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Welcome to Stanford Biomedical Informatics

The mission of the Biomedical Informatics program is to train the next generation of researchers in biomedical informatics. Our students gain a knowledge of the scholarly informatics literature and the application requirements of specific areas within biology and/or medicine.  They learn to design and implement novel methods that are generalizable to a defined class of problems--focusing on the acquisition, representation, retrieval, and analysis of  biomedical data and  knowledge.

The BMI training program encompasses bioinformatics, clinical informatics, and public health informatics. Bioinformatics focuses on methods for relevant to basic biology. Clinical informatics focuses on methods relevant to patient care. Public health informatics focuses on methods relevant to entire health systems. Examples from these areas can be found in the list of interests of our participating faculty.

US News & World Report recently ranked Stanford as #1 for graduate training in biological sciences. Stanford's Computer Science graduate department was ranked #1. In addition to excellent ratings in individual departments, Stanford was ranked #2 (tied with MIT) in "Genetics/Genomics/Bioinformatics. The BMI training program covers more than  bioinformatics (all of biomedical informatics, but US News does not separate out this discipline), but we are happy that our efforts in this subfield are recognized by our peers.

bmi Students in the news

Stanford Medical Informatics changes its name to Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR) : BMIR is the research organization that administratively hosts the Biomedical Informatics (BMI) Program. The Biomedical Informatics Program offers education programs and grants degrees in the field.

 

Updated March 17, 2008