Amia: Why Informatics? Podcasts

Host: Dr. Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, Co-Founder and CEO of Dragonfly Mental Health and Research Scientist at Geisinger Health Guests: Judy Murphy, RN, BSN, FACMI, FAAN, nursing executive with a long history in health informatics, and Amanda Moy, MPhil, MPH, MA, PhD student at Columbia University Description: An AMIA-led project to reduce documentation burden to 25% of what it is today within 5 years. This project was led by a Steering Committee of AMIA members who organized and convened a Symposium on the topic, called “25 by 5”, in 2020 and 2021. This episode highlights the 25x5 Symposium, results, and next steps. Additionally, the guests describe the survey that was initiated by the Steering Committee to evaluate informatics professionals’ thoughts on documentation reduction strategies instituted during Covid.

Host – Adela Grando, PhD, Associate Professor, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University   Guests - Josephine Nabukenya, PhD and Raniah Aldekhyyel, PhD    Dr. Nabukenya is an Associate Professor of Informatics and the former Dean of the School of Computing and Informatics Technology at Makerere University in Uganda. She founded and chairs the Health Informatics Research Group at the Makerere University to solve fundamental health challenges in Uganda, the African Region, and other low- and middle-income countries.   Dr. Aldekeyel is an Assistant Professor in health informatics at the College of Medicine, King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. She published this year a JAMIA paper on “What it means to be a woman in the field of biomedical informatics in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”. She is a member of several committees to review health informatics standards and develop national-level training programs in Saudi Arabia.

Host: Karmen S. Williams, DrPH and Meera Subash, MD Series Introduction: Bryan McConomy, MD Guest: Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, Director of the National Library of Medicine This joint podcast series discusss the history of medical informatics through the lens of pioneers in the field. We aim to highlight historical events in health informatics as well as topics of interest to new and upcoming professionals. We begin with the topic of mentorship and how to build mentorship in areas that are non-existent, new, and up-and-coming. Enjoy!

Host: Maria Adela Grando, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Arizona State University and Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic.  Guests: Christina Eldredge, MD,PhD, Victoria Ngo,PhD, Lu He, PhD Candidate, and Xiaoyu Liu, PhD Student Discussion on the power of networking and collaboration. Specifically, the role of AMIA to support team science.

Host: Anita Murcko, MD, FACP, FAMIA - Clinical Associate Professor, Arizona State University Guest Interview: Deepti Pandita, MD, FACP, FAMIA - Chief Health Information Officer (CHIO) and Program Director of the Clinical Informatics Fellowship at Hennepin Healthcare; Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota Special Introduction by: Tiffany Leung, MD, MPH, FACP, FAMIA - Assistant Professor, Maastricht University, Netherlands   In this episode, we explore the underrepresentation among fellows and directors in clinical informatics fellowship programs. Dr. Pandita Deepti, the first female director of an accredited clinical informatics fellowship, guides us on this journey.   Further resources:   1. Griffin et al 2021 https://academic.oup.com/jamia/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jamia/ocaa344/6130712 2. Bell et al 2018 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6371309/  

Host: Leyla B. Warsame, MD, Clinical Informatics Fellow, Geisinger  Guest Interview: Pagan Kennedy, Contributing opinion writer for The New York Times This series draws attention to the stories of historical women and how their contributions continue to affect today’s world, including those whose contributions were not recognized at the time, corrects the historical record, provides inspiration for current generations, and suggests contemporary lessons for working scientists. In 1972, a homeless shelter volunteer began to realize the prevalence of rape among the women she was working with. The volunteer, Marty Goddard, also realized that these rapes were rarely prosecuted because of a lack of coordination between hospitals and police. Her brilliant idea was the group of checklists, procedures, and evidence containers now called the rape kit. Her idea changed the medico-legal landscape and helped bring justice for thousands of victims. Yet it became successful only after a man patented and promoted it.

Host: Karmen S. Williams, DrPH, MBA,Assistant Professor at the City University of New York in the Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Dr. Williams is also the director of ‘For Your Informatics’ podcast, Co-Chair of the Pipeline Subcommittee of Women in AMIA, and the Chair of the Dental Informatics Working Group. Guest Interviews:  Vicki Hertzberg, PhD American biostatistician, who is currently a professor in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing of Emory University, where she founded and continues to direct its Center for Data Science. She is an internationally recognized expert on “big data” and its impact on health care. She is widely known for her work measuring social contacts that enable disease transmission in emergency departments and on airplanes. Andi Plotsky, MSPH Serves as the Director of Database Projects for the Nell Hodgson School of Nursing at Emory University and the lead database architect for Project NeLL.  Andi is lead database architect of Project NeLL and manages a t

Host: Maria Adela Grando, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Arizona State University and Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic. Her area of expertise in patient-centered technology. Guest Interview: Scott McGrath, PhD, Clinical Informatics Education Specialist at Providence St. Joseph Health, and the chair of the AMIA Student Working Group  

Host: Dr. Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, Psychiatric Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Guest Interview: Rebecca Grochow Mishuris, MD, MS, MPH Chief Medical Information Officer at Boston Medical Center Health System, the largest safety-net hospital in New England. Also, she is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine.  

Host: Dr. Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, Psychiatric Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Guest Interview: Dr. Suzanne B. Bakken, RN, DNSc, FAAN, FACMI Alumni Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. She has conducted federally-funded clinical informatics research for more than 25 years. She currently serves as Director of the Center for Evidence-based Practice in the Underserved and of the Reducing Health Disparities Through Informatics Pre- and Post-doctoral Training Program, both supported by the National Institute of Nursing Research. Dr. Bakken is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and American College of Medical Informatics and a member of the Institute of Medicine. 

Host: Dr. Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, Psychiatric Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Guest Interview: Dr. Hongfang Liu, PhD, Consultant, Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Department of Health Sciences Research, Chair, Division of Digital Health Sciences, Department of Health Sciences Research, Professor, Biomedical Informatics Dr. Hongfang Liu's in informatics has resulted in informatics systems that unlock clinical information stored in clinical narratives. Her work accelerates the pace of knowledge discovery, implementation and delivery for improved health care. Dr. Liu's primary research is to facilitate the secondary use of clinical data for clinical and translational science research and health care delivery improvement using data science, artificial intelligence and informatics approaches. Dr. Liu's research has been extensively funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health (NIH) since 2003. Dr. Liu is a member of seve

Host: Dr. Randa Perkins, MD, FAMIA Randa Perkins, MD is the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at Moffitt Cancer Center. In her role as CMIO she is responsible for contributing to the long-term vision of IT health systems at Moffitt, and the Clinical Informatics Department, which facilitates both implementation and optimization of the electronic health record (EHR) and its various uses.  Guest Interview: Dr. Thankam P. Thyvalikakath, DMD, MDS, PhD Dr. Thankam Thyvalikakath is a biomedical informatics researcher and dentist. She is Director of the dental informatics core initiative at the Indiana University School of Dentistry. The core’s primary objective is to enhance patient care through improved data capture, documentation and analysis of electronic health record data. Dr. Thyvalikakath’s research focuses on leveraging electronic health record data for clinical research and quality improvement purposes; applying user-centered design and cognitive engineering methods to design clinical systems that b

Host: Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, is a Psychiatric Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Guest Interview: Dr. Emily Webber, MD, FAAP, FAMIA, is the chief medical information officer at Riley Children’s Health and Associate CMIO for Indiana University (IU) Health. She is a pediatric hospitalist at Riley Hospital for Children and also is focused on the optimization of health IT, applications to improve quality care and patient safety and promoting the health of Indiana children and communities.

Host: Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, is a Psychiatric Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Guest Interview: Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NLM is the world’s largest biomedical library and the producer of digital information services used by scientists, health professionals and members of the public worldwide. Since assuming the directorship in August 2016, Dr. Brennan has positioned the Library to be the hub of data science at NIH and a national and international leader in the field. She spearheaded the development of a new strategic plan that envisions NLM a platform for biomedical discovery and data-powered health.  Leveraging NLM’s heavily used data and information resources, intramural research, and extramural research and training programs, Brennan aims for NLM to accelerate data-driven discovery and health, engage with new users in new ways, and develop the

Host: Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, is a Psychiatric Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Guest Interview: Peter Embi, MD, is the President and CEO of Regenstrief Institute. He is a research scientist, an associate dean at Indiana University School of Medicine, and Vice President for Learning Health Systems at IU Health in Indianapolis.  In addition, he was the chair of the board of directors here at AMIA from 2018-19.  

Hosts: Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, is a Psychiatric Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Randa Perkins, MD, FAMIA, is the Chief Medical Information Officer at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. Guest Interviews: Wendy Chapman, PhD, Associate Dean for Digital Health and Informatics and a Director of a new Centre for Clinical and Public Health Informatics at the University of Melbourne in Australia. She is also the founding chair of the Women in AMIA Committee. Tiffani J. Bright, PhD, Biomedical Informatician Evaluation Research Team Lead at IBM Watson. Dr. Bright supports the Watson Health Evaluation Research Center by providing technical, informatics, and evaluative leadership in the design, development, and execution of evaluation research for Watson Health products.  

Host: Pamela Garcia-Filion, PhD, MPH, a research scientist and associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Arizona College of Medicine  Guest Interview: Gondy Leroy, PhD, Professor, Management Information Systems, University of Arizona Dr. Leroy joined the Eller College of Management in 2013. Before coming to Eller, she taught at Claremont Graduate College, which she joined after earning her PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona in 2003. Her areas of expertise include natural language processing, text mining, text analytics, search engines, information retrieval and extraction and understanding by consumers, medical and biomedical informatics and human computer interaction and user studies. She is a member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.  Topics:Natural Language Processing Importance of data sharing Transdisciplinary research How to navigate the

Host: Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, Psychiatric Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health  Guest Interview: Lisa Moon, PhD, RN, Healthcare Consultant, Interim CIO, and Board Member at Advocacy Consulting for Healthcare. Dr. Moon is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities with over 30 years of nursing experience. She is an expert in designing healthcare for the future with the focus on consumerism.  Topics:  Nursing informatics Policy Consulting Consumer centered systems and data

Host: Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, Psychiatric Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health  Guest Interview: Tiffani J. Bright, PhD, Biomedical Informatician Evaluation Research Team Lead at IBM Watson. Dr. Bright supports the Watson Health Evaluation Research Center by providing technical, informatics, and evaluative leadership in the design, development, and execution of evaluation research for Watson Health products. Topics: Finding your larger vision Translating research to practice Making the circle larger through outreach