Category: News

Congratulations to coauthor Dr. Ling Chen and her team for their publication in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, where they found that even minor cognitive changes can influence older adults’ decision to cease driving. Their research highlights the importance of routine cognitive testing to detect early and subtle decline, enabling older […]

Congratulations to Sunny Lou, MD, PhD, Daphne Lew, PhD, MPH, and Thomas Kannampallil, PhD, on their recent publication in JAMA Network. The study explores the association between secure messaging and telephone use in clinician-to-clinician communication, highlighting the impact on workflow efficiency. Findings emphasize the importance of thoughtful and strategic use of secure messaging to minimize communication burdens […]

Earlier this month, Washington University School of Medicine and BJC HealthCare became the newest members of the Health AI Partnership (HAIP), a multi-stakeholder collaborative of more than 20 organizations and growing that seeks to create safe spaces for peer learning and collaboration to address the most challenging issues health care leaders face while implementing AI.  The HAIP […]

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is launching a Center for Translational Bioinformatics, an innovative joint effort of the university’s McDonnell Genome Institute and the Institute for Informatics, Data Science & Biostatistics. The center will bring together experts from diverse fields to accelerate precision medicine research and improve patient care by integrating comprehensive patient data and […]

Four winners have been selected for the 2024-2025 Big Ideas Competition award! Each of these remarkable teams will be awarded a grant of $50,000 in research funds for their outstanding projects. Among the winning teams is Dr. Jing Li from the Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics (I2DB).  (PI / project lead in bold): […]

WashU researchers have combined artificial intelligence and mobile health data to better predict patients’ recovery from lumbar spine surgery. The techniques were developed at the university’s AI for Health Institute.

Sunny Lin, PhD, MS, an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of General Medical Sciences and I2DB, served as a guest editor for the American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC)’s issue titled “The Health Information Technology Special Issue: Making Innovations Impactful, Ethical, and Equitable.” In her letter as guest editor, she delves into the […]

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received a five-year, $7.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support a radiation oncology center that is part of a select national network of centers aimed at understanding the biologic effects of radiation therapy in cancer treatment. Washington University’s new center — […]

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has been named one of nine core sites in the Pediatric Heart Network, a national network of leading hospitals and research institutions that works toward improving outcomes and quality of life for children with heart disease. The Pediatric Heart Network (PHN) is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and […]

Congratulations to Dr. Aristeidis Sotiras and Tom Earnest, PhD student in the Division of Computational and Data Sciences, for their recent publication in Alzheimer’s and Dementia! Read about their research on analyzing tau pathology patterns in brain scans to gauge Alzheimer’s disease severity.

The Digital Health Leadership Workshop, co-hosted by WashU and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, was a successful event. Over 65 attendees gained valuable skills in the Learning Health System framework, the digital product lifecycle, outcome evaluation, and result communication. Participants left the workshop well-prepared to navigate digital health interventions and drive meaningful change. The […]

Adam Wilcox, PhD, a professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named the chair of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Methodology Committee. PCORI is a leading funder of patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research in the U.S., funding studies that compare two or more medical treatments, services or […]

The School of Medicine’s biomedical informatics and biostatistics units are uniting under the existing “I2” moniker as the Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics (I2DB). The alignment between informatics and biostatistics at the School of Medicine, however, is not quite as new. In 2019, the Division of Biostatistics became part of the Institute for […]

Three faculty members at WashU School of Medicine have been elected fellows of the American College of Medical Informatics.

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and BJC HealthCare are partnering with CuriMeta, a new company based in St. Louis, that will accelerate lifesaving research in the fight against chronic and acute diseases.