Physician Scientist Collective Distinguished Speaker Series

The Physician Scientist Collective Distinguished Speaker Series features speakers from diverse medical fields across national academic institutions who share their experiences and insights on physician-scientist careers.

UCI’s Health Data Research Resources

Kai Zheng, PhD, FACMI

Professor of Informatics and Emergency Medicine
Director of Biomedical Informatics, ICTS
Director of Health Data Access, IPH
Director, Public Health Informatics & Technology Workforce Development Program
University of California, Irvine

Kai Zheng, PhD, FACMI, is Professor of Informatics and Emergency Medicine at UCI. He directs the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI), a key component of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (ICTS) and the Institute for Precision Health (IPH). In this seminar, he will present an overview of UCI’s health data research resources managed by CBMI.

The following topics will be covered:

• Types of health data available for research reuse
• Requesting procedures and best practices
• Tools for cohort discovery prior to submitting a data request
• Additional resources such as the UC Health Data Warehouse and the NIH All of Us Research Hub

Zheng will also present a brief overview of the Protected Virtual Computing Environment (PVCE), where datasets retrieved by the UCI Health Honest Brokers team are deposited. PVCE is an institutionally approved secure environment for storing and computing health data. It comprises multiple servers hosted at the UCI Health Data Center with common statistical and machine-learning tools such as SAS, SPSS, R and Python preinstalled.