Division Director
Andrew White, PhD
Overview
The Health Sciences Division of Applied Informatics provides computing and technological support for the academic, administrative, and research aspects of the Stony Brook Medicine campus. While the Division focuses on solutions supporting the informatics framework for Stony Brook Medicine, it also administers key technological components that support assessment tools in both the realm of medical educational and healthcare informatics research. The staff maintain essential partnerships with information technology units throughout the campus and are integral to the success of the five Health Sciences schools. Some examples of the projects and services managed by this Division include:
- Development of software that supports several administrative and financial operations and dashboards within the School of Medicine
- Development of software that interfaces between the national medical school student application submissions and the student recruitment/evaluation processes for the School of Medicine
- Administration of a computer cluster for analyzing research data within the Department of Pharmacology
- Design, development, and technical administration of the website for SUNY REACH (http://reach.suny.edu). This website hosts information about collaborative efforts between researchers across Upstate and Downstate Medical Centers, Stony Brook Medicine, University at Buffalo, and SUNY Optometry. This site also represents use of the latest advances in technologies associated with linked data and the semantic web.
- Administration of servers, network storage, website applications, graphic design and the multitude of content for the websites of Stony Brook Medicine (http://www.stonybrookmedicine.edu). This includes websites for Centers and Institutes, the Clinical Departments, the 5 Schools, and the Graduate Program in Public Health.
- Grant funded research utilizing data from the New York State Department of Health in partnership with researchers from SBU, Upstate Medical, and the University at Buffalo,
- Ongoing development of CBase, a complex application that tracks courses, exams, and the progress of students within the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry