Volume 10, Issue 6
February 25, 2020

2020DeepTexas Medical AI Symposium on April 23 and 24

SBMI will host the2020DeepTexas医学人工智能Symposiumin Houston on April 23 and 24. The symposium will take place at the Westin Houston Medical Center.

Glassell Family Foundation Distinguished Chair in Informatics Excellence and Dean Jiajie Zhang, PhD, is the symposium chair. Zhang noted that “the goal of the symposium is to educate attendees on the current state of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Revolution and the ripple effects it is creating in medicine and healthcare. Among other issues, we’ll be exploring the myriad applications of AI in medicine and how they can aid us in advancing clinical care.”

A complete symposiumagendais available online. Anyone interested in attending should also visit the SBMI website toregister对于研讨会。

Click here to learn more about thesymposium.

SBMI Bragging Points

Members of the SBMI Community have recently achieved noteworthy accomplishments. We want to recognize and applaud their endeavors.

• MS Student Andrew Hedges was recently named aBloomberg Associates Research Fellow. During the program, he will work with the Houston Health Department to create a guide for the Team Up Initiative; a program that educates minority students on career opportunities in the world of sports beyond being an athlete. This guide will be distributed around the nation to allow other city governments to implement similar guides.

• MS Student Kalaivany Ganesh was a member of the winning team during UTHealth’s Health Innovation Challenge (HIC) case competition on Feb. 22. Her team included five other students from various UTHealth Schools and the goal was to work as an inter-professional team and identify an innovative solution to reduce hospital readmissions. The team split the $1,200 prize money.
• SBMI今年有一个学生团队参加MITER Healthcare Anti Craud学术比赛。Miter最近宣布，名为SBMiners的球队是前三名入围者之一。该团队包括五个Uthealth学生；SBMI PhD Yan Chu（上尉），SPH博士学位学生Wanqi Chen，SBMI MS学生Gilberto de la Garza，SBMI博士学位学生Tongtong Huang和SPH Phd Pherd Student Qian Qian。学术顾问是副院长兼副教授Susan H. Fenton博士（主席），Xiaoqian Jiang副教授，博士，助理教授Kirk Roberts博士，以及最近的PhD Alumnus Kang Lin Hsieh博士。该团队将于3月23日前往华盛顿特区进行演讲和宣布。

SBMI STAR Award Recipients for 2020

Each year, UTHealth celebrates employee leadership and longevity at the STAR Awards. The university hosts an event to recognize individuals celebrating five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 or more years of service to the UTHealth. This year, the university celebrated its first employee with 50 years of service.

SBMI would like to recognize our Star Award recipients for 2020.

Five Years
Muhammad Amith, PhD
Alejandro Araya
Tambra Ellison
Chelsea Overstreet
艾敏Saglamer
黛博拉·西蒙斯（Debora Simmons），博士

Ten Years
Amy Franklin, PhD
Christy Garza
Miranda Hedrick
Sahiti Myneni，博士，MSE
Zhongming Zhao, PhD, MS

Fifteen Years
Leticia Flores

Twenty Years
Ryan Bien

Twenty-five Years
Marijane DeTranaltes

For a list of all STAR Award recipients across UTHealth, visit theSTAR Award website. Employees with 5, 10 and 15 years of service will be recognized on March 24, 2020. Employees with 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, and 50 years of service will be honored on March 26, 2020.

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以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。

• Feb. 26:University of Texas at Austin Health Professions Fairin Austin, TX
• Feb. 27:德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥大学健康专业日in San Antonio, TX
• Feb. 27:St. Mary’s University Pre-Health Career Conferencein San Antonio, TX
• Mar. 2-4:路易斯安那州健康信息管理协会（LHIMA）年度大会in New Orleans, LA
• Mar. 2:Purdue University Annual Spring Health Programs Expoin West Lafayette, IN
• 3月3日：3月3日：Indiana University Health Programs Fairin Bloomington, IN
• Mar. 4: Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis Health Professions Fair in Indianapolis, IN
• 3月5日：俄亥俄州辛辛那提大学辛辛那提大学健康专业博览会
• Mar. 6: Ohio State University Health Professions Graduate Fair in Columbus, OH
• Mar. 9-13:HIMSS20in Orlando, FL

• Professor James Langabeer, PhD, MBA was interviewed byKHOU 11当他讨论英雄计划的好处时。英雄也涵盖了Houston Chronicle最近。
• Professor Cui Tao, PhD was awarded a $1 million grant in the fall of 2019 from the American Heart Association Institute for Precision Cardiovascular Medicine. Her award was recently profiled by several media outlets including:
  • xtelligent Healthcare Media
  • American Heart Association Newsroom
  • 心脏病学2.0