Building on its successful Teaching Fellowship program, the Biomedical Informatics (BMI) Graduate Program at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine is rolling out three additional student award programs in the new year. The new BMI Travel Fellowship offers up
Our newest class of Biomedical Informatics PhD students arrived for the fall semester on August 23. These students come from all over the world, including Nigeria and China. Their backgrounds vary from biochemistry to microbiology to medicine. What they all
What do you get when you combine a shark tank event and a hackathon with a room full of undergraduate summer research students? A Sharkathon – a competition that challenges teams of students to develop an application and then pitch
The Biomedical Informatics Practicum is a project-oriented course that uses state-of-the-art techniques and current data sets to improve healthcare. For Biomedical Informatics PhD students, it serves as a cornerstone experience in the transition from coursework to hands-on research. Scientists begin their
The opportunities available to young informaticians are endless—and they just keep growing. For undergraduate student Paul Murdock, an informatics intern and junior in the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine’s Medical Sciences program, opportunity recently brought him to the AMIA
The informatics career of Brett Harnett, MS-IS, has taken him to interesting places—physically, virtually, and academically. It’s taken him to the bottom of the ocean. It’s taken him to the slopes of Mount Everest. It’s taken him to the Super
Alex Jiang is currently a sophomore at Cornell University majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Cognitive Science. In 2017, he participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program at Cincinnati Children’s under the mentorship of Anil Jegga,
Batsheva (Sheva) Guy, PhD in Educational Studies, is bringing innovative research methods to her new role as the biomedical informatics (BMI) program’s Graduate Program Coordinator. Data collection is an integral part of biomedical informatics—so why not collect data on the
An avalanche of data is changing both medical research and the practice of medicine. Wearable technology, genetic testing, predictive analytics—today’s physicians have a lot of big data on their hands. In response, the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and
Attendees at the American Medical Informatics Association’s (AMIA) 2017 Annual Symposium in Washington, DC Nov 4-8 will have several opportunities to meet faculty and students from the biomedical informatics team at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children’s