Wade Schulz, MD, PhD, a third year resident in our physician-scientist track training program was recently recognized for his informatics accomplishments with the “Hortonworks Data Hero with Cognitive Honors from IBM” Award. Cognitive Computing approaches are at the cutting edge of bringing Big Data Analytics into everyday use, importantly including improving patient care. As described in the award ceremony: “Yale New Haven Health created a continuous patient monitoring solution that records patient monitoring data, streamed in real time, from intensive care units and emergency departments. The data is processed and used for clinical and translational research projects such as sepsis prediction in both adults and neonatal intensive care unit patients, mortality and outcome prediction and for operational programs that work to reduce alarm fatigue and noise due to unnecessary alarms.” Dr. Schulz will continue his physician-scientist pathway with a Transfusion Medicine Fellowship this coming year at Yale.
Submitted by June Fisher on June 14, 2017