Omolola Ogunyemi

• Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics, Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, 2007 - present
• Associate Professor, Medical Sciences Institute, Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, 2007 - present
• Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, 2003 - 2007
• Member of the affiliated faculty, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), 2003 - 2007
• Instructor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School, 1999 - 2003
• Research Associate, Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1999 - 2007

Teaching (Biomedical Informatics)

• Guest lecturer, UCLA BME 220, Introduction to Medical Informatics, Fall 2007 - Fall 2010.
• Course director and co-instructor, HST 952, Computing for Biomedical Scientists, Fall 2001 - Fall 2003
• Co-instructor, Electronic Medical Records and Decision Support, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, January/February 2003.
• Co-instructor, Intensive Introduction to Medical Informatics and Telemedicine, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, January/February 2002.
• Guest lecturer on Bayesian network applications, HST 951, Medical Decision Support, Spring 2000
• Advisor to post-doctoral fellows in the Harvard-MIT-NEMC-BU biomedical informatics program, 1999 - 2007

Education

• 1999, PhD, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
• 1994, MSE, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
• 1993, BA, Computer Science, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY

Research Interests

• 3D graphics and visualization
• Reasoning under uncertainty
• Computerized medical decision support
• Machine learning

Research Projects

• CEDRIC: Charles Drew University Electronic Disease Registry to Improve Chronic Care
• Accelerating Excellence in Translational Science (AXIS)
• Diabetic retinopathy screening using telemedicine in South Los Angeles safety net clinics
• SCANNER: Scalable National Network for Effectiveness Research
• Predictive modeling of chronic kidney disease in HIV-positive individuals
• TraumaSCAN-Web: Assessing penetrating trauma with 3D models of anatomy and Bayesian networks.
• Breast cancer risk assessment with Bayesian networks
• FACTS (Finding Appropriate Clinical Trials for women with breast cancer)
• GLIF (The Guideline Interchange Format)

Service and Activities

• NIH Study Section: Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee, National Library of Medicine, 2003 - 2007
• Scientist reviewer, Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program, 2007
• Scientist reviewer, Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program, 2008, 2009
• Associate Editor, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2005 - 2007
• Editorial Board Member, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2007 - present
• Reviewer, Special Emphasis Panel, National Library of Medicine, 2009
• Member, AMIA 2009 Conference Scientific Program Committee
• Scientist reviewer, Department of Defense Lung Cancer Research Program, 2010
• Reviewer, Computational Thinking Small Business and Full & Open programs, National Library of Medicine, 2010
• Member, Literature Selection Technical Review Committee, National Library of Medicine, 2010 - 2014
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Imaging, and Systems Biology, 2011

Interesting links

• Computational geometry pages
• Graphics gems repository
• Directory of Bayesian network software packages
• A Bayesian network repository
• The Surgical Planning Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Java 3D information
• Visualization Toolkit (VTK) home page

Publications

Papers

Ogunyemi O, Terrien E, Eccles A, Patty L, George S, Fish A, Teklehaimanot S, Ilapakurthi R, Aimiuwu O, Baker R. Teleretinal Screening for Diabetic Retinopathy in Six Los Angeles Urban Safety-Net Clinics: Initial Findings. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2011: 1027-35. PMID: 22195163. [Full text.]

Fish A, George S, Terrien E, Eccles A, Baker R, Ogunyemi O. Workflow Concerns and Workarounds of Readers in an Urban Safety Net Teleretinal Screening Study. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2011: 417-26. PMID: 22195095. [Full text.]
(Nominated for a Diana Forsythe award)

Ogunyemi O, Mukherjee S, Ani C, Hindman D, George S, Ilapakurthi R, Verma M, Dayrit M. CEDRIC: A Computerized Chronic Disease Management System for Urban, Safety Net Clinics. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2010; 160:208-12. PMID: 20841679. [Full text.]

Martins D, Ani C, Pan D, Ogunyemi O, Norris, K. Renal Dysfunction, Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality. Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, vol. 2010, Article ID 167162, 8 pages, 2010. doi:10.1155/2010/167162. PMID: 20700408. [Full text.]

Ahmed BA, Matheny ME, Rice PL, Clarke JR, Ogunyemi OI. A comparison of methods for assessing penetrating trauma on retrospective multi-center data. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Apr 2009; 42(2):308-316. PMID: 18929685. [Full text.]

Ogunyemi O. Methods for reasoning from geometry about anatomic structures injured by penetrating trauma. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Aug 2006; 39(4):389-400. PMID: 16321576. [Full text.]

Matheny M, Ogunyemi O, Rice P, Clarke J. Evaluating the Discriminatory Power of a Computer-based System for Assessing Penetrating Trauma on Retrospective Multi-Center Data. Proc AMIA Annual Fall Symposium; 2005; pp. 500-504. PMID: 16779090.
(Nominated for a Distinguished Paper award)
[Full text.]

Peleg M, Boxwala AA, Tu S, Zeng Q, Ogunyemi O, Wang D, Patel VL, Greenes RA, Shortliffe EH. The InterMed approach to sharable computer-interpretable guidelines: a review. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association; 2004 Jan-Feb;11(1):1-10. PMID:14527977. [Full text.]

Boxwala AA, Peleg M, Tu S, Ogunyemi O, Zeng QT, Wang D, Patel VL, Greenes RA, Shortliffe EH. GLIF3: a representation format for sharable computer-interpretable clinical practice guidelines. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Jun 2004; 37(3): 147-161. PMID: 15196480. [Full text (link to pdf).]

Sordo M, Boxwala AA, Ogunyemi O, Greenes RA. Description and Status Update on GELLO: a Proposed Standardized Object-oriented Expression Language for Clinical Decision Support. Medinfo. 2004: 164-8. PMID: 15360796. [Full text (pdf).]

Wang D, Peleg M, Tu SW, Boxwala AA, Ogunyemi O, Zeng Q, Greenes RA, Patel VL, Shortliffe EH. Design and implementation of the GLIF3 guideline execution engine. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2004 Oct; 37(5): 305-18. PMID: 15488745. [Full text (pdf).]

Ogunyemi O, Clarke JR, Ash N, Webber B. Combining Geometric and Probabilistic Reasoning for Computer-Based Penetrating Trauma Assessment. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2002 May-Jun;9(3):273-82. PMID: 11971888. [Full text.]

Ash N, Ogunyemi O, Zeng Q, Ohno-Machado L. Finding Appropriate Clinical Trials: Encoding Eligibility Criteria and their Evaluation with Incomplete Data. Proc AMIA Annual Fall Symposium; 2001. pp. 27-31. PMID: 11825151. [Full text.]

Boxwala AA, Tu S, Peleg M, Zeng Q, Ogunyemi O, Greenes RA, Shortliffe EH, Patel VL. Toward a Representation Format for Sharable Clinical Guidelines. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 34(3): 157-169, 2001. PMID: 11723698. [Full text (link to pdf).]

Peleg M, Ogunyemi O, Tu S, Boxwala AA, Zeng Q, Greenes RA, Shortliffe EH. Using Features of Arden Syntax with Object-Oriented Medical Data Models for Guideline Modeling. Proc AMIA Annual Fall Symposium; 2001. pp. 523-527. PMID: 11825243. [Full text.]

Ogunyemi O, Clarke JR, Webber B, Badler N. TraumaSCAN: Assessing Penetrating Trauma with Geometric and Probabilistic Reasoning. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium; 2000 November; Los Angeles, California; Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus; 2000. pp. 620-624. PMID: 11079958. [Full text.]

Ogunyemi O, Clarke JR, and Webber B. Using Bayesian networks for diagnostic reasoning in penetrating injury assessment. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems; Houston, Texas; IEEE Computer Society Press; 2000. pp. 115-120.

Peleg M, Boxwala AA, Ogunyemi O, Zeng Q, Tu S, Lacson R, Bernstam E, Ash N, Mork P, Ohno-Machado L, Shortliffe EH, Greenes RA. GLIF3: The Evolution of a Guideline Representation Format. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium; 2000 November; Los Angeles, California; Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus; 2000. pp. 645-649. PMID: 11079963. [Full text]

Ogunyemi O, Webber B, and Clarke JR. Probabilistically predicting penetrating injury for decision support. Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems; 1998 Lubbock, Texas; IEEE Computer Society Press; 1998. pp. 44-49. [Full text (pdf)]

Ogunyemi O, Webber B, and Clarke JR. Probabilistic predictions of penetrating injury to anatomic structures. In: Masys D, editor. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium; 1997 October; Nashville, Tennessee; Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus; 1997. pp. 714-718. PMID: 9357718.
(Nominated for a Best Paper award)
[Full text (pdf)]

Chi D, Kokkevis E, Ogunyemi O, Bindiganavale R, Hollick M, Clarke JR, Webber B, Badler N. Simulated casualties and medics for emergency training. In: Morgan K, Hoffman H, Stredney D, Weghorst S, editors. MMVR97. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference; Studies in Health Technology and Information 1997; 39:486-494. PMID: 10168943. [Full text (pdf)]

Ogunyemi O, Kaye J, Webber B, Clarke JR. Generating penetration path hypotheses for decision support in multiple trauma. In: Gardner R, editor. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care; 1995 October; New Orleans, Louisiana. Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus; 1995. pp. 42-46. PMID: 8563315. [Full text (pdf)]

Badler N, Webber B, Clarke JR, Chi D, Hollick M, Foster N, Kokkevis E, Metaxas, D, Ogunyemi O, Kaye J, Bindiganavale R. Medisim: Simulated medical corpsmen and casualties for medical forces planning and training. The National Forum: Military Telemedicine On-Line Today. Research, Practice and Opportunities. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995. [Full text (pdf)]

Abstracts/Posters

Ogunyemi OI, Ani C, Yemofio F, Jordan W, Norris K. Prediction of Early-Stage Chronic Kidney Disease in an HIV-positive Population. In Proceedings of Medinfo 2010, the 13th International Congress on Medical Informatics.

George S, Hindman D, Ani C, Ogunyemi O, Mukherjee S, Ilapakurthi R, Verma M, Baker R, Dayrit M. Development of a clinical information system in an Underserved Community Clinic: A Community Partnered Participatory Research Approach. In Proceedings of Medinfo 2010, the 13th International Congress on Medical Informatics.

Chun J, Ogunyemi O, Schnabel F. Assessment of breast cancer risk prediction models in a high-risk population. Presented at the 31st Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, December 10 - 14, 2008.

Chun J, Schnabel F, Ogunyemi O. Assessing a Bayesian Risk Prediction Model in a High-Risk Breast Cancer Population. In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium; 2007; p. 913.

Ogunyemi O, Chlebowski R, Matloff E, Schnabel F, Orr R, Col N. Creating Bayesian Network Models for Breast Cancer Risk Prediction. In Cancer Risk Prediction Models: A Workshop on Development, Evaluation, and Application, Washington, DC, May 20-21, 2004.

Sordo M, Ogunyemi O, Boxwala AA, Greenes RA. GELLO: An Object-oriented Query and Expression Language for Clinical Decision Support. In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium; 2003; p. 1012.

Nyun T, Ogunyemi O, Zeng Q. Health Information Retrieval Tool (HIRT). In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium; 2002; p. 1116.

Denekamp Y, Ogunyemi O, Boxwala A, Greenes, R. Using a new Object Oriented Expression Language (GELLO) to Encode Arden Syntaxc Modules. In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium; 2002; p. 1006.

Clarke JR, Ogunyemi OI, Kaye J, Badler N, Webber BL. Virtual Imaging of Anatomic Injuries from Bullet Wounds. Presented at the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma meeting in San Antonio TX, October 12, 2000.

Ogunyemi O. Assessing Penetrating Injury with Abductive and Geometric Reasoning. Poster presented at the AT&T Research student poster competition, 1998.
Second place winner, PhD Division.

Thesis

Ogunyemi OI. TraumaSCAN: Assessing Penetrating Trauma with Abductive and Geometric Reasoning. Ph.D. Thesis. Philadelphia (PA): University of Pennsylvania, 1999.

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