Congratulations to Ching-Ping Lin for Paper Accepted to JAMIA!  Lin C., Payne TH, Nichol WP, Hoey PJ, Anderson CL, and Gennari JH (in press).  “Evaluating Clinical Decision Support Systems: Monitoring CPOE Order Check Override Rates in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Computerized Patient Record System,” Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

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.

Antoine Puget is a Masters student from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and has been working on his Masters thesis with the Structural Informatics Group for the last six months.  The subject of his thesis has been to develop a symbolic-spatial query engine to deal with questions that practitioners and educators may have regarding the relative positioning of anatomical structures in the body. In anatomy, existing tools usually deal with symbolic knowledge, but there is no query processor that can access and manage spatial knowledge.  Antoine has developed such a processor.  His work has been a stride forward in creating a tool, and promises potential practical utility for biomedical and non biomedical domains.  Antoine received a Certificate of Completion for his project at the BHI End of the Year event on June 13th.

George Demiris was also awarded a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Advanced Education in Nursing (AEN) training grant.  This is a 3-year $900,000 training grant to enhance the Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technologies (CIPCT) MSc program and convert it into a distant learning format targeting the WWAMI region.

Demiris G, Parker Oliver D, Dickey G, Skubic M, Rantz M. Findings from a Participatory Evaluation of a Smart Home Application for Older Adults. Technology and Health Care 2008; 16:111-118

Spring quarter 2008 links to podcasts and slides can be found at MEBI 590 schedule. 

Hao Mei (graduate of MS in BHI working with Tony Rossini and Peter Tarczy-Hornoch) has just accepted a faculty position at Tulane University after completing his PhD.  He is a tenure-track assistant professor.  His main responsibility is in the Department of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health.  His research focus is on statistical genetics and disease gene mapping.

The proposed appointment of Dr. Brian Ross as Adjunct Professor in Biomedical and Health Informatics has been approved effective June 1st.  For a podcast about Brian’s research, slides from his talk, and a one-page biography/summary of his work, please see MEBI 590 Schedule Week 2.

Casey Overby was selected to participate in a NLM Rotation for Medical Informatics Trainees this summer.  The NLM Rotation gives fellows an opportunity to learn about NLM programs and about research being conducted at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC).