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Dr. Umit Topaloglu to Speak on The Clinical Research Informatics Suite (CRIS)
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). Session details ...
BIO:
Dr. Umit Topaloglu is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Director of Research in the Information Technology Department at the University of 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: The Clinical Research Informatics Suite (CRIS)
Speaker: Dr. Umit Topaloglu
Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM
Presentation: The presentation will be available for viewing after the event on our Speaker Series Videos page and on the NCI Events YouTube Channel
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) Speaker Series is a bi-weekly knowledge-sharing forum featuring both internal and external speakers on topics of interest to the biomedical informatics and research communities. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
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