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Carolina Health Informatics Program @chip-unc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Saif Khairat for being elected as a Distinguished Fellow ACMI! The Class of 2025 will be inducted into the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) on November 16 at a ceremonial dinner during the 2025 Annual Symposium.

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Carolina Health Informatics Program @chip-unc.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Doctoral graduate Mohammad Kibria received the Best Student Paper Award at the 13th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics! The title of his paper is Assessing AI Explainability: A Usability Study Using a Novel Framework Involving Clinicians arxiv.org/abs/2503.16920. Congrats!

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Assessing AI Explainability: A Usability Study Using a Novel Framework Involving Clinicians

An AI design framework was developed based on three core principles, namely understandability, trust, and usability. The framework was conceptualized by synthesizing evidence from the literature and b...

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Carolina Health Informatics Program @chip-unc.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

We are excited to share that master's student, Suguna Kotte, had her abstract accepted for poster presentation at the AMIA 2025 Annual Symposium! Her abstract is titled, The Impact of Patient Portals on Medication Adherence in the Elderly. Congratulations Suguna!!

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Carolina Health Informatics Program @chip-unc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

CHIP student, Mohammad Golam Kibria successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled, “Explainability for AI-driven Clinical Decision Support Systems: A User-centered Study with Clinicians." Dr. Kibria’s research focused on advancing explainability of AI tools in healthcare. Congratulations!

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Carolina Health Informatics Program @chip-unc.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Jenny Hong reflects on her work with the UNC Health Sciences Library's Impact Measurement & Visualization (IMV) team where she developed and evaluated a machine learning-powered topic modeling tool to help streamline literature screening. Congratulations, Jenny!

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Carolina Health Informatics Program @chip-unc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

CHIP Student Internship Spotlight! MPS Student Paul Greenwood is an intern for GENYSIS Core. "During my internship with the GENYSIS Core, I developed a machine learning pipeline that automates quality control (QC) monitoring for genomic sequencing data." Great work Paul!

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Carolina Health Informatics Program @chip-unc.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Last week was graduate student appreciation week where two of our PhD students were granted awards. Liz Kwong won the 2025 Impact Award. Kibria Golam won a travel grant to attend the 87th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Congratulations Liza and Kibria!

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Carolina Health Informatics Program @chip-unc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Congratulations to CHIP PhD student Liz Kwong for being recognized by the UNC Grad School with a 2024-2025 Impact award! Liz has been recognized for her research in addressing burnout among North Carolina healthcare professionals.

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Carolina Health Informatics Program @chip-unc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

CHIP is proud to announce that doctoral students Amy Cole and Ashlyn Zebrowski will be defending their dissertations in the coming weeks! Congratulations to these amazingly accomplished CHIP students! All are invited to attend their defense.

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Carolina Health Informatics Program @chip-unc.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Join CHIP for a talk led by Dr. Rishi Kamaleswaran, an Associate Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology at Duke University School of Medicine. Title: Every breath, every beat: Integrating multi-modal Real-Time data streams for explainable clinical prediction systems in the ICU

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Carolina Health Informatics Program @chip-unc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Last week, CHIP hosted a student networking event for our MPS and PhD students to meet industry professionals, CHIP alumni, and faculty. Thank you to all of our Health IT Advisory board members and alumni for attending and meeting our students!

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Carolina Health Informatics Program @chip-unc.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Congratulations to CHIP PhD Student, Amy Cole, on her first author publication, "Addressing the Need for a Specialized Disconnection Device in Catheter Connection Management: A Case Study of User-Centered Medical Device Innovation". Read Amy's publication here: doi.org/10.3390/nurs...

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Carolina Health Informatics Program @chip-unc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

We are excited to announce that our student application for RAPID 2025 is open! This program is an immersive experience for undergraduate students with a focus on acquiring introductory skills and knowledge in Data Science, health equity, and Generative AI. Learn more at chip.unc.edu/rapid

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Carolina Health Informatics Program @chip-unc.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Congratulations to CHIP PhD student, Abhishek Bhatia, for publishing a first author article in PLOS Medicine! We are so proud of you Abhi!! 🎉 Read more here: journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

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Carolina Health Informatics Program @chip-unc.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

CHIP PhD student, Vibhor Gupta, recently attended BioHackathon Europe! BioHackathon Europe is an annual event that brings together life scientists from around the world. It offers an intense week of hacking, with over 160 participants. BioHackathon was hosted near Barcelona Congratulations Vibhor!

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Carolina Health Informatics Program @chip-unc.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Fall 2024 recap! 🍂 This semester, our student alliance, HISA, hosted several events for our students, including the one pictured here: pizza, painting, and relaxation! We want to wish our students the best of luck with the end of finals! Enjoy your break!

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Carolina Health Informatics Program @chip-unc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Today, CHIP PhD student, Ashlyn Zebrowski presented about her dissertation work on leveraging digital tools to help improve how we care for people. Her focuses on virtual reality and exploring behaviors and implementation system requirements to answer "how" to prescribe and deliver treatment.

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