Informatics Research Seminars | Duke University School of Medicine

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 industry perspective, research results, overview of programs of research, basic, applied, and evaluative projects, as well as research from varied epistemological stances.

The seminars are held Wednesday's at 4 PM EST, please see schedule below.

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Spring 2025 Schedule: Informatics Research Seminars

Week	Site	Date	Speaker	Topic
1	Duke	1/15	Jessie Tenenbaum, PhD	NC DHHS: A Learning Department of Health and Human Services
2	UNC-CH	1/22	Ashlyn Zebrowski, PhD Candidate	Exploring the Effects of Prescribing and Implementation Techniques on the Adoption of Virtual Reality Therapeutics
3	UNC-C	1/29	Sunil Erevelles, PhD	Superspecies: Artificial Intelligence and the Birth of Inorganic Hyperintelligence
4	NCCU	2/5	Dr. Erezi Ogbo-Gebhardt	From the Digital Divide to Digital Health Equity
5	ECU	2/12	Jong Youl Lee, PhD	Hospital System Affiliation and Patient Experience
6	WFU	2/19	Dr. Byron Jaeger	Oblique Random Forests: Making Leo Breiman’s Masterpiece Accessible and Interpretable
7	Duke	2/26	Anika Gardenhire, RN, CHCIO, BSN, MMCi	Painting a Data Picture for the Enterprise, Board, and Beyond
8	UNC-CH	3/5	Javed Mostafa, PhD	Health Data Exchange (HDX): A Global Open Data, Software, and Learning Community Resource for R & D Acceleration and Dissemination
BREAK		3/12
9	UNC-CH	3/19	Laura Marcial, PhD	Implementation of an Electronic Care Plan for People with Multiple Chronic Conditions (V2)
10	UNC-C	3/26	Hilmi Demirhan, PhD	Multimodal Question Answering with Casual Reasoning and Multimodal Large Language Models
11	NCCU	4/2	Dr. Tirupapuliyur Damodaran	Transcriptomic Studies in Human Health
12	ECU	4/9	Christina Eldredge, MD, PhD, FAMIA and Jim Andrews, PhD, FAMIA	Health Informatics, Standards, and Patient Engagement
13	WFU	4/16
14	Duke	4/23	Patrick B. Thomas, MD, MMCi, FACS

Upcoming Seminars & Events

Fall 2024 Schedule: Informatics Research Seminars

Week	Site	Date	Speaker	Topic
1	Duke	8/28	Kathleen McGrow, DNP, MS, RN, PMP, FAAN Chief Nursing Information Officer, Microsoft	Leveraging Crisis as a Catalyst
2	UNC-CH	9/4	Mohammad Golam Kibria, PhD Candidate Graduate Student, UNC Chapel Hill	A Novel Framework for Assessing AI Explainability in Healthcare
3	UNC-C	9/11	Daniel Janies, PhD Professor, UNC Charlotte	Medical Intelligence For Infectious Diseases Through Phylogenetics and AI-Driven Structural Biology
4	Duke	9/18	Anita Walden, MS Associate Director of Translational and Integrative Initiatives, UNC Chapel Hill	Novel Approaches to Real World Data Research
5	UNC-CH	9/25	Hung-Jui (Ray) Tan, MD, MSHPM Director of Urologic Oncology, UNC Chapel Hill	Surgeon Decision-Making and Implications for Clinical Decision Support
6	WFU	10/2	Ibrahim Karabayir, PhD Associate Professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine	Leveraging ECG for Generalizable Deep Learning Models for Heart Failure and Its Subtypes with Implications for Wearable ECG Deployment
7	Duke	10/9	Amy Cramer, MMCi, BSN, CPHQ Janssen, Johnson & Johnson	Research Community Collaboration to improve Clinical Research Data
8	ECU	10/16	Prerna Dua, PhD Professor and HIAC Council Member, Louisiana Tech University	Tobacco Use and COVID-19: Forecasting Health Impacts Through Machine Learning Models
9	UNC-C	10/23	Shaoyu Li, PhD Associate Professor, UNC Charlotte	A Reference Panel Assisted Geometric Structure Non-Negative Matrix Factorization For The Deconvolution of Bulk Tissue RNA-Sequenced Data
10	NCCU	10/30	Dana G. Jones, JD, LL.M Attorney at Law, NCCU School of Law	“Artificial Intelligence Can Kill You”: Black Box Denials and the Death of Medicare Advantage Members”
11	ECU	11/6	David Marc, PhD, CHDA Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Superior Insights	Predicting Health Informatics Workforce Trends in a Rapidly Evolving Landscape
12	WFU	11/13	Mohammad J. Moghimi, PhD Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering	Noninvasive Wearable Microsystems For Medical Applications
13	Duke	11/20	Chuck Jaffe, MD PhD Chief Executive Officer, HL7	HL7 FHIR is the Future of Interoperability

Spring 2024 Schedule: Informatics Research Seminars

Week	Site	Date	Speaker	Topic
1	Duke	1/10	W. E. Hammond, PhD	What Might The Future Bring?
2	UNC-CH	1/17	Thomas Lynn, MD	Building Clinical Informatics Tools to Move Organizations from Fee for Service to Fee For Value
3	Duke	1/24	Mina Boazak, MD, MMCi	AI In Healthcare: Why You Should Pay Attention
4	NCCU	1/31	Lily Chen PhD, MA, CNE, RN	Mental Health In Immigrant Chinese Communities
5	ECU	2/7	Carlos Perez-Aldana, PhD	Applying Informatics to Analyze Online Support Communities
6	WFU	2/14	Seda Camalan, PhD	Machine Learning in Otoscopy: A Breakthrough for Accurate Pediatric Ear Disease Diagnosis
7	Duke	2/21	Todd Quartiere, MMCi	Responsible AI
8	UNC-CH	2/28	Chris DeRienzo, MD, MPP	Healthcare is late to digital transformation.
Break	3/6
Break	3/13
9	NCCU	3/20	Siobahn Day Grady, PhD	Empowering Equity through AI: Insights from Education, Innovation, and Research
10	UNC-C	3/27	Sunil Erevelles, PhD	Genomics Segmentation and It's Artificial Intelligence Future
11	ECU	4/3	Sue Feldman, RN, MEd, PhD, FACMI	Increasing Access to Addiction Care Through Telemedicine
12	WFU	4/10	Arezoo Movaghar, PhD	AI-Assisted Pre-screening for Fragile X-associated Disorders
13	Duke	4/17	Matthew Englehard, PhD	Methods for Early Prediction of Neurodevelopmental Conditions from the Electronic Health Record