CONGRATULATIONS TO MABEL RAZA!

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Please join BHI in congratulating Mabel Raza on the completion of all requirements for her MS in Biomedical and Health Informatics.  She completed her final exam last week and her thesis, entitled "Applying a Service-Oriented Architecture Model to TB Diagnosis using MODS Pattern Recognition Algorithm" was submitted this week to the Graduate School.

CONGRATULATIONS TO MAXWELL NEAL!

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Max Neal just received a 1-year pre-doctoral fellowship of $25,000 to help carry out his dissertation work from the American Heart Association.  Max's grant application was based directly on his document for his General Exam.  The title of his project is "Advancing physiological modeling through modularity."  Congratulations to Max!

CONGRATULATIONS TO NEIL ABERNETHY!

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Neil Abernethy's status on the Graduate Faculty has been changed to include endorsement to chair doctoral supervisory committees, effective Monday of this week.

CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. ANDREA HARTZLER CIVAN!

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Please join me in congratulating Dr. Andrea Hartzler Civan on successfully defending her dissertation today.  She did a tremendous job in conveying the importance and ground-breaking nature of her work on patient expertise sharing.  We are very fortunate that Andrea will be continuing at UW as a post-doc on both the Personal Health Information Management project with breast cancer patients and the Change of Heart project.

CONGRATULATIONS TO JON DESHAZO!

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Congratulations to Jon DeShazo for successfully defending his dissertation this week!  Jon has accepted a tenure-track faculty position at Virginia Commonwealth University beginning in the fall as Assistant Professor of Medical Informatics in the Department of Health Administration!  We wish him all the best in his new faculty position, and we'll miss him here at UW!

CONGRATULATIONS TO DAN COOK AND BETH DEVINE!

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Dan Cook was recently appointed to the rank of Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, Division of BHI.  Beth Devine was recently appointed to the rank of Adjunct Research Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, Division of BHI.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW JOURNAL ARTICLE

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Demiris G, Parker Oliver D, Giger J, Skubic M, Rantz M.  "Older adults' privacy considerations for vision based recognition methods of eldercare applications."  Technology and Health Care 2009;17(1):41-48.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW PUBLICATIONS

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Zimic M, Coronel J, Gilman RH, Luna CG, Curioso WH, Moore DA.  "Can the power of mobile phones be used to improve tuberculosis diagnosis in developing countries?"  Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2009;103(6):638-40. (pdf)

Busse P, Curioso WH.  "Internet use and the network composition of people living with HIV/AIDS in an urban area in Peru"  AIDS and Behavior 2009;June 2. (pdf)

CONGRATULATIONS TO TERRY SHEN!

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Terry Shen has accepted an offer for a NLM postdoctoral fellowship with Johns Hopkins.  She will be starting September 1, 2009.

CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. TUFANO!

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We congratulate Dr. Jim Tufano, who had his degree conferred on Monday, March 30.  Jim successfully defended his PhD dissertation: "Information & Communication Technologies in Patient-Centered Healthcare Redesign: Qualitative Studies of Provider Experience" on Monday, March 9.