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 and collaborative research on campus. 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: January 9, 2025 | 12:00-1:00 pm CST | via Zoom
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Presentation by Michael J. Schnieders, DSc
How emerging atomic resolution computational methods can help interpret genetic variants and design therapeutics
Michael J. Schnieders, DSc
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
University of Iowa
Michael Schnieders is a professor in the Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. In addition to directing the Computational Biomolecular Engineering Lab, he is a researcher at the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, the Institute for Vision Research, and the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is an affiliate of the University of Iowa Genetics Cluster Initiative and the Iowa Informatics Initiative.
His lab is focused on molecular biophysics theory and high-performance computational algorithms that are needed to reduce the time and cost of engineering drugs and organic biomaterials. A complementary goal is to help open the door to personalized medicine by developing tools to map genetic information onto molecular phenotypes.
His research interests include application of physics-based and deep learning-based simulations to understand the genetic causes of hearing loss, autism spectrum disorder, blinding eye diseases, birth defects, rare renal diseases and muscular dystrophy. His lab contributes a next generation biomolecular simulation program called Force Field X (https://ffx.biochem.uiowa.edu).
If you are interested to present at future meetings in 2025, please contact Lindsey Knake. We have opportunities for guests on May 8, July 10, August 14, September 11, October 9 and November 13.
Program Director
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.
Announcements:
Upcoming Conferences:
- AMIA 2025 Informatics Summit March 10-13, 2025 Pittsburgh, PA
- EPIC XGM Expert Group Meetings, April 28 – May 8, 2025 Verona, Wisconsin
- AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference, May 20 – 22, 2025, Anaheim, CA
- 2025 AAMC Group on Information Resources (GIR), May 28-30, 2025, Minneapolis, MN
Upcoming Biomedical and Health Informatics Seminars:
- January 9, 2025: Michael Schnieders
- February 13, 2025: Michi Goto and Anindita Bandyopadhyay
- March 13, 2025: Patrick Fan
- April 10, 2025: Lemuel Benedict Non