The Department of Biomedical Informatics was established in 1964 at the University of Utah. Located in Salt Lake City, the department is internationally recognized as a leader in biomedical informatics research and education.
Education
The department has a National Library of Medicine (NLM) training grant to support its educational programs. Master of Science (MS), Non-Thesis Master of Science, Certificate, and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree programs are offered along with short-term traineeships for students and visiting fellows. Read More
The breadth and depth of research opportunities at The University of Utah are unmatched because of our close relationships with collaborating institutions, state and local public health agencies. Our program is unique for its strength in each of the following areas: Read More
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 Biomedical Informatics and Nursing Informatics to acknowledge the achievements of faculty members in the areas of teaching, mentoring, and service to the departments and is a competitive nomination and decision process.... Read More
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 amount of $2M over the next five years. ... Read More
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. ... Read More
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 was funded by AHRQ for $1,184,380. ... Read More
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 Health Outcomes to lead the clinical research field and define the company’s health outcomes portfolio. ... Read More
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) and David Novillo Ortiz (DBMI Adjunct faculty and World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe) together with Heimar De Fatima Marin (Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil), Yuri Quintana (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) and John Holmes (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA) are the editors.... Read More
