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Dr. Stephane Meystre has been awarded a contract by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to provide VHA clinical research with methods and instruments for syndrome surveillance, improve

John Hurdle, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, has been awarded an R01 grant from the National Library of Medicine to continue the work he and his team started on the...

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Weekly Seminar: Clinicians' Information Needs, Online Knowledge Resources, and Electronic Health Records & Enabling Clinical Decision Support

Dissertation Title: TASK-DRIVEN DYNAMIC TEXT SUMMARIZATION. The objective of this work is to examine the efficacy of natural language processing (NLP) in summarizing bibliographic text for multiple purposes. Researchers have...

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Dr. Bruce Bray has received a contract through the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) for the Utah IC3 Beacon Community by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information...

Join us in welcoming Kensaku Kawamoto as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Ken has been in Salt Lake since June setting up his office and household...

Identity-By-Descent Mapping in Positive Selection and Disease Gene Localization

Lewis Frey, an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah and a researcher at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, has created software that can quickly sift through genetic...

Jason Jacobs, a University of Utah Biomedical Informatics graduate student received an Outstanding Poster Presentation Award for Surveillance/Informatics at the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiology (CSTE) Annual Conference on...

Congratulations to Dr. Scott Narus, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah for receiving the Reed M. Gardner Award for Faculty

Paul Clayton has been appointed as Emeritus Professor effective July 1, 2011. Biomedical Informatics celebrated and honored Paul’s leadership, service and affiliation with the department over the many

Congratulations to Liz Workman who was awarded the prestigious Bruce A. Houtchens Prize in Biomedical Informatics and Telemedicine for her paper titled Dynamic Summarization of Bibliographic-Based Data.

Dinner held on April 27, 2011 in recognition of the graduating class of 2011

Weekly Seminar: Technology Support for Biosciences: Emerging Models. Gary K. Allen, DVM, PhD, DACVM is vice president of information technology for the University of Missouri System and oversees IT on...

Weekly Seminar: Participating in Health:Technology Mediated Social Participation in Health and Healthcare

Two new faculty join Biomedical Informatics in Fall 2010. Karen Eilbeck, PhD joined our department August 1, 2010. She has a PhD in biochemistry and has done postdoctora