A NEW RESEARCH STRATEGIC PLAN FOR SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
APPENDIX C:
PRIORITY HIRES AND WORKING GROUP SPECIFIC IMPACTFUL INITIATIVES The Synthesis Committee of the Research Strategic Planning process met on several occasions to extract from the working group reports, a distillation of priority hires to advance areas of strategic focus and to identify synergy between research strengths and the most impactful initiatives for each target area. It was also recognized that the SUNY Empire Innovation Plan faculty hires have been a powerful mechanism to advance the research mission of the University in high-impact areas and should therefore continue to be pursued in alignment with Upstate and SUNY shared priorities. Currently Approved EIP hires: • Two in environmental health and medicine, one at UMU and one at ESF • Two in Alzheimer’s • One in addiction • Two in vision research The Bioinformatics Working Group Priority Hires: • Experts in Medical Informatics, EHR data mining, coupling EHR and biobank data as skill sets with foci in the following areas: o Clinical informatics o Consumer health informatics o Public health informatics Impact Areas: • Several of the cross-cutting initiatives positively impact this area. • Extend the SUNY Oswego MS in Biomedical and Health Informatics to create a PhD program possibly in collaboration with Syracuse University and their machine learning program in the College of Engineering. • Initiate a seminar series on Biomedical Informatics. • Develop a graduate-level course on biomedical informatics and data analytics. This could be achieved, in part, by combining relevant nano courses into a single 3-4 credit course.
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