Medicine, School Of The University of Utah

Biomedical Informatics Chair, Joyce A. Mitchell, Ph.D., Named to National Library of Medicine Board of Regents
Joyce A. Mitchell, Ph.D., professor and chair of the University of Utah Department of Biomedical Informatics, has received a national appointment to the Board of Regents of the world's largest repository and distributor of medical information - the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

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News and Announcements

BMI Research-in-Progress for the week of November 23, 2009 | BMI 6950-004 Research-in-Progress for Public Health Informatics (Gundlapalli)
Monday, November 23, 2009, 2:00 pm, HSEB 5100A
(Guest Speaker) Dr. Lisa Gren: Bridging the Gap - Influenza Surveillance in Outpatient Clinics

BMI 6950-002 Research-in-Progress for Clinical Informatics (Meystre)
Monday, November 23, 2009, 11:00 am, HSEB 5100A
Shuying Shen -- Semi-supervised active transfer learning

BMI 6950-003 Research-in-Progress for Translational Informatics (Allen-Brady)
Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 2:00 pm, HSEB 5100A
Sharanya Raghunath: Dendritic Cell Maturation Characterization Across Microarray Experiments
Zheng Cai: GWAS for Breast Cancer

[read more] Nov 23, 2009

Post Doctoral Position | Open to individuals holding a PhD degree in Biomedical Informatics or related fields (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Biology or Cognitive Science). Research is to be carried out under the supervision of Dr. Qing Zeng-Treitler.

[read more] Nov 3, 2009

U Center of Excellence Will Improve Public Health Response to Outbreaks of Disease | After a national competition, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) chose the University of Utah as the home of a new center of excellence (COE) in public health informatics.

[read more] More information at Oct 29, 2009

About the Department

The Department of Biomedical Informatics was established in 1964 at the University of Utah and in 1972 became a department of the School of Medicine. Located in beautiful Salt Lake City, the department is internationally recognized for its contributions to biomedical informatics research and training.
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