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Kei-Hoi Cheung, PhD, has been awarded a grant by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to research environmental health data and drinking water contamination using AI methods.
María Rodríguez Martínez, PhD, has been recruited as Associate Professor in Yale School of Medicine's new department of biomedical informatics and data science. Her interdisciplinary research combines machine learning, computational biology and mathematical approaches to unravel the molecular mechanisms of complex diseases like cancer.
Attaining department status will enable Biomedical Informatics & Data Science to build on the momentum it already has achieved, increasing its national profile and positioning YSM to lead AI in medicine.
A new study led by researchers at VA Connecticut Healthcare Center and Yale School of Medicine's new Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science suggests potential side effects of gabapentin, a drug commonly used to treat and control partial seizures.
More than 300 Yale Medicine physicians have earned a spot on the 2024 Connecticut Magazine “Top Doctors” list.
Daniella Meeker, PhD, is one of three researchers newly elected to the governing council of Cosmos, Epic's platform for electronic health records.
Meditron, a suite of open-source large multimodal foundation models tailored to the medical field and designed to assist with clinical decision-making and diagnosis, was built on Meta Llama 2 and trained on carefully curated, high-quality medical data sources with continual input from clinicians and experts in humanitarian response.
Meditron, a large language model (LLM) developed by researchers at Yale School of Medicine and EPFL, was featured as an example of open science in the 2024 Artificial Intelligence Index Report.
A new study by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health finds a significant association between eczema and eating disorders.
Yale investigators have identified a new artificial intelligence (AI)-based video biomarker that is able to identify those who might develop and have rapidly worsening aortic stenosis.
Yale faculty and trainees will present clinical research at the upcoming American College of Cardiology Scientific Meeting.
A multidisciplinary team of Yale scientists has received a $4-million federal grant to study the effectiveness of a new vaccine and monoclonal antibody shot designed to prevent respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in infants.
Conrad Safranek, MD student, and Ryland Mortlock, MD-PhD student, co-edited the recent Big Data-themed issue of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine.
A new certificate program in Medical Software and Medical AI has launched this month. The program will prepare students to work and lead in the fast-moving space of medical software and artificial intelligence. But that's not the only program available to prospective students: the Section of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science offers five different degree programs in addition to the new certificate. In this Spring newsletter highlight, learn from faculty about what each of these exciting programs has to offer.
Yale School of Medicine students Nisarg Shah, Joanna Fuyao Chen and Philip Adejumo are members of the AI and Medicine Student Interest Group. Drawing together students and faculty from a range of programs and specialties, they hope to expand AI's footprint at Yale School of Medicine.
Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, MBA, PhD, Chair of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, and Deputy Dean for Biomedical Informatics, shares some updates this Spring.
Biomedical Informatics & Data Science is pleased to welcome new faculty, staff, postdoctoral associates, postgraduate fellows, and students who have joined us since Fall 2023.
Annie Hartley, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, is a board member of nonprofit organization D-tree. The organization provides clinical decision support via mobile applications to community health workers in countries across Africa.
The newly announced election brings the number of AAP members from Yale to 53.
Most analyses regarding the excess risk of death during the COVID-19 pandemic have relied on summary data. However, a recent study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology instead analyzed individual patient-level data based on medical records from the largest integrated healthcare system in the United States.