The Emory School of Medicine has launched a new Biomedical Informatics Department. The new department will create more faculty positions and will help encourage opportunities for improved training, education and research in this emerging field.
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The new department's chair will be Joel Saltz, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Emory Center for Comprehensive Informatics.
Saltz commented, “The launch of this new department, which has been in the planning stages for several years, is a landmark event that signifies the dramatic growth of the field of biomedical informatics, generally, its critical importance to medical advancement and the growing strengths of bioinformatics and biomedical informatics in the School of Medicine and other areas in the University."
The new department (and new doctoral concentration in biomedical informatics) will attract many top level students and professionals to the Emory School of Medicine.
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