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The CRIS effort at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) began five years ago and has been highly influenced by the caBIG® program. The CRIS Suite includes 20+ open-source tools, which are deployed within a single portal environment, and it is evolving constantly towards the big-data paradigm. Our main success factor has been having a clear communications channel with and the support of the Cancer Institute and UAMS leadership. The investment has started to result in the campus-wide usage of CRIS and an increased informatics awareness throughout our research community.  Moreover, the CRIS Initiative is taking part in the National Children’s Study, which involves collaborations with a number of other institutions (and more).

BIO:

Dr. Rakesh Nagarajan Umit Topaloglu is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Director of Research in the Information Technology Department of Pathology and Immunology at Washington the University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Director of the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences, and Director of the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center for Biomedical Informatics. As Director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics, he and his group have developed and support broad biomedical informatics infrastructure to facilitate clinical and translational research as well as collaborate on clinical and genomic projects by providing in silico analyses and expertise. Trained as a physician-scientist, Dr. Nagarajan received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). He also serves as the Associate Directors for the Informatics Core of the Translational Research Institute and the Cancer Institute Informatics Core. He leads a team that successfully integrated/implemented several caBIG® and other clinical systems to create an open-source clinical and translational research infrastructure that encompasses clinical trials management, biobanking, -omics, and community engagement informatics.  Dr. Topaloglu’s work involves semantic-concept discovery, UMLS terminologies, and open-source clinical research informatics tool development. He also participates in the Arkansas CyberInfrastructure Initiative through which state institutions and researchers are collaborating to enhance/implement a statewide cyberinfrastructure.

SUMMARY:

Topic: Clinical Genomicist Workstation

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