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PROPOSAL TO DEVELOP A NEW DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY I. Description of the proposed organizational unit changeA. Identify the name of unit(s) affected by the change and its place in the organizational structure of the university. 
This proposal is to develop a new Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI) at Arizona State University. The Department of Biomedical Informatics will reside in a newly established School of Computing and Informatics within the Fulton School of Engineering (see diagram to the right). The companion proposal establishing the new School of Computing and Informatics provides more detailed information about the organizational structure and rationale for the School.
The Department of Biomedical Informatics will be a new organizational unit, and will reside within a newly organized School of Computing and Informatics. The mission of the School, as outlined in the companion document, is to bridge computing and informatics with a broad range of academic disciplines with the express purpose of enhancing research, teaching, and scholarship. The Department of Biomedical Informatics is the first such expression of an informatics-oriented department targeting the biological and medical sciences. II. Purpose and activities of the unitA. Explain the rationale for the change and the relationship to the Mission and Scope Statements adopted by the Board. In the August 4, 2004 Memorandum of Understanding Regarding the Expansion of Medical Education and Research in Phoenix, the Arizona Board of Regents charged Arizona State University with developing a Department of Biomedical Informatics. In the memorandum, the Arizona Board of Regents directed ASU to “assist in the expansion of the college of medicine through a focused set of linkages.” Addendum A, item 3(c) specifically calls for the “development of a new Department at ASU in Biomedical Informatics that would be a department in the Fulton School of Engineering and Applied Science … subject to the appropriate approvals of the academic community in both universities.” The development of the Department of Biomedical Informatics conforms to the thirteen principles ABOR set forth in the MOU to “advance our university system and our two research extensive universities to the level of national prominence in biomedical teaching and research.” The Phoenix Biomedical Campus will serve as home to a number of health-related entities: the Phoenix track of the University of Arizona College of Medicine and College of Pharmacy, the Translational Genomics Research Institute, the ASU College of Nursing, new hospital facilities, and associated research and teaching enterprises. B. Identify the basic goals and objectives of the new reorganized units. In the fall of 2004, an ASU working group on biomedical informatics set forth the following vision for the Department of Biomedical Informatics: Arizona State University aspires to develop a world-class partnership between academic researchers, clinical practitioners, and regional healthcare providers to advance research and education in the science and practice of biomedical informatics. The programs and degrees administered through the Department will prepare individuals who are capable of making major contributions to the creation and evaluation of computational and informatics tools and their application to biomedical or clinical research, health care practice and administration, public health, and the education of health professionals and patients. The Department will create a unique synthesis of biomedical informatics and experimental investigations seamlessly integrated to predict, test, and elucidate the connections in the continuum from genotype to phenotype. The Department will define “health” in accordance with the World Health Organization’s view that it is “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”i Thus, research conducted by the Department and its partners will focus on breakthroughs in basic biological research and improvements in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and management of chronic disease, and the maximization of quality of life. This vision statement was developed in accordance with the guiding principles set forth by the American College of Medical Informatics, the National Institutes of Health, and the American Association of Medical Colleges.ii Moreover, the goals for the Department have been developed with the design imperatives set forth by the Arizona Board of Regents and President Michael Crow for transforming ASU into a leading public metropolitan research university.iii The emergent Department of Biomedical Informatics embodies many of the principles of President Crow’s vision for a New American University, including intellectual fusion, social embedment, use-inspired scholarship, entrepreneurship, and knowledge without boundaries. The goals of the Department of Biomedical Informatics are to:
See the attached taskforce report of the ASU working group on biomedical informatics for an in-depth explanation of the mission and goals of the Department of Biomedical Informatics. C. Describe the activities, projects, and programs that will be conducted by the new or reorganized units. Identify the curricular implications of the activities, projects, and programs. The Department of Biomedical Informatics anticipates offering the following degree-granting programs:
The Department of Biomedical Informatics anticipates offering the following activities and programs as non-degree programs:
The curricula developed by BMI faculty and co-location of the Department at the downtown bioscience campus will create a model for new types of collaboration and partnership across the Arizona university system. The Department will evolve new kinds of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary courses that bridge diverse domains and cultures in the biological, medical, and computing sciences. These courses will provide for an educational curriculum based on the cross-disciplinary and transciplanary model outlined in ASU President Michael Crow’s concept paper, the New American University. ASU professors and researchers will play a lead role in providing instructional support in information literacy to medical students at the University of Arizona, and in so doing will shape a new type of physician able to harness the power of informatics. Researchers and practitioners from the clinical community will actively participate in the Department, ensuring that the curriculum provides both a strong theoretical foundation in biomedical informatics as well as translational applications focused on breakthroughs in basic biological research and improvements in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and management of chronic disease, and the maximization of quality of life. In this new Department, health care providers will train and work alongside biomedical informaticians to create a new level of comfort and interaction between informatics researchers, life science researchers, and healthcare practitioners. D. Identify the unit(s) that will assume the responsibilities of any units that are recommended for elimination. No units are being recommended for elimination.
* The medical school anticipates enrolling 24 new students each year. Thus, by FY10 the Department will provide medical instruction to 96 medical students annually. It is anticipated that the Department will offer one course in informatics literacy for each medical school class (i.e., first year, second year, third year, and fourth year). Download 215.31 Kb. Share with your friends:
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