Clinical Informatics Fellowship
Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Children's Hospital
Department of Pathology & Immunology
Openings for 2020-2022, 2021-2023, and 2022-2024

Program Description

Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Pathology & Immunology, and Texas Children’s Hospital are offering a fellowship position in Clinical Informatics starting July 2020. The two-year ACGME-accredited program provides comprehensive training to become a leader in clinical and laboratory informatics, in informatics research and education. The fellow will gain training and experience in fundamental informatics concepts, technology, application, and management. Fellowship rotations provide experience and project opportunities in electronic health records, laboratory information systems, data analytics, clinical decision support, database architecture, quality and utilization improvement, interoperability, cybersecurity, and lab management. The fellow will have opportunities in research and digital pathology initiatives. The fellowship experience is flexible to match the trainee's interests and goals.

Fellow Responsibilities
  • Active participation in rotations, projects, education, and research
  • Up to 20% time in the fellow's primary specialty
  • Completion of Epic Physician Builder courses and AMIA 10x10 Introduction to Biomedical & Health Informatics course, or equivalent
  • Service to local and national informatics communities

Fellow Candidate Requirements
  • Board certified/eligible in anatomic pathology, clinical pathology, or both. All ABMS specialties considered
  • Must have or be eligible for Texas medical licensure
  • Demonstrate strong interest and aptitude in clinical/pathology informatics

Interested applicants for the 2020-2022 fellowship position, as well as 2021-2023 and 2022-2024 openings, should write to:

Program Director: Ila Singh, MD, PhD, irsingh@texaschildrens.org
Program Coordinator: Rosario Guzman, rsguzman@texaschildrens.org
Website: https://www.bcm.edu/departments/pathology-and-immunology/education/clinical-informatics-fellowship

Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) is a HIMSS Stage 7 organization and continues to receive the "Most Wired" designation for outstanding health care-based technology from Hospital & Health Networks Magazine. TCH is the nation's largest children's hospital and is ranked third in U.S. News and World Report's Best Children's Hospitals.

[#9509, exp. 30 April 2021]

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Department of Pathology
Clinical Informatics (CI) Fellowship
Opening for 2021-2023 and 2022-2024

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) has one opening for the Clinical Informatics (CI) fellowship for the 2021-2023 and 2022-2024 academic years.

Description: This is a two-year ACGME-accredited fellowship in clinical informatics (CI). The CI fellowship includes cross-disciplinary learning for physicians from different medical specialties. Training includes specialized coursework in foundational CI as well as healthcare analytics, cybersecurity, and data science. Fellows will work with the program director and selected faculty to develop an individualized learning plan including foundational knowledge as well as elective learning opportunities (e.g., healthcare business intelligence, machine learning/artificial intelligence, population/community health, bioinformatics for large scale-nucleic acid sequencing and clinical metabolomics, sensor data/internet of things). Each fellow will actively participate in healthcare analytics and process improvement projects with selected CI faculty mentors. These projects enable fellows to analyze data from different large data sources (clinical, operational, financial, community, etc.). In addition, projects provide an environment for fellows to lead and carry out effective healthcare analytics and process improvements. Fellows are also encouraged to participate in CI research activities leading to publication of manuscripts and/or presentation of research findings at professional meetings. Fellows with pathology specialty training are strongly recommended to apply concurrently to another pathology subspecialty program, at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA), to coordinate clinical activities required for the CI fellowship.

The program includes collaborative faculty from multiple clinical departments at UTHSCSA and University Health System (UHS). In addition, the program includes outside faculty with considerable experience in data science, applied analytics, predictive modeling, and machine learning/artificial intelligence, based at: 1) the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), 2) the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a large non-profit engineering center, and 3) Health Access San Antonio (HASA), a large multi-regional health information exchange.

Requirements: Successful completion of ACGME-accredited or RCPSC-accredited residency program. Must have, or be eligible for, a Texas Medical Board Physician-in-training permit or have a full Texas medical license.

Types and Numbers of Appointments: 1 appointment per academic year.

This fellowship is eligible to be combined with the UTHSCSA Transfusion Medicine fellowship which will count towards one year of clinical informatics training. Interested candidates should review the UTHSCSA Transfusion Medicine Fellowship page for additional information.

Facilities: University Hospital System, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, University of Texas at San Antonio

Community: The purpose of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is to provide the best in health careers education, biomedical research, patient care and community service to San Antonio and the South Texas/Border Region. Through undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate programs, the faculty is committed educating health professionals to provide excellent patient care and research applied to treat and prevent disease.

Stipends: Pay levels are as follows effective July 1, 2020: PGY-5 = $61,473.66; PGY-6 = $63,213.76; PGY-7 = $65,475.78.

Staff: Brad Brimhall, MD, MPH (Pathology) Program Director, Philip Beckett, PhD (CEO HASA), David Chambers, MS (SwRI Intelligent Systems Division), Marjorie David, MD (Pathology), Liem Du, MD (Internal Medicine), Leslie Greebon, MD (Pathology), Russell Higgins, MD (Pathology), Max Kilger, PhD (UTSA Data Security/Data Analytics), Philip LoVerde, PhD (Biochemistry/Pathology), Edward Medina, MD, PhD (Pathology), Frank Rosinia, MD (Anesthesiology), Paula Shireman, MD, MBA (Surgery), Michael Shoffeitt, MD (Internal Medicine)

Applications: Please submit inquiries/applications to:

Maria Gomez
Fellowship Program Coordinator
UT Health Science Center at San Antonio
Pathology, MSC 7750
7703 Floyd Curl Dr.
San Antonio, TX 78229-3900

Telephone: (210) 567-4010
Fax: (210) 567-4637
Email: GomezM10@uthscsa.edu or Dr. Brimhall (Brimhallb@uthscsa.edu)
Website: https://lsom.uthscsa.edu/pathology/education/fellowship/surgical-pathology-fellowship/

[#9541-5, exp. 14 May 2021]