DBMI Celebrates PhD, Clinical Informatics Fellowship
and MA Graduates

The Columbia Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) honored its 2021 PhD, Clinical Informatics Fellowship and Master’s degree graduates during a virtual ceremony on Wednesday, June 30. Congratulations to all the DBMI graduates on this wonderful accomplishment! 

PhD
Jonathan Chang, PhD 
Andrew Chiang, PhD
Lisa Grossman Liu, PhD 
Tian Kang, PhD
Alexander Kitaygorodsky, PhD

Clinical Informatics Fellowship
Eugene Lucas, MD

MA
Junwei Gong, MA
Joseph Hostyk, MA
Syed Husain, MA 
Chen Liu, MA
Rong Ma, MA
Linrui Tang, MA  

MA continued
SivaDurga Thotapalli, MA
Salvatore Volpe, MA
Hongjue Wang, MA
Runsheng Wang, MA
Philip Zachariah, MA
Tianmai Zhang, MA
Yixiao Zhang, MA
Zhiwen Zhang, MA

Several members of the DBMI department were highlighted during the VP&S 2020-2021 State of the School Address (watch the full address here). 

Major Individual Honors and Awards

Andrea Califano, Dr.
Ruth Leff Siegel Award for Excellence in Pancreatic Cancer Research, Pancreas Center

Pierre Elias, MD (2020 Clinical Informatics Fellowship graduate)
2020 Stat Wunderkind

Vimla Patel, PhD
Keynote speaker, 2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Ted Shortliffe, PhD
Keynote speaker, 2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Chunhua Weng, PhD
Fellow, International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics

Government Grants $2M and Above, FY2021

George Hripcsak, MD, MS
Yufeng Shen, PhD
Dennis Vitkup, PhD
Chunhua Weng, PhD

It was also shared recently that Sarah Collins Rossetti, PhD, was selected as a 2021 Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.