Informatics Research Seminars

The Informatics Research Seminar Series is sponsored by Duke University in collaboration with the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), North Carolina Central University (NCCU, Durham, NC,), University of North Carolina-Charlotte (UNC-C), East Carolina University (ECU, Greenville, NC), and Wake Forest University (WFU, Winston-Salem, NC). This series explores key areas in Health Informatics and includes research results, overview of programs of research, basic, applied, and evaluative projects, as well as research from varied epistemological stances.

Fall Seminars begin Aug 30th!

The seminars are held Wednesday's at 4 PM EST. Please check back in early August for the upcoming semesters scheduled speakers and topics.

Upcoming Seminars & Events

Spring 2023 Schedule: Informatics Research Seminars

 

WK Sponsoring University Date Speaker Topic
1 Duke Jan 11 Jessica Tenenbaum, PhD The Situation Room: NC DHHS's Data Driven Pandemic Response
2 UNC-CH Jan 18 Tony Giberti, MBA

Measurably Improving Plan Performance in Commercial Populations with Claims Data
3 UNC-C Jan 25 Donald Jacobs, PhD Hypothesis Formation in Exploratory Discovery: Applications from Bacterial Resistance to Brain-Computer Interfaces
4 NCCU Feb 1 Lucretia Hoffman, MPH, MBA Statewide Emergency Management Procedures
5 ECU Feb 8 Prerna Dua, PhD Reflecting on the Impact COVID-19 on Health Informatics and Information Management Education
6 WFU Feb 15 Meredith C. B. Adams, MD, MS Mapping the Landscape For Pain and Opioid Health Data
7 Duke Feb 22 Eric Perakslis, PhD Privacy and the Internet in Contemporary Clinical Trials
8 UNC-CH Mar 1 Sam Edgemon, MS The Collaborative Effort to Create an Integrated National Biological Surveillance System to Help Decision Makers at All Levels Make Informed Decisions
9 UNC-C Mar 22 Vishnu Prabhu, PhD Integrating Extended Reality, Biosignals, and Artificial Intelligence for Improving Patient Outcomes
10 NCCU Mar 29 Timothy Mulrooney, PhD Geospatial Data Analysis Applications in Support of Health Informatics
11 ECU Apr 5 Benjamin Schooley, MBA, PhD Applying Informatics to Build Products that Matter - a Lesson in Starting Small and Going Big
12 WFU Apr 12 Brian J. Wells, MD, PhD External Validation of an EHR Prediction Model for Prediabetes in US Adults Using NHANES Data
13 Duke Apr 19 Genie McPeek Hinz, PhD 21st Century Cures Act: An Overview of Regulations, Implementation and Interoperability

 

Fall 2022 Schedule: Informatics Research Seminars

 

WK Sponsoring University Date Speaker Topic
1 Duke Aug 31 João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Ph.D Leveraging Secondary Sources and Data Science to Address Equity In Care In Low Resourced Settings: Study Case In the Amazon Forest
2 UNC-CH Sep 7 Ashley Griffin, PhD Conversational Agents for Chronic Disease Self-Management
3 NCCU Sep 14 K. Sean Kimbro, PhD Ancestry and the Biology of Health Disparities: Ancestral-Driven Drug Discovery
4 UNC-C Sep 21 Wenwu Tang, PhD A Web-based Spatial Decision Support System of Wastewater Surveillance for COVID-19 Monitoring: A Case Study of a University Campus
5 ECU Sep 28 Dmitry Tumin, PhD Social Determinants of Health In Clinical Databases: Opportunities, Pitfalls, and Next Steps
6 WFU Oct 5 Khalid Niazi, PhD

Automatic Discovery of Imaging Biomarkers in Histopathology
7 Duke Oct 12 James Tcheng, MD Building a Clinically Integrated Supply Chain Using the Unique Device Identifier as the Source of Truth
8 NCCU Oct 19 Deborah Swain, PhD Learning about Mobilizing Computable Biomedical Knowledge (MCBK)
9 Duke Oct 26 Ed Hammond, PhD Defining the Perfect Health System
10 UNC-C Nov 2 Sunil Erevelles, PhD The Genomics Blockchain
11 ECU Nov 9 Jhojana Infante Linares, MS What is Data Analytics? Types, Uses, and Examples
12 Duke Nov 16 Allison Stolte, MS & PhD candidate Using Electronic Health Records to Understand the Population of Local Children Captured In a Large Health System In Durham County, NC