# National Library of Medicine Conference 2022 > **NIH NIH T15** · STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO · 2022 · $43,200 ## Abstract Buffalo Research Innovation in Genomic and Healthcare Technology Education (BRIGHT Education), University at Buffalo’s Department of Biomedical Informatics Post-and- PreGraduate Research Training The University at Buffalo’s Department of Biomedical Informatics, with funding from our first T15 grant, trained 3 PhD students and 6 post docs plus 8 short term trainees in biomedical informatics research. We continue our focus on: 1-health & healthcare/clinical informatics; 2-translational bioinformatics; and 3-clinical research informatics, with inclusion now on informatics of: 4) Public Health and 5) Consumer Health. The curriculum builds on our growing MS and PhD programs with our existing faculty and outside mentors in addition to world- renowned experts who provide workshops, etc. Most medical informatics focuses on the specifics of research in implementation, technology, clinical care, etc. We do that, of course, but we also integrate the synergistic research skills and orientations needed for biomedical informatics to move our discipline beyond its current entanglements. In contrast, our department (now 7.5 years old) fits perfectly with the ethos and focus of the NLM’s research training goals. We also realize that our location in a depressed area offers us the obligation, opportunity, and privilege to recruit and train scholars so often excluded from this field. They can stay in familiar settings, and bring their insights to others. Also, our affiliated scholars, researchers, practitioners, and linked institutes will join with us to train and inspire our students. We enable students to use research to understand and improve the field--analyze the complex interactions of workflow, evaluation, computer systems, CDS, usability, ethics, big data, clinical research, and patient care–researching biomedical informatics to help move healthcare IT to be a fluent, informed, and meaningful contribution to clinical efficiency and medical knowledge. Our PhD program is comprised of core courses, required additional courses in 1 of the 5 concentrations (“selectives”), and at least 17 credits of electives. In addition to didactic and lab courses, all students are involved in extensive research, practicums, workshops, presentations, mock IRBs and ethics reviews, our EHR laboratory, patient safety and quality rounds, and human factors training. Because of students’ varying expertise, we build in flexibility to reflect pedagogic requirements while ensuring mastery of necessary skills and mentoring of students. Biomedical informatics continues to frustrate, despite (or because of) its extraordinary promises. Only committed and skilled researchers can help us close this gap; enabling our field to achieve what is so needed. We will work with the NLM to create an outstanding training grant meeting program. We will serve as the local organizing committee for the meeting and will help recruit and host the Scientific Planning Committee. We will accept and review applica... ## Key facts - **NIH application ID:** 10526993 - **Project number:** 3T15LM012495-05S1 - **Recipient organization:** STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO - **Principal Investigator:** PETER L. ELKIN - **Activity code:** T15 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.) - **Funding institute:** NIH - **Fiscal year:** 2022 - **Award amount:** $43,200 - **Award type:** 3 - **Project period:** 2022-02-10 → 2022-06-30 ## Primary source NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10526993 ## Citation > US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10526993, National Library of Medicine Conference 2022 (3T15LM012495-05S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10526993. Licensed CC0. --- *[NIH grants dataset](/datasets/nih-grants) · CC0 1.0*