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October 23, 2024
Lab representation at BMES 2024
Nidhi Soley had a podium presentation at the 2024 BMES Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD.

October 7, 2024
Paper published in JAMIA Open
Our article titled Patterns of healthcare utilization according to health equity determinants during the first year of the pandemic at Johns Hopkins Medicine was published in JAMIA Open.

September 30, 2024
Paper published in JMIR
Our article titled Usability, Engagement, and Report Usefulness of Chatbot-Based Family Health History Data Collection - Mixed Methods Analysis was published in Journal of Medical Internet Research.

September 20, 2024
New TIRI Lab Members!
Welcome to Tamisha Segbefia joining the lab as a Research Program Assistant.

July 9, 2024
Lab representation at AIME 2024
Michelle Nguyen, Ilia Rattsev, and April Yan presented at the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2024) in Salt Lake City, Utah.

June 1, 2024
Paper published in ACI
Our article titled Predicting Postoperative Pain and Opioid Use with Machine Learning Applied to Longitudinal Electronic Health Record and Wearable Data was published in Applied Clinical Informatics.

May 28, 2024
Congratulations to recent TIRI Lab Graduates!
Tamisha Dzifa Segbefia completed her MS in Biomedical Engineering (BME) and her thesis titled "Characterizing Polygenic Risk Scores Among A Cohort of Breast Cancer Cases and Controls in the All of Us Research Program." She also contributed to work with other lab members designing software intended for genomic medicine service leaders presented at IEEE ICHI 2023. Sukrit Treewaree completed his MS in BME. He has contributed to lab projects underway using LLMs to generate synthetic drug-related patient portal messages and using observational clinical data to detect drug switches.

Febuary 9, 2024
Lab representation at JH DOM/WSE Research Retreat
April Yan, Iyinoluwa Tugbobo, Ilya Rattsev, Michelle Nguyen, Shanshan Song, and Tamisha Segbefia presented at the 2024 Department of Medicine & Whiting School of Engineering Research Retreat Poster Session on February 9, 2024.

January 30, 2024
Paper published in JAMIA Open
Our article titled Incorporation of emergent symptoms and genetic covariates improves prediction of aromatase inhibitor therapy discontinuation was published in JAMIA Open (online ahead of print).

January 20, 2024
New TIRI Lab Members!
Welcome to Rodrigo Guerra (BME PhD Student) who is completing a rotation and Kevin Gorman joining the lab as a Research Program Assistant. Welcome also to Jash Shah (CS MS Student) and Sukrit Treewaree (BME MS Student) joining us this Spring.

January 8, 2024
Congratulations to Karen Yang and Louise Lu!
Karen Yang has joined Trinity Lab Sciences in San Francisco, CA as an Associate Consultant. Louise Lu has joined Amazon in San Francisco, CA as a Software Engineer.

November 15, 2023
TIRI Lab Representation at AMIA 2023
This year we had one podium abstract presentation and one paper presentation at the (AMIA 2023 Annual Symposium) in New Orleans, LA. Louise Lu presented her paper on "An Automated Strategy to Calculate Medication Regimen Complexity" and Kevin Gorman presented his abstract on "Detecting occurrence of and characterizing clinical events of patients with BRCA cascade testing using commercial claims data."

September 6, 2023
Congratulations to Bhavik Agarwal!
Agarwal B was accepted into Googles CS Research Mentorship Program. The announcement can be found here.

September 3, 2023
Congratulations to Nidhi Soley!
Soley N won a Paper Award (Honorable Mention) at ACM-BCB 2023 for her paper titled "Predicting Postoperative Pain and Opioid Use Using Machine Learning Applied to Longitudinal Electronic Health Record and Wearable Data."

September 3, 2023
TIRI Lab Representation at ACM-BCB 2023
This year we have two papers and one poster accepted for presentation at the 14th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2023) in Houston, TX. Ilya Rattsev will present his poster on "Building PBPK Model of Exemestane to Predict Drug Concentrations in Clinically Relevant Tissues." Natalie Wang will present her CNB-MAC 2023 workshop paper on "Drug Interaction Vectors Neural Network, DrIVeNN." Nidhi Soley will present her conference paper on "Predicting Postoperative Pain and Opioid Use with Machine Learning Applied to Longitudinal Electronic Health Record and Wearable Data."

August 1, 2023
New TIRI Lab Members!
We are delighted to have April Yan (BME PhD Student), Nidhi Soley (BME PhD Student), Iyinoluwa Tugbobo (CS PhD Student), and Bhavik Agarwal (CS MS Student) join us. Karen Yang and Louise Lu will also join the lab this Fall as Research Program Assistants. Welcome to you all!

July 15, 2023
Paper published in ACI Open
Our article titled Will the Doctor See You Now? The Development and Implementation of a Targeted Telemedicine System for Primary Care was published in ACI Open (online ahead of print). This study was supported by the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative.

June 28, 2023
TIRI Lab Representation at IEEE ICHI 2023
This year we had two papers and one tutorial presentated at IEEE ICHI 2023. The papers were "Data Representation in Cardiovascular Disease Studies that use Consumer Wearables" (presented by Shanshan Song) and "Designing Software for Genomics Medicine Service Leaders to Engage Stakeholders" (presented by CO Taylor). The tutorial titled "Modifying the Design Sprint Methodology, Leveraging Online Tools for Collaborating and Prototyping in Research Settings" was presented by recent TIRI lab alum Dr. Juandalyn Coffen-Burke.

June 25, 2023
Congratulations to recent TIRI Lab Graduates!
Cindy Zhang completed her BS in Biomedical Engineering (BME) and Computer Science and made substantial progress on projects underway studying patient portal utilization. Karen Yang completed her MS in BME and completed first-authored publications on using NLP tools to detect phenotypes presented at AMIA 2023 Informatics Summits and on designing software intended for genomic medicine service leaders to be presented at IEEE ICHI 2023. Kevin Gorman completed his MS in Applied Computational Math and capstone project titled "Detecting occurrence of and characterizing clinical events of patients with BRCA cascade testing using commercial claims data" (related paper under review). Louise Lu completed her MS is BME and research project titled "Toward Developing a Computational Strategy to Assess Medication Regimen Complexity" (paper under review). Rebecca Yoo completed her MS in BME and her thesis titled "Assessment of Contralateral Breast Cancer Risk Prediction Using the All of Us Research Program Data" (related paper under review).

May 25, 2023
TIRI Lab Representation at ACIC 2023
Xuyang Li presented his poster titled "Understanding Impact of BRCA1/2 Testing on Healthcare Utilization and Clinical Outcome" at the 2023 American Causal Inference Conference (ACIC) held in Austin, Texas May 24 to 26 2023.

May 15, 2023
Congratulations to Nidhi Soley and Zoljargal Lkhagvajav!
Fall 2023 Soley and Lkhagvajav will both be joining PhD programs. Soley will be joining the Biomedical Engineering PhD program and TIRI Lab at Johns Hopkins University. Lkhagvajav will be joining the Biomedical and Health Informatics PhD program at University of Washington in Seattle, WA. Soley and Lkhagvajav were previously Research Program Assistants in the TIRI Lab.

April 15, 2023
Congratulations to Juandalyn Coffen-Burke!
Coffen-Burke completed her postdoctoral fellowship and accepted a position as Associate Research Director at UnitedHealth Group and Optum Genomics. Work in the TIRI Lab led to the design of a tutorial on strategies to modify the design sprint methodology that she will give at IEEE ICHI 2023. Coffen-Burke also applied the methodology with TIRI Lab members in a study titled "Designing Software for Genomics Medicine Service Leaders to Engage Stakeholders" (accepted for presentation at IEEE ICHI 2023).

March 13, 2023
TIRI Lab Representation at AMIA 2023 Informatics Summit
This year we had two posters and one paper accepted for presentation at the AMIA 2023 Informatics Summit. The posters were "Randomized Intervention Study of Form-based and Chatbot-based Methods for Family History Data Collection" (presented by Michelle Nguyen), and "Detecting Phenotypes Among Patients Suspected of Rare Mendelian Disorders" (presented by Karen Yang). Our paper titled "Feasibility of the Genetic Information Assistant Chatbot to Provide Genetic Education and Study Genetic Test Adoption Among Pancreatic Cancer Patients at Johns Hopkins Hospital" described a joint project led by Drs. Joann Bodurtha (Genetics), Alison Klien (Oncology) and CO Taylor (Medicine and Biomedical Engineering) with preliminary data analyses and interpretation performed by TIRI lab members N Soley and M Nguyen. CO Taylor also participated in a late breaking panel presentation on "Opportunities and Challenges for Utilizing Genomics Data in Precision Medicine Efforts."

February 17, 2023
Lab representation at 2023 JH DOM/WSE Research Retreat
Kevin Gorman, Zoljargal Lkhagvajav, Xuyang Li, Louise Lu, Ilya Rattsev and Nidhi Soley presented at the 2023 Department of Medicine and Whiting School of Engineering Research Retreat Poster Session.

December 15, 2022
ICM Annual Retreat presentation
K Yang gave a presentation at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Computational Medicine Annual Retreat on "Factors associated with resistance to SARS-CoV-2 infection discovered using large-scale medical record data and machine learning" that covered work published in PLOS ONE here. Dr. Stuart Ray (Infectious Diseases) led this project as part of our Precision Care Medicine (EN.580.480/680) course with contributions from co-instructors CO Taylor and J Greenstein.

December 5, 2022
Congratulations to Zoljargal Lkhagvajav!
Lkhagvajav was selected to participate in the Women in Global Digital Health Leadership Program hosted by the Globel Digital Health Network (DGHN). She will also be presenting a poster at The Global Digital Health Forum 2022 hosted by the DGHN.

December 1, 2022
NIH Award for Excellence in DEIA Mentorship
Taylor is grateful to be the recipient of an Award for Excellence in DEIA Mentorship from th NIH NHGRI. Funds will be used to support the training of lab members seeking to better understand the impact of disproportional representation in genetic research on the racial fairness of genomic clinical decision support.

November 8, 2022
TIRI Lab Representation at AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium
This year we had two posters at the AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium. M Nguyen presented work titled "Piloting a Family Health History Chatbot with Crowd-Sourced Data Collection." S Song presented work titled "'Data Donation' or 'Data Sharing'? A Scoping Review Characterizing Language Use in mHealth Research Involving Person-Generated Health Data." CO Taylor also celebrated completing her first year as Associate Editor of Journal of Biomedical Informatics.

November 5, 2022
Congratulations to Shanshan Song!
Song was one of eight LEAD Fund Awardees honored at AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium.

September 18, 2022
Lab representation at JH DOM/WSE Research Retreat
Zoljargal Lkhagvajav, Michelle Nguyen, Shanshan Song, and Rebecca Yoo are presenting at the 2022 Department of Medicine & Whiting School of Engineering Research Retreat Poster Session on September 20, 2022.

September 16, 2022
Genomic Medicine XIV and JH inHealth Panelist
Taylor was very thankful for the opportunity to be part of two recent panels. One that kicked off a two-day NIH NHGRI Genomic Medicine XIV event on "Genomic Learning Healthcare Systems." The meeting agenda and materials from August 31, 2022 are posted here. Another panel on "Returning Subgroup Identification to Clinical Care" was part of our Johns Hopkins inHealth Precision Medicine Symposium held on September 16, 2022.

August 26, 2022
New TIRI Lab Members!
We are thrilled to have Natalie Wang join us as a Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, Tamisha Segbefia join us as a Masters Student in Biomedical Engineering, and Juandalyn Burke (in the coming month) joining as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Computational Medicine. Welcome also to Xuyang Li who is completing a lab rotation with us in the Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. program.

June 13, 2022
Lab representation at IEEE ICHI 2022
K Gorman gave oral and poster presentations on "An Interactive Visualization Tool for Medication Refill Adherence, A Case Study of Pharmacy Claims-derived Adherence Measures in Asthmatics" at IEEE ICHI 2022 held in Rochester, Minnesota.

May 30, 2022
New TIRI Lab Members!
We are delighted to have Nidhi Soley and Zoljargal Lkhagvajav join the lab this Summer as Research Program Assistants. Welcome to you both!

May 10, 2022
ICM Annual Retreat presentation
I Rattsev gave a presentation at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Computational Medicine Annual Retreat on "Recurrent Preterm Birth Risk Assessment" that covered featured work published in JAMIA here.

January 24, 2022
New TIRI Lab Members!
The TIRI Lab welcomes RA Micaela Ashton and Master's students Louise Lu, Karen Yang, and Rebecca Yoo.

October 30, 2021
TIRI Lab Representation at AMIA 2021 Annual Symposium
This year we had two posters, one student design challenge presentation, and CO Taylor was a judge in the student paper competition. One poster was a result of AMIA DEI Task force efforts titled "Recommedations on Building a Sustainable AMIA Centered Around Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Practices-A Prliminary Report" (presented by CO Taylor). Another poster described collaborative work of lab members, titled "Telehealth Adoption and Healthcare Utilization During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Toward Understanding What Follows For Vulnerable Groups" (presented by M Nguyen). We also participated in the 9th Annual Student Design Challenge (one of 5 teams selected to participate)! Michelle Nguyen, Shanshan Song, and Cindy Zhang designed and built a prototype of the mAMIA app to satisfy pregnant womens self-identified emotional/social and information needs.

October 15, 2021
Congratulations to Natalie Flaks Manov!
N Flaks-Manov has successfully completed her postdoctoral training! During her postdoc she contributed to two journal publications, presented in the 2020 JH Research Symposium on Engineering in Healthcare, and led a project studying symptoms associated with COVID-19 (paper in preparation), among other contributions. We wish her the best on new endeavours! We are also fortunate to have Dr. Flaks-Manov continue some interactions as a collaborator/consultant.

October 8, 2021
Recent seminar presentations
Taylor had the honor of delivering a Seminar on Precision Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Biomedical Informatics (Oct 8, 2021) and a Penn Bioinformatics Forum Seminar at University of Pennsylvania (September 1, 2021) on the topic "Clustering to Uncover Patient Profiles to Enable More Meaningful Research and Clinical Engagement." (both virtual due to the pandemic)

September 24, 2021
Paper published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Our article titled Recurrent preterm birth risk assessment for two delivery subtypes, A multivariable analysis was published and will be part of a special issue in JAMIA on Informatics for Sex and Gender Related Health.

August 15, 2021
Precision Care Medicine
CO Taylor will be co-teaching Precision Care Medicine this Fall 2021 (EN.580.480/680). This is a two-semester project-based learning course. Projects will use methods of machine learning and mechanistic and statistical modeling to develop novel data-driven solutions to important health care problems that arise in medicine.

June 9, 2021
New TIRI Lab Members!
We are delighted to have Ilya Rattsev join us as a Ph.D. Student in Biomedical Engineering (previously Research Program Assistant). Michael Cho (PhD student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) is also completing a summer experience in the lab. Welcome to you both!

June 4, 2021
Paper published in Journal of Biomedical Informatics
The article titled Genomic considerations for FHIR, eMERGE implementation lessons was published in the June 2021 issue of JBI. It includes a description of our Johns Hopkins case study implementation of the eMERGE FHIR Specification. Stay tuned for more work on this!

May 14, 2021
Journal of Personalized Medicine Paper Published
Our article titled Preferences for Updates on General Research Results, A Survey of Participants in Genomic Research from Two Institutions was published in the May 2021 issue of JPM.

April 14, 2021
Machine Learning in Genomics Workshop
Slides and rcordings from the NHGRI Genomic Data Science Working Group-hosted Machine Learning in Genomics virtual workshop are posted. It was held on April 13 - April 14, 2021. CO Taylor co-moderated Session 4 on "Machine learning in clinical genomics."

Feburary 9, 2021
Genomic Medicine XIII Meeting
NHGRI sponsered its 13th Genomic Medicine meeting on Developing a Clinical Genomic Informatics Research Agenda. Marc Williams (Geisinger), Casey Overby Taylor (Hopkins), and Janina Jeff (Host of In Those Genes Podcast), with Rex Chisholm (Northwestern) and Lucila Ohno-Machado (UC-San Diego) as moderators, kicked-off the meeting with a discussion on "Making the case for a clinical genomic informatics research strategy." CO Taylor spoke about "Technical desiderata for genomic clinical decision support, A reflection on implementation in eMERGE III."

January 11, 2021
Disparities and Covid-19 data science team participation
TIRI lab members (Natalie Flaks Manov, Ilya Rattsev, Casey Overby Taylor) and collaborator (Jeremy Epstein) participated in this years' JH Research Symposium on Engineering in Healthcare. This year it was a two-day workshop that included data science teams working on different aspects of the COVID-19 disparities problem. On January 19 our team shared findings from studying "Disparities in the transition to Telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic" over the course of the week.

October 8, 2020
Informatics Grand Rounds at University of Utah
Taylor delivered a University of Utah Department of Biomedical Informatics Grand Rounds presentation titled "Clinical Decision Support for Data-Driven Personal Guidance." (virtual due to the pandemic)

October 1, 2020
Welcome Natalie Flaks Manov and Shanshan Song!
Natalie Flaks Manov has started her postdoc fellowship and Shanshan Song (PhD student in Health Science Informatics) has formally joined our lab.

September 18, 2020
Duke Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Seminar Series presentation
Taylor delivered a Duke Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Seminar Series presentation titled "Clustering to uncover patient profiles to enable more meaningful engagement with healthcare." (virtual due to the pandemic)

September 1, 2020
Taylor awarded NIH/NHGRI Genomic Innovator Award!
We are thrilled to share that Taylor was awarded an NHGRI-funded Genomic Innovator Award! It will provide funding over the next 5 years to study genomic clinical decision support. The NHGRI announcement is here.

August 28, 2020
Summer 2020 TIRI Lab Final Poster Presentations
We held an informal poster session with the theme of “Health and Healthcare System Interactions During a Pandemic.” We had 6 poster presenters who described their work over the summer. Presenters included Natalie Flaks Manov, Kevin Gorman, Michelle Nguyen, Ilya Rattsev, Shanshan Song, and Cindy Zhang.

July 31, 2020
Taylor appointed to BWCB advisory board and AMIA DEI task force
We are excited to announce Taylor's appointment as an advisory board member for The Black Women in Computational Biology Network and member of The AMIA Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force.

July 1, 2020
New TIRI Lab Members!
We are delighted to have Michelle Nguyen (Ph.D. Student in Biomedical Engineering) and Ilya Rattev (Research Program Assistant) join the TIRI team. Welcome also to Shanshan Song (Ph.D. Student in Health Sciences Informatics), Cindy Zhang (Undergraduate Student in BME), and Kevin Gorman (Undergraduate Student in BME & CS) who are all completing summer research experiences. A warm welcome to you all!

June 29, 2020
Taylor Faculty Highlights
Two recent interviews describing pathways to biomedical informatics and biomedical engineering research are now live, "Meet Casey Overby Taylor, assistant professor of BME" and "Casey Overby Taylor, Ph.D. | Career Paths in Biomedical Informaitcs."

May 21, 2020
Congratulations to Tony!
Tony Yang successfully completed his BS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and his independent study project titled "An Annotated Dataset for Studying Engagement in Postpartum Depression and Anxiety Online Health Forums" (paper under development). He will be joining Amazon as a Software Engineer.

May 12, 2020
Epstein and Taylor receive HBHI pilot funding
The Hopkins Business of Health Initiative (HBHI) has awarded our proposal titled "Will the doctor see you now? An RCT of Video vs. Telephone Primary care Visits."

April 23, 2020
PloS One paper published
Our paper on feature engineering with clinical expert knowledge was published in PloS One.

April 1, 2020
Moving News to TIRI site
News and announcements for Casey Overby Taylor prior to March 2020 can be found here.

March 25, 2020
Joint Appointment in Medicine and BME
We are thrilled to now be housed jointly in Medicine-General Internal Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Jan 28, 2020
Taylor Selected for Microsoft Fellowship
Casey Overby Taylor is extremely pleased and thankful to be selected for a Microsoft Investigator Fellowship.