George Hripcsak, the Vivian Beaumont Allen Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, received the prestigious 2022 Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence during the opening session of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2022 Annual Symposium, while both trainees and faculty presented work, joined panels and led a justice informatics workshop.

Hripcsak was not the only member of DBMI to be honored during the symposium. PhD student Ahmed Elhussein was honored with a Distinguished Poster Award for his poster, “A Consortium Blockchain for Secure, Unified, and Efficient Sharing of EHR and Genomics Data.”

Collaborator Kenrick Cato and DBMI collaborators received First Place in the AMIA/HL7 FHIR® Applications Competition for “Our Communicating Narrative Concerns Entered by RNs (CONCERN) Clinical Decision Support System.” You can read more about CONCERN here.

PhD student Amanda Moy was selected as a 2022 AMIA Student Paper Competition finalist for “Using Time Series Clustering to Segment and Infer Emergency Department Nursing Shifts from Electronic Health Record Log Files.”

Elliot Mitchell PhD ’21 earned the AMIA dissertation award Honorable Mention for his thesis, “”Enabling Automated, Conversational Health Coaching with Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.”

Post-doc Tiffany Callahan was a finalist for her thesis, “Learning Deep Translational Patient Representations: Systematic Integration of Clinical Records and Biomedical Knowledge.”

Several members of the department (Oliver Bear Don’t Walk IV, Adrienne Pichon, Salvatore Volpe, Pooja Desai, Tara Anand, Lisa Grossman Liu, Kayla Schiffer, Courtney Diamond, Lauren Richter, Bria Massey, Aparajita Kashyap, and Suzanne Bakken) led an opening-day workshop on Building a Research Agenda for Justice Informatics.

All DBMI involvement during AMIA 2022 is listed below.

Saturday

W09: A Workshop to Build a Research Agenda for Justice Informatics 
Speakers: Oliver Bear Don’t Walk IV, Adrienne Pichon, Salvatore Volpe, Lisa Grossman Liu, Pooja Desai, Tara Anand, Lauren Richter, Kayla Schiffer, Courtney Diamond, Bria Massey

W12: Analysis of Human Interactive Behavior for Improving Patient Safety and Clinician Burnout
Speaker: Vimla Patel

Student Paper Competition
Speaker: Amanda Moy
Title: Using Time Series Clustering to Segment and Infer Emergency Department Nursing Shifts from Electronic Health Record Log Files

Sunday

W21: Concepts and Practice of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the Scholarly Communication for Biomedical Informatics 
Speaker: Oliver Bear Don’t Walk IV

W21: Concepts and Practice of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the Scholarly Communication for Biomedical Informatics 
Speaker: Harry Reyes
Title: Mining the Health Disparities and Minority Health Bibliome: A Computational Scoping Review

Opening Session 
Morris F. Collen Award Recipient: George Hripcsak

S01: Panel – How to Achieve Privacy in Large Diverse Health Systems
Panelist: Gamze Gürsoy

S05: Informatics Debates – Artificial/Augmented Intelligence and Trust 
Speaker: Sarah Rossetti
Debate: Technology Will Resolve the Nursing Workforce Shortage Within 5 Years

S07: Oral Presentations – Feeling the Pressure: Note Bloat and Documentation Burden
Speaker: Amanda Moy
Title: Using Topic Modeling to Elicit Insights from the 25×5 Symposium to Reduce Documentation Burden Chat Logs

S09: Oral Presentations – Identifying and Addressing Health Disparities
Speaker: Harry Reyes Nieva
Title: Mining the Health Disparities and Minority Health Bibliome: A Computational Scoping Review

Monday

S19: Oral Presentations – Digging Deep into Data: Deep Learning Applications
Speaker: Amelia Averitt
Title: Deep Representational Clustering for Endotype Discovery

S20: Year In Review
Speaker: James Cimino

S29: ACMI Collen Award Winner Presentation – A Bet On Future Informatics Research: Combining Knowledge and Data Using Informatics, Statistics, and Physics
Speakers: George Hripcsak, Benjamin Albert, Tara Anand, Tiffany Callahan, Anna Ostropolets, Lauren Richter, Linying Zhang

S30: Doctoral Dissertation Awards
Speaker: Elliot Mitchell
Title: Human-Centered AI for Health Coaching

S31: Informatics Partnership Council Presentation – What is the Role for Industry in Informatics Research 
Speaker: Suzanne Bakken

DEI Membership Survey Finding Presentation 
Speaker: Oliver Bear Don’t Walk IV

S34: A Tribute to Dr. Virginia Saba
Speaker: Suzanne Bakken

S47: Systems Demonstrations – Program for FHIR, Platform for Genomics, and Query for Cohorts
Speaker: Betina Idnay
Title: Criteria2Query 2.0: Combining Machine Efficiency and Human Intelligence to Define a More Accurate and Feasible Cohort for Clinical Trial Recruitment

S49: Oral Presentations – More than Six Feet Apart: Towards Telehealth 
Speaker: David Vawdrey
Title: Pandemic Telemedicine Adoption Trends in a Predominantly Rural Integrated Health System

S51: High School Presentations 
Speaker: Bridget Zelin
Title: Reporting Racial and Ethnic Bias in PubMed Case Reports

Poster Session 1 

Author: Nripendra Acharya
Title: Analyzing healthcare-seeking behavior among All of Us enrollees in the era of COVID-19

Author: Courtney Diamond
Title: Clinical Staff EHR Usability and Satisfaction: Preliminary Results of A Multi-Site, Pre-Post Implementation Evaluation

Author: Virginia Lorenzi
Title: Patient Request for Correction Using HL7® FHIR®

Author: Rimma Perotte
Title: An Informatics Infrastructure for Collecting, Quantifying, and Synthesizing Resident Education Progress

Tuesday

S53: Panel – Informatics Research and Implementation During COVID: Challenges, Opportunities and Recommendations for Building a Sustainable Infrastructure 
Speakers: Sarah Rossetti, David Albers

S58: Oral Presentations: IDGI: Explainable AI 
Speaker: Elliot Mitchell
Title: Towards Intuitive Features for Useful Explanations of Predictive Models

S71: Oral Presentations – Reaching an Immersed Flow State: Studies of EHR Workflows 
Speaker: Amanda Moy
Title: Using Time Series Clustering to Segment and Infer Emergency Department Nursing Shifts from Electronic Health Record Log Files

S80: Oral Presentations – Are You Ready?: Evaluation Methods 
Speakers: Ali Soroush, Courtney Diamond
Title: A Clinical Data Summarization Pipeline for Patients at Risk for Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Undergoing Endoscopic Surveillance.

S83: Panel – Ontologies in the Behavioral Sciences: Accelerating Research and the Accessibility and Use of Knowledge
Speaker: Vimla Patel

S87: Oral Presentations – Sharing is Caring: Interoperability and Secondary Use of Data
Speakers: Xinzhuo Jiang, Maura Beaton
Title: Feasibility of Linking Area Deprivation Index Data to the OMOP Common Data Model

S90: Oral Presentations – The Deeper You Go: Deep Learning Techniques 
Speaker: Adrienne Pichon
Title: Human, Data, and Algorithmic Perspectives to Inform the Design of RL-enabled Self-management Regimens

Poster Session 2

Author: Betina Idnay
Title: Optimizing Clinical Research Eligibility Prescreening: An Iterative Usability Evaluation of an NLP-driven Cohort Identification Tool

Author: Lauren Richter
Title: Using Data Assimilation to Predict Post-Operative Bariatric Surgery Glycemic Status in Adolescents

Author: Tara Anand
Title: Reproducibility in comparative effectiveness and safety of ACE inhibitors and thiazides for modified monotherapy treatment criteria

Author: Ahmed Elhussein
Title: A consortium blockchain for secure, unified, and efficient sharing of EHR and genomics data

Wednesday

S100: Oral Presentations – This IS-A Session: Ontologies and Knowledge Representation 
Speaker: Kayla Schiffer
Title: Leveraging Hierarchical Concept Relations to Improve Automatic Detection of Off-Label Drug Use in Electronic Health Records Data

S110: Oral Presentations – You Are My Type: Topics in Phenotyping 
Speaker: Tiffany Callahan
Title: Characterizing Patient Representations for Computational Phenotyping

Speaker: Tony Sun
Title: Assessing Phenotype Definitions for Algorithmic Fairness

Speaker: Anna Ostropolets
Title: Phenotyping in distributed data networks: selecting the right codes for the right patients