Madhu C.Reddy, Ph.D.

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Academic Year 2010

December 2010
I presented Health IT and Workflow to the Institute of Medicine Committee on Patient Safety and Health Information Technology in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 14.

November 2010
The submission deadline for the Workshop on Collaborative Privacy Practices in Social Media at CSCW 2011 was December 22, 2010.

Our journal paper "Challenges to effective crisis management: Using information and communication technologies to coordinate emergency medical services and emergency department teams" received the American Medical Informatics Association's Diane E. Forsythe Award at the AMIA Fall Symposium in Washington, D.C.

September 2010
We have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate collaborative privacy practices in information-intensive environments.

July 2010
Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure

Appointed Director of Graduate Programs

May 2010
We have been awarded a grant from the The Commonwealth Fund to investigate Health IT diffusion in rural hospitals.

April 2010
The submission deadline for the 2010 Doctoral Consortium on Sociotechnical Issues in Medical Informatics has neen extended to July 15, 2010.

Feb 2010
The submission deadline has been extended to April 30, 2010 for the International Journal of Medical Informatics Special Issue on Collaboration in Healthcare Settings

The submission deadline for paper/notes for the ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work 2010 (GROUP'10
) is May 14, 2010.

The Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH) will take place on April 11 prior to CHI 2010 in Atlanta, GA

 

Academic Year 2009

December 2009
Gave invited presentation as part of University of Michigan's Health Informatics Grand Rounds and Bartels Health Informatics Speakers Series at the School of Information

DheepakRamaswamy successfully defended his Masters Thesis - "AchieveTogether.com: Development & Evaluation of a Web 2.0 Application for Weight Loss and Diabetes Prevention".

November 2009
Sharoda Paul successfully defended her Ph.D. Thesis - “Understanding Together: Sensemaking in Collaborative Information Seeking”.

Yusuf Raza successfully defended his Masters Thesis - "The Effect of Team Experience on Collaborative Information Seeking Behavior of Students".

Awarded grant from Lockheed Martin Corporation to investigate collaborative clinical decision-making


October 2009
Joanna Abraham successfully defended her Ph.D. Thesis-"Meta-Coordination Activities: Exploring Articulation Work in Hospitals” .

Call for Papers:Special Issue of International Journal of Medical Informatics on Supporting Collaboration in Healthcare Settings


September 2009
Journal of Biomedical Informatics paper "Evaluating Collaborative Features of Critical Care Systems: a methodological study of information technology in surgical intensive care units" was a finalist for the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2009 Diane Forsythe Award.

Call for Participation: CSCW 2010 Workshop on CSCW Research in Healthcare: Past, Present, and Future


August 2009
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2010 paper "Understanding Together: Sensemaking in Collaborative Information Seeking" won Honorable Mention.

April 2009
JAMIA paper "Developing IT Infrastructure for Rural Hospitals: A Case Study of Benefits and Challenges of
Hospital-to-Hospital Partnerships." was selected to be reprinted in the 2009 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics as a best paper selection

Feb 2009
Received NSF CAREER Award for research on Collaborative Information Behavior