Health Informatics Faculty Help Drive $10 Million Leidos Partnership for Using AI Tools in Health Care
Assistant Professors Ahmad P. Tafti and Yanshan Wang are contributors to Pitt’s Computational Pathology and AI Center of Excellence (CPACE), which announced a $10 million partnership with the technology company Leidos to advance AI in health care.
Enter the Next Generation of AI Health Care Practitioners
For the past two summers, Assistant Professor Ahmad Tafti has led a weeklong summer school for high school students to learn about AI in medical imaging informatics.
Creating Best Practices in Artificial Intelligence
SHRS faculty and researchers are stepping forward to ensure that AI is used in the most responsible way to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of health care delivery, and most importantly, to improve patient outcomes.
How Cassie Klocek is utilizing her Health Informatics experience on her journey to PA School
Cassie Klocek (BSHI '25) is utilizing her skills from the Bachelor of Science in Health Informatics program to become a physician assistant.
How Shayaana Ubhayaratne’s Health Informatics Internship Led to a Full-Time Job Before Graduation
Bachelor of Science in Health Informatics student Shayaana Ubhayaratne (BSHI '25) completed her internship with the UPMC IT Summer Associate Program.
How Shayaana Ubhayaratne Found a Sense of Place in Health Care in the Health Informatics Program
Now a senior, Shayaana Ubhayaratne (BSHI '25) has reflected on the journey that brought her to the Bachelor of Science in Health Informatics program.
Senior HUD officials visit to unveil Pitt Healthy Home Lab study with the Allegheny County Housing Authority and Age-Friendly Greater Pittsburgh
The Healthy Home Lab was presented with a $1 million HUD grant representing the first in the United States to study technology-based options for people aged 62-plus in public housing and focuses on helping older adults remain at home and age in place.
Faculty Q&A – Leming Zhou
Meet Program Director and Associate Professor Leming Zhou of the Master of Health Informatics Program! How long have you worked at Pitt and in what capacity? I joined Pitt in 2008 after I finished my PhD studies in computer science. I was hired to do computational modeling research and teach…
Health Informatics Graduate Awarded NIH Training Fellowship to Increase Diversity in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Master of Science in Health Informatics alumnus Jordan Hilsman (MSHI ‘23) has been selected among a competitive pool of nationwide candidates for an eight-month National Institutes of Health training program called AIM-AHEAD to increase researcher diversity in artificial intelligence and machine learning
Health Informatics Co-Hosting 2nd Annual Artificial Intelligence Summer School for High School Students
Are you in the 11th or 12th grade and interested in learning about using artificial intelligence (AI) in health care? The Pitt School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences’ (SHRS) Health Informatics faculty will be joined by the School of Medicine’s Computational Pathology and AI Center of Excellence (CPACE) and the IEEE Computer Society to host an all-expenses-paid, weeklong…