Biomedical Informatics and Health Equity (BIHE) Monthly Seminar

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One of the great challenges in providing health care for all is health equity.  Our health systems, payment models and health care access are built upon historical inequalities that led to disparities in access, diagnosis, treatment and outcomes.  The field of biomedical and health informatics works to improve the collection, use and research into biomedical data.  With the current nationwide deployment of Health IT, the ability to analyze data, and predict and improve disease outcomes has grown exponentially.  However, far too many commercial and government policies, and research approaches perpetuate our current structural health inequities into the algorithms for AI/ML-approaches in digital health.   The Biomedical Informatics and Health Equity Monthly Seminar Series will highlight the multi-faceted nature of these challenges and bring faculty, staff and trainees together to learn about current research and spark new collaborations to address health disparities.

Sponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, College of Medicine, and College of Applied Health Sciences.

BIHE Speakers Heading link

2024-2025

DateTime Presenter(s)TitleRegistration
Wednesday, 10/23/2412:00pm - 1:00pmEleanor Rivera, PhD
Assistant Professor
Population Health Nursing Science
Coding Social Determinants of Health Using ICD-10 Z-codes: Challenges and Opportunities--
Wednesday, 11/20/2412:00pm - 1:00pmRosie Hanneke, PhD
Associate Professor & Head
Information Services and Research
University Library
Amelia Brunskill, PhD
Associate Professors & Information Services & Liaison Librarians
University Library
Systematic searching for the Social Determinants of HealthRSVP
December TBD12:00pm - 1:00pmTBDTBD--
January TBD12:00pm - 1:00pmTBDTBD--
Wednesday, 2/12/2512:00pm - 1:00pmRanga Chandrasekaran, PhD
Professor & Director of Graduate Studies for MS in MIS
Information and Decision Sciences
TBD--
Wednesday, 3/19/2512:00pm - 1:00pmLinda Chang, PhD and Radhika Sreedhar, PhD
Associate Professors of Clinical Family Medicine
TBD--
April TBD12:00pm - 1:00pmTBDTBD--
Wednesday, 5/21/2512:00pm - 1:00pmSugasini Dhavamani, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Endocrinology/Diabetes and Metabolism
Lipidomics and Alzheimer's disease--
DateTime Presenter(s)TitleRegistration
Wednesday, 9/20/2312:00pm - 1:00pmLewis Hsu, PhD
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Director of the Sickle Cell Program
Implementing registries in sickle cell disease – stories behind the data--
Wednesday, 10/18/2312:00pm - 1:00pmMohan Zalake, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Biomedical and Health Information Sciences
Virtual Humans, Real Impact: How Digital Agents Can Advance Health Equity--
Wednesday, 11/8/2312:00pm - 1:00pmNeeraj Chhabra, MD, MSCR
Visiting Assistant Professor
Emergency Medicine & Medical Toxicology
Using Emergency Department Electronic Health Record Data to address the Opioid Epidemic--
Wednesday, 12/13/2312:00pm - 1:00pmAshley M. Hughes, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences
Joshua Hamer, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Baylor College of Medicine
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
Diversity in Primary Care Teams and Implications for Patient Outcomes--
Wednesday, 1/24/2412:00pm - 1:00pmAnuj Tiwari, PhD
Senior Research Associate
Research Assistant Professor
Discovery Partners Institute
Mapping Vulnerability in Pandemic Response: Optimizing Wastewater Epidemiology with Geospatial Intelligence--
Wednesday, 3/20/24 - Cancelled12:00pm - 1:00pmMelvin Speisman, MD FACP
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Academic Internal Medicine
Using Artificial Intelligence to improve the Care of Patients with Congestive Heart Failure--
Wednesday, 4/24/2412:00pm - 1:00pmDonghua Tao, PhD
Professor and Associate Dean
Associate University Librarian for the Health Sciences
If ChatGPT can answer medical questions--
Wednesday, 5/22/2412:00pm - 1:00pmRuna Bhaumik, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
Exploring Bias Mitigation Strategies in Health Recommender Systems Utilizing Language Models: An Inquiry for Healthcare Professionals--
Wednesday, 6/5/2412:00pm - 1:00pmAmeen Salahudeen, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Hematology/Oncology
Medicine
Improving lung cancer health equity through Artificial Intelligence applicationsRSVP
DateTime Presenter(s)TitleRegistration
Wednesday, 9/21/2212:00pm - 1:00pmGarth Rauscher
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Creation of a research database and infrastructure to understand drivers of care quality and outcomes among breast cancer patients at UIC--
Wednesday, 10/19/2212:00pm - 1:00pmLu Cheng
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Sequential Bias Mitigation and the Need for Causal Fairness--
Wednesday, 11/16/2212:00pm - 1:00pmVincent Freeman
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Spatial Access to Primary Care and Colorectal Cancer Survival Outcomes in Cook County, IL--
Wednesday, 12/14/2212:00pm - 1:00pmSpyros Kitsiou
Associate Professor of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences
Development and testing of a multi-component mobile health technology intervention to improve self-care adherence in patients with chronic heart failure--
Wednesday, 1/18/2312:00pm - 1:00pmNiranjan Karnik
Professor
Department of Psychiatry - CS
Using Data Science and Machine Learning to Address Substance Use in the Hospital Setting--
Wednesday, 3/15/2312:00pm - 1:00pmSage Kim
Associate Professor
Health Policy and Administration
How Social Becomes Biological: Context Specific Lung Cancer Risk --
Wednesday, 5/17/2312:00pm - 1:00pmJacob Krive
Assistant Professor
Biomedical and Health Information Sciences
Clinical analytics and AI in support of equitable access to cardiovascular care for oncology patients RSVP
DateTime Presenter(s)TitleRegistration
Wednesday, 11/10/2112:00pm - 1:00pmBeatriz Penalver Bernabe
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
A Whole Person Approach to Study Perinatal Depression in Women of Color--
Wednesday, 2/23/2212:00pm - 1:00pmShweta Yadav
Bridge to the Faculty (B2F) Fellow
Department of Computer Science
Exploring Social Media to Understand Mental Health--
Wednesday, 3/16/2212:00pm - 1:00pmBhrandon Harris
Assistant Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Intentionality in the Application of Health Data--
Wednesday, 4/20/2212:00pm - 1:00pmOlusolu Ajilore
University of Illinois Center for Depression and Resilience (UI CDR) Professor of Psychiatry
Low Cost, High Tech, All Access: Lowering Barriers to Care with Digital Mental Health--
Wednesday, 5/4/2212:00pm - 1:00pmJun Ma
Professor
Department of Medicine
Precision Health through Translational Behavioral Medicine Research--
Wednesday, 6/15/2212:00pm - 1:00pmEmily Gregori
Assistant Professor
Department of Special Education
Advances in Behavioral Health Interventions for Adolescents and Adults with Autism: Applications of a Family-Centered Telehealth Program --
Wednesday, 6/29/2212:00pm - 1:00pmAmit Sethi
Adjunct Professor
Department of Pathology
Towards Precision Oncology using Machine Learning on Digital Pathology--

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