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June 24, 2024 | Congratulations to Dr. Casey Overby Taylor for serving as Vice Chair at AMIA 2024

Dr. Casey Overby Taylor will serve as Vice Chair of the AMIA 2024 Annual Symposium (November 9-13, San Francisco, CA).

June 4, 2024 | Congratulations to Dr. Harold Lehmann for Receiving the 2024 Graduate Student Teaching Award

Harold Lehmann received the 2024 Graduate Student Teaching Award. This Award, established in 1986 by the Graduate Student Association, recognizes excellent in teaching and mentoring at the graduate level in the biomedical sciences. “This Award is great advertising for the BIDS program!” he reports… more

May 23, 2024 | BIDS Graduation Luncheon 2024

The annual BIDS student celebration / graduation luncheon, held on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, was a great success. Students, staff, faculty, and family members shared stories and mingled over the assorted refreshments. Special kudos go out to all of our May 2024 graduates!

May 17, 2024 | BIDS Students Participate in Hexcite

Three of our BIDS students participated in the 2024 Hexcite cohort. Hexcite is a medical software start-up generator program for entrepreneurs hosted by the Johns Hopkins Medicine Technology Innovation Center in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures. Each team in the cohort has a… more

May 16, 2024 | BIDS welcomes Dr. Nic Dobbins as an Assistant Director

Nic Dobbins, PhD, MLIS

May 16, 2024 | BIDS would like to congratulate Dr. Elham Hatef on her promotion

Dr. Elham Hatef, MD, MPH was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in Medicine-General Internal Medicine and Health Policy and Management. 

April 12, 2024 | Compliments to Star Liu for contributing to a recent publication in JAMIA Open

Guided by Dr. Paul Nagy, Star Liu, a first-year PhD student in the BIDS program, recently published in JAMIA Open on their framework for tracking and evaluating the growth and impact of the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) open science community. This paper is special also… more

April 12, 2024 | Congratulations to Jen Wooyeon Park for contributing to a recent publication.

Jen Wooyeon Park is a second Ph.D. student in the Biomedical Informatics and Data Science program, advised by Dr. Paul Nagy. Her research focuses on improving personalized medicine by developing a multimodal framework of standardized healthcare data.

November 22, 2023 | Congratulations to Casey Overby Taylor, awarded All of Us Research Program funding by NIH

The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program and 10 partner Institutes, Centers, and Offices have funded 

November 20, 2023 | OHDSI Honors BIDS students Katy Sadowski and Stephanie Hong

We are delighted to report that Katy Sadowski was recognized with an OHDSI Titan Award! OHDSI community members nominate fellow collaborators they believe made a significant impact on advancing OHDSI’s mission over the last year, and our own Katy Sadowski was one of the eight leaders honored at the… more