UNC-Chapel Hill at AMIA 2018

• Dr. Khairat inducted into the Fellows of AMIA – Inaugural Class of 2018, read more

• Dr. Chung organized AMIA Presymposium Workshops

• Dr. Gotz was a panelist at AMIA for a session titled “Computational Longitudinal Patient Trajectories” along with researches from Harvard, Vanderbilt, and Columbia. The panel provided multiple perspectives on the state-of-the-art and challenges of extracting and visualizing longitudinal patient trajectories. Presentations discussed a variety of technical details related to the topic, including NLP-based pipelines, experience in application to specific diseases, and longitudinal data extraction, representation and interpretation.

• CHIP graduate students (Karthik Adapa, Ashley Griffen, Malvika Pillai, Rachel Stemerman) selected for AMIA Annual Symposium Student Design Challenge and presented their poster at AMIA

• Zhaopeng Xing, CHIP Ph.D. student, presented a poster at AMIA, titled "A Pilot Comparative Study of Health Information Seeking Performance and Mental Effort on Google Assistant versus Google Chrome"

Dr. Yu recently published an article at the Journal of Data and Information Science 

Title: "Information Seeking for Prostate Cancer Treatment Decision Marking: A Natural Language Processing Approach to Analyzing Medical Communication During Consultation Visits"

The journal hosted with Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.


Dr. Gotz was the keynote speaker at BioVis Challenge held at IEEE VIS, Berlin, October 22, 2018 

The talk was titled “Health Data Diversity and Complexity: Visualization Challenges for Longitudinal Cohort Analysis.” The BioVis Challenge this year focused on data visualization challenges associated with large-scale data collection and analysis initiatives such as the UK Biobank and the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Program. 

Dr. Gotz was the co-author for a recently published IEEE TVCG article

The article, titled “Visual Progression Analysis of Event Sequence Data,” describes their work combining visualization with deep learning algorithms to mine and interactively explore temporal trajectories from large sets of event sequence data. The paper presents a generic methodology, but focuses on the extraction of computational longitudinal patient trajectories from electronic medical data as one of the key use cases.

Student Opportunity

Data Scientist - Epidemiology, Apply

TraCS Informatics Internship Spring 2019, Apply

Medical Informatics Section/MLA Career Development Grant, Apply.

Telemedicine Evaluation Project, Research Supervisor: Saif Khairat, Learn more

Analytic Consulting Internship Program, Learn more

Winter Data Science Fellowship Opportunity - Learn more

Student Funding - Carolina Internal Funding Database

Student Research Opportunities - Learn more

MLA Scholarship for Minority Students, deadline December 1 - Learn more

U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science - Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program, applications due November 15 - Learn more

Community Engagement Fellowship, application deadline February 5. Learn more

Opportunity

2019 Innovation Pilot Awards Request for Proposal

The Center for Health Innovation of the UNC School of Medicine and Health Care System has released the 2019 request for proposal for its $50,000 Innovation Pilot Award. All UNC SOM and HCS employees from any affiliate are eligible to apply. While Principal Investigators must be from UNC SOM or HCS, co-investigators and research team members may include individuals from across the university. Applications are due Tuesday, January 15, 2019 and as many as four awards of up to $50,000 each will be announced in early March. Learn more about the award requirements and to download the request for proposal here. Or you can to learn about previous winners here.
If you have questions, please contact the Center for Health Innovation at innovatehealthcare@med.unc.edu