News Archive 2021 | Emory School of Medicine

Dr. Abeed Sarker has been nominated for the Hidden Gem awards

December 2021

Dr. Abeed Sarker was nominated for his contributions to COVID-19 and related research over the last 12 months, including the utilization of big data from non-traditional sources such as social media to conduct timely syndromic and outbreak surveillance.

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Dr. Gari Clifford's research featured in Amazon Research Awards: Using machine learning to reduce costs, increase accuracy, and improve access in healthcare

December 2021

Profs. Clifford's interview with Amazon Science on edge machine learning in healthcare was published in Amazon Research Awards, entitled: "Using machine learning to reduce costs, increase accuracy, and improve access in healthcare".

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Dr. Gari Clifford's research featured in the National Institutes of Health Spotlight: Developing Mobile Health Solutions for Women in Guatemala

September 2021

Profs. Clifford and Hall-Clifford’s Co-Design Lab initiative "Safe+Natal" which uses mHealth and AI to assist lay midwives in rural Guatemala was highlighted by the National Institutes of Health Spotlight in an article "Developing Mobile Health Solutions for Women in Guatemala".

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Drs. Gari Clifford and Matthew Reyna's research featured in Journal of Physiological Measurement: Issues in the automated classification of multilead ECGs using heterogeneous labels and populations

September 2021

Profs. Clifford and Reyna presented the annual PhysioNet Challenge awards at the Computing in Cardiology 2021 (remotely) in Brno, Czech Republic. The Challenge focused on reduced lead ECG arrhythmia classification and led to over 60 publications and 57 pieces of contributed open-source software. An editorial describing the Challenge and summarizing the contributions was published in the Journal of Physiological Measurement.

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Dr. Gari Clifford's research highlighted by the Fogarty International Center: mHealth app reduces LMIC pregnancy, delivery risks

July 2021

Prof. Clifford's research on using mHealth and AI to assist lay midwives in rural Guatemala was highlighted by the Fogarty International Center (which partially funded the work), in their Global Health Matters Newsletter (Volume 20, Number 4, July/August 2021), in an article "mHealth app reduces LMIC pregnancy, delivery risks".

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Dr. Gari Clifford's interview with The Academic Times on measuring sleep with wearables in health

April 2021

Prof. Clifford's interview with The Academic Times on measuring sleep with wearables in health was published, entitled: "These sleep monitoring innovations could make smartwatches better at tracking our slumber".

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For departmental news from previous years, please see here.