Students
2 PhD students, Evan Chistensen and Lourdez Valdez have joined the group. Michael Watkins successfully defended and is now continuing his work in biomedical standards and interoperability at the University of Chicago.
Papers
Wesołowski S, Lemmon G, Hernandez EJ, Henrie A, Miller TA, Weyhrauch D, Puchalski MD, Bray BE, Shah RU, Deshmukh VG, Delaney R, Yostl HJ, Eilbeck K, Tristani-Firouzi M, Yandell M. An explainable artificial intelligence approach for predicting cardiovascular outcomes using electronic health records. PLOS Digit Health. 2022;1(1):e0000004. doi: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0000004. Epub 2022 Jan 18. PMID: 35373216; PMCID: PMC8975108. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35373216/
Conway M, Vuong TT, Hart K, Rohrwasser A, Eilbeck K. Pain points in parents’ interactions with newborn screening systems: a qualitative study. BMC Pediatr. 2022 Mar 31;22(1):167. doi: 10.1186/s12887-022-03160-1. PMID: 35361157; PMCID: PMC8967687. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35361157/
Rehm HL, Page AJH, Smith L, Adams JB, Alterovitz G, Babb LJ, Barkley MP, Baudis M, Beauvais MJS, Beck T, Beckmann JS, Beltran S, Bernick D, Bernier A, Bonfield JK, Boughtwood TF, Bourque G, Bowers SR, Brookes AJ, Brudno M, Brush MH, Bujold D, Burdett T, Buske OJ, Cabili MN, Cameron DL, Carroll RJ, Casas-Silva E, Chakravarty D, Chaudhari BP, Chen SH, Cherry JM, Chung J, Cline M, Clissold HL, Cook-Deegan RM, Courtot M, Cunningham F, Cupak M, Davies RM, Denisko D, Doerr MJ, Dolman LI, Dove ES, Dursi LJ, Dyke SOM, Eddy JA, Eilbeck K, et. al. GA4GH: International policies and standards for data sharing across genomic research and healthcare. Cell Genom. 2021 Nov 10;1(2):100029. doi: 10.1016/j.xgen.2021.100029. PMID: 35072136; PMCID: PMC8774288. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35072136/
Conferences and meetings
Amber has had an abstract accepted for ASRM this fall – a Bayesian network for complex pain-related features of endometriosis
I will be part of a workshop presenting: Lecture Hall, Poll Everywhere, and Twitter – oh my! Engaging Large Audiences using Interactive Tools at the Utah Academy of Health Science Educators Symposium
Nicole and I will be presenting this abstract in the fall at the APHL NBS Symposium: Understanding Clinician needs and preferences with respect to returned NBS results.
I took 3 students to the International Partnership in Health Informatics Education (IPHIE) https://www.iphie.org/ meeting in Seattle in June where they worked on app design projects with students from 6 international sites.
Our NLM trainees and I attended the training conference in Buffalo in June where they got to interact with the larger cohort of informatics trainees.
Grants
We were awarded a 5-year renewal to our T15 training grant.
Education
After four years with the Medical school, I resigned as co-director of Host and Defense. Matt Williams will take back the role.