The Department of Biomedical Informatics is proud to celebrate the success of Sejal Mistry, who has matched to Stanford University for her pediatrics residency in their highly competitive physician-scientist program.
The University of Utah is proud to announce that Bennet Peterson, PhD, has been selected as a recipient of the Ken Jacobs Dissertation Award. This distinguished recognition honors Dr. Peterson’s...
COVID infection has been linked to higher risk of autoimmune disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes. But why the virus might cause the body’s immune system to go...
Congratulations to Aref Smiley, PhD on receiving the Best Presenter Certificate for the paper titled “Feasibility of Radar-based Heart Rate Variability Measurement: A Comparative Study with Electrocardiology” in the Artificial...
Congratulations to Aref Smiley, PhD and Joseph Finkelstein, MD, PhD on winning the Best Paper Award at the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Informatics and BioMedical Sciences (ICIIBMS 2024)
A multinational consortium including the University of Utah has been awarded a $246 million federal contract by USAID to improve infectious disease detection and monitoring across the globe. The U’s...
This week, Dr. Karen Eilbeck, Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah, visited Hillcrest High School in Midvale to speak with the International Baccalaureate (IB) Science Club about...
We are pleased to announce that this year’s Alumni Award Winner is Shobha Phansalkar, RPh, PhD, FAMIA ('07). Dr. Phansalkar has been serving as the Chair for DBMI’s Alumni Committee...
Courtney Gauchel, a second-year remote MS student in the clinical informatics track and an APHL fellow, recently presented her MS capstone project at the Newborn Screening Symposium. She is part...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is awarding $5.4 million in first-year funding to establish a new program that supports the integration of genomics into learning health systems. Present in...
Aaron Quinlan, PhD, has been appointed Chair of the Department of Human Genetics in the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at University of Utah Health, effective August 19, 2024...
40 master's students and professors from medical informatics came to the university in Heilbronn for the "International Partnership for Health Informatics Education" symposium, which takes place every two years.
Congratulations to Fatemeh Shah-Mohammadi and Joseph Finkelstein for the best conference paper award at the 2024 IEEE 6th Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability for their paper on...
Congratulations to Joseph Finkelstein, MD, PhD, Aref Smiley, PhD, and Xingyue Huo on receiving the Best Conference Paper Award at the 2024 IEEE 6th Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare...
Dr. Jorie M. Butler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Department of Internal Medicine Geriatrics Division. Recently, Butler was awarded an Agency for Healthcare Research...
Seven projects from across the University of Utah have been awarded One Utah Data Science Hub seed grants, kickstarting collaborative projects that find creative ways to harness big data and...
Congratulations to Adriana Payan-Medina, who graduated from University of Utah in Spring 2023 with a bachelor’s in chemical engineering. She worked with Drs. Gouripeddi and Facelli since June 2020 as...
Congratulations to Dr. Jason Funderburk, MD and Dr. Elaine Fan, MD, graduates of the NTMS class of 2023, on passing the Clinical Informatics Board Examination and becoming board-certified!
Congratulations to Julio Facelli and Ram Gouripeddi on receiving Healthy Longevity Catalyst/Accelerator Awards for their bold, new, and innovative idea supporting the aims of the NAM Healthy Longevity Global Competition...
We are delighted to announce the recipients of this year's UHIMSS Scholarship, recognizing exceptional individuals who have demonstrated unwavering dedication and significant contributions to the dynamic field of Health IT...
Researchers at University of Utah Health have designed new digital tools that use relevant information from patient health records to prompt doctors to consider lung cancer screening for high-risk patients...
By creating ICD codes for leukodystrophies, researchers put a dozen rare diseases on the map. Tina Holman never looks forward to bringing her daughter Savannah to a clinician they haven’t...
Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Finkelstein for being inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (FACMI)! He is one of 23 new Fellows who will be inducted...
