Casey Overby Taylor

biomedical informatics, biomedical data science, decision support systems

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News and Announcements

April 1, 2020 - New TIRI Website


March 25, 2020 - Joint Appointment in Medicine and BME


Jan 28, 2020 - Taylor Selected for Microsoft Fellowship


Jan 27, 2020 - New Precision Medicine Informatics Book


Oct 17, 2019 - Bioinformatics and Genomics Symposium


Oct 8, 2019 - ICM Distinguished Seminar Series


Sep 26-27, 2019 - Strategic Planning Workshop: Genomics in Medicine & Health


Sep 3-5, 2019 - Equity, Diversity, and Data Science in Genomics Workshop


Sep 1, 2019 - Congratulations to Helen!


May 20, 2019 - Genomics Rendering in FHIR presentation


Mar 26, 2019 - Congratulations to Stella!


Mar 25-28, 2019 - AMIA 2019 Informatics Summit

I feel honored to serve as Vice Chair of the Implementation track for AMIA 2019 Informatics Summit.

This year we have oral paper presentations on work completed by two research group alumni: Stella and Sanchari. I will also be presenting work from an eMERGE Network-wide effort:


Jan 9, 2019 - Guest Speaker at IPM Seminar

I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to Mount Siani in New York to present on “Decision support in the era of genomic unsolicited health information” at their first Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (IPM) seminar of the new year.


Dec 25, 2018 - Congratulations to Rohit and Vibhu!


Dec 15, 2018 - Secondary BME and CS appointments

I now have secondary appointments in Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering and in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins. I look forward to interacting more with BME and CS faculty, staff and students.


Oct 16, 2018 - JAMIA Paper published in October issue

Our eMERGE EHR integration working group paper titled “Empowering genomic medicine by establishing critical sequencing result data flows” was highlighted on the cover of the October issue of JAMIA.


Oct 12, 2018 - Informatics in Action Video Posted

My Informatics in Action Video is now live here.


Sep 5-6, 2018 - GM XI Meeting on Genomic Medicine Implementation.

NHGRI sponsered its 11th Genomic Medicine meeting - Genomic Medicine XI: Research Directions in Genomic Medicine Implementation. Larry Babb (Harvard/MIT), Christopher Chute (Hopkins), Gil Alterovitz (Harvard/MIT) and myself spoke and led the discussion with Howard McLeod (Moffitt Cancer Center) as moderator. Our session covered one of my favorite topics, the “Role of electronic health records in implementation.” I spoke about “Knowledge manaement for genomic clinical decision support.” More information about this meeting is here.


Sep 1, 2018 - Congratulations to Sidnei and Zubin!


Aug 29-Sep 1, 2018 - Representation at ACM-BCB 2018

I’m happy to serve as Tutorial Chair this year with Rezarta Islamaj Dogan at ACM-BCB 2018 - Aug 29-Sep 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. We had 7 accepted tutorials this year.

My research group also has some presentations this year:


Jul 4, 2018 - Congratulations to Ken, Stella, Sanchari and Shankar!


May 24, 2018 - NIH Genomics & Health Disparities IG

I appreciated the invitation from Vence Bonham (Senior Advisor to the NHGRI Director on Genomics and Health Disparities) to present at the Genomics & Health Disparities Interest Group Seminar. My presentation was on “Designing software interventions to increase the reach of genomics-informed care.” This venue provided a wonderful opportunity to share ideas and to engage in discussion with NIH investigators with diverse interests and areas of expertise. This group has a listserv for news and updates on events here.


Mar 29, 2018 - DocUBuild Media Coverage

GenomeWeb recently interviewed Luke Rasmussen (Northwestern) and myself (Johns Hopkins) about DocUBuild, a web application for creating and sharing documents that can be accessed electronically from EHR systems, following Luke’s presentation at AMIA 2018 Informatics Summit. The article titled “Researchers Develop Web App to Improve Curation, Delivery of Genomic Knowledge to Point of Care” can be accessed here.


Mar 15, 2018 - Announced AMIA 2019 Informatics Summit Chair and Vice Chair’s

Umberto Tachinardi was selected by the AMIA Board of Directors to Chair the AMIA 2019 Informatics Summit, March 25-28, in San Francisco. I am excited to serve as Vice Chair for the Implementation Track.


Mar 12-15, 2018 - AMIA 2018 Informatics Summit

Looking forward to attending AMIA 2018 Informatics Summit. Thanks to those sending virtual updates including a look at the evolution of meeting tracks:

I have enjoyed working with Informatics Implementation Track (IIT) Chair Leslie McIntosh and a great group of IIT SPC members this year.


Mar 3, 2018 - NLM releases 2017-2027 Strategic Plan

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) released their 2017-2027 Strategic Plan titled “A Platform for Biomedical Discovery and Data Powered Health.” It was an honor to contribute to this plan as a Strategic Planning Member on their “Role of NLM in Supporting the Public’s Health: Clinical Systems, Public Health Systems and Services, and Personal Health” panel.


Dec 7, 2017 - eMERGE & Beyond workshop slides and video recordings posted

NHGRI’s “eMERGE & Beyond: The Future of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Genomics” workshop took place on October 30th, 2017. Workshop presentation slides and video recordings have been posted online here.


Nov 20, 2017 - 2017 Johns Hopkins Research Symposium on Engineering in Healthcare

There was a great turn out this year at our second annual Johns Hopkins Symposium on Engineering in Healthcare. It was co-hosted this year by The Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare and The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. Our panel on “Technology Teaming with People” with Shawna J. Perry, Ayse P. Gurses, Wanda Pratt and myself (moderated by Sara J. Czaja) generated some great discussion and ideas.


Nov 4-8, 2017 - AMIA 2017 Annual Symposium Student Paper Competition

I was proud to serve as a Student Paper Competition Committee member this year. The AMIA Student Paper Competition is held annually at the AMIA Annual Symposium. Eight finalist papers were presentated during the meeting and the judges selected first, second, and third place award winners in recognition of the best student papers. Winners from the last several years are shown here.


Nov 1, 2017 - Representation at AMIA 2017

We have several presentations this year at AMIA 2017 - Nov 4-8, 2017 in Washington, DC. Please stop by to see some of our work.


Oct 17, 2017 - Selected for Malone Center Fellowship

The Malone Center recently announced that I was selected to be the first recipient of the Malone Center Fellowship. See posting here for more information. I am initially collaborating with John C. Malone Assistant Professor Ilya Shpitser and Malone Center Director Gregory Hager to develop a new course on developing health IT applications… more details are soon to come!


Sep 20, 2017 - Adjunct position at UMD

I have an appointment to Adjunct Assistant Professor in the College of Information Studies at University of Maryland, College Park. I have been an Affiliate at University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) since 2013 and look forward to growing connections with Johns Hopkins University through collaborating on research and training students, particularly at the intersection of Human Computer Interaction and Biomedical Informatics.


Sep 19, 2017 - Recent and upcoming presentations

I feel honored to be invited to present at the upcoming NIH NHGRI eMERGE & Beyond: The Future of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Genomics Workshop on October 30th, 2017. I’ve had the privilege of presenting in other similar venues including NHGRI’s Computational Genomics and Data Science Program Workshop (Sep 29-30, 2016) and NHGRI’s meeting titled IGNITE and Beyond: The Future of Genomic Medicine Implementation (Aug 30, 2016).


Aug 26, 2017 - Accepting rotation students for Fall 2017

Now accepting rotation students for research projects in translational bioinformatics.


Aug 26, 2017 - Malone Center Student Poster Session

This summer I organized an informal poster session sponsored by the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare with the theme of “User-Centered Computing and Design in Healthcare.” It was held on August 15, 2017 in Malone Hall 328. Overall we had 8 student poster presenters who described their work over the summer:

Thanks to all of those who were able to attend!


Aug 26, 2017 - News and Announcements Section

As we enter the Fall 2017 semester, I’ve decided to begin posting here important news and announcements as they arise.

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