Congratulations to this year’s graduates of the OHSU Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program! The OHSU Convocation and Hooding Ceremony will again be virtual this year and take place on Sunday June 6, 2021. The virtual ceremony can be joined that day at 10 am Pacific time. After the university-wide Convocation at 10 am and the School of Medicine Hooding Ceremony at 11 am, the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) will host an informal gathering for graduates and their families and friends along with other faculty, staff, and students. Details have been provided in an email from Program Coordinator Diane Doctor. There is also a pre-recorded message to graduates from Program Director, Dr. William Hersh (transcript available in his blog).
This year, we have 33 graduates joining our program alumni. Since the inception of the program in 1996, we have awarded 905 degrees and certificates to 815 people. We are proud of all graduates who have gone on to prominent positions in academia, industry, government, and other settings.
Here are the 2021 graduates with their respective thesis or capstone topics:
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Biomedical Informatics
Julian A. Egger
Network-based Alternative Splicing Signatures of Drug Response in AML
Aaron S. Coyner
Machine Learning for Disease Detection and Prediction in Retinopathy of Prematurity
Joshua G. Burkhart
Reticula: A Project to Improve Reactome Tissue Specificity via Machine Learning Approaches using RNA-Seq Data
Master of Science in Bioinformatics and Computational Biomedicine
Justine V. Nguyen
Novel Discovery of Bacterial Ovarian Tumor Deubiquitinases from Primary Amino Acid Sequence
Jacob C. Gutierrez
DNA Methylation Analysis of Bicuspid Aortic Valve in Turner Syndrome
Daniel Sobieski
Knowledge Management System Development for Precision Oncology Products
Christopher P. Loo
Neoepitope Landscape in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Patty L. Langasek
Data Quality and Investigation Practices
Dan Fischer
Leveraging Knowledge Graphs in Multi-Omic Data Visualizations
Joshua Braunstein
A Deep Learning Approach to Chromosomal Structural Variant Detection
and Labeling using Hi-C Heatmaps
David P. Ross
Data visualization app for spatial transcriptomics
Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics
Samantha Lawson
Predicting Ferroptosis Susceptibility in Renal Cell Carcinoma
Eric Leung
Urinary and Vaginal Microbiome Community Structure in Women with Urgency Urinary Incontinence
Master of Science in Health and Clinical Informatics
Amelia G. Drace
A Reward System Polygenic Risk Score for Predicting Obesity and Substance Addiction
Noah Finkel
Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis Electronic Health Record Implementation Toolkit and Sample Project
Derek Richardson
Remote Patient Monitoring Programs to Reduce Congestive Heart Failure Readmissions
with a Cost-Benefit Analysis Tool to Model Expected Economic Impacts
Caroline C. Wright
Analysis of the Feasibility of and Framework for Establishing an ACGME accredited Clinical Informatics
Fellowship at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC
Barrett H. Campbell
Integration of Military Pediatric Immunization Records into a State Immunization Information System
Sarah T. Florig
Examining Physician Documentation Timeliness and the Use of Medical Scribes
Chionye R. Ossai
Using Publicly Available Reddit Data to Understand How Parents Choose Pediatricians
Frank Longano
Using Machine Learning to Predict Health Care Outcomes Among Patients Incarcerated in a State Correctional System
Jennifer Rosenbaum
Evaluating Efficacy of Telemedicine for Diabetes Care
Jonathan Sachs
Disparities in Telephone and Video Telehealth Engagement During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Master of Biomedical Informatics
Matthias Kochmann
The FHIR HIEdrant
Jay M. Pleyte
Optimisation of Bioinformatics Utilities at Omics Data Automation
Rick Mah
Pattern of Emergency Department Use by Short-term Geriatric Frequent Attenders
Graduate Certificate in Health and Clinical Informatics
Suku George
Jennifer Lamberg
Christopher L. Tenore
Bryan C. McConomy
Adam Rule
Tony Zhou
