6/23/15 Angela Ross   An Outpatient Performance Improvement Project: A Baseline Assessment on Adherence to Pain Standards and Protocols
6/5/15     Generating Practice-based Evidence from Electronic Health Records
5/15/15 Blackford Middleton   The Clinical Decision Support Consortium: A Five Year Retrospective
4/29/15 Muhammad "Tuan" Amith   Construction and Evaluation of a Vaccine Information Ontology for Patients
4/29/15 Barbara Berkovich   Use of a Custom Registry for Coumadin Management Across Inpatient and Ambulatory Settings
4/27/15 Zhiguo "Stanley" Yu   Improving Retrieval of PubMed Articles Using the TopicalMeSH Representation
4/27/15 Catherine Pepper   Concept Maps versus Mind Map versus Argument Map: Contributions to a Conceptual Analysis of Social Network Analysis
4/20/15 Chen Liang   Knowledge representation for patient safety reports
4/20/15 Min Jiang   Semantic Role Labeling of Clinical Text: comparing syntactic parsers and features
4/20/15 Guergana Savova   Temporal Relation Discovery from the Clinical Narrative
4/2/15 Mia Markey   3-D Modeling-based Decision Support for Optimizing Quality of Life Following Breast Reconstruction
3/18/15 Lex Frieden   Tips for Improving NIH Proposals
3/11/15 Viyod Vydiswaran   Mining High-Quality Health Information from Online Resources: The Role of Big Data Analytics
3/4/15 Erez Lieberman Aiden   How genomes fold: Now in the loop
2/27/15 Lam Alex Tsoi   Systems biology approaches to provide inferences and discoveries for high-throughput experiments
2/25/15 Wei Zhao   Molecular Characterization & Clinical Implementation of Breast Cancer Genomics using Massive Parallel Sequencing & Microarray
2/18/15 Kirsten Ostherr   From Motion Pictures to Mobile EHRs: Using Technology to Communicate Medical Information
2/11/15 Sina Madani   Use of Natural Language Processing in Enterprise Terminology Development
2/4/15 Hadley Wickham   Pipelines for Data Analysis
1/28/15 Amber Johnson   Informatics Challenges in Personalized Cancer Therapy
1/21/15 Trudy Millard Krause,
Cecilia Ganduglia Cazaban
  Use of Claims Data in Health Services Research
1/7/15 Kirk Roberts   From EHR Data to Answers: Harnessing Natural Language in Healthcare
12/3/14 Jiajie Zhang   State of the SBMI
11/12/14 Kenneth Goodman   Ethics and Health Information Technology: Learning Health Care Systems in a Digital World
11/5/14 Ivo Nelson   Not for the Faint of Heart…How to Start and Build a Successful Business in Healthcare
10/30/14 Tyler Caruth   Persuasive Technology to Engage Patients in Chronic Disease Management
10/30/14 Zhiguo (Stanley) Yu   Correspondence of Topic Models and MeSH Terms for PubMed Abstracts
10/22/14 Rafeek Yusuf   Human Centered Design in Wound Care Guidelines
10/22/14 Mehdi Rais   Background & descriptive perspective of TMB disciplinary action data for inadequate medical records
10/22/14 J. Franck Diaz   Towards a Framework for Standardized, Model-driven Data Quality Assessment for the Secondary Use of Clinical Care Datasets
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