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University of Utah President Taylor Randall has named five faculty members as the 2026-27 Presidential Societal Impact Scholars for exemplary public engagement—from improving maternal health outcomes and providing care to...

The University of Utah One-U Responsible Artificial Intelligence Initiative (One-U RAI) will award its first round of seed grants, totaling $386,855, to nine research teams advancing AI tools and uncovering...

We’re thrilled to congratulate Dr. Polina V. Kukhareva on being selected as a 2026 Faculty Fellow by the One-U Responsible AI Initiative at the University of Utah. As a Research...

On Saturday morning (November 8, 2026), members of the Biomedical Informatics (BMI) community gathered for a hands-on service project to support UKids Guardsman Way, one of the University of Utah’s...

The Department of Biomedical Informatics congratulates Dr. Yves A. Lussier, Chair of DBMI, on his election as a Fellow of the American College of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (ACAIM). This...

The Department of Biomedical Informatics is delighted to announce that Dr. Kensaku Kawamoto, MD, PhD, MHS, FACMI, FAMIA, has been appointed as the inaugural Dr. Helmuth F. Orthner Endowed Professor, a...

Courtney Gauchel, who earned her MS in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Utah in May 2025, is featured in the APHL–CDC Career Pathways Public Health Laboratory Fellowship “Meet the Fellow”...

We are pleased to congratulate Dr. Karen Eilbeck on receiving the Reed M. Gardner Award for Faculty Excellence. Established in 2005, this student-led award recognizes faculty members in the Department...

Congratulations to Barbara Saffel for being selected as the final part-time winner of the Health Academics District Staff Excellence Awards! This prestigious recognition, awarded by the Health Academics District Committee...

McKay Jones, a bioinformatics student from Utah Valley University, visiting our department as a Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) fellow working in the Facelli lab presented his results at...

Doug pedals fast, feeling the exhilaration of speeding along a bike track as his heart rate rises and he starts to breathe harder. Since being diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic...

A new analysis of a group of all-women extreme divers off the coast of Korea has uncovered genetic differences that could help them survive the intense physiological stresses of free-diving—and...

We are thrilled to congratulate Adam Kotter on receiving the prestigious John D. Morgan Endowed Award in Biomedical Informatics! This award honors the legacy of Dr. John Morgan, a founding...

The University of Utah is proud to announce that Christian Balbin, PhD, has been selected as a recipient of the Ken Jacobs Dissertation Award. This distinguished recognition honors Dr. Balbin's...

Congratulations to Raquel Zimmerman on matching to the Physician-Scientist Training Program (PSTP) in Internal Medicine at the University of Utah!

The Department of Biomedical Informatics is proud to celebrate the success of Sejal Mistry, who has matched to Stanford University for her pediatrics residency in their highly competitive physician-scientist program.

The University of Utah is proud to announce that Bennet Peterson, PhD, has been selected as a recipient of the Ken Jacobs Dissertation Award. This distinguished recognition honors Dr. Peterson’s...

COVID infection has been linked to higher risk of autoimmune disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes. But why the virus might cause the body’s immune system to go...

Highlighting the Rockefeller-funded Food is Medicine initiative, led by Jorie Butler and Rich Nelson....

Congratulations to Aref Smiley, PhD on receiving the Best Presenter Certificate for the paper titled “Feasibility of Radar-based Heart Rate Variability Measurement: A Comparative Study with Electrocardiology” in the Artificial...

Congratulations to Aref Smiley, PhD and Joseph Finkelstein, MD, PhD on winning the Best Paper Award at the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Informatics and BioMedical Sciences (ICIIBMS 2024)

A multinational consortium including the University of Utah has been awarded a $246 million federal contract by USAID to improve infectious disease detection and monitoring across the globe. The U’s...

This week, Dr. Karen Eilbeck, Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah, visited Hillcrest High School in Midvale to speak with the International Baccalaureate (IB) Science Club about...

We are pleased to announce that this year’s Alumni Award Winner is Shobha Phansalkar, RPh, PhD, FAMIA ('07). Dr. Phansalkar has been serving as the Chair for DBMI’s Alumni Committee...

Courtney Gauchel, a second-year remote MS student in the clinical informatics track and an APHL fellow, recently presented her MS capstone project at the Newborn Screening Symposium. She is part...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is awarding $5.4 million in first-year funding to establish a new program that supports the integration of genomics into learning health systems. Present in...

Aaron Quinlan, PhD, has been appointed Chair of the Department of Human Genetics in the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at University of Utah Health, effective August 19, 2024...

40 master's students and professors from medical informatics came to the university in Heilbronn for the "International Partnership for Health Informatics Education" symposium, which takes place every two years.

Congratulations to Fatemeh Shah-Mohammadi and Joseph Finkelstein for the best conference paper award at the 2024 IEEE 6th Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability for their paper on...

Congratulations to Joseph Finkelstein, MD, PhD, Aref Smiley, PhD, and Xingyue Huo on receiving the Best Conference Paper Award at the 2024 IEEE 6th Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare...