Biomedical Informatics University of Utah

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Joyce A. Mitchell, PhD Professor and
Chair Joyce.mitchell_at_hsc.utah.edu
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BMI Past - Present - Future

• Past
• Department History
• Pride Points
• Present
• Three academic tracks
• Primary and Adjunct Faculty
• Future
• Goals for this year
• Long term vision and direction

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BMI Department History
Dr. Homer Warner
Chair
Chair
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Homer R. Warner, M.D., Ph.D (seated), former AMIA
president, Reed M. Gardner, Ph.D (right), and
notable researcher, Allan Pryor, Ph.D (center)
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BMI Department History
School of Medicine
Medical Informatics
Biomedical Informatics
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BMI Pride Points

• 1st BMI Dept in the US in a SOM (1972)
• 1st PhDs granted in BMI in the US (1965)
• EMR software (HELP, HELP2, CCDS, CPRS, VistA)
• UPDB genealogy research system
• 2002 Olympics security surveillance
• 9 high tech spin-off companies
• Work across multiple systems (IHC, UU, VA, UDOH)
• Gene finding BRCA1, BRCA2, P16, ELAC2
• 2 winners of the Morris Collen Award of
  Excellence for Lifetime Achievement in Medical
  Informatics

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BMI - Present
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BMI at the University of Utah
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• 85 active graduate students
• 50 faculty
• 22 with BMI as primary department
• 34 adjunct faculty
• Located in Eccles Health Science Education
  Building and beyond
• UU Research Park
• IHC/Lake Park and LDS Hospital and Primary
  Childrens Medical Center
• VA Medical Center
• Utah Department of Health

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2008 IPHIE Hosted By the University of Utah
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International Partnership for Health Informatics
Education
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BMI Department Areas
Public Health Informatics
Translational Informatics
Biomedical Informatics
Clinical Informatics
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Primary Faculty
D. Beaudoin J. Hales C. Staes
Public Health Informatics
Clinical Informatics
B. Bray R. S. Evans S. Huff J. Hurdle J.
Mitchell S. Narus C. Weir P. Clayton
P. Haug S. Meystre D. Sorenson
K. Allen-Brady L. Cannon-Albright J. Facelli
N. Camp L. Frey D. Parker A. Thomas
Translational Informatics Clinical Research
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New Primary Faculty
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• 2006
• John Hurdle MD, PhD
• Scott Narus PhD
• Lewis Frey PhD
• Catherine Staes RN, MPH, PhD
• Charlene Weir RN, PhD
• 2007
• Julio Facelli PhD
• Stéphane Meystre MD, PhD
• Kristina Allen-Brady PT, MPH, PhD
• Denise Beaudoin MD, MPH, MS

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Adjunct Faculty
Public Health Informatics
Clinical Informatics
M. Dean M. Egger B. James M. Poynton M. Samore
D. Avrin L. Bowes F. Drews B. Farr M. Heilbrun
J. Holmen S. Horn L.M. Lau M. Lincoln N.
Staggers S. Thornton D. Westenskow R. Wiggins
C. Porucznik R. Rolfs S. Williams
N. Hulse B. Jackson C. Maloney
T. Clemmer D. Hughes A. Morris K. Rowe M. Williams
D. Blumenthal K. Rowe K. Eilbeck K. Smith B.
Horne M. Yandell
Translational Informatics Clinical Research
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BMI - Future Plans
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Initiatives This Year

• Hiring additional faculty
• New Programs to get up and running
• Bridges to the Doctorate University of Texas at
  Brownsville
• CTSA Center for Clinical and Translational
  Science
• FURTHeR project (research infrastructure project)
• Part of AMIAs 10x10 program
• Growing/solidifying Certificate Program
• Planning for MD subspecialty program in clinical
  informatics

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Cyberinfrastructure CTSA

• Cyberinfrastructure includes people and their
  expertise, enabling technologies, software and
  tools, and provides a foundation for an
  integrated approach to research and workflow.
• CTSA Clinical and Translational Science Award
• Institutional Biomedical Informatics
  infrastructure for enabling the research vision
  of the future. Transformational and Translational

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FURTHeR
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Top FURTHeR Projects
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• Biospecimen management system and biobanking
• Access to clinical data for research purposes
• Including key informatics data standards
• Enabling the research mission in general

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Major projects conducive to PhD research
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• Center of Excellence (COE) in public health
  informatics
• VA CHIR (center for health informatics research)
• FURTHeR (federated Utah research and
  translational health electronic repository)
• CCIR (center for clinical informatics research)
• And many more...

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Academic Programs
Masters PhD Graduate Degree Programs
Postdoctoral Fellowships
Certificate Program 15 Hours to completion
www.bmi.utah.edu
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New Horizons in Informatics
Its happening in Utah!
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Applicants Welcome!
For application assistance, contact Ms. JoAnn
Thompson at joann.thompson_at_hsc.utah.edu
http//www.bmi.utah.edu
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