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Program in Biomedical and Health Informatics

During the past four years, the Carver College of Medicine (CCOM) and Office of Strategic Investments has sponsored training programs for developing informatics skills among early career faculty, residents, fellows, and selected staff, through coursework known as the AMIA 10x10 program. 

The CCOM aims to build an Informatics community to develop a cadre of faculty, residents, fellows, and staff practicing at University of Iowa Health Care (UIHC) with Informatics skills to improve their clinical practice and advance scientific scholarship in this field.

The AMIA 10x10 Course

The course provides a detailed overview of biomedical and health informatics to those who will work at the interface of healthcare and information technology (IT). It also provides a broad understanding of the field from the vantage point of those who implement, lead, and develop IT solutions for improving health, healthcare, public health, and biomedical research. 

An overview of the AMIA 10x10 program, course descriptions, FAQs, and a brief video with William Hersh, MD is available here.  Dr. Hersh was principal in creating the program with the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in 2005, with the aim to educate 10,000 health care professionals and others in biomedical informatics by 2010 ("ten by ten").

Interested in completing this coursework?

The CCOM Office of Research is funding a limited number of faculty, residents, and fellows to complete this coursework.  An application form is available online.  In addition to completing the online coursework, participants are expected to write and present a final paper which may be considered for publication or presentation. 

The CCOM Biomedical and Health Informatics Community

We have established a community of CCOM Informaticists who are applying these skills in their work at UIHC.  You are invited to join us with presentations, journal clubs, and other activities. Previous meeting information and links to recorded presentations can be found here.

Next Meeting: May 9, 2024 | 12:00-1:00 pm | via Zoom | CME, CNE Credit Available

Request the zoom link. 

Neonatal Data Harmonization for Research & Operations

Kyzer Aziz

 

Khyzer B Aziz, MD - Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & General Internal Medicine
Associate Director, Master of Science in Applied Health Sciences Informatics
CMIO Johns Hopkins Children's Center 
Johns Hopkins University | School of Medicine

 

Dr. Khyzer Aziz’s research interests are utilizing complex information found in the electronic medical record and national registries/databases to provide clear, cohesive, and concise information for patients, families, and clinicians that can be used for clinical decision-making and neonatal precision medicine. With his mentorship team, he is pioneering processes for nuanced automated neonatal data collection locally and globally utilizing the OHDSI/OMOP common data model. He is also developing and validating neonatal specific severity of illness metrics for the neonatal population – the neonatal sequential organ failure assessment (nSOFA) score and the vasoactive-inotropic score (VIS) – over the last year, he has published this work in high impact, peer reviewed journals.

If you are interested to present at future meetings in 2024, please contact Lindsey Knake. We currently have opportunities open for presentations on July 11, October 10, November 14 and December 12, 2024.

Program Director

Dr. Lindsey Knake, MD, MS

 

Dr. Lindsey Knake, MD, MS
Director, Biomedical & Health Informatics Development
lindsey-knake@uiowa.edu 
(319) 353-6368

 

Clinical Informatics Journal Club

The Clinical Informatics Journal Club, hosted by Dr. Lindsey Knake, meets the 3rd Tuesday of every other month from 3 - 4 pm via Zoom or in person in 7830-C JPP.  To receive a Zoom link, please contact Marian Carson.

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