Center for Biomedical Informatics
The UTHSC Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI) bridges technology, computation and health research to improve personal and population health in Memphis and Tennessee. Research at CBMI centers around using predictive analytics and semantic web ontologies.
Current Research Focus
- Using machine learning and neural networks on streaming physiologic data collected from medical monitors to predict sepsis in children and adults.
- Developing new machine learning methods to predict cardiac arrhythmias from normal electrocardiographic tracings.
- Assessing the influence of social determinants of health and environment upon Sickle Cell Disease.
- Developing new insight into the pathogenesis of preeclampsia
- Creating smart personal libraries to help guide health
Learn more about ongoing biomedical informatics research
Featured Articles
Drs. Mohammed and Davis Win Harvey J. Greenberg Research Award
UTHSC’s Professor Chester Brown Named to List of Inspiring Black Scientists
Past Events
"All About the EDW and TrinetX"
presented by Lokesh Chinthala, Medical Informatics Scientist, and Mark Steiner, TrinetX
VP
Meet the Director
Robert Davis, MD, MPH
- Founding Director of the UTHSC Center for Biomedical Informatics
- University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair in Biomedical Informatics
- Professor, UTHSC Department of Pediatrics