Scientists have harnessed the power of genomic big data and animal models of to identify the underlying causes and potential new treatments for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a lung disease that kills an estimated 40,000 people annually in the United States.
The strength of the rich IT environment at Cincinnati Children’s and its accomplishments in adopting electronic medical records for use in improving patient care were recognized at a February event during the annual conference of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) held in Orlando, FL.
In recognition of his excellence over the last nine years at transforming the research computing environment at Cincinnati Children’s, Michal Kouril, PhD, an assistant professor in the Division of Biomedical Informatics, has won the Service Achievement Award from the Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation for 2017.