Faculty, Staff and Student Publications
Open-access journal articles of faculty, students and staff from McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston. Some of the focus areas include Clinical and Cognitive Informatics, Biomedical Engineering, Public Health Informatics, and Translational Biomedical Informatics.
Submissions from 2026
Long COVID Persistence and Surveillance Gaps Across 58 US Hospitals, Jiazi Tian, Alaleh Azhir, Matthew Decaro, et al.
Rural-Urban Differences in Hypertension Prevalence and Control in a Large Regional Health System Cohort, Yordanos M Tiruneh, Susan McBride, Huaxin Song, et al.
Visit-Level Quality Measurement Reveals Missed Opportunities and Overuse in Preventive Oral Health Care, Bunmi Tokede, Suhasini Bangar, Swaroop Gantela, et al.
Factors Associated with Opioid and Antibiotic Prescribing at US Academic Dental Institutions: 2011 to 2020, S Tungare, A-I Yansane, S Gantela, et al.
Prescription Opioid Misuse Among High School Athletes During the Opioid Prescribing Limit Law Era: YRBSS 2017-2023, Francine R Vega, Andrea J Yatsco, Audrey Sarah Cohen, et al.
Postoperative Pain After Dental Procedures: The National Dental Practice-Based Research Network Observational Study Using an Mobile Health Platform, Muhammad F Walji, Alfa-Ibrahim Yansane, Sayali Tungare, et al.
Full-Body AI Agent: A Perspective on Multi-Scale Collaborative AI for Systemic Biology and Precision Medicine., Aoqi Wang, Jiajia Liu, Jianguo Wen, et al.
SPCC: Inferring Spatial Cell-Cell Interaction by Integrating Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics, Tiangang Wang, Yu Zhou, Xi Liu, et al.
Developing Updated and New Guidance to Promote Reliable Patient Identification, Emma Weatherford, Anne Grauer, Carina Sirochinsky, et al.
Tau Seeds Induce Neurofibrillary Tangle Formation Across Brain Regions via Individual-Specific Connectivity, Audrey J Weber, Bernard Ng, Kelsey M Greathouse, et al.
Application of a Natural Language Processing Algorithm to Early Asthma Ascertainment for Adults in the Era of Electronic Health Records, Chung-Il Wi, Thanai Pongdee, Hee Yun Seol, et al.
Aberrant Ciliogenesis Induced by Enhanced Bmp Signaling Causes Heterotopic Ossification, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Jianbo Wang, Fangfang Yan, et al.
Correction: The HSP90-MYC-CDK9 Network Drives Therapeutic Resistance in Mantle Cell Lymphoma, Fangfang Yan, Vivian Jiang, Alexa Jordan, et al.
KnockRBP: An Integrated Multi-omics Database of Functional Perturbation Profiles for RNA-Binding Proteins, Mengyuan Yang, Jiawei Li, Jiajia Liu, et al.
Retention on Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder in Justice-Involved Individuals: A Retrospective Cohort Study, Andrea Yatsco, Francine R Vega, Audrey Sarah Cohen, et al.
Inferring High-Fat Dietary Patterns From Electronic Health Record Data Using Machine Learning, Ya-Yun Yeh, Hsin-Yueh Lin, Jingchuan Guo, et al.
SPAE: Deciphering Cell Cycle Dynamics and Cell States in Single-cell RNA-seq Data, Jiahao Yi, Jiajia Liu, Peng Guo, et al.
Accelerating AI Innovation in Healthcare: Real-World Clinical Research Applications on the Mayo Clinic Platform, Yue Yu, Xinyue Hu, Sivaraman Rajaganapathy, et al.
The AI-Native Health Science Institution Innovation Theater vs. Structural Redesign, Jiajie Zhang, Martin J Citardi, Xiaoqian Jiang, et al.
SimBinder-IF: Structure-Aware Antibody Affinity Optimization via Efficient Preference Learning, Xinyan Zhao, Yi-Ching Tang, Rivaaj Monsia, et al.
Transcriptomics and Metabolomics Analysis Reveal Cell Subpopulations of Trophoblast Cells Associated With Preeclampsia, Xiaojun Zhu, Ying Jiang, Lilin Wang, et al.
Implementation and Evaluation of the OWLL Intervention to Improve the Quality and Safety of Pediatric Dental Sedation: A Mixed-Methods Approach, Kawtar Zouaidi, Jan Yeager, Sayali Tungare, et al.
CD8+ T Cell Differentiation Into NK-Like Effector Cells Drives Transplant Rejection, Dawei Zou, Stephanie G Yi, Yulin Dai, et al.
Submissions from 2025
Leveraging GPT-4o for Automated Extraction of Neural Projections from Scientific Literature, Rashmie Abeysinghe, Gorbachev Jowah, Licong Cui, et al.
Leveraging Pretrained Language Models for Seizure Frequency Extraction From Epilepsy Evaluation Reports, Rashmie Abeysinghe, Shiqiang Tao, Samden D Lhatoo, et al.