Research Interests

My career goal is to make a substantial contribution to and an impact on medicine through the use of mining and retrieval technologies to improve the understanding, diagnosis, and treatments of diseases and, consequently, the practice of evidence-based medicine.

My current interest lies in two main aspects of translational research: 1) bringing scientific evidence into clinical practice, and 2) using computational methods and informatics techniques to analyze large biomedical data sources for patterns and new knowledge. In addition, I have a great interest on making a substantial contribution on pediatrics research.

Clinical areas:
Pediatric Intensive Care and Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Current Projects

• New York-Presbyterian Hospital Immunization Registry (EzVAC)
• Context-Initiated Query and Response (CIQR)

Activities

• Director of Informatics for the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Immunization Registry
• Course diretor for Theory and Methods of Biomedical Informatics
• Course co-diretor for Biomedical Text Mining
• Course director for Information Retrieval in Biomedicine (Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil)
• Member of the Steering Committee for the Reservoirs of Antibiotic Resistance Network (ROAR)
• Member of the Admission Board for the Brazilian Society of Health Informatics (SBIS)
• Member of the NLM BLIRC

Getting in touch

Address:
Department of Biomedical Informatics
622 West 168th Street.,
Vanderbilt Clinic, Room
New York, NY 10032

Telephone: (212) 305-9133
Fax: (212) 342-3248
E-mail: mendonca@dbmi.columbia.edu