In 2020, Dr. Jessica Golbus and her team set out to examine whether a mobile health (mHealth) intervention using personalized text message guidance could improve the physical activity levels of low and moderate risk patients who were enrolled in center-based cardiac rehabilitation.

When Nate Wood arrived at the University of Michigan as a freshman, he already knew he wanted to become a doctor. But growing up in Muskegon, Michigan, in a family without physicians, he didn’t yet have a clear path—or mentors to help guide him. That changed when he joined the Michigan Genomics Initiative (MGI) as an undergraduate research assistant.

The reports contain impressions, narratives and other detailed notes matching the 1.1 million chest X-ray and 100,000 brain MRI studies available through AI&DHI’s secure HIPAA-compliant Turbo environment.

Dr. Zebrack’s research currently focuses on identifying and defining functional genomic pathways through which current and past psychosocial and social environmental risk and resilience factors influence gene expression in Adolescence/Young Adulthood, and thus contribute to a greater understanding of health disparities in post-treatment survivorship. 

The University of Michigan College of Engineering speaks with AI & Digital Health Innovation Co-Director Dr. Jenna Wiens about AI&DHI and its custom-built digital environment that is powering tomorrow’s health AI research.

We are excited to announce the completion of genotype calling, quality control, and genotype imputation for Freeze 7 of the Michigan Genomics Initiative dataset.

This update brings significant improvements over Freeze 6. See inside for details.

Our Researcher Spotlight focuses on Dr. Geoff Barnes, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical School.

Dr. Barnes’ digital health research focuses on using electronic health record tools to improve the safe care of patients taking anticoagulant medications.

MGI–with the generous support of Michigan Medicine’s Vice Dean for Research, Steve Kunkel, Ph.D.–is planning to perform whole-genome sequencing on DNA samples from up to 10,000 individuals from the MGI cohort.

We are asking for proposals from the UM scientific community on how to select the subset of MGI participants to be sequenced.

AI&DHI recently hosted a series of “Data Lunches” to introduce its data and compute services to the broader U-M research community while celebrating the innovative work researchers are undertaking at the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare.

Precision Health is expanding to form a unified network that is accelerating healthcare-focused AI solutions across U-M.

Digital Health Innovation is partnering with the University of Texas Medical Branch to pilot OMOP data standardization and diversify our genetic dataset.

Daniel Hertz, PharmD, PhD, an AI & Digital Health Innovation researcher, received the inaugural STRIPE Double Helix Award from the American Society of Pharmacovigilance.