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)...
A new NLM-funded video series profiles unique career paths of graduates of biomedical informatics programs across the United States, including DBMI alumnus Lance Pflieger, PhD’17.
Francine Stirling loves to get creative. Whether it’s finding time to read a good book while staying busy as a mom to three children or juggling full-time work with the...
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Dr. Reed M. Gardner, a noted national leader in the field of biomedical informatics and Emeritus Professor and previous...
University of Utah has a National Library of Medicine T15 Training Grant postdoctoral position open as of January 2021. As one of the largest biomedical informatics training programs in the...
Congratulations to Dr. Bobolla who was accepted into the 2020-2021American Medical Association (AMA) Health Systems Science Scholars Program. This is a new effort of the AMA to provide select medical...
Each year our alumni vote on a graduate who has made an exceptional impact in the areas we value in our department: relevance, relationships, and leadership. This year’s recipient is...
When Yogesh Reddy was growing up in Mumbai, India, his idea of achieving success was becoming a professional soccer player. As he got older, Reddy’s natural drive and athleticism served...
On September 17, 2020 the Department of Biomedical Informatics hosted the 2nd Annual IAB Strategic Planning Virtual Retreat. In 2019 we met in person and many of the recommendations provided...
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) has awarded a new grant (1R18DK123372-01A1) to the University of Utah to promote real world implementation of an evidence-based...
Congratulations to Julio C. Facelli, PhD, who just accepted an invitation to join the Editorial Board of The Journal of Clinical and Translational Science (JCTS). JCTS is the official journal...
Karen Eilbeck, MSc, PhD, has been spotlighted in the recent Core Educator Inside Look, University of Utah's School of Medicine's monthly newsletter for Core Educator faculty.
During these challenging times in dealing with the massive fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, our faculty are staying busy by contributing to the University of Utah’s research goal to create...
Congratulations to Dr. Bruce Bray and Dr. Damian Borbolla who received a 1U4U innovation funding grant collaborating with the School of Planning & Architecture (Jim Agutter from the Design Program)...
Congratulations to Dr. Scott Narus on being selected for the inaugural Chair of the new Center for Standards-Based Healthcare Interoperability. We wish you success in this new endeavor! For more...
