Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Research seminar to focus on mining the electronic medical record

The Office of Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development will host the final Nuts & Bolts Research Seminar of the year. The presentation, “Mining the Electronic Medical Record: I2B2,” is set for 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 7, via Zoom. 

Unlock the potential of electronic medical records for research with I2B2 (Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside), a powerful NIH-funded platform that transforms clinical data into research insights. Join this informative session and connect with colleagues interested in leveraging electronic medical records for groundbreaking research.

The distinguished speaker is Matthew Wyatt, director of clinical research informatics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He will showcase how this computational framework breaks through bottlenecks in translational research, connecting genomic discoveries with clinical applications across multiple disease areas, including airways disease, hypertension, Type 2 diabetes, Huntington's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and major depressive disorder.

Established in 2004 as part of an NIH Roadmap Initiative, I2B2 is one of the original National Centers for Biomedical Computing. Led by Isaac Kohane, M.D., Ph.D., at Harvard Medical School, this innovative center develops cutting-edge computational tools that are revolutionizing how we approach biomedical research.

Register for the Zoom meeting: southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsdu-grzktG9y8pzCXgf-TMVI7ZBrHfP_n