Hadeel Elyazori will join a panel on healthcare access across diverse populations, alongside Hoangmai Pham (Institute for Exceptional Care), Lacretia Smith, and Amanda Sanchez, moderated by Gilbert Gimm. Hosted by George Mason's Office of Community Engagement and Civic Learning (CECiL) and the Center for MedTech Innovation, the panel and roundtable run 11:30am–2:00pm on October 15, 2026, at the Johnson Center's George's Café. Register.
Congratulations to Md Tanvir Rouf Shawon on the acceptance of his paper on Patient Simulation in JMIR AI.
Congratulations to Hadeel Elyazori on passing her comprehensive exam.
Congratulations to Md. Mushfiqur Rahman on passing his dissertation proposal.
Hadeel Elyazori was appointed Graduate Student Representative to the Center for Advancing Systems Science and Bioengineering Innovation (CASSBI).
Lab advisor Kevin Lybarger is part of a George Mason University research team awarded a $4.65 million NIH grant to study chronic knee pain.
Dr. Alemi and Dr. Lybarger received a $1,049,998 award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) for their 3-year project, Evaluating Conversational Artificial Intelligence for Depression Management. The project explores applications of large language models to improve antidepressant recommendations and patient outcomes. Details on the PCORI website and the GMU website.
George Mason University's College of Public Health received a $70,906 NIH AIM-AHEAD grant to develop and test an AI chatbot that recommends antidepressants for African Americans with depression, aiming to address gaps in personalized treatment. Details in the George Mason announcement.
The paper describing the National NLP Clinical Challenges (n2c2) extraction task, Track 2: Extracting Social Determinants of Health, was published in JAMIA. Challenge participants used a wide range of innovative techniques.
The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association published a call for papers for a focus issue, Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Extraction through Natural Language Processing, with submissions due in early December.
The lab organized a clinical information extraction challenge through the National NLP Clinical Challenges (n2c2), using the Social History Annotated Corpus from prior work.
AMIA work exploring digital scribes and transcribed patient visits was featured in an article by Fierce Healthcare.
Kevin Lybarger presented his social determinants of health research to the UW Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology on November 5, 2021.
At the AMIA Virtual Day on October 26, 2021, Kevin Lybarger presented a paper on automatic identification of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in chest radiograph reports (paper) and a poster on applying information extraction models to transcribed patient visits.
Kevin Lybarger's doctoral dissertation was recognized as a 2021 AMIA Doctoral Dissertation Award Finalist for its contributions to biomedical informatics. The dissertation is available online.
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