Andrew Boyd, MD

EDUCATION

MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, TX
BS, Chemistry and Mathmatics Magnum Cum Laud, Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING

Short Course in Medical Informatics, Stanford University
Short Course in Computational Biology, University of Michigan

RESEARCH SPECIALIZATIONS

Informatics Specialist, Cyberpulse LLC

Member, Center for Computational Medicine and Biology, University of Michigan

Member, University of Michigan Depression Center

Research Investigator (Research Faculty), Biomedical Informatics, Department of Psychiatry, Michigan Center for Biological Information, Office of Vice President of Research University of Michigan

Research Fellow Biomedical Informatics, Department of Psychiatry, Michigan Center for Biological Information, Office of Vice President of Research University of Michigan Mentor: Brian Athey

Postdoctoral Research Associate/Medical Informatics Specialist, Biomedical Informatics Core, Department of Psychiatry Michigan Center for Biological Information, Office of Vice President of Research University of Michigan Mentor: Brian Athey

Analyst Bioinformatics, Michigan Center for Biological Information, Office of Vice President of Research University of Michigan Mentor: Brian Athey

Research Assistant, Theoretical Developmental Biology University of Texas Southwestern Medical School Mentor: Harold (Skip) Garner

Research Assistant, Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Southern Methodist University Mentor: David Goodson

Research Assistant, Molecular Biology Laboratory Southern Methodist University Mentor: John Kennell

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Research Assistant Professor, Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Education, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Technology evaluation
• Identity management
• Data integration across institutional boundaries
• Data visualization and simplification

HOME PAGE

UIC website

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Boyd AD, Riba M. Depression and Pancreatic Cancer J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2007 Jan ;5 (1):113-6.

Boyd AD, Hosner C, Hunscher DA, Athey BD, Clauw DJ, Green L. An 'Honest Broker' Mechanism to maintain Privacy for Patient Care and Academic Medical Research Int J Med Inform. 2007 May-Jun;76(5-6):407-11.

Dai M ,Wang B, Boyd AD, Kostov G, Athey BD, Watson SJ, Akil H, Speed TP, Meng F. Evolving gene/transcript definitions significantly alter the interpretation of GeneChip data Nucleic Acids Research 2005 33(20):e175

Kim YJ, Boyd AD, Athey BD, Patel JM. miBLAST: scalable evaluation of a batch of nucleotide sequence queries with BLAST Nucleic Acids Research Aug 2005; 33:4335-4344.

Boyd AD, Wright ZC, Ade AS, Bookstein F, Ogden JC, Meixner W, Athey BD, Morris T. Challenges in Presenting High Dimensional Data to aid in Triage in the DARPA Virtual Soldier Project Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2004, 111, 68-74.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Boyd AD and Bose A "A Bioinformatics Introduction to Cluster Computing" Tutorial at, 13th Annual Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 2005. Click here for link.

Boyd AD and Athey B "Information Technology Security as Intertwined with Privacy and Confidentiality in Biomedical Research" Clinical Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions Twelfth Annual Conference UM Conference. Click here for link.