We are pleased to announce a request for applications for two postdoctoral slots for the Computational Approaches to Diabetes and Metabolism T32 Training Grant. The goal of this program is...
Seven University of Utah Health projects have received seed grants that could promote the development and use of more scientifically based digital health applications in daily health care. The grants...
Sejal Mistry knows all about the difficulties faced by individuals who have type 1 diabetes (T1D). Her mother was diagnosed with the disease when Mistry was just 5 years old.
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Joseph Finkelstein, a pioneer of informatics-empowered telehealth, as a Professor in the Tenure Track and DBMI’s Vice-Chair for Clinical Data Science...
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Kendell Clement as an Assistant Professor in the Tenure Track in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Clement will be joining...
Congratulations to Sejal Mistry on her F30 Award! Great job & we are proud of your hard work! To learn more about her project Identifying Temporal Sequences of Exposures in...
Congratulations to one of our faculty members, Julio Facelli, PhD, FACMI who has been elected to serve on the AMIA Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee.
You are invited to a virtual open house on Wednesday, November 17th at 5:00-6:00pm MST via Zoom. Learn more about our department’s education programs and research opportunities from our faculty...
We are proud to announce that our department has reached a new milestone in educating over 500 Phd and MS students (520 grads to be exact)! We currently have 3...
The Department of Biomedical Informatics has a number of post-doctoral research fellowships available. Currently, we have open positions in the T32 and T15 training grants, as well as openings in...
Congratulations to Seonggyun Han, a Dept. of Biomedical Informatics PhD candidate who co-authored two papers recently. He is first author of “Alternative Splicing Regulation of Low-Frequency Genetic Variants in Exon...
The National Academy of Medicine awarded a “Catalyst Phase of the National Academy of Medicine Healthy Longevity Global Competition” to Drs. Ramkiran Gouripeddi and Julio Facelli for their project that...
In February 2021, Dr. Yves Lussier joined our department as our new chair. He is excited to lead our department and feels like it’s an opportunity of a lifetime to...
Congratulations to one of our faculty members, Aaron Quinlan, PhD, whose team was just awarded a grant through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) for Essential Open Source Software.
Congratulations to Seonggyun Han, a Dept. of Biomedical Informatics PhD candidate who is the first author on a paper just published in the Nature Journal.
We’re proud to announce the winners of the Reed M. Gardner Award for Faculty Excellence for 2020 and 2021. This award was created by the students in the Departments of...
Congratulations to Professor Karen Eilbeck, (DBMI), and Professor Simon Fisher (Internal Medicine) who were recently awarded an NIDDK T32 Training Grant – “Computational Approaches to Diabetes & Metabolism” for the...
Congratulations to Adriana Payan-Medina, a chemical engineering student in her junior year and a biomedical informatics research assistant who was awarded an NIH National Library of Medicine fellowship.
The Digital Healthcare Research Program at AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) recently highlighted Dr. Ken Kawamoto’s research project, “Decision Precision+: Increasing Lung Cancer Screening for At-Risk Patients”, which...
Dr. Shobha Phansalkar, an alumnus of our department (Class of 2007) and the current Chair of our department’s Alumni Committee, recently joined Innovaccer’s leadership team as the Senior Director of...
A special issue of the International Journal of Medical Informatics on “Leveraging Data and Information Systems on the Sustainable Development Goals” was recently published, DBMI faculty Damian Borbolla (Assistant Professor)...