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Robert A. Greenes
Ira A. Fulton Chair and Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics

department of biomedical informatics

About BMI

The Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI) supports a partnership between academic researchers, clinical practitioners and regional healthcare providers to advance research and education in the science and practice of biomedical informatics.

BMI is currently offering an M.S. degree and a Ph.D. degree in the field.  The core program will feature four courses for M.S. students and five course for Ph.D. students specifically designed to bring together clinicians and researchers in teams, applying new developments in informatics theory to clinical practice, a common request  among the constituencies surveyed when planning the degree.  The core courses feature an introductory course, a two-semester sequence in methodology, and a course in problem solving with an emphasis on the latest software and systems solutions.

Letter from the Chair

Dear Colleagues, Prospective Students, and Friends,

We are proud to introduce the new Department of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University. This department has a strong research mandate, but with a twist that takes advantage of its unique situation and setting. The department is part of the School of Computing and Informatics in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, but is located on the downtown Phoenix campus of the University of Arizona College of Medicine. It is also next door to Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), in a rapidly developing biomedical enterprise zone in downtown Phoenix.

The growth that is occurring all around us can only be considered extraordinary. The enthusiasm, shared vision, and eagerness to collaborate by clinical partners both nearby and across Phoenix and Arizona, including Banner Health, Barrow Neurological Institute, TGen, and Mayo Clinic, as well as several state agencies and other entities, are contagious and were key factors in my own decision to come here after many years in the Northeast.

Our beautiful new building, which had its grand opening on October 15, 2007, has over 44,000 sq. ft. devoted to BMI, and is equipped with high speed networking, videoconferencing, including a state-of-the-art “medpresence” telesuite, and many flexible spaces. Most important is the spirit of innovation and adventure. A new curriculum for the medical students integrates informatics concepts, methods, and applications from the outset. The first year of an MS program has begun, and a PhD program is slated to begin as of Fall, 2008. Thanks to a generous startup budget, we are gearing up rapidly in all the major areas of BMI, with several new additions to our faculty and others planned over the next couple of years. Research programs are already underway in bioinformatics, imaging informatics, clinical informatics, public health informatics, and cross-cutting areas such as data mining/predictive modeling, knowledge representation, cognitive science, medical simulation, and embedded sensors/sensor networks.

Sincerely,

Robert A. Greenes, M.D., Ph.D.
Chair and Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Arizona State University

 

 

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