THIA 23 Conference Agenda
Time
Topic and Speaker
Jiajie Zhang, PhD UT Arlington
Dean and Professor, The Glassell Family Foundation Distinguished Chair in
Informatics Excellence, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics
Director, National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making (NCCD)
UTHealth – Houston
Eduardo Sanchez, M.D., M.P.H., FAAFP
Chief Medical Officer for Prevention for the American Heart Association
“High Tech/High Touch: The Possibilities of a New Duality”
Introduced by: Dr. Susan Fenton, UTHealth – Houston
Focus Session: Leveraging Data for Health Care Insights
Our Battle Against Technostress, Burnout, and Documentation Proliferation in Healthcare
Ana Aleksandric & Anisha Dangal, UT Arlington
Analyzing the Stance of Social Media Posts on Abortion Considering State-level
Health and Social Compositions
Serenity Fanene, UT Arlington
Addressing Overdose Cases with Relation to Drug Use and Mental Health in Harris County, TX
Morgan Foreman, UTHealth – Houston
Applying Socio-Ecological Models: Digital Development for Black Pregnant Moms
Dr. John Robert Bautista, UT Austin
Teaching Data Analysis, Visualization, and Reporting in Public Health Informatics
Dr. David Gibbs, Texas State University, Dr. Parvinder Parmar, Baylor Scott & White Health & Dr. Mari Tietze, UT Arlington
Get’em While They’re Young: Kick-starting the health informatics student pipeline
in high schools
Dr. Robert Turer, UT Southwestern
Trends of Real Time Patient Portal Use Among Emergency Department Patients:
An SAEM Informatics Collaborative Report
Moderated by: Dr. Chris Lehmann, UT Southwestern
12:00 – 1:15 PM
Lunch and Networking
Birds of a Feather Session
Dr. Mikyoung Lee & Dr. Laurie Long, Research Working Group
Discussion Topic: Unveiling Pathways: Collaborative Exploration of Social Determinants for Health in Health Informatics
Dr. OluwaKayode Olupinyo, Policy & Standards Working Group
Discussion Topic: Barriers to Electronic Health Information in Texas
Hosted by: THIA Working Groups
12:30 – 1:15 PM
Poster Session
Hannah Affleck, UT Arlington
Examining perspectives of mHealth intervention methods in racially minoritized
women
Aarti Darji, UT Arlington
Multimodal Pathology Image Search
Dr. Estefanie Garduno-Rapp, UT Southwestern
Building and Deploying a Cloud Environment for Hosting Custom Application Development Services within an Academic Tertiary Center
Dr. Melody Greer, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Measuring Social Determinants of Health Data Quality in the Electronic Health Record
Rakshita Kota, UT Austin
Promoting the Field of Health Informatics Through the Health Informatics
Organization
Sun Won Min, UT Southwestern
Combatting “deaths from a thousand clicks” one workflow at a time
Jhoceline Moza, UT Arlington
A geolocation analysis of Hispanic women who participated in an online survey
study about digital health
Jorge Zamora, Methodist Healthcare
Healthcare-Associated Infections (CAUTI and CLABSI) Prevention Using QR
Code for Bundle Audits
12:30 – 1:15 PM
Exhibitor Hall
UT Southwestern Medical Center – Clinical Informatics Center
UT Health Houston – D. Bradley McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics
University of Texas at Arlington – College of Nursing and Health Innovation
University of Texas at Arlington – Multi Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics
Panel Session: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: The Health Disparities Dilemma and Practical Solutions
Panelists & Topics:
Monica Coley , DHI, MPH, Health Informaticist and Sr. Business Development
Manager for Amazon Web Services
The Health Disparities Dilemma with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Xiaogian Jiang , PhD, Associate Vice President of Medical AI and Christopher
Sarofim Family Professor, The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at
Houston, D. Bradley McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics
Technology Solutions for Mitigating Algorithmic Unfairness and New Challenges
Kirk Roberts , PhD, Associate Professor, The University of Texas Health Sciences
Center at Houston, D. Bradley McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics
Organizational Bias and Federated Learning for Machine Learning Models
Michael Conward , PhD, Chief Technology Officer and Founder, MyLUA Health
Advancing Health Equity: Real World Application of AI/ML for Maternal Care
Moderated by: Dr. Monica Coley, Amazon Web Services
Lightning Talks: Health Data in Action: A Look at Six Innovative Projects
Shannon Shiffer, UT Southwestern
Worth the Weight: Improving Insight into Surgical Weight Loss
Sudeepa Bhattacharyya, Arkansas State University
Addressing Colorectal Cancer Prevalence and Screening Disparities in
Arkansas: A Computational Framework Towards Targeted Personalized
Jorge Zamora, Methodist Healthcare
Health Data Literacy Advancement: Leveraging Education, Informatics Partners, and Technology
Elizabeth Gonzalez, UT Southwestern
Reducing Nursing Documentation and Empowering Patients Through the Use of
Patient Entered Questionnaires
Dr. Prena Dua, Lousiana Tech University
A Machine Learning Approach for Prediction of Cancer Outcomes with
Determined Smoking Status
Tanvi Ingle, UT Southwestern
Early Detection of Sepsis Model to Broadly Predict Patient Mortality
Dr. Shakera Moreland, HIM Concierge Services & Dr. Mari Tietze, UT Arlington
Progress on Evidence-based Recruiting for AI and ML Talent: Career Identification
Moderated by: Dr. Gabriela Wilson, UT Arlington
Closing Keynote
Maria E. Fernandez, PhD
Vice President of Population Health and Implementation Science
Co-Director, UTHealth Houston Institute for Implementation Science
Lorne Bain Chair of Public Health and Medicine
Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences
Director, Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research
UTHealth – Houston School of Public Health
“Implementation science and Health Informatics: Partnership for promoting equity”
Introduced by: Dr. Susan Fenton, UTHealth – Houston
Dr. Susan H. Fenton, UTHealth – Houston