Master's and Doctoral Training Opportunities

University of Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics Training Program

The University of Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics Training Program has openings for predoctoral and postdoctoral informatics traineeships beginning in the summer of 2009. The Program, which is within the Department of Biomedical Informatics, has been offering training in informatics for over 20 years. A sample of the research topics of the 25+ training program faculty is listed below.

Active Research Topics

• Bioinformatics
• Biosurveillance, public health informatics
• Clinical and translational science informatics
• Consumer informatics
• Dental informatics
• Human-computer interfaces
• Image processing, integration, and distribution
• Information retrieval, problem solving, and cognition
• Intelligent tutoring systems
• Knowledge-based systems, medical artificial intelligence
• Machine learning, data mining, and knowledge discovery
• Natural language processing
• Oncology informatics
• Pathology informatics
• Patient safety
• Simulation and modeling of complex phenomena
• Tissue banking informatics

Areas of Training Concentration

The Program offers the following six areas of formal training concentration, which tailor the curriculum to each area.

• Clinical Informatics
• Bioinformatics
• Dental Informatics
• Health Services Research
• Biosurveillance/Infectious Disease Informatics
• Artificial Intelligence (through the Intelligent Systems Program)

Individuals with interest in any of these areas are invited to send E-mail to dbmi@pitt.edu, or call 412-647-7176 for further information.

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