{"id":10343,"date":"2018-07-18T15:07:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T19:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=10343"},"modified":"2018-07-19T10:48:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T14:48:54","slug":"alfredo-tirado-ramos-to-lead-biomedical-and-translational-informatics-for-geisel-and-dartmouth-hitchcock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2018\/alfredo-tirado-ramos-to-lead-biomedical-and-translational-informatics-for-geisel-and-dartmouth-hitchcock\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfredo Tirado-Ramos to Lead Biomedical and Translational Informatics For Geisel and Dartmouth-Hitchcock"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alfredo Tirado-Ramos, PhD, has joined the Dartmouth community to lead biomedical and translational informatics programs at Geisel and D-H. (Photo by Rob Strong)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Distinguished computational scientist and informatics expert Alfredo Tirado-Ramos, PhD, has joined the Dartmouth community to lead biomedical and translational informatics programs for the Geisel School of Medicine and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H) health system.<\/p>\n

Tirado-Ramos\u2019 multifaceted leadership responsibilities will include serving as director of biomedical informatics at SYNERGY Clinical and Translational Science Institute<\/a>\u2014Dartmouth\u2019s CTSA (Clinical and Translational Science Award), funded by the National Institutes of Health. Tirado-Ramos will also serve as director of the Biomedical Data Science Research Software Laboratory and associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Geisel, and scientific director of biomedical informatics for D-H.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are delighted to have Alfredo aboard\u2014being able to secure someone of his experience and expertise is a major coup for Dartmouth,\u201d says Alan I. Green, MD, chair and professor of psychiatry at Geisel, and director of SYNERGY. \u201cInformatics is a key part of modern clinical and translational research and an essential component of linking data from electronic health records with research questions. Alfredo\u2019s impact will be dramatic in helping us use \u2018big data\u2019 in sophisticated ways to advance our efforts in research and patient care throughout our system and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tirado-Ramos was formerly the chief and founder of the Clinical Informatics Division of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, where he led a full-spectrum biomedical informatics program that explored the intersection between informatics, translational science, and clinically relevant datacentric problems\u2014including computable phenotype-based research in areas such as health disparities, obesity, ALS, aging, and cancer.<\/p>\n

With substantial funding from PCORI<\/a> (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute) and the CTSA Program<\/a>, he created an information research system for interdisciplinary collaboration between pediatric endocrinologists, cancer researchers and neurologists, while establishing new institutional governance frameworks. Tirado-Ramos also co-directed the informatics core at the San Antonio Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center\u2014as part of a National Institute on Aging award\u2014where he developed state-of-the-art informatics tools to investigate treatments for age-related diseases, with a major focus on pharmacological interventions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am excited to join the Dartmouth community; I feel very welcomed and strongly supported,\u201d says Tirado-Ramos. \u201cI was drawn to Dartmouth by the opportunity to work with Dr. Alan Green, who through the SYNERGY program has been working to advance translational science and clinical care, and also by the challenge of bridging the discoveries made by Dartmouth\u2019s world-class researchers and the clinical domain of its health system.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very pleased to have Alfredo here to fill this key position for our institution,\u201d says Michael Whitfield, PhD, interim chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science and professor of molecular and systems biology and biomedical science at Geisel. \u201cHe brings a real depth of experience in clinical and biomedical informatics to Dartmouth, and he will play a pivotal role in creating a research environment that will allow us to interface better with Dartmouth-Hitchcock from the basic research side, so we can begin to analyze clinical data in more depth to improve patient care and outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tirado-Ramos foresees advancing biomedical and translational informatics at Dartmouth in two phases. \u201cIn the next year, we\u2019ll be focused on bringing the SYNERGY program up to speed in terms of establishing the infrastructure and resources we need to ensure that our CTSA is refunded and we can continue to build on the great work that has been done here to date,\u201d he says. \u201cThen within five years, I\u2019d like to see Dartmouth connect with national and international networks and become one of the lead centers for biomedical and translational informatics.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAlfredo has hit the ground running, helping us to start a strategic plan for deployment of tools that can allow collaborative sharing of data from multiple institutions\u2019 health records,\u201d says D-H Chief Health Information Officer Peter Solberg, MD. \u201cAnd he brings a great personal charm and energy to the crucial role of coordinating College and D-H efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to joining the University of Texas, Tirado-Ramos served as associate director for the Biomedical Informatics Core at the Center for AIDS Research at Emory University\u2019s Rollins School of Public Health. His work at Emory focused on informatics applied to clinically relevant biomedical challenges, including the correlations between infectious disease and cancer and whole genome sequencing for vaccine development research.<\/p>\n

While at Emory University, Tirado-Ramos was also a scientific member of the Winship Cancer Institute Prevention and Control Program, as well as a senior member of the research staff at the Center for Comprehensive Informatics.<\/p>\n

After earning a BSc in electrical and electronics engineering at the Universidad Auton\u00f3ma de Nuevo Le\u00f3n (Mexico) in 1995, Tirado-Ramos received an MSc in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona in 1998. He completed his PhD in computational science at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (The Netherlands) in 2007.<\/p>\n

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Founded in 1797, the GEISEL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT DARTMOUTH<\/a> strives to improve the lives of the communities it serves through excellence in learning, discovery, and healing. The Geisel School of Medicine is renowned for its leadership in medical education, health care policy and delivery science, biomedical research, global health, and in creating innovations that improve lives worldwide. As one of America\u2019s leading medical schools, Dartmouth\u2019s Geisel School of Medicine is committed to training new generations of diverse leaders who will help solve our most vexing challenges in health care.<\/p>\n

DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK<\/a> (D-H) is a nonprofit academic health system serving communities in northern New England. D-H provides access to more than 1,000 primary care doctors and specialists in almost every area of medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; the Norris Cotton Cancer Center<\/a>, the Children\u2019s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock<\/a>, four affiliate hospitals, 24 ambulatory clinics and through the Visiting Nurse and Hospice for VT and NH. The D-H system trains nearly 400 residents and fellows annually, and performs world-class research, in partnership with the \u00a0Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth<\/a>and the White River Junction VA Medical Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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