UPenn Medical School Establishes Biomedical Informatics Institute

Medical schools are getting much more interested in developing more expertise in the field of bioinformatics. Here's an excerpt from an article about the development of a new bioinformatics center at the UPenn School of Medicine (see: Big data gets a home at University of Pennsylvania’s medical school): University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia has established a dedicated center for biomedical informatics, underscoring the expansion of big data from drug development to population health. The Institute for Biomedical Informatics will focus on improving patient care and the research that goes into personalized medicine, according to a statement from Penn Medicine....The institute will work in partnership with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and some schools at the university including the school of engineering and applied sciences, nursing and as well as veterinary medicine....[The] three associate directors [of the institute] are seasoned experts in one or more of the five domains of biomedical informatics: translational bioinformatics, clinical research informatics, clinical informatics, consumer health informatics and public health informatics.....[One of the directors] said some emerging areas of interest within biomedical informatics are personalized medicine, where diagnosis and treatment is linked to the patient’s genome; social and behavioral medicine, with a focus on reducing health disparities through improving acce...
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