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BCBI focuses on making an impact by inspiring the next generation of biomedical researchers, healthcare providers, and consumers.
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July 29, 2022
News from Brown
Research teams at Brown to investigate solutions to nine pressing pandemic challenges
The projects, which address problems ranging from mental health to food security to the impact on K-12 education, will receive $643,029 in research support from a new Peterson Foundation fund.
Dr. Eickhoff will be appointed as a Manning Assistant Professor of Medical Science effective July 1, 2022.
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Grand Rounds
Dr. Chen presented grand rounds on use of EHR data for pediatric behavioral health emergency services
Finding the EHR data to tell your clinical story: Early experiences with Lifespan Pediatric Behavioral Health Emergency Services
AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference
Dilum Aluthge to present at AMIA CIC
Dilum Aluthge, current MD/PhD student in BCBI, will present "Putting the Theory of SMART-on-FHIR into Practice for an HIE" at the AMIA 2022 Clinical Informatics Conference (CIC) in Houston, TX.
Dr. Bahrainian, a current Postdoctoral Research Associate in BCBI, presented "NEWTS: A Corpus for News Topic-Focused Summarization" and William Rudman, current PhD student, presented "IsoScore: Measuring the Uniformity of Embedding Space Utilization" at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022) Conference, in Dublin, Ireland.
Dr. Eickhoff was elected as the Treasurer of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR). HIs term will begin on July 1, 2022.
March 18, 2022
News from Brown
Celebrating in-person with family and friends, 144 physicians-to-be match to medical residencies
At Match Day, members of the Warren Alpert Medical School’s Class of 2022 were placed in medical residency programs across the country and right in Providence.
Dr. Sarkar is one of the newest members of RI Bio’s board of directors. Dr. Sarkar joined the board, along with Jaimy Mauricio of Rubius Therapeutics Inc., in March.
CORDIS European Commission
Dr. Garcia-Agundez awarded European Union Global Fellowship
Dr. Garcia-Agundez, a current Postdoctoral Fellow in BCBI, was recently awarded an EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Global Fellowship to support his research "Novel machine learning techniques to improve the forecasting of stroke post-interventive Outcomes".