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Lead author R. Scott Evans, MS, PhD, FACMI is Medical Informatics director at Intermountain Healthcare and a professor of biomedical informatics at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

Julio Facelli, PhD and Katherine Sward, PhD, RN will present at AMA’s Integrated Health Model Initiative on Tuesday, January 9th, 2018.

Congratulations! David Jones, PhD for his appointment as VPCAT Scholar.

Inspiration comes from unexpected places, a theme that reverbrated throughout Vitae, the Office of the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences Research Unit's hallmark event recognizing research excellence across University...

Congratulations! Catherine Staes, BSN, MPH, PhD for her appointment as JAMIA Open Inaugural Associate Editor.

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the Helmuth F. Orthner Travel Assistance Scholarship. The selected graduate students listed below will be presenting at the AMIA conference in Washington...

Congratulations! Susan Matney, PhD, RNC-OB, FAAN and Eric Poon, MD, MPH, both alumni from our programs are being inducted as Fellows of ACMI at the AMIA meeting this year.

Congratulations to our MS candidate, Nicholas Consiglio, for receiving the Rolland H. Reiter Scholarship 2017!

Kensaku Kawamoto, PhD, Guilherme Del Fiol, MD, PhD, Scott Narus, PhD, and Wendy Kohlman, MS featured in interview by the Salt Lake Tribune concerning cancer screening research.

Stanley Huff, MD has been recognized among 25 leading CMIOs at health care organizations by Health Data Management.

Karen Eilbeck in collaboration with Aaron Quinlan and Mark Yandell of the UCGD and the Department of Human Genetics have authored a review article titled “Settling the score: variant prioritization...

Kensaku Kawamoto, Ph.D., associate Chief Medical Information Officer and assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics, has been appointed to a 3-year term on the U.S. Health Information Technology (HIT) Advisory Committee

Dr. Facelli, DBMI Vice-Chair and Associate Director for Biomedical Informatics, Center for Clinical and Translational Science has been selected to serve as the Chair for the University of Utah Senate...

Congratulations to five of our University of Utah Department of Biomedical Informatics alumni who were elected as inaugural fellows in the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI). We are...

Congratulations to our PhD candidate, Joseph Plasek, for having his research featured in the New York Times!

Congratulations to Dr. Kathy Sward who will be inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing this October!

We are pleased to announce that Katherine Sward, PhD, RN was awarded the Reed M Gardner Award for Faculty Excellence on April 18, 2017. She is a wonderful asset to...

Eccles Health Sciences Library was the first library in the nation to be showcased by JoVE.

Congratulations to our graduate, Dr. Jingran Wen, who received a BWF travel award for her distinguished poster presentation at the 2017 Association for Clinical and Translational Sciences annual meeting.

We congratulate Thomas Reese for being accepted onto the JAMIA 2017-2018 Student Editorial Board. The selection process for the JAMIA Student Editorial Board (SEB) is highly competitive. The SEB chooses...

Congratulations to Julio Facelli for being selected as a 2017 Fellows Academy of Health Science Educator. The Academy of Health Science Educators (AHSE) is designed to advance state-of-the-art education at...

Congratulations to Brian Chapman for receiving the Outstanding Educator Award of Health Sciences Graduate Students! He was selected for his contribution to informatics and data science education across the health...

Check out this spotlight by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) about Catherine Staes, BSN, MPH, PhD

The AMIA Joint Summits Implementation Track is designed for individuals whose role within their organization focuses upon the practical development, deployment, and management of clinical research information management tools and...