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September 6, 2022
Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, M.D., named editor-in-chief of new digital health journal
By Advancing the Science contributor 
Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, M.D., a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, has been named editor-in-chief of a new Mayo Clinic Proceedings expansion journal on digital health. The new journal, Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health, is expected to launch this fall, joining Mayo Clinic Proceedings’ other expansion journal, Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes. Mayo Clinic Proceedings has been published for 95 years […]
Tags: artificial intelligence, cardiology, digital health, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, Mayo Clinic Proceedings
September 1, 2022
Meet Yan Bi, M.D., Ph.D. — Physician and Scholar
By Advancing the Science contributor
Originally from China, Yan Bi, M.D., Ph.D., now lives in Florida. She holds a clinical appointment in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, where she treats patients with a variety of gastrointestinal disorders. As one might surmise from her doctoral degrees, Dr. Bi is a lifelong learner. Today she seeks to apply her […]
Tags: artificial intelligence, cancer research, cancer screening, Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Che Ngufor, clinical research, collaboration, data science, gastroenterology, Kern Health Care Delivery Scholars, Michael Wallace, pancreatic cancer
August 16, 2022
Addressing diversity barriers to regenerative medicine
With the promise of regenerative medicine comes the risk of widening health care disparities. Sometimes the newest discoveries, such as regenerative interventions, are out of reach for people in diverse ethnic or socioeconomic groups — or they may not understand or trust new options for healing. Mayo Clinic is trying to overcome those barriers by […]
Tags: biomedical ethics, Center for Regenerative Medicine, clinical trials, diversity, equity and inclusion, Jorge Mallea, Zubin Master
August 9, 2022
Uniting a love of math and medicine
Hongfang Liu, Ph.D., the Richard Emslander Professor of Biomedical Informatics in Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, has a full plate. She specializes in applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical science and health care — an area of research that’s booming at Mayo Clinic and around the world. Dr. Liu is director of […]
Tags: artificial intelligence, biomedical informatics, Center for Clinical and Translational Science, COVID-19, Hongfang Liu, informatics, Mayo Clinic Proceedings
August 8, 2022
Meet Moein Enayati, Ph.D., expertly employing artificial intelligence to improve health care
Vast quantities of data and information exist within health care. Moein Enayati, Ph.D., is a research associate in health care systems engineering in the Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery. With his research, Dr. Enayati aims to make sense of such health-related data. “I came […]
Tags: Adelaide Arruda-Olson, AHRQ, artificial intelligence, big data, cardiology, cardiovascular medicine, Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Che Ngufor, clinical informatics, diversity, emergency department, Eric Klee
July 5, 2022
Training the next generation in regenerative medicine
Mayo Clinic is welcoming a new class of five students into the Regenerative Sciences track within the doctoral program in Mayo Clinic’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, one of the first programs of its kind. Training the next generation of physicians and scientists to research, develop and deliver new biotherapies is critical to advancing the […]
Tags: Aubrey Berger, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Isobel Scarisbrick, Jimmy Cai, Kyle Knofczynski, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Rafaela Simoes Torigoe, regenerative medicine education, Regenerative Sciencs Ph.D. track, Tiana Salomon
June 14, 2022
Dawn’s journey: Overcoming a near-zero survival rate
By Advancing the Science contributor
Dawn Botsford was sitting in a chair at the hair salon in the fall of 2011 when her hairdresser commented on a spot on the top of her head. It was bug season in North Dakota, so Dawn didn’t think much of it. “When I told my hairdresser that, she said, ‘I really think you […]
Tags: cancer, clinical trials, dermatology, Eric Moore, immunotherapy, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, melanoma, oncology, Robert McWilliams, skin cancer, Stephen Cassivi, Svetomir Markovic
June 9, 2022
Biomedical innovators pitch ideas at Roadrunner Sprint competition
By Advancing the Science contributor
Mayo Clinic innovations and innovators were highlighted during the second annual Roadrunner Sprint, which was held May 5 at the Arizona State University Health Futures Center Auditorium. The Roadrunner Sprint is organized and sponsored by the Mayo Clinic Office of Entrepreneurship. In this “Shark Tank”-like event, 10 teams of Mayo staff entrepreneurs pitched their solutions to […]
Tags: Ami Shah, Anu Sreedhar, Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Dharmendra Patel, entrepreneurship, Office of Entrepreneurship, Richard Gray
June 7, 2022
Students embrace teaching to advance regenerative medicine
A group of Mayo Clinic students is going beyond their rigorous research schedules to help up-and-comers and established health care professionals alike learn about the emerging practice of regenerative medicine. As teaching assistants for Mayo Clinic’s Regenerative Medicine and Surgery “selectives,” they are channeling their enthusiasm for this new area of practice into weeklong courses […]
Tags: Armin Garmany, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Connor Lentz, Eric Grewal, Saranya Wyles
May 26, 2022
Neuroscience research mentors pay it forward
By Advancing the Science contributor
As a medical student in Mexico, Paola Suarez-Meade, M.D., was confident she wanted a career that included research along with clinical work. But among her teachers, the most common career paths involved making a choice: either treat patients or study disease. A fascination with stem cells prompted her to seek out a research stint in the […]
Tags: Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Brain Tumor Stem Cell Laboratory, Emily Norton, glioblastoma, Hugo Guerrero-Cazares, Kaisorn Chaichana, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, mentorship, neurologic surgery, neurology, Paola Suarez-Meade, Paula Valentina Schiapparelli