Dr. Nasim Katebi featured in Emory News: Momentum builds for AI.Humanity initiative with faculty hires
November 28, 2022
Dr. Nasim Katebi was featured in Emory News in an article titled "Momentum builds for AI.Humanity initiative with faculty hires". In her research, Dr. Katebi develops AI, modeling, and engineering methods to quantify fetal-maternal physiology and improve healthcare outcomes in pregnancy and early childhood, with a focus on low-resource settings, bias, and health equity. She creates machine learning models to detect and predict cardiovascular complications in pregnancy, including hypertension, pre-eclampsia, and fetal growth restriction. Dr. Katebi also focuses on the biases in using AI and engineering in this context to enhance health equity in maternal health. To do this, she builds frameworks to identify individual, healthcare, and environmental factors that contribute to pregnancy-related complications. This includes delayed and fragmented care, social determinants of health, and race-related health disparities.
Dr. Abeed Sarker has been appointed to a Vice Chair for Research
November 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Abeed Sarker for his new role as a Vice Chair for Research. As the VC for research, a key role of his will be to mentor and guide incoming faculty to obtain their first grants. He will also help the Chair establish short- and long-term research objectives for the department, and help identify potential recruits and funding opportunities.
Shafa-at Ali Sheikhdefended his PhD dissertation on "Design and validity of automated Impedance Cardiogram (ICG) analysis algorithms for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) application and interpretation using artificial intelligence (AI) framework” under the supervision of Prof. Clifford. This work discovered ICG-based parameters indicating a combination of increased sympathetic activation and decreased cardiac contractility, which are markers of heart failure risk, in PTSD during trauma recall. This signal processing and AI-based framework can also be used for physiologic analyses for various cardiovascular diseases. After graduating from Georgia Tech’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, he will return to Pakistan. Congrats, Dr. Sheikh!
BMI faculty Gari Clifford and Matthew Reyna help explain the gulf between AI and clinical practice in JAMA
July 2022
Profs. Clifford and Reyna, together with Prof. Nsoesie from Boston University, published an invited viewpoint in The Journal of the American Medical Association on "Rethinking Algorithm Performance Metrics for Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Medicine". The viewpoint focuses on how we often use the wrong optimization targets when applying machine learning to medical data, and how we can address this issue, and is part of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's broader series on Diagnostic Excellence.
Dr. Gari Clifford's talk: the use of interpretable machine learning in healthcare and its impact on bias and ethics
June 2022
Prof. Clifford was invited to the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to discuss the use of interpretable machine learning in healthcare and its impact on bias and ethics at a symposium on Interpretable and Explainable AI and Machine Learning.
Dr. Gari Clifford is appointed as an external advisor to SleepHuB
May 2022
Dr. Gari Clifford is appointed as an external advisor to the University of Southern California Center for Sleep Health using Bioengineering (SleepHuB). SleepHuB is a unique network of clinicians, scientists and engineers who work collaboratively to conceptualize and operationalize translational projects related to sleep.
Seibi Kobara, PT, MPH and Min Huang are among the recipients of the David Cowan Scholarship 2022 from the Georgia Chapter of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (GA HIMSS). This scholarship is sponsored by leading firms of healthcare information technology, aiming at educating future leaders to advocate collaboration and improve the quality of medical services. Both Seibi and Min are collaborating with Assistant Professor Rishikesan Kamaleswaran to deepen our understanding of the complicated pathophysiology of sepsis and its complications to bring benefit to patients.
Dr. Abeed Sarker's research featured in WSJ: Social Media Offers a Trove of Information for Medical Researchers
April 2022
Dr. Sarker recently spoke to the Wall Street Journal about a recent paper entitled “Reddit discussions about buprenorphine associated precipitated withdrawal in the era of fentanyl” published in Clinical Toxicology. He discussed how natural language processing of social media data can inform clinicians about emerging concerns about treatment among people suffering from opioid use disorder.
Dr. Gari Clifford's research featured in the Emory Medicine Magazine
February 2022
Profs. Clifford (Emory BMI Chair) and Hall-Clifford were featured in the Emory Medicine Magazine in an article titled "Every Mother, Every Baby" for their work on Co-Design of mHealth and AI-enabled diagnostic systems with the lay midwives of highland Guatemala.
