Highlights
Conference Distinctions
March 2020
Jaehyun Joo, Finalist of AMIA Student Paper Award at the AMIA Informatics Summit 2020
Trait Insights Gained by Comparing Genome-Wide Association Study Results using Different Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Definitions
November 2019
Sherrie Xie, Finalist of AMIA Student Paper Award at the AMIA Annual Symposium 2019
Analysis of Spatial Trends in Smoking Status Among Patients with Obstructive Airway Diseases Highlight Potential for Targeted Smoking Cessation Interventions
Avantika Diwadkar and Mengyuan Kan, Distinguished Paper Award at the AMIA Annual Symposium 2019
Facilitating Analysis of Publicly Available ChIP-Seq Data for Integrative Studies
March 2019
Rebecca E Greenblatt, Winner of AMIA Student Paper Award at the AMIA Informatics Summit 2019
Facilitating Inclusion of Geocoded Pollution Data into Health Studies
November 2018
Sherrie Xie, Winner of Student Innovation Award at the AMIA Annual Symposium 2018
Approaches to Link Geospatially Varying Social, Economic, and Environmental Factors with Electronic Health Record Data to Better Understand Asthma Exacerbations
Mengyuan Kan, Finalist of AMIA Student Paper Award at the AMIA Annual Symposium 2018
Integration of Transcriptomic Data Identifies Global and Cell-Specific Asthma-Related Gene Expression Signatures
March 2017
Sherrie Xie, Finalist of Marco Romani Distinguished Paper Award for Translational Bioinformatics at the AMIA Informatics Summit 2017
Enhancing Electronic Health Record Data with Geospatial Information
Books
February 2020
Precision in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
Editors: Jose L. Gomez, Blanca E. Himes, Naftali Kaminski
This book serves as the primary reference for precision medicine in the fields of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine by documenting principles written by experts in several aspects of precision medicine. It combines fundamental concepts of the field with state-of-the-art studies and how they translate into individual preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic plans.
Podcasts and Webinars
December 2019
This ATS webinar focuses on genomics, summarizing how the data are generated, analyzed and shared, and provides an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of this global approach. It was moderated by Maroun Matta, MD, and speakers were Blanca Himes, PhD, Dara Torgerson, PhD, Brian Cade, PhD and Michael Cho, MD, MPH.
Choosing Your Omics
January 2019
Breathe Easy Podcast discussion of how genetics and genomics can help advance precision medicine of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine with Dr. Juan Celedon MD, DrPH, Professor of Pediatrics, Chief of Service, Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergy and Immunology at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and Vice-President of the ATS; Blanca Himes, Assistant Professor of Informatics, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania and Jose L Gomez, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale University.
Precision Medicine, Genetics and Genomics at ATS
November 2018
Interview in Spanish for Caminos en Ciencia (“Pathways in Sciences”), a series founded by Enrique Lin-Shiao and Kevin Alicea-Torres, that explores the challenges, successes and lessons learned by Latin American faculties, researchers and students along their careers and training in science.
Caminos en Ciencia: Blanca Himes, PhD
April 2018