Jihad Sami Obeid MD
Endowed Chair for Biomedical Informatics Associated with Clinical Effectiveness & Patient Safety
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Biography
Dr. Jihad Obeid is a Professor and SmartState Endowed Chair in Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). He is the division lead for Biomedical Informatics and the Director of the Social Determinants of Health Shared Resource (SHARE). Dr. Obeid is a pediatrician who was formally trained in Medical Informatics at the Division of Health Sciences and Technology, a joint Harvard-MIT fellowship program.
At MUSC, he led several academic and operational informatics initiatives related to the translational research infrastructure such as, the electronic health records (EHR) Research Data Warehouse, REDCap, Profiles research networking system, and many others. Since his arrival at MUSC, he has served as principal investigator, co-investigator, and informatics leader on a multitude of federally funded projects. At the national level, he led several working groups related to translational research informatics. He is an inducted Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA).
Dr. Obeid is the founder and director of two courses in Biomedical Informatics (MCR-746: Informatics and Data Management for Clinical Research and BDSI-712: Translational Informatics), and the co-founder of the AI Hub at MUSC. His research interests include artificial intelligence (AI), specifically, deep learning and large language models applications with clinical text and EHR data. Other research interests include natural language processing, social determinants of health, analysis of research networks, and biomedical ontologies.