REU Site: Program for Access to Training in Health Informatics (PATHI)

REU 网站：健康信息学培训计划 (PATHI)

• 批准号: 1757644
• 负责人: Kim Unertl
• 金额: $ 35.92万
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-04-01 至 2021-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1757644&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Program; Access; Training

The Research Experiences for Undergraduates - Program for Access to Training in Health Informatics (REU-PATHI) will provide 10 undergraduate students with the opportunity to conduct meaningful health informatics research for a period of 10 weeks in the summer. As a field, health informatics connects science, engineering, social sciences, and multiple other fields towards addressing critical health-related research topics. The REU-PATHI site seeks to broaden participation in health informatics and open new opportunities in this rapidly expanding field. At least 50% of REU-PATHI students will come from groups that are underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and Computing fields, including women, members of minority groups, first generation college students, and students attending institutions with limited access to research experiences. Students will be matched with faculty mentors in the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Biomedical Informatics, who will work with students to develop knowledge, skills, and experience in health informatics research. The undergraduate students will have the opportunity to work in one of three health informatics focus areas: 1) Computing, focusing on computationally-intensive topics such as natural language processing, data science, predictive analytics, and data privacy; 2) Precision Health, focusing on topics such as genome-wide and phenome-wide association studies, genomics, and proteomics, and 3) Human-Technology Interaction, applying concepts from human-computer interaction, human factors engineering, and sociotechnical systems to topics such as studying workflow in complex clinical environments and patient safety. Regardless of specific research area, all REU-PATHI students will participate in twice-weekly seminars presented by faculty, computer programming workshops, and other professional development activities. The objectives of the REU-PATHI Site are to engage undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds in meaningful scientific research projects at the nexus of computer science, basic sciences, engineering, social sciences, and health, and to prepare them to become the next generation of researchers identifying, designing, developing, deploying, and studying innovative technology-based solutions for important health-related problems. Health Informatics is one of the fastest growing fields today. However, there are significant challenges in orienting and training diverse undergraduate students to the many career pathways available in this high-impact scientific research field. REU-PATHI addresses this urgent problem by 1) training undergraduate students to conduct cutting-edge health informatics research; 2) introducing students to pathways in health informatics graduate education and research; 3) involving graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty in mentoring undergraduate students; 4) providing opportunities for REU students to disseminate their research to peers, graduate students, faculty, and the field; and 5) linking high school students in our larger internship program to undergraduate peers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

本科生的研究经验-获得健康信息学培训的计划（REU-PATHI）将为10名本科生提供在夏季进行为期10周的有意义的健康信息学研究的机会。作为一个领域，健康信息学将科学，工程，社会科学和其他多个领域联系起来，以解决关键的健康相关研究课题。REU-PATHI网站旨在扩大健康信息学的参与，并在这个迅速发展的领域开辟新的机会。至少50%的REU-PATHI学生将来自科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）和计算领域代表性不足的群体，包括女性，少数群体成员，第一代大学生，以及参加研究经验有限的机构的学生。学生将与范德比尔特大学医学中心生物医学信息学系的教师导师相匹配，他们将与学生一起发展健康信息学研究的知识，技能和经验。本科生将有机会在三个健康信息学重点领域之一工作：1）计算，专注于计算密集型主题，如自然语言处理，数据科学，预测分析和数据隐私; 2）精准健康，专注于全基因组和全表型关联研究、基因组学和蛋白质组学等主题，3）人与技术的互动，将人机交互、人因工程和社会技术系统的概念应用于复杂临床环境中的工作流程研究和患者安全等主题。无论具体的研究领域，所有REU-PATHI学生将参加由教师，计算机编程研讨会和其他专业发展活动提出的每周两次的研讨会。REU-PATHI网站的目标是让来自不同背景的本科生参与计算机科学，基础科学，工程学，社会科学和健康的关系中有意义的科学研究项目，并使他们成为下一代研究人员，为重要的健康相关问题确定，设计，开发，部署和研究创新技术解决方案。健康信息学是当今发展最快的领域之一。然而，在这个高影响力的科学研究领域，在定向和培训不同的本科生到许多职业道路方面存在重大挑战。REU-PATHI通过以下方式解决这一紧迫问题：1）培训本科生进行尖端的健康信息学研究; 2）向学生介绍健康信息学研究生教育和研究的途径; 3）让研究生，博士后学者和教师指导本科生; 4）为REU学生提供机会，向同行，研究生，教师和该领域传播他们的研究;以及5）将我们更大的实习项目中的高中生与本科生联系起来。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

项目成果

Utilization of COVID-19 Treatments and Clinical Outcomes among Patients with Cancer: A COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19) Cohort Study.

• DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-20-0941
• 发表时间: 2020-10
• 期刊: Cancer discovery
• 影响因子: 28.2
• 作者: Rivera DR;Peters S;Panagiotou OA;Shah DP;Kuderer NM;Hsu CY;Rubinstein SM;Lee BJ;Choueiri TK;de Lima Lopes G Jr;Grivas P;Painter CA;Rini BI;Thompson MA;Arcobello J;Bakouny Z;Doroshow DB;Egan PC;Farmakiotis D;Fecher LA;Friese CR;Galsky MD;Goel S;Gupta S;Halfdanarson TR;Halmos B;Hawley JE;Khaki AR;Lemmon CA;Mishra S;Olszewski AJ;Pennell NA;Puc MM;Revankar SG;Schapira L;Schmidt A;Schwartz GK;Shah SA;Wu JT;Xie Z;Yeh AC;Zhu H;Shyr Y;Lyman GH;Warner JL;COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium
• 通讯作者: COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium