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Chair Dept Biomedical Informatics @ Pitt. Founding Prez of Assn for Path Info. Co-Director of the Center for Commercial Applications (CCA) of Healthcare Data

Univ Pittsburgh Med School
Joined April 2010
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“I like being able to work on important problems in cancer in collaboration with clinicians and other scientists." -Dr. Hatice Ulku Osmanbeyoglu (@HOsmanbeyoglu), a bioinformatics researcher who received a Hillman Fellowship in 2019. Learn more: hillmanresearch.upmc.edu/res…
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AWS and @HealthDataPGH are collaborating to advance innovation in health. With help from the Amazon Research Awards, researchers from @UPMC, @CarnegieMellon @PittTweet are using ML techniques to study breast cancer risk and identify depression markers. amazon.science/aws-and-phda-…
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Mike Becich retweeted
They’re not just brothers, they’re collaborators. Warren and @PittTweet’s Mark Shlomchik are working together to write the next chapter in innovative research. Today’s the day. Follow along with us at 1 p.m. EST. #UPMCinnovates #H2P
Mike Becich retweeted
About half of us have the genetic variants for celiac disease, but only one in about 130 people will get it. Dr. Terence Dermody is on his way to understanding why. bit.ly/2CdDRoW via @PittTweet
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#SIIM17's going to be great! Rethinking #Imaging Informatics around rad-path diagnostics will be key to #ImagingIT & #digitalpathology. 🎯
UPMC and @Microsoft Plan to Develop Innovations that Empower Patients, Clinicians shar.es/19ZqMs #UPMCinnovates #HIMSS17 #HITsm
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A curated list of games that can teach you how to learn a #programming language github.com/michelpereira/gam… #coding #edtech
Predictions for key advances in medicine for 2017, straight from the 'Burgh ln.is/www.post-gazette.com/S… @PittsburghPG #HIMSS17 #UPMCinnovates
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Robert Gentleman: @23andMe goes from idea, surveys to analysis in < 1 year. In academia, grant wouldnt even be reviewed by then! #ACHJhit
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Mike Becich retweeted
Nature paper released today by Pitt colleagues moments after it was presented by Dr. Mike Boninger at #WHFrontiers teapaw.org/erictopol/status/78661…
A #brain chip restores touch sensation to a young man with tetraplegia stm.sciencemag.org/content/e… #WHFrontiers
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We need to open up systems so people "don't just feel like cogs in that system" says #POTUS. #WHFrontiers
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Can #IBM Watson help experts better understand cancer? Watch “60 Minutes, Oct. 9.” #UNC_Lineberger #Cancer #UNC ow.ly/2vmG304Xau8
Replying to @becich
@becich @NIMHgov @TanjaBekhuis @skbrahmachari: please RT this resource to relevant science groups teapaw.org/madhavicmu/status/7688…
Replying to @Nature_NPJ
@Nature_NPJ fully-labeled poster-size image of schizophrenia interactkme released! nature.com/articles/npjschz2…
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Pitt No. 2 in commonwealth for NIH grants in fiscal 2016 bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/n… via @PghBizTimes
Yes, you did. Well done, Class of 2016. Well done. #CarlGrad16
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Replying to @comppathpitt
@comppathpitt @becich getting ready for Computational Pathology Session with Cernostics, excited to learn!
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Computational Pathology Pittsburgh thought leadership event, thank you to @becich for hospitality and facilitation!
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