CEBI (Center for Evidence-Based Imaging)

Radiological Informatics Fellowship

CEBI-DSG offers funded and non-funded training positions for highly qualified individuals with background in the health sciences, biomedical informatics, computer science, statistics, and mathematics. Faculty from CEBI-DSG teach at Harvard and MIT and also serve as research advisers to graduate and undergraduate students, as well as post-docs.

Goals

• Enable individuals with different backgrounds to acquire a level of knowledge and skills in competency areas necessary for pursuing careers in biomedical informatics in academia or industry
  • Radiologic Imaging
  • Evidence-based Medicine
  • Outcomes Research
  • Probability, Statistics, and Decision Science
• Provide a common core curriculum together with a set of experiences shared by all informatics specialization tracks
• Facilitate specialized informatics training in particular tracks
  • Clinical Informatics
  • Medical Imaging
  • Public Health Informatics
  • Bioinformatics

Tracks

There are three main pathways to fellowship training at CEBI-DSG

1. Radiological Informatics Fellowship

Sponsored by a Grant Award to Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Radiology and the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)

Purpose:

The RSNA Research and Education Foundation Institutional Fellowship in Radiological Informatics was created in response to a present and future need for the training of radiologists in the specific area of information technology as it relates to the radiological sciences. The Fellowship is designed to provide training opportunities to young physicians and scientists in the radiological sciences not yet professionally established in the area of informatics. The specific purposes of the Fellowship are as follows:

1. To promote and enhance the understanding and utilization of communications capabilities, PACS, internet-based databases and educational materials, and computer linked modalities within radiology departments.
2. To increase the integration and efficiency of electronic medical applications within radiology departments and hospital environments.
3. To assist in collaboration with industry in the establishment and implementation of clinical requirements for electronic medical communications.

This one-year fellowship is designed to provide a formally designed training program in radiological informatics consisting of educational, research and experiential components. The goal is to enhance the integration and value of information technologies within medical imaging through increased understanding and utilization of informatics concepts, and to train radiological informaticists for the future of our profession.

• It is expected that one or more research projects will be undertaken during the fellowship training period.
• Selected fellows will devote full time to the training program under the guidance of a scientific adviser for the full term of the fellowship. Under special circumstances, the fellow may spend a maximum of 20 percent of his/her time in clinical service outside of the proposed training program if the adviser and the fellow agree in advance that those activities are essential to the development of the fellow as an academician.

Fellow Eligibility Requirements:

• Have completed their residency or post-doctoral training in the radiological sciences.
• Have a degree of M.D., D.O., Ph.D. or equivalent as recognized by the American Medical Association.

2. Boston Biomedical Informatics Research Training (BIRT) Fellowship

Purpose:

The Boston-are Biomedical Informatics Research Training (BIRT) program is a consortium of leading informatics laboratories at Harvard, MIT, Boston University, and Tuffs and is supported by a grant from the National Library of Medicine. BIRT participants comprise a vibrant academic community of individuals with diverse backgrounds and broad-ranging interests, providing fellows with many opportunities for interaction and collaboration. This fellowship provides all trainees with opportunities to learn about the variety of research being conducted at the various laboratories and in the affiliated institutions, as well as in the larger field of biomedical informatics.

Fellow Eligibility Requirements:

• US citizen or permanent resident
• have a degree of M.D., D.O., Ph.D. or equivalent

3. Evidence-Based Informatics Fellowship

Purpose:

The evidence-based informatics fellowship is integrated with the ACGME - accredited clinical radiological fellowship at the BWH. The fellow is expected to complete at least one year of clinical fellowship in a subspecialty of radiology during the course of their training. In addition, they will complete another year of fellowship at CEBI, with specific focus on evidence-based imaging and imaging informatics. They will also participate in biomedical informatics coursework and seminars.

Fellow Eligibility Requirements:

• Have completed their residency or post-doctoral training in the radiological sciences.
• Have a degree of M.D., D.O., Ph.D. or equivalent as recognized by the American Medical Association.

Contact Information

If interested, please send the following items to:

Katherine P. Andriole, Ph.D., FSIIM
Director of Imaging Informatics, CEBI
Assistant Medical Director, Imaging IT
Department of Radiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
20 Kent Street, 2nd floor
Brookline, MA 02445
Tel: 617-525-7561
Fax: 617-525-7575

1. Letter of Application with a personal statement detailing your reasons for wanting to pursue an Informatics Fellowship
2. Curriculum Vitae with contact phone and email address
3. Three letters of recommendation from faculty members who know you well. These may be sent under separate cover
4. Recent Photograph
5. Transcript of records for the doctoral degree

For questions regarding the fellowship, please contact Dr. Kathy Andriole at 617-525-7561 or email kandriole@partners.org.