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SUMMARY:BMIHAI Trainee Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Rutgers Center for Biomedical Informatics and Health AI (BMIHAI) is hosting a Trainee Symposium on Friday\, July 31\, in Piscataway. Join us to celebrate Rutgers student successes\, become part of the AI in Student Health and Wellness initiative\, and join our community! \nThe event will feature presentations from BMIHAI postdoctoral fellows and graduate and undergraduate students. A discussion panel and open mic session will also highlight BMIHAI’s new collaborative initiative using AI to promote student wellness\, health\, and retention through the MyRutgers app. \nRegister to Attend by July 27th https://shprutgers.jotform.com/261126437633051 \nThe symposium will showcase projects from the following BMIHAI programs: \n\nSummer Internship: Rutgers undergraduate and graduate students are participating in a 9-week summer internship program focused on training students for careers in biomedical informatics and health AI.\nSummer Bootcamp: Rutgers Health postdoctoral trainees and graduate students participated in this summer’s bootcamp programs on “Hands-on AI-assisted Scoping Review” and“Machine Learning for RNA-seq.”\nPostdoctoral Fellowship: Postdoctoral Health AI Research (PAIR) Fellows are pursuing research projects with mentors from across Rutgers Health in areas including surgical and ICU care\, motor and brain function analysis\, and mental illnesses.\nPilot Grants: Undergrad and graduate trainees participate in pilot grant projects led by interdisciplinary teams of researchers on topics including heart health\, substance use disorders\, and antimicrobial resistance.\n\n*Hot Lunch will be provided. \nReach out to bmihai_internship@ifh.rutgers.edu with questions. \nView agenda: Trainee Symposium Schedule
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/bmihai-trainee-symposium/
LOCATION:Daniel L. Kessler Building\, 675 Hoes Lane West\, Piscataway\, NJ\, 08854\, United States
CATEGORIES:Biomedical Informatics
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SUMMARY:Climate & Health Speaker Series: It’s Getting Hot in Here
DESCRIPTION:Center for Climate\, Health\, and Healthcare ‘Climate & Health Speaker Series: It’s Getting Hot in Here’ with: \nCatherine Chen\, MD\, FACP\, Associate Professor of Medicine\, RWJMS \n\n “Systems\, Not Silos: An Interprofessional Framework for Climate Health Education” \n\nTuesday\, September 1 1:00pm \nIFH 5th Floor Conference Room\, 112 Paterson Street\, New Brunswick & Via Zoom https://go.rutgers.edu/osch642i \nClimate change is arguably medicine’s clearest case study in systems-based practice and multidisciplinary engagement. This talk maps a practical\, portable framework for embedding climate health across health professions curricula\, built through work with the Climate Health Curriculum Tool (CHCT) and grounded in real student projects spanning quality improvement\, supply chain analysis\, patient communication\, and curriculum design. \nDrawing on lessons from an active collaboration with the School of Pharmacy\, the session offers students\, educators\, and researchers concrete entry points for getting involved—whether that means proposing a project\, adapting a course\, or building the next interprofessional research collaboration.
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/climate-health-speaker-series-its-getting-hot-in-here/
LOCATION:112 Paterson Street\, New Brunswick
CATEGORIES:Climate and Health
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260903T120000
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SUMMARY:Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Translational Work-in-Progress Series
DESCRIPTION:Edmarie Guzmán-Vélez\, PhD\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Neurology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School\, Resident Member of the Institute for Health (IFH) Center for Health Aging Research (CHAR) \n“The Social Exposome as a Contributor to Biological Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Risk” \nDr. Guzmán-Vélez directs a research program at the Rutgers Center for Healthy Aging Research focused on culturally-sensitive\, interdisciplinary observational and intervention studies. Her work aims to address brain health and dementia risk in diverse populations\, with particular interest in: 1) Identifying midlife risk factors for AD and related dementias; 2) Understanding the pathophysiology and mechanisms underlying long COVID-related neurological symptoms; 3) Testing interventions that can improve brain health and cognition. \nZoom: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94769804345?pwd=IMqJIIvuDmRl997R6O4U4NKbt6UWfs.1 \nMeeting code: 947 6980 4345 \nPasscode: 454288
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/alzheimers-disease-and-related-dementias-translational-work-in-progress-series-3/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Healthy Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260910T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260910T180000
DTSTAMP:20261002T010225
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SUMMARY:Rutgers Health Artificial Intelligence Virtual Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Register today for September’s Rutgers Health Artificial Intelligence Virtual Seminar on Thursday\, September 10 at 5:00pm featuring two fantastic speakers. \n  \n“Coupling functional genomics techniques with computational modeling to understand context-specific gene regulation” \nAnat Kreimer\, PhD\, Associate Professor\, RWJMS Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Associate Director\, Center for Data Science\, Rutgers Health; Core Member\, Rutgers Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine \n\n“Analysis and Visualization of Structural Variants” \nAndrey Grigoriev\, PhD\, Professor\, Rutgers Department of Biology & Founding Director\, Rutgers Center for Computational and Integrative Biology \n  \nThe Rutgers Health Artificial Intelligence Virtual Seminar Series is designed to connect Rutgers faculty\, staff\, and students interested in AI training and research in health and medicine. The seminar series is co-sponsored by the NJMS Center for Data Science and IFH Center for Biomedical Informatics and Health AI. \n  \nPlease register in advance to attend and for Zoom information: \nhttps://go.rutgers.edu/mxi16u48
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/rutgers-health-artificial-intelligence-virtual-seminar/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:AI Virtual Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260928T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260928T130000
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SUMMARY:IFH Center for Healthy Aging Research Talk
DESCRIPTION:“Socioemotional Experiences and Health Across Adulthood”\nSusan T. Charles\, PhD \nProfessor of Psychology and Associate Dean of Graduate Programs in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California-Irvine \n  \nSusan T. Charles is Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of Graduate Programs in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California-Irvine. Her research examines social and socioemotional processes across the adult life span\, and how they are related to cognitive\, physical and mental health.  She has published over 150 articles and chapters and is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the Association for Psychological Science; recipient of the 2023 Distinguished Mentorship in Gerontological Award from the Gerontological Society of America; and recipient of the 2025 Baltes Distinguished Research Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association for her work in adulthood and development. Her work has been continually funded by the National Institutes of Health for over two decades. \n  \nZoom Meeting \nhttps://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94235830679?pwd=HNpveDfbZT1beIFRxY74sgv7xKUqLj.1 \nMeeting ID: 942 3583 0679 \nPassword: 734587
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/ifh-center-for-healthy-aging-research-talk/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Healthy Aging
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SUMMARY:NJ ACTS Special Populations Seminar with Miriam Laugesen
DESCRIPTION:Miriam J Laugesen\, PhD\, Associate Professor\, Columbia University; Associate Professor\, Department of Health Policy and Management\, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health \n“Medicaid Payment\, Managed Care Contracting\, and Administrative Accountability in New Mexico” \nThis presentation uses New Mexico as a case study to examine how Medicaid policy can improve access by addressing both provider payment and the administrative barriers that shape provider participation. Drawing on earlier work that contributed to New Mexico’s Medicaid provider rate increases and on a July 2026 report to the New Mexico Legislature\, the talk focuses on provider enrollment\, credentialing\, contracting\, and payment-system loading in Medicaid managed care. It argues that administrative simplification should be treated as a Medicaid access strategy\, alongside adequate payment rates and stronger managed care accountability. \n\nMiriam Laugesen is an expert in physician reimbursement\, primary care\, and private investment in health care. She is the author of Fixing Medical Prices: How Physicians Are Paid (Harvard University Press\, 2016)\, which has influenced debates about payment reform in the United States. She has advised state policymakers on health policy\, including through a 2026 project for the New Mexico Legislature focused on administrative simplification and an earlier engagement with the New Mexico Superintendent of Insurance concerning physician payment models. \nFrom 2023 to 2024\, Laugesen was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow at the National Academy of Medicine. During her fellowship\, she served as a legislative fellow in the office of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren\, contributing to legislation and oversight related to private equity investment in health care. In 2023\, she was also a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Hitachi Fellow in Japan. \n  \nRegister to attend via Zoom: https://go.rutgers.edu/496ormk8
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/nj-acts-special-populations-seminar-with-miriam-laugesen/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:NJ ACTS
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261006T130000
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SUMMARY:It's Getting Hot in Here 🔥: Climate and Health Series
DESCRIPTION:“Environmental Exposures\, Neighborhoods\, and Health: From Mortality to Children’s Health” \nAntonella Zanobetti\, PhD\, MS\, Core Member\, Center for Climate\, Health\, and Healthcare and Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School \nThis presentation provides an overview of my research examining how air pollution\, temperature\, and other environmental exposures affect human health. I will highlight findings from studies examining mortality\, neurodegenerative disorders\, and children’s health focusing on the effects of air pollution\, temperature\, greenspace\, and other environmental exposures\, as well as neighborhood characteristics. Together\, these studies illustrate how environmental exposures and neighborhood context influence health across populations and stages of life. Understanding how environmental and neighborhood exposures influence health is essential for identifying vulnerable populations\, developing effective prevention strategies\, guiding urban planning and environmental policy\, and reducing health disparities and the growing burden of environmentally related disease and premature mortality. \nThe event will be held in the 5th Floor Conference Room at IFH\, and via Zoom.\nRegister to attend via Zoom: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/BaJ4wDpKTBezMcsqoytUAg#/registration\n 
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/its-getting-hot-in-here-%f0%9f%94%a5-climate-and-health-series/
LOCATION:IFH and Zoom\, IFH and Zoom
CATEGORIES:Climate and Health
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SUMMARY:Rutgers AI/High Performance Computing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Rutgers AI/HPC Workshop: AI-Driven Research at Rutgers \nREGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. SPACE IS LIMITED! \nRegister to attend: https://shprutgers.jotform.com/262576127488166 \n  \nAgenda \nPart I: The Vision & The Platform\nSetting the stage for the new era of scientific discovery. \n09:00 AM – 09:30 AM | Welcome & Opening Remarks (Matt Kanoff – Google Antonina Mitrofanova & Leslie Lenert – Rutgers)  \n\nIntroductions\nObjectives for the day: From consumption to creation\n\n09:30 AM – 10:15 AM | Session 1: AI at Rutgers (Andy Page – Rutgers OIT & Terrell Moore – Google)  \n\nGoogle at Rutgers – A peak at existing projects\nAI at Rutgers – Voice of the customer\n\n10:15 AM – 11:00 AM | Session 2: Google Cloud for Science & Gemini’s Science Vision (Adnan Khaleel & Bhanchand Prasad – Google) \n\nShift from “AI as a Tool” to “AI as a Partner.”\nThe “AI Scientist” concept: Moving beyond chatbots to research agents.\nCase studies: Accelerating literature reviews\, hypothesis generation\, and experimental design.\nDiscussion: How Generative AI is reshaping the scientific method itself.\nIntroduction to the Gemini model family\n\nPart II: Demonstrations & Application\nSeeing the tools in action before taking the wheel. \n11:15 AM – 12:00 PM | Session 3: Demo – AlphaEvolve for HPC Applications – (Adnan Khaleel – Google)  \n\nLive Demo: Evolutionary algorithms optimizing High-Performance Computing (HPC) code.\nShowcase: Automating code discovery and performance tuning.\nQ&A: Integrating Alpha-based tools into existing TAMU workflows.\n\n12:00 PM – 01:00 PM | Networking Lunch (provided) \nPart III: Hands-On Labs (The “Builder” Phase)\nInteractive sessions where attendees build real AI workflows. \n01:00 PM – 01:45 PM | Capricorn demo and discussion (Terell Moore – Google & Dr. Evan Johnson – Rutgers) \n\nCapricorn: AI-powered framework that utilizes Google’s Gemini models to assist clinicians with systematic literature reviews by cross-referencing patient-specific medical cases with public databases like PubMed in minutes instead of days.\n\n01:45 PM – 02:30 PM | GCP AI Infrastructure\, DWS (Bhanchand Prasad – Google) \n\nIntroduction to AI and HPC using GCP\n\n02:30 PM – 02:45 PM | Afternoon Break \n02:45 PM – 04:15 PM | Session 4: Lab – Molecular Dynamics and Real-Time Visualization (Adnan Khaleel – Google)  \n\nObjective: How to run NAMD\, a molecular dynamics simulation program\, on GPUs using the Google Cloud Cluster Toolkit\, running the NVIDIA NAMD Container on Slurm.\nActivity: This guide provides instructions on how to run NAMD\, a molecular dynamics simulation program\, on GPUs using the Google Cloud Cluster Toolkit\, running the NVIDIA NAMD Container on Slurm using Apptainer\, and using VMD to visualize the molecular structures. Cluster Toolkit is an open-source software offered by Google Cloud\nOutcome: VMD is a molecular visualization program for displaying\, animating\, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting\, and using the techniques in this example\, users will be able to run their own molecular dynamics simulations\, and visualize the 3-D results.\n\nPart IV: Conclusion\n04:15 PM – 04:30 PM | Closing & Next Steps (Adnan Khaleel & Matt Kanoff – Google)  \n\nRecap of tools used (Vertex AI\, Vizier\, Gemini).\nFinal Q&A.
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/rutgers-ai-high-performance-computing-workshop/
LOCATION:RWJMS Research Tower\, 675 Hoes Lane West\, Room 822/824\, Piscataway\, NJ\, 08854\, United States
CATEGORIES:Biomedical Informatics
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SUMMARY:Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Translational Work-in-Progress Series
DESCRIPTION:Lihui Tu\, PhD\, Postdoctoral Researcher\, Herbert and Jacqueline Krieger Klein Alzheimer’s Research Center; Rutgers Institute for Health \n“Intraindividual sleep–activity dynamics as markers of neurocognitive risk” \nDr. Tu will discuss his specific aims and intended methodology for a potential grant application examining intraindividual sleep–activity dynamics as wearable-derived markers of neurocognitive risk. He is interested in feedback and suggestions to refine the characterization of temporal features and sleep–activity phenotypes\, and to identify the most appropriate approaches for relating these measures to cognitive performance\, cognitive change\, and incident MCI/ADRD. Dr. Tu’s research focuses on cognitive aging and ADRD\, with particular interests in digital phenotyping\, longitudinal data\, and scalable markers of early neurocognitive vulnerability. \nZoom: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94769804345?pwd=IMqJIIvuDmRl997R6O4U4NKbt6UWfs.1 \nMeeting code: 947 6980 4345 \nPasscode: 454288
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/alzheimers-disease-and-related-dementias-translational-work-in-progress-series-4/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:NJ ACTS Special Populations Seminar with Manuel Jimenez\, MD\, MS
DESCRIPTION:“Pediatric Literacy Promotion for Latino Families” \nManuel Jimenez\, MD\, MS\, Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Family Medicine and Community Health\, Research Director at the Boggs Center on Disability and Human Development at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School \nPrimary care–based literacy promotion is standard of care in pediatrics. This presentation will share findings from a series of community engaged research studies designed to optimize primary care based literacy promotion for Latino families.\n\nBio: Manuel “Manny” Jimenez\, MD\, MS\, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Family Medicine and Community Health\, Research Director at the Boggs Center on Disability and Human Development at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School\, and an Attending Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician at Children’s Specialized Hospital. He is also the co-lead for the New Jersey Alliance on Clinical and Translational Science Community Engagement Core. His work focuses on promoting optimal relational and developmental health for children and families and making the health system more responsive to their needs. Dr. Jimenez uses quantitative\, qualitative\, and community-based participatory research methods to ask policy-relevant research questions as well as propose and test sustainable solutions to real-world problems impacting children and their families.
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/nj-acts-special-populations-seminar-with-manuel-jimenez-md-ms/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:NJ ACTS
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261110T120000
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SUMMARY:NJ ACTS Special Populations Seminar with Shawnika Hull\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:“Feasibility & Acceptability of Sistas Informing Sistas About Topics on AIDS and PrEP (SISTA-P)” \nShawnika Hull\, PhD\, Associate Professor\, Department of Communication\, Rutgers University\, New Brunswick \nDr. Hull will describe the community-engaged development and testing of SISTA-P\, a Black women-specific HIV prevention intervention that is grounded in Social Cognitive Theory and Intersectionality. SISTA-P focuses on self-care activities for Black women to increase their knowledge of and recognition of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use as self-care\, and increase their PrEP uptake.  SISTA-P also trains women to increase their efficacy and skills for overcoming social-structural barriers to PrEP uptake. \nBio: Shawnika Hull (Ph.D.\, University of Pennsylvania) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick. Her research focuses on reducing racial inequities in HIV incidence through community-engaged\, applied communication science. She develops\, implements\, and evaluates theoretically grounded communication interventions focused on impacting and overcoming individual and social-structural barriers to HIV prevention. This research is informed by and developed in close collaboration with community partners. Her expertise includes qualitative (i.e. focus groups) and quantitative (i.e. surveys\, experiments) data collection and analytical methods. Her research has been funded through various institutional\, non-profit (i.e.\, MAC AIDS Fund) and governmental mechanisms (i.e.\, NIH\, CDC) and published in communication and public health journals. Her rigorous\, theoretically grounded\, collaborative approach to research informs health communication theorizing and practice.
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/nj-acts-special-populations-seminar-with-shawnika-hull-phd/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:NJ ACTS
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