UIC Center For Clinical And Translational Sciences

UIC has a diverse and robust health informatics teaching and research portfolios. There is an overall lack of awareness of other researchers working in health information as well as resources and sources of collaboration. The term biomedical and health informatics is meant in the broadest possible sense including such fields as: bioinformatics, computational biology, medical informatics, public health informatics, nursing informatics, pharmacy informatics, health information management, and many other biomedical and engineering related fields that are too numerous to name.

The purpose of the colloquia is to have monthly meetings where the first half of the meeting would be a presentation of the research that is ongoing at UIC. The second half of the meeting will be on grant funding. Funding opportunities arise that need a diverse set of skills bringing together the faculty and beginning the discussion. Informatics is so broad and diverse this will be an easy and effective way of keeping a pulse on activities directly outside of one research interest and help to spur additional collaborations.

The meeting occurs on the last Monday of the month during the Academic Calendar year at noon in Room 5175 COMRB (909 S. Wolcott) and food is provided. For more information, contact Andrew Boyd at boyda@uic.edu.

Upcoming meetings

BHIC Speakers	Topics
Monday, 11/30 12 noon -1:00pm                      Bill Galanter MD/PhD Medical Director, Clinical Information Systems Medical Director, UIC Physicians Group University of Illinois at Chicago	Improving medication use with Clinical Decision Support
Monday, 01/25  12 noon – 1:00pm                  Bob Sandusky PhD Assistant University Librarian for Information Technology Clinical Associate Professor Richard J. Daley Library University of Illinois at Chicago	TBA
Monday 02/22    12 noon – 1:00pm Arkalgud Ramaprasad Professor Department of Information and Decision Sciences College of Business Administration Director of the Center for Research in Information Management (CRIM)	TBA
Past Speakers and Topics
9/29/2008 Jason Leigh PhD Associate Professor Department of Computer Science Electronic Visualization Lab	Gaming and Health
10/27/2008 Andrew Boyd MD Research Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical and Health Information Services UIC College of Applied Health Sciences	Data Sharing between Institutions
11/29/2008 Tanya Berger-Wolfe PhD Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science UIC College of Engineering	Computer Analysis of Social Networks
Feb 23, 2009 Gail M. Keenan, PhD, RN Associate Professor Department of Health Systems Science Director, Nursing Informatics Initiative UIC	EHR Research: Designing Systems that Keep the Patient's Healthcare Team on the Same Page
March 30, 2009 Arnold D. Steinberg DDS MS Haptics Simulator Development Professor of Periodontics UIC College of Dentistry	PerioSim: Haptic-Based, 3D, Virtual Reality Dental Simulator Used in Self-training and Testing Novice Department of Periodontics Student
April 27, 2009 Wesley N. Valdes Asst Professor of Surgery Department of Surgery UIC College of Medicine Location: 5175 COMRB, 12 noon	Health IT and Stimulus package
May 18, 2009 Diana Wilkie PhD, RN, FAAN Professor and Harriet H. Werley Endowed Chair for Nursing Research Director, Center for End-of-Life Transition Research College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago	Informatics Solutions in Palliative Care Research
Monday, 9/28 12 noon -1:00pm                        Annette Valenta PhD Professor and Asso. Dean for Health Informatics & Technology Biomedical and Health Information Sciences  College of Applied Health Sciences University of Illinois at Chicago	A "think aloud" on the challenges at the interface of clinical research and informatics We invite clinical researchers who are contemplating research in which success depends heavily on information systems/informatics to come and discuss these challenges with faculty having subject matter expertise in a wide variety of information systems/informatics disciplines.  Our goal is to build faculty networks and collaborations, while exploring to better understand future research needs. Be prepared to discuss existing challenges and pose new ideas for future research.
Monday, 10/26 12 noon -1:00pm                      Philip Yu PhD Professor and Wexler Chair in Information Technology Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Chicago	Data Mining for Biomedical and Health Informatics