News & Announcements
Read the most recent news about MICHI’s accomplishments, research, and grant collaborations.
Recent News
UTA STUDENT TO PRESENT COVID-19 RESEARCH ON WORLD STAGE
A University of Texas at Arlington doctoral student will present her research on COVID-19 vaccine misinformation at a prestigious international health informatics conference this summer.
UTA ESTABLISHES HEALTH INFORMATICS PARTNERSHIP WITH GERMAN UNIVERSITY
The University of Texas at Arlington aims to promote continued teaching, research and student opportunities in the ever-changing health informatics field through a new cooperative agreement.
Representatives from both UTA and Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences in Germany celebrated the memorandum of understanding (MOU) between them during a ceremony at the Science & Engineering Innovation & Research Building.
INNOVATION PRIZE COMPETITION TO BE HELD IN DALLAS
The University of Texas at Arlington has partnered with Boehringer Ingelheim to host the Innovation Prize Competition, a networking event and pitch competition for emerging life-science companies and bio-entrepreneurs to be held Oct. 13 at Pegasus Park in Dallas.
UT-ARLINGTON CREATES TRAINING PROGRAM FOR JOBS IN BIOMANUFACTURING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Through an $8.8 million grant awarded to Dallas College by the U.S. Economic Development Administration, the University of Texas (UT) at Arlington reports that it will work with Collin College, Dallas College, and Tarrant County College to create a new regional career training program in biomanufacturing, biotechnology, and bioinformatics.
UTA TEAMS UP TO GROW BIOTECH WORKFORCE
The University of Texas at Arlington is playing a key role in training the future of the biotech industry in North Texas.
Through an $8.8 million grant awarded to Dallas College by the U.S. Economic Development Administration, UTA will work with Collin College, Dallas College and Tarrant County College to create a new regional career training pathway in biotechnology, biomanufacturing and bioinformatics.
UTA TO HOST TEXAS HEALTH INFORMATICS ALLIANCE CONFERENCE
UTA will host the second annual Texas Health Informatics Alliance (THIA) Conference in the Bluebonnet Ballroom inside the E.H. Hereford University Center. This marks the first time the conference—a collaboration with UT Health Science Center at Houston and UT Southwestern Medical Center—will be held in person.
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION NAMES DR. MARION BALL AS AN HONORARY MEMBER
Marion J. Ball has been named an Honorary Member by the International Medical Informatics Association: Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group (IMIA-NI). Dr. Ball, the Raj and Indra Nooyi Endowed Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering, is also a Presidential Distinguished Professor, a tenured professor in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation, and Executive Director for the Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics.
UTA HOSTS FIRST RACIAL JUSTICE AND EQUITY SUMMIT
The University of Texas at Arlington hosted a day-long collaborative effort in the name of racial justice and equality.
UTA RECOGNIZES ACADEMIC INVENTORS
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) chapter at The University of Texas at Arlington inducted more than 35 members at its inaugural annual luncheon.
UTA ADDS POSTBACCALAUREATE HEALTH INFORMATICS CERTIFICATE
The health care industry is evolving, becoming increasingly reliant on telehealth and health informatics. The University of Texas at Arlington is evolving right alongside it.
TEIK TALKS: EPISODE 12 | DR. MARION BALL
Join us for this episode of Teik Talks with Executive Director of the Multi-interprofessional Center for Health and Informatics Marion Ball.
THIA Conference 2021: Plenary Session 1: COVID-19 and Social Media
“An “Infodemic”: Leveraging High-Volume Twitter Data to Understand Early Public Sentiment for the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Outbreak”
Dr. Christoph U. Lehmann, UT Southwestern
THIA 2021 Opening Keynote
“There’s No Place Like Home- Health Informatics Lessons from the Wizard of Oz”
Nora Belcher, Executive Director, Texas e-Health Alliance
THIA Conference 2021: Panel: Informatics Solutions for COVID-19
Katherine Lusk, Senior Director for strategic relationships for the Texas Health Services Authority
Dr. Dean F. Sittig, School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth
Dr. William M. Tierney, Professor of Population Health, Internal Medicine, and Oncology at Dell Medical School, UT Austin
Dr. Ferdinand Velasco, Senior Vice President/Chief Health Information Officer, Texas Health Resources
Moderated by:
Dr. Susan H. Fenton, UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics
Dr. Gabriela Mustata Wilson, UT at Arlington
THIA Conference 2021: Student Session: Student involvement in combating COVID-19
“The Association Between COVID-19-related Stress and Demographics in relation to Social Determinants”
Nicole Cevallos, UT at Arlington
“Reimagining Technology Implementation Strategies for the Front Lines in LTC: Lessons from the COVID-19 Response”
Debra Graham, UT Tyler
“Your TWEETS matter: How social media sentiments influence COVID-19 vaccination rates and vaccine hesitancy”
Ana Aleksandric and Mercy J. Obasanya, UT at Arlington
Moderated by:
Jitenga Knox, UT at Arlington
THIA Conference 2021: Plenary Session 3: Making life easier for health care providers
“Information Emergency: Guidelines Needed, Stat! A Call to Action”
RaeAnna Jeffers, UT at Arlington
“A Randomized Study to Assess Improving Documentation Complexity Using Non-interruptive Clinical Decision Support”
Dr. Jakub Furmaga, UT Southwestern
Moderated by:
Dr. Christoph U. Lehmann, UT Southwestern
THIA Conference 2021: Plenary Session 2: Fighting COVID-19 through Evidence and Crowdsourcing
“Searching for Scientific Evidence in a Pandemic: An Overview of TREC-COVID”
Dr. Kirk Roberts, UT Health Houston School of Biomedical Informatics
“Early Crowdfunding Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-sectional Study”
Dr. Sameh Saleh, UT Southwestern
Moderated by:
Dr. Gabriela Mustata Wilson, UT at Arlington