Geisel School of Medicine has been awarded a $12.5 Million COBRE Grant to establish a Center for Quantitative Biology, to be led by Michael Whitfield, PhD, chair and professor of Biomedical Data Science.
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https://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/news/2019/geisel-receives-12-5-million-n...
Saeed Hassanpour, PhD, an assistant professor of biomedical data science at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, and an adjunct assistant professor of epidemiology at Geisel and of computer science at Dartmouth College, is the winner of the 2019 Agilent Early Career Professor Award.
This year's award focused on "contributions to the development of breakthrough artificial intelligence solutions advancing cancer diagnostics based on image analysis of pathology slides."
Dartmouth researchers develop and validate a brief, parent-reported scale to measure external food cue responsiveness and conditioned eating behaviors for preschool-age children.
Todd MacKenzie, PhD, leads a study on longevity in the U.S. in relation to state social welfare commitment. There is a strong association between the amount that U.S. states spend on their residents through statewide taxation and state government expenditures and middle-aged mortality rates, according to a new Dartmouth study in the journal PLOS One:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0214463
The award is given to an exceptional paper that advances the field of health economics and outcomes research and is expected to have a substantial impact on the field with anticipated wide acceptance and application by others. Professor O’Malley’s paper, "Modeling a Bivariate Residential-Workplace Neighborhood Effect when Estimating the Effect of Proximity to Fast-Food Establishments on Body Mass Index,” developed new statistical methodology for studying the risk of geographical factors on a health outcome (e.g., increased body mass index).
I. Sokolov, M. E. Dokukin, V. Kalaparthi, M. Miljkovic, A. Wang, J. D. Seigne, P. Grivas, and E. Demidenko. Noninvasive diagnostic imaging using machine-learning analysis of nanoresolution images of cell surfaces: Detection of bladder cancer. PNAS, 115:12920-12925, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1816459115
HANOVER, NH - Michael L. Whitfield, PhD, has been named the chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Whitfield, a professor of biomedical data science (BMDS) and molecular and systems biology, has served as the department’s interim chair since November 2017.
Moen EL, Kapadia NS, O’Malley AJ, Onega T. Evaluating breast cancer care coordination at a rural National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center using network analysis and geospatial methods. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2019; 28 (3): 455-61. http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/28/3/455.long
PROJECT TITLE: Improving Colorectal Cancer Screening and Risk Assessment through Deep Learning on Medical Images and Records
FUNDING SOURCE
National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
NLM Express Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics (R01)
PROJECT PERIOD
02/12/2019 - 01/31/2023
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Saeed Hassanpour, PhD
OTHER PROJECT STAFF
Arief Suriawinata, MD (Co-I); Lorenzo Torresani, PhD (Co-I); Lynn Butterly, MD (Co-I)
This spring, SYNERGY will be running a series of workshops for two informatics tools, REDCap and i2b2.
REDCap is a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and data.
i2b2 is a patient cohort discovery tool. Are there enough eligible patients to support my study? How many patients are taking a certain medication? For how long? Find out using Dartmouth i2b2.
Each workshop includes a light breakfast.