Liz Worthey has been selected as new theme co-director for the Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics (GGB) theme in Graduate Biomedical Sciences (GBS) program.
More info regarding GGB theme to be found here.
Team RICO (Risk of COVID-19), mentored by Dr. Liz Worthey, won 3rd place in UAB COVID Hackathon
Third prize went to the RICO (RIsk of COvid) team, which adapted credit scorecard models used in the financial industry to create a functioning web app that advises users whether or not they should be tested for COVID-19 based on their symptoms. (Watch the RICO team’s presentation.) Team members were: Tarun Mamidi, doctoral trainee in Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics; Thi Tran-Nguyen, Ph.D., committee chair and data scientist for UAB’s U-BRITE/COVID-19 Knowledge Curation Taskforce and a graduate of the doctoral program in immunology; Ryan Melvin, Ph.D., assistant professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine; and mentor Elizabeth Worthey, Ph.D., associate professor of pediatric hematology and oncology.
More about this news to be found in “The Reporter|UAB”
Translating Big Data and DevOps into Clinical Genetics Applications and Making Precision Medicine Possible
Elizabeth A. Worthey, Ph.D., was appointed the inaugural holder of the Endowed Professorship in Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics
The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees appointed Mona Fouad, M.D., the inaugural holder of the Edward E. Partridge, M.D., Endowed Chair for Cancer Disparity Research during its June 4 meeting. Matthew Macaluso, D.O., was appointed the first holder of the Bee McWane Reid Endowed Chair in Psychiatry and Neurobiology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology.
Elizabeth A. Worthey, Ph.D., was appointed the inaugural holder of the Endowed Professorship in Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics, and Charles Blakely Simpson, M.D., was appointed the first holder of the Abroms Endowed Professorship in the Department of Otolaryngology.
More details to be found here.
Open source: How data scientist Liz Worthey is bringing precision medicine to the people
Open source: How data scientist Liz Worthey is bringing precision medicine to the people
Elizabeth “Liz” Worthey joined UAB this summer to help open up genetic insights as a routine part of clinical care. “You have to actually have a health care system to put [genomic diagnostics] into health care,” Worthey said. “That’s why I’m at UAB.”
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Worthey appointed to pediatric and pathology director positions
Elizabeth Worthey, Ph.D., has joined the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Pediatrics as the director for the Center for Genomic Data Sciences. Additionally, she will serve in the Department of Pathology as the director of the Bioinformatics Section in the Division of Genomics Diagnostics and Bioinformatics. She is also the new associate director for the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute.
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Liz Worthey to join Precision Medicine Institute
Liz Worthey to join as an Associate Director in the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine InstituteSchool of Medicine.
Dr. Worthey to join Department of Pediatrics as Director of Center for Genomic Data Sciences
We are excited for Dr. Worthey to bring her expertise in diagnostics, genome informatics and data science to UAB and the Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology and look forward to her leadership in expanding our informatics and precision medicine goals to improve the clinical care of the children of Alabama.
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