PhD Program in Biomedical Informatics

Growth in health-related industries, hospitals and other health care systems have spearheaded Buffalo’s recent economic renaissance.

All require effective information management systems and technologies.

That’s where you come into the picture and take your place — front and center.

A PhD in biomedical informatics from UB prepares you to lead these organizations through complex information management challenges. With your advanced knowledge and skills, you’ll apply sophisticated tools and methods to help design new systems and applications.

Best of all, thanks to our close partnerships with regional health care organizations, you don’t have to wait until you’ve earned your PhD to begin making high-level contributions to our field:

You’ll forge those connections and collaborations while training with us.

We offer you a broad-based curriculum in the foundations of biomedical informatics while fostering your specialized skills in one of our field’s five key areas:

As a PhD candidate, you’ll take upper-level classes in your specialty area. You’ll conduct your research with a dedicated faculty member who has the type of expertise and research portfolio you wish to develop — a dedicated mentor who will guide you through every phase of your research.

The result of this tailored approach to your training?

You’ll graduate from our program ideally positioned for a career at the leading edge of biomedical informatics.

Harness the data you need for your research.

Stay abreast of the latest work in our field.

Train with this region’s leading experts and most advanced tools.

Our PhD candidates enjoy an all-access pass to UB’s state-of-the-art computational resources as well as the sophisticated initiatives led by our campus and regional partners.

Among others, these resources include:

• the Institute for Healthcare Informatics, a 3+HIPAA-compliant data storage and computing facility
• the UB Center for Computational Research, one of the leading academic supercomputing sites in the U.S.
• UB’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the regional hub of translational research 
• UB’s Virtual Computing Lab, which features MATLAB, Minitab, SPSS and other research software tools
• the Ontology Research Group, a nationally recognized center for ontology and electronic health records
• the Population Health Observatory, a research, training and data center in the School of Public Health and Health Professions
• the Upstate N.Y. Practice-Based Research Network, a center for outcomes research
• HEALTHeLINK, a health information exchange
• the Health Sciences Library, which conducts a variety of training programs in bioinformatics