McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston

We had a full house of UTHealth Houston employees visiting our classrooms today. Human Resources and IT hosted a Microsoft Copilot Training Session at McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics.

PhD Candidate Yiming Li & Alumna Xu Zuo, PhD '24 co-authored a JAMIA article that was recently published.

Relation extraction using large language models: a case study on acupuncture point locations AbstractObjective. In acupuncture therapy, the accurate location of acupoints is essential for its effectiveness. The advanced language understanding capab

Join us for today's Research Seminar at 12 pm as Jiaqi Gu, PhD presents on "Supporting care transitions: From ICU to general medical teams."

🏫 - 7000 Fannin Street, 6th floor (UCT E-612 & E-614)
💻 - http://go.uth.edu/liveseminar

Interested in learning more about the graduate programs offered at McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics? Join us for an upcoming informational webinar. Our Admissions Team is hosting a session at 12 PM (CT) tomorrow (Sept. 11).

https://sbmi.uth.edu/prospective-students/admission-session.htm

The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP) will broadcast this webinar live from the GET PHIT Summit later this month. We encourage students to register and attend this virtual event.

https://www.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_-KquvJ1aTEWXLNwwd3qn-w #/registration

Salutation 2024 is taking place today, September 5th from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. We encourage all students, new and returning, to attend and learn more about the resources offered at our university. There will also be great prize giveaways, food, and beverages.

Salutation 2024 The school with the highest number of attendees will win a complimentary ice cream truck for their school courtesy of the Office of the Executive Vice President of Student Affairs!

Join us at 12 PM for today's Research Seminar. Joshua Lin, MD will present on "Combining Unstructured EHR with Claims Data for High-dimensional Proxy Confounding Adjustment in Comparative Effectiveness Research."

🏫 - 7000 Fannin Street, 6th floor (UCT E-612 & E-614)
💻 - http://go.uth.edu/liveseminar

The HIMSS Foundation is accepting scholarship applications, but the Sept. 9th deadline is fast approaching!

Foundation Overview The HIMSS Foundation provides educational and professional opportunities to prepare the next generation of health information and technology leaders for the digital health workforce.

Wishing everyone a safe !

Wishing all of our a happy . We appreciate all that you do!

We encourage our McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics Community to engage with the new, temporary art installation as we embark on a new school year. The installation is located near the main staircase on the 6th floor in our school space.

We invite all faculty & students from McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics to join us later today for the Welcome Back Luncheon! Let's celebrate the start of a new semester while everyone gets to know each other.

Today is the first day of the fall 2024 semester here at McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics! Wishing all students, new and returning, the very best this semester. And as Professor Frieden's shirt says...make sure you check your syllabi!

We want to remind students to reach out to the Office of Academic Affairs at [email protected] if you have questions.

Congratulations to McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics MS Student Guadalupe Salinas. Laredo Medical Center recently named her the Employee of the Quarter (2nd quarter). Let's give her a round of applause.

The UTHealth Houston - Graduate Archer Fellowship Program has three upcoming information sessions. We encourage all interested students to attend and learn more!

Congratulations to DHI Student Greg Olson, DDS. He was recently named the Associate Dean for Technology Services, Informatics at UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry.

https://inside.uth.edu/inside/story.htm?id=685d106a-9154-4c31-bf35-1fee33700fa6&catinode=f37e9bf0-8ded-468c-b14a-9013d81d0357

Student Intercouncil at UTHealth is hosting the 26th annual Salutation on Sept. 5th!

The GET PHIT Project is preparing for its final year and has already exceeded a major goal.

GET PHIT Project exceeds goal as it approaches final year Since it launched in 2021, the Gaining Equity in Training for Public Health Informatics and Technology (GET PHIT) Consortium Project has focused on ...

Several McWilliams School of Biomedical researchers recently co-authored a JAMIA article. Jeritt Thayer, MS '21, who will earn his PhD from our school later this month, is the corresponding author. Other McWilliams authors include Associate Dean for Student, Faculty, and Community Affairs Amy Franklin, PhD & Assistant Professor Deevakar Rogith, MBBS, PhD '15.

A scoping review of rule-based clinical decision support malfunctions AbstractObjective. Conduct a scoping review of research studies that describe rule-based clinical decision support (CDS) malfunctions.Materials and Methods

In Late July, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics hosted our first generative AI competition for high school students.

https://sbmi.uth.edu/news/story/mcwilliams-school-of-biomedical-informatics-hosts-generative-ai-competition-for-high-school-students

Save the Date for this upcoming Houston HIMSS event on Sept. 25th at 5:30 PM. Two McWilliams faculty members, Drs. Turner and Subash, will be featured speakers.

Keep an eye out for registration information; it will be coming soon!

McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics was recently awarded a grant to support our students from the Laredo-area.

https://sbmi.uth.edu/news/story/mcwilliams-awarded-grant-to-support-students-in-laredo-community

We want to congratulate McWilliams staff member Robin Cavalier-Brown! Last month, she was awarded the UTHealth Houston Classified Staff Council’s Staff Recognition Spotlight Award for her outstanding work performance. She is a Business Systems Analyst with almost 34 years of service at UTHealth Houston. She is photographed below with several other awardees (Robin is near the center in the green blouse).

HIMSS is accepting applications for the Student Ambassador Program. Visit the link below for more information.

https://ubmamg.formstack.com/forms/himss25_sap_application

Three of our DHI alumnae are attending the Nursing Informatics Conference in Manchester UK this week! The alums include (l-r) Kelly Brown, DHI '24, Amy Clodfelter, DHI '23, and Kathy de Figueiredo, DHI '23, MS '15.

Our Vice Dean for Education, Dr. Susan Fenton, appeared on a recent HIPcast- Health Information Professional's Podcast episode.

Episode 18 - HIPcast - HIP in Biomedical Informatics with Dr. Susan Fenton In this episode of HIPcast, Susan H. Fenton, PhD, RHIA, ACHIP, FAMIA discusses workforce development for the current workforce and current students around bi...

Attention McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics Students! Don't forget to join us from 4-5:30 PM (CDT) today for Registration Exploration. To join the Zoom event, visit go.uth.edu/RegistrationExploration.

Professor Dean Sittig, PhD was quoted in a WIRED article that explores how last week's massive IT outage impacted hospitals and patient safety.

The Global IT Outage Sends Hospitals Reeling Doctors find themselves without critical systems and diagnostic tools—and face the daunting reality that a full recovery could take days—after CrowdStrike’s botched deployment of a software update.

Chair Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD, of our Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, will present at a Lunch & Learn next week on July 22nd.

The Chair of our Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD, was recently interviewed by the Houston Chronicle. He discussed how clinicians across the Texas Medical Center are embracing AI in health care.

Texas Medical Center wrestles with promise, perils of AI As researchers at the Texas Medical Center embrace the use of AI tools in their work, they are also wrestling with the challenge of avoiding its perils

McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics is proud to announce our new partnership with TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY. Certain undergraduate students at Tuskegee can now participate in our 4+1 program.

Tuskegee University partners with UTHealth Houston for master's program | Tuskegee University Tuskegee University proudly announces a groundbreaking partnership with McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston).