Peter Tarczy-Hornoch is delighted to announce that a 3-way collaboration between the UW led Institute of Translational Health Sciences, the School of Medicine, and Microsoft has come to fruition.  This is an exciting collaboration for a number of DBHI faculty and students to be involved with.  For official press release see link.

Casey Overby recently participated in a summer rotation at the National Library of Medicine under the guidance of Dr. Dina Demner-Fushman.  Their poster submission, “NLM Tools for Translational Questions” was accepted to be presented at the 2008 NIH Research Festival (October 14-17th, 2008).   COverby, DDemner-Fushman, AAronson.

Congratulations to Alan Au who successfully passed his General Examination entitled "Improving In-hospital Cardiac Arrest Documentation."  Alan did a great job and will be beginning his dissertation research!

Congratulations are in order to Sally Lee who this morning successfully defended her PhD dissertation: "Supporting Multi-institutional, Interdisciplinary Biomedical Collaboration (MIBC): A Biomedical Informatics Approach."

Each year our graduate students nominate BHI faculty and vote for who they believe should receive the BHI Teaching Award.  This is an award in recognition of an instructor’s commitment to teaching.  This year the award goes to an individual who has demonstrated commitment in mentoring students and inspiring them to develop their critical thinking and gain an in-depth understanding of informatics theory and practice.  Please join BHI in congratulating Dr. Ira Kalet, who is the recipient of the 2008 BHI Teaching Award.