第8卷，第2期
2017年9月22日

Congratulations Scholarship Awardees

SBMI最近获得了奖学金，我们的学校想感谢所有提交申请的学生。这些是2017年秋季的奖学金获得者：

Willerson Endowed Scholarship
Muhammad "Tuan" Amith – Doctoral Student

SBMI奖学金卓越基金
Scott Malec - 博士生
Kang Lin Hsieh – Doctoral Student

Ross Scholarship Fund
Marina Alcoff – Master's Student
Sridatri Chakraborty - 硕士学生
Flordeliz Cheatham – Master's Student
肖恩·库恩（Sean Koon），医学博士 - 硕士学生
Sreedevi Nair – Master's Student
Laila Rasmy Gindy Bekhet – Master's Student
Xiao Dong – Doctoral Student
Lingyi Tang – Doctoral Student

Neuosoft Certificate Scholarship Fund
Kimberley D’Souza – Certificate Student
Lei Wang – Certificate Student

Upcoming MyUTH/Campus Solutions Outage

A myUTH/Campus Solutions system upgrade is scheduled to take place from Oct. 6 to 11. This upgrade will result in the system going offline. The outage will begin on Fri., Oct. 6 at 5 p.m. (CDT) and will end on Wed., Oct. 11 at 8 a.m. (CDT). During this time students, faculty and staff will not have any access to myUTH, ApplyUTH, and Campus Solutions.

如果有学生计划建议约会ts with their faculty members during the outage, please access and print relevant information in myUTH beforehand. Please contact the Office of Academic Affairs (713-500-3591,sbmiacademics@uth.tmc.edu) before the scheduled outage, if you have any questions.

SBMI Bragging Points

SBMI社区的成员最近取得了值得注意的成就，我们想认识到这一点。

• Xiaobo Zhou, Ph.D. had one national Cancer Institute grant transferred to SBMI for the final year of his work on cancer causes and prevention research. Zhou was also recently awarded a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) that focuses on long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and their functions. The grant is worth over $1.2 million and it began Sept. 15 and concludes in July of 2021.

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• 美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）一部分的国家前进转化科学中心（NCAT）授予了SBMI教授华Xu（Hua Xu）的分包商赠款，总计超过120万美元。项目的目标是将现有的合作扩展到有关开放健康自然语言处理（OHNLP）的多个临床和转化科学奖中心，以共享从真实EHRS中获取的NLP文物的分布信息（即单词，n-gram，n-gram，短语，句子等）跨多个机构。

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• SBMI Professor, Zhongming Zhao, Ph.D. recently earned a NLM grant award to predict phenotype using transcriptomic alteration with DNA variation. The project is titled “Predicting Phenotype by Using Transcriptomic Alteration as Endophenotype” and it began Sept. 14 and concludes in Aug. of 2021.
  
  

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• Luca Giancardo, Ph.D., SBMI Assistant Professor, recently attended the 20th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) in Quebec City, Canada. Giancardo was awarded the prize for the best oral paper at the MICCAI workshop on Ophthalmic Medical Imaging Analysis.
  
  

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• SBMI教授Dean Sittig博士写了articlewith his research team which was recently published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology Journal. Sittig also co-authored an article with SBMI Adjunct Professor Hardeep Singh, M.D., MPH that was recently published in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Patient Safety Network Perspectives section.

SIC主持Saluart 2017

UTHealth’s Student InterCouncil (SIC) invites all students to attend Salutation 2017 on Oct. 3 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The 19th annual Salutation will be in the Cooley Life Center (adjacent to the School of Dentistry) at 7440 Cambridge Street, Houston, TX 77054. Students must bring their ID to attend.

Uthealth和SIC的成员希望欢迎返回的学生，并以食物，饮料，娱乐和免费礼物认识我们的新学生。这项年度活动使学生有机会在了解UTHealth领导力，学生服务和学生政府领导者的同时混合和混合。

Visit the SIC website at//www.tjghsg.com/sic/events/salutation.htm了解更多信息。

HIMSS18 Program Assistant Opportunity

SBMI是与HIMSS的学术组织分支机构（AOA）。因此，我们的学生有机会在年度HIMSS会议上担任计划助理。

Program Assistants will get to network, attend HIMSS18 sessions and explore the conference exhibit hall. In addition, here are other perks provided to Program Assistants:

• Two HIMSS pullover jackets
• 将整个到4日三餐e, including a breakfast briefing, lunch, student/staff dinner and social functions
• Complimentary shared housing
• Complimentary conference registration (depending on assignment)
• 每天往/从会议中心的运输
• 会议后现金激励基于绩效

• In order to be a Program Assistant, you must meet these criteria:
  
  • A student member of HIMSS
  • 目前是SBMI的全职研究生
  • Available to be onsite in Las Vegas, NV full time from Sunday, March 4 - Friday, March 9, 2018
  • Age 21 years or older

If you are new to HIMSS and would like to join as a Student Member for the first time, please use this link:MarketPlace.himss.org/membership/oa-sign-up。2017年11月17日是计划助理申请截止日期。请访问HIMSS18网站以获取更多信息并申请：http：//www.himssconference.org/register/register/registration/program-assistants。

TMC图书馆联络图书馆员的UCT办公室时间

Amy Taylor and Travis Holder are the liaison librarians for SBMI at the TMC Library. Beginning Tuesday Sept. 26, they will hold office hours every Tuesday from 1 to 5 p.m. at UCT Room 1410.

Students and faculty are welcome to set up an appointment or just meet with them on a walk-in basis. Amy and Travis can also meet with SBMI users online via GoToMeeting.

在进行图书馆研究时，学生和教职员工将在进行图书馆研究时找到艾米和特拉维斯的专业知识。beplay苹果手机能用吗无论您只是在寻找全文期刊文章还是试图搜集研究数据库进行系统的审查，我们的图书馆员都会在这里提供帮助。beplay苹果手机能用吗以下是他们的简短BIOS：

• Amy Taylor is the UTHealth liaison librarian for the Texas Medical Center library. She has previously been the reference and instruction librarian for the UT School of Public Health, and has also worked in public libraries, large academic libraries, community college libraries, and an archival special collection. Amy enjoys creating searches and helping others to meet their research goals. Contact Amy at 713.799.7184 ortaylor@library.tmc.edu。
• 特拉维斯（Travis）自2010年以来一直在图书馆工作。他喜欢研究并帮助其他人找到所需的信息。beplay苹果手机能用吗他感兴趣的领域是数据库搜索，道德和学术沟通。您可以通过713-799-7166到达Travis或holder@library.tmc.edu。

AHRQ发布有关国家卫生系统的第一个公共数据库

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created the nation’s first publicly available database that gives researchers, policymakers and health care administrators a snapshot of the nation’s health systems. Information about the size, structure and other characteristics of 626 health care organizations is included in AHRQ’s new美国卫生系统纲要，2016年。

该纲要确定了系统特征，例如医院，急性护理床和医生的数量，以及系统是否为儿童服务。AHRQ还发布了一个博客，介绍了该纲要及其提供给研究人员和政策制定者的机会。beplay苹果手机能用吗

Healthier Texas Summit

UT System and IT’S TIME TEXAS have collaborated to host the two-day Healthier Texas Summit in Austin on Nov. 6 and 7. Please note that those days coincide with the AMIA 2017 Annual Symposium.

The summit offers informative sessions, town hall conversations, and interactive workshops focused on empowering leaders from diverse sectors across the state with the latest science and proven approaches to improve health where Texans live, learn, and work. Visit the summit website athttps://healthiertexassummit.com有关活动的更多信息。

HIMSS Virtual Career Fair

HIMSS将于10月18日下午12点至3点在10月18日举办虚拟职业博览会。（美东时间）。博览会是探索激动人心的职业机会，与潜在雇主建立联系并扩大网络的理想方式。

这项年度活动允许那些寻找健康IT职业的人直接与正在寻找健康IT的全国各地的雇主建立联系。点击这里查看更多信息。

Upcoming SBMI Recruiting Events

几个SBMI教职员工和工作人员将在接下来的几个月中旅行参加会议并促进我们的学位课程。在这些活动期间，我们邀请该地区的任何潜在学生或校友拜访我们。

10月4日 - 德克萨斯州埃尔帕索的UT El Paso毕业生和专业学校博览会外围beplay
10月5日 - 德克萨斯州韦科的贝勒大学毕业和专业学校博览会
Oct. 10 –UT Austin Graduate School Fair在德克萨斯州奥斯汀
10月7日至11日 - 加利福尼亚州洛杉矶的Ahima17大会与展览
10月12日 - 德克萨斯州大学车站的德克萨斯A＆M大学毕业和专业学校日
Oct. 20 – U of H Downtown Graduate School and Internship Fair in Houston
10月26日 - 德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥市UT San Antonio毕业生和专业学校博览会
11月1日 -UT Rio Grande Valley Graduate Professional School Fairin Brownsville, TX
Nov. 2 –UT Rio Grande Valley Graduate Professional School Fairin Edinburg, TX
Nov. 2-4 –Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students在亚利桑那州凤凰城
Nov. 5-8 – AMIA 2017 Annual Symposium in Washington, DC

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