Greetings from Dr. Yellowlees

We are excited to begin another academic year and to welcome our new students to the Health Informatics Program.  We continue to be proud of our ever growing graduate group of teaching faculty, from the School of Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, College of Engineering, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, and the Health Sciences Library.

We have expanded our masters student population and are proud of all our students for pursuing excellence in the classroom, their research, and their professional careers.  We are particularly pleased to have had an enthusiastic enrollment in our online certificate program run in conjunction with UC Davis Extension and welcome all of these new students.

Among the many new developments to be particularly enthusiastic about are our successful affiliations and teaching collaborations with other UC Davis and UC Davis Health System entities, a few of which are as follows:

• UC Davis Extension:  We are now offering our fully online Health Informatics Certificate Program and look forward to seeing more students enrolling in this exciting program over the next year.
• Master of Public Health: We are excited to partner with the Master of Public Health Program, in creating an area of expertise in informatics for the public health students, and of course, an area of expertise in Public Health will be developed for our Masters students.
•  Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing:  A close collaboration with the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing will not only bring reciprocating areas of "designated emphasis" to both our programs as we plan our mutual Ph.D. programs but will bring new nursing faculty into our graduate group of teaching faculty where we expect a significant increase in our master's students with nursing backgrounds!

We welcome your interest in our discipline, our mission and our organization.  We invite you to explore our website to learn more about health informatics and its role in the strategic vision of the UC Davis Health System, and it's role in our community. You can also find us on facebook, and a number of our faculty are developing blogs and other social networking initiatives. See you there!!!