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BCBI focuses on making an impact by inspiring the next generation of biomedical researchers, healthcare providers, and consumers.
From Metabolites to Myocardial Infarction: Translational Bioinformatics of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease
Presented by Aaron Eisman, MD/PhD Candidate, Brown Center for Biomedical Informatics and Center for Computational and Molecular Biology
March 24, 2023 at 1pm
The Warren Alpert Medical School
222 Richmond Street, Room 280
Spring 2023 BCBI Health Informatics Seminar Series
The theme of BCBI’s Spring 2023 Health Informatics Seminar Series is “Leveraging a Statewide Health Information Exchange for Advancing Population Health Research.” This series will start with a presentation by the Rhode Island Quality Institute that operates the CurrentCare health information exchange (HIE), demonstrate how health data from CurrentCare have been used for research, and end with a discussion of research infrastructure for enabling use of statewide health data.
Recent Publications
A selection of recent publications, by current and former BCBI faculty, postdocs, and students.
Recent Publications
- Hamish S F Fraser, Keyana Zahiri, Nicole Kim, Chloe Kim, Sansanee Craig, The Global Health Informatics landscape and JAMIA, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2023;, ocad024, https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocad024
- Meyer C, Adkins D, Pal K, Galici R, Garcia-Agundez A, Eickhoff C. Neural text generation in regulatory medical writing. Front Pharmacol. 2023 Feb 10;14:1086913. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2023.1086913. PMID: 36843925; PMCID: PMC9950092.
- Sarkar IN. Transforming Health Data to Actionable Information: Recent Progress and Future Opportunities in Health Information Exchange. Yearb Med Inform. 2022 Aug;31(1):203-214.
Recent News & Highlights
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.
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Dr. Eickhoff will be appointed as a Manning Assistant Professor of Medical Science effective July 1, 2022.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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