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: 2050895
• 负责人: Kim Unertl
• 金额: $ 40.5万
• 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: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050895&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Program; Access; Training

The REU 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. Health informatics connects science, engineering, social sciences, and multiple other fields to identify, design, develop, deploy, and study innovative technology-based solutions for important health-related problems. The REU-PATHI site seeks to broaden participation in health informatics and open new opportunities in this rapidly expanding field. Health Informatics is one of the fastest growing fields today. At least 50% of REU-PATHI students will come from groups that are underrepresented in STEM-C 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 objectives of the REU-PATHI Site are to engage undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds in meaningful scientific research projects. 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 biomedical data science, predictive analytics, natural language processing, and data privacy; 2) Precision Health, focusing on topics such as genome-phenome studies, multi-omics analysis, phenotype risk scoring, and clinical decision support and 3) Human-Technology Interaction, applying concepts from human-computer interaction, human factors engineering, and sociotechnical systems to topics such as studying workflow and patient safety. Regardless of specific research area, all REU-PATHI students will participate in twice-weekly seminars presented by faculty, professional development workshops, a team-based design challenge, and other professional development activities. 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 and giving them the skills, knowledge, and confidence to pursue those pathways; 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 to help high school students understand next educational steps.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.

REU计划获得健康信息学培训（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。健康信息学连接科学，工程，社会科学和其他多个领域，以识别，设计，开发，部署和研究基于创新技术的解决方案，以解决重要的健康相关问题。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。健康信息学是当今发展最快的领域之一。至少50%的REU-PATHI学生将来自STEM-C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。REU-PATHI网站的目标是让来自不同背景的本科生参与有意义的科学研究项目。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，如生物医学数据科学，预测分析，自然语言处理和数据隐私; 2）精准健康，专注于基因组-表型组研究、多组学分析、表型风险评分等主题，和临床决策支持和3）人机交互，将人机交互，人因工程和社会技术系统的概念应用于研究工作流程和患者安全等主题。无论具体的研究领域，所有REU-PATHI学生将参加由教师，专业发展研讨会，基于团队的设计挑战，以及其他专业发展活动提出每周两次的研讨会。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，并为他们提供技能，知识和信心来追求这些途径; 3）让研究生，博士后学者和教师参与指导本科生; 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;（五）将我们更大的实习项目中的高中生与本科生联系起来，帮助高中生了解下一步的教育步骤。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，被认为是值得的。通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，