Congrats to these PH Members for their promotions!

At the May 16th meeting of the U-M Regents, 18 Precision Health members received promotions, and/or were awarded tenure for the first time. We’d like to take a moment to congratulate them for their accomplishments, and share our pride:

Catch April’s Member Research Highlights!

Make sure to take a look at the most recent research from our Precision Health members. Each month we compile the precision health and health-centric research that our faculty/researcher members have published; submit your recent research to phmembership@umich.edu for next month’s Highlight!

UM Awarded $500K, 2 Yr AHA Grant for project focused on predicting hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)

UM researchers were recently awarded a $500,000, two-year grant through the American Heart Association (AHA) for a project focused on predicting the presence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in patients who were previously undiagnosed from common tests available in the electronic health record like electrocardiograms and echocardiograms.

The project lead is Sardar Ansari, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine. Co-investigators include Precision Health Co-Director Brahmajee Nallamothu, MD, Adam Helms, MD, & John Donnelly, MSPH, PhD, all of UM Michigan Medical School. They’ll be working alongside other sites including John Hopkins, UT Southwestern & Stanford University.