Omolola Ogunyemi, PhD

Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Research Associate, Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Member of the affiliated faculty, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

Teaching (Biomedical Informatics)

Course director and co-instructor, HST 952, Computing for Biomedical Scientists, Fall 2001 - Fall 2003
Co-instructor, Electronic Medical Records and Decision Support, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, January/February 2003.
Co-instructor, Intensive Introduction to Medical Informatics and Telemedicine, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, January/February 2002.
Guest lecturer on Bayesian network applications, HST 951, Medical Decision Support, Spring 2000
Advisor to post-doctoral fellows in the Harvard-MIT-NEMC-BU biomedical informatics program

Education

1999, PhD, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1994, MSE, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1993, BA, Computer Science, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY

Research Interests

3D graphics and visualization
Reasoning under uncertainty
Medical decision support
Machine learning

Projects at the DSG

TraumaSCAN-Web: Assessing penetrating trauma with 3D models of anatomy and Bayesian networks
Breast cancer risk assessment with Bayesian networks
FACTS (Finding Appropriate Clinical Trials for women with breast cancer)
GLIF (The Guideline Interchange Format)

Contact Information

Location:: Thorn 309, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115
Phone:: 617-732-7689
Fax:: 617-739-3672
Email:

Publications

Papers

Ogunyemi O. Methods for reasoning from geometry about anatomic structures injured by penetrating trauma. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Aug 2006; 39 (4): 389-400.

Matheny M, Ogunyemi O, Rice P, Carke J. Evaluating the Discriminatory Power of a Computer-based System for Assessing Penetrating Trauma on Retrospective Multi-Center Data. Proc AMIA Annual Fall Symposium; 2005; pp. 500-504.
(Nominated for a Distinguished Paper award)

Peleg M, Boxwala AA, Tu S, Zeng Q, Ogunyemi O, Wang D, Patel VL, Greenes RA, Shortliffe EH. The InterMed approach to sharable computer-interpretable guidelines: a review. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association; 2004 Jan-Feb;11(1):1-10.

Boxwala AA, Peleg M, Tu S, Ogunyemi O, Zeng QT, Wang D, Patel VL, Greenes RA, Shortliffe EH. GLIF3: a representation format for sharable computer-interpretable clinical practice guidelines. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Jun 2004; 37(3): 147-161.

Sordo M, Boxwala AA, Ogunyemi O, Greenes RA. Description and Status Update on GELLO: a Proposed Standardized Object-oriented Expression Language for Clinical Decision Support. Medinfo. 2004: 164-8.

Wang D, Peleg M, Tu SW, Boxwala AA, Ogunyemi O, Zeng Q, Greenes RA, Patel VL, Shortliffe EH. Design and implementation of the GLIF3 guideline execution engine. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2004 Oct; 37(5): 305-18.

Ogunyemi O, Clarke JR, Ash N, Webber B. Combining Geometric and Probabilistic Reasoning for Computer-Based Penetrating Trauma Assessment. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2002 May-Jun;9(3):273-82.

Ash N, Ogunyemi O, Zeng Q, Ohno-Machado L. Finding Appropriate Clinical Trials: Encoding Eligibility Criteria and their Evaluation with Incomplete Data. Proc AMIA Annual Fall Symposium; 2001. pp. 27-31.

Boxwala AA, Tu S, Peleg M, Zeng Q, Ogunyemi O, Greenes RA, Shortliffe EH, Patel VL. Toward a Representation Format for Sharable Clinical Guidelines. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 34(3): 157-169, 2001.

Peleg M, Ogunyemi O, Tu S, Boxwala AA, Zeng Q, Greenes RA, Shortliffe EH. Using Features of Arden Syntax with Object-Oriented Medical Data Models for Guideline Modeling. Proc AMIA Annual Fall Symposium; 2001. pp. 523-527.

Ogunyemi O, Clarke JR, Webber B, Badler N. Assessing Penetrating Trauma with Geometric and Probabilistic Reasoning. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium; 2000 November; Los Angeles, California; Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus; 2000. pp. 620-624.

Ogunyemi O, Clarke JR, and Webber B. Using Bayesian networks for diagnostic reasoning in penetrating injury assessment. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems; Houston, Texas; IEEE Computer Society Press; 2000. pp. 115-120.

Peleg M, Boxwala AA, Ogunyemi O, Zeng Q, Tu S, Lacson R, Bernstam E, Ash N, Mork P, Ohno-Machado L, Shortliffe EH, Greenes RA. GLIF3: The Evolution of a Guideline Representation Format. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium; 2000 November; Los Angeles, California; Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus; 2000. pp. 645-649.

Ogunyemi O, Webber B, and Clarke JR. Probabilistically predicting penetrating injury for decision support. Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems; 1998 Lubbock, Texas; IEEE Computer Society Press; 1998. pp. 44-49. [Full text]

Ogunyemi O, Webber B, and Clarke JR. Probabilistic predictions of penetrating injury to anatomic structures. In: Masys D, editor. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium; 1997 October; Nashville, Tennessee; Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus; 1997. pp. 714-718.
(Nominated for a Best Paper award)
[Full text]

Chi D, Kokkevis E, Ogunyemi O, Bindiganavale R, Hollick M, Clarke JR, Webber B, Badler N. Simulated casualties and medics for emergency training. In: Morgan K, Hoffman H, Stredney D, Weghorst S, editors. MMVR97. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference; Studies in Health Technology and Information 1997; 39:486-494. [Full text]

Ogunyemi O, Kaye J, Webber B, Clarke JR. Generating penetration path hypotheses for decision support in multiple trauma. In: Gardner R, editor. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care; 1995 October; New Orleans, Louisiana. Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus; 1995. pp. 42-46. [Full text]

Badler N, Webber B, Clarke JR, Chi D, Hollick M, Foster N, Kokkevis E, Metaxas, D, Ogunyemi O, Kaye J, Bindiganavale R. Medisim: Simulated medical corpsmen and casualties for medical forces planning and training. The National Forum: Military Telemedicine On-Line Today. Research, Practice and Opportunities. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995.

Abstracts/Posters

Ogunyemi O, Chlebowski R, Matloff E, Schnabel F, Orr R, Col N. Creating Bayesian Network Models for Breast Cancer Risk Prediction. In Cancer Risk Prediction Models: A Workshop on Development, Evaluation, and Application, Washington, DC, May 20-21, 2004.

Sordo M, Ogunyemi O, Boxwala AA, Greenes RA. GELLO: An Object-oriented Query and Expression Language for Clinical Decision Support. In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium; 2003; p. 1012.

Nyun T, Ogunyemi O, Zeng Q. Health Information Retrieval Tool (HIRT). In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium; 2002; p. 1116.

Denekamp Y, Ogunyemi O, Boxwala A, Greenes, R. Using a new Object Oriented Expression Language (GELLO) to Encode Arden Syntaxc Modules. In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium; 2002; p. 1006.

Clarke JR, Ogunyemi OI, Kaye J, Badler N, Webber BL. Virtual Imaging of Anatomic Injuries from Bullet Wounds. Presented at the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma meeting in San Antonio TX, October 12, 2000.

Ogunyemi O. Assessing Penetrating Injury with Abductive and Geometric Reasoning. Poster presented at the AT&T Research student poster competition, 1998.
Second place winner, PhD Division.

Thesis

Ogunyemi OI. TraumaSCAN: Assessing Penetrating Trauma with Abductive and Geometric Reasoning. Ph.D. Thesis. Philadelphia (PA): University of Pennsylvania, 1999.

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