DRAFT

Listing of Current Oncology/Pathology informatics trainees. Consider adding project description to research interests

Soumyaroop Bhattacharya

• Home Program: CBMI
• Degree Sought: PhD
• Research Interest: Gene Expression Analysis, Microarrays
• Mentor: Lyons-Weiler
• Training Dates: 09/02 to Present
• Grant Subsidy: NA
• On-going research interests include development and evaluation of normalization approaches, tests for differentially expressed genes, clustering and computational validation algorithms in the analysis of Microarray data. The most current projects include: Computational discovery of differentially expressed genes, Re-analysis of publicly available Microarray datasets.

Rick Jordan

• Home Program: CBMI-Bioinformatics
• Degree Sought: PhD
• Research Interest: Gene Regulation
• Mentor: Lyons-Weiler
• Training Dates: 08/03 to present
• Grant Subsidy: NLM
• Researching gene expression analysis tool to analyze microarray data that began while working at the Windber Research Institute. Also, comparing blood samples from patients with benign and invasive tumors.

Su-jin Kim

• Home Program: School of Information Sciences
• Degree Complete: PhD?
• Research Interest: Data Warehousing and User Behavior
• Mentor: Gilbertson/Becich
• Training Date: 05/98 to present
• Grant Subsidy: NationalMedical? Testbed Grant (50%) and Center for Pathology Informatics (505)
• The information requirements of cancer researchers (especially those who use human tissue specimens) at a comprehensive cancer center, a multi-complex organization composed of various health-related disciplines, and to determine if existing information systems could meet those needs

Bonnie Lemster

• Home Program: CBMI
• Degree Sought: Certificate
• Research Interest: Bioinformatics
• Mentor: Lyons-Weiler
• Training Dates: 08/03 to present
• Grant Subsidy: NA
• Study of proteomic profiles in serum

Cathy Ma

• Home Program: Pathology Informatics/Bioinformatics
• Degree Sought: PhD
• Research Interest: Bioinformatics
• Mentor: Gilbertson/Becich
• Training Dates: 10/99 to 8/04
• Grant Subsidy: ?
• Comparison and integration of gene expression data generated from different microarray platforms using different statistical and machine learning approaches. Will explore the plausibility of integrating gene expression data generated from different microarray platforms and purpose solutions for integration.

Andrew Post

• Home Program: CBMI
• Degree Sought: PhD
• Research Interest: Data storage clin lab data
• Mentor: Harrison
• Training Dates: 8/99 to present
• Grant Subsidy: NLM-R01-LM008192-01
• Research whether identification and explicit representation of important temporal relationships in clinical laboratory data will further improve the ability of clinicians to reach decisions rapidly and correctly. We propose to test our hypothesis by constructing patient case simulations in which clinician subjects access laboratory data using traditional, problem-oriented, and temporal data-driven displays.

Gilan Sadaawi

• Home Program:CBMI
• Degree Sought:MS
• Research Interest:Pathology Informatics
• Mentor Harrison
• Training Dates:07/02/03 to 2004
• Grant Subsidy: CAP award, NLM
• Research goals included the ability to import MS Word documents in their native format, the ability to select sections of the document and assign them as components of our procedure DTD tree using a simple graphical interface and the ability to create a new valid XML text file reflecting these section assignments as XML elements. The editor should thus allow transformation of word processor to XML files without requiring any knowledge of XML or specific document markup.

Lei Zheng

• Home Program: Pathology Informatics
• Degree Sought: PhD (IS)
• Research Interest: Color Quantization, Feature Extraction and Color Indexing of Pathology Microscopic Images
• Mentor: Becich
• Training Dates: 09/96 to present
• Grant Subsidy: ?
• To apply adaptive color quantization methods of image coding and discrete domain feature extraction in content-based pathology microscopic image retrieval.

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Valerie Sweeney

• Home Program: Library and Information Sciences
• Degree Sought:?
• Research Interest: Informatics
• Mentor: Harrison
• Training Dates: Field Placement Project, fall semester 2003
• Grant Subsidy: NA
• The use of XML electronic signatures for chemistry lab procedural manuals. My focus is the map for implementation of the XML digital signature, to facilitate verification of changes in and authorization of the laboratory procedures.