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Mamlin-McDonald Biomedical Informatics Fellowship
On February 23, 2012, the Eskenazi Health Foundation announced that an Indianapolis couple is contributing funds to support a two year research fellowship in biomedical informatics. The anonymous gift will work in tandem with funds from the Regenstrief Institute to establish the program. The fellowship will be known as the Mamlin-McDonald Biomedical Informatics Fellowship and will focus on improving processes of care in the new Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Hospital and Eskenazi Health campus by the effective use of health information technology.
Selected and recruited for the 2012-13 and 2013-14 academic years, the Mamlin-McDonald fellowship awardee will conduct research on biomedical informatics at Wishard Memorial Hospital and, in the fellow's final term, at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Hospital and its affiliated outpatient services.
The fellow will also practice at Wishard and Eskenazi, both in the hospital and in the community health centers, providing direct service to the most vulnerable patients in the community. The fellow will be named associate chief medical information officer at Wishard and will be deeply engaged in day-to-day activities within the health system, employing clinical informatics to improve the quality, efficiency, and outcomes of patient care.
Read more about the Mamlin-McDonald Fellowship:
Mamlin-McDonald Fellowship Information
InsideINdianaBusiness.com Report
Indiana University School of Medicine News
Interested? Apply today to start your fellowship on or after July 1, 2012!
We are currently recruiting for a post-doctoral health care professional to serve as a fellow for the 2012-13 and 2013-14 academic years. Contact Emily Davis, the Regenstrief fellowship program coordinator, with additional questions and a list of the necessary application materials:
Regenstrief Institute, Inc.
410 West 10th Street, Suite 2000
Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
317-423-5973
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Regenstrief Biomedical Informatics Research Training Program
The Regenstrief Biomedical Informatics Fellowship Program, offers fellowships supported by the National Library of Medicine and the Department of Veterans Affairs that provides hands-on training in the use of computer technology to improve the quality and delivery of healthcare. Interacting closely with faculty mentors, fellows participate in a two-year (with optional third year) comprehensive training program to prepare for roles in developing, implementing and studying clinical information systems.
This post-doctoral fellowship program supports physicians, other clinicians holding doctorates, and PhDs in relevant fields who have previous computer experience and desire to become part of a community of scholars and clinicians at the forefront of medical and technological innovations. The primary intent of this fellowship is to train fellows for academic, state, or federal government careers in medical informatics research, although graduates are also sought after by health care provider organizations and the medical systems development industry.
The Regenstrief fellowship is an exceptional opportunity for those with strong programming skills and experience or interest in higher level languages (Java, C++ and others) who wish to have an immediate impact on patient care.
Participate in the development of real world clinical systems at the Regenstrief Institute, an innovator in medical informatics.
Click here to learn more about our current fellows!
Indiana Health Information Technology Training Collaborative
The Indiana Health Information Technology Training Collaborative (I-HITTC) is a major resource for improving local human capacity for health informatics, public health and research in Indiana. It was built upon the existing collaboration between Indiana University Schools of Informatics and Nursing along with the Regenstrief Institute. In combination with the Regenstrief Institute's world-renown laboratory for biomedical and public health informatics, the School of Informatics is the first in the United States that houses four different programs in health informatics, bioinformatics, human-computer interaction and media sciences.
I-HITTC's primary goal is to address the workforce needs of qualified health IT workers over the next several years. Given the anticipated growth in the use of EHRs, and the estimated shortfall of 51,000 qualified health IT workers, there is likely to become a significant barrier to comprehensive adoption and meaningful use of health information technology.
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Regional East African Center for Health Informatics
The Regional East African Center for Health Informatics (REACH) was created in 2009 and builds on a dozen years of informatics development and implementation in East Africa. Leveraging the long-term collaboration between Indiana University and Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya, REACH is funded by Fogarty International Center and has three primary training foci: 1) post-doctoral informatics training to East Africans to enhance clinical and public health research to improve health care delivery; 2) short courses and practicum training to support the development, implementation, maintenance, evolution, and use of EHRs in low-income countries; and (3) leadership development in global eHealth. An important product emanating from REACH is OpenMRS, the most widely implemented electronic health record in the developing world. The product of collaboration between Regenstrief, Partners in Health, and the Medical Research Council of South Africa, OpenMRS is currently in use in more than 50 developing and developed countries. In recognition of REACH's work, in 2009 the Regenstrief Institute became the World Health Organization's first -- and to-date only -- WHO Collaborating Center for the design, application, and research of medical information systems.
Meet the REACH fellows and others here!
