DINA DEMNER-FUSHMAN         

1211 Dale Dr.

Silver Spring, MD 20910

(301) 585-7743

e-mail: demner@cs.umd.edu

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~demner/

 

 

EDUCATION

August, 2006         Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Maryland

 

2003                      MS in Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park.

 

2000                      BA (Summa cum Laude) in Computer Science, Hunter College, CUNY

 

1989                      Doctorate in Medical Science, Semashko Moscow Medical and Stomatological Institute

Dissertation title:  Diagnosis of contact allergy to metals based on T cell migration to oral cavity after allergen exposure.

 

1981                      Orthodontics Residency, Tatarstan State Dental Clinic, Kazan

 

1980                      M.D. (Summa cum Laude) S.V. Kurashov State Medical Institute of Kazan

 

HONORS and AWARDS                 

2004                      Special Acts award, NLM        $1,000

2002                      Staff Recognition Award, NLM

2001                      inducted to Phi Beta Kappa

2000                      Honorable mention in the CRA’s Outstanding Undergraduate Award

2000                      Who’s Who among students in American Universities & Colleges

1985 – 1988                    Dissertation Fellowship from Tatarstan Republic

 

RESEARCH AND PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

2004-present         Medical Informatics Fellowship, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, NLM

Responsibilities:

• Research and development of semantic knowledge utilization in information extraction
• Research and development of clinical question answering principles and software
• Server software developer for MD on Tap project
• Research and development of retrieval results organization

 

2002 – 2004          Information Technology Specialist, CEB, LHNCBC, NLM

2001 – 2002          Graduate Research assistant, Computational Linguistics & Information Processing Laboratory, University of Maryland, College Park

1999 – 2001                    Research Foundation of the City University of N.Y., Hunter College,

Bioinformatics group. Development of an internet-based interactive learning and assessment module for protein structure and signal transduction courses.

 Development of an internet-based minority scientists’ database (http://jgh.hunter.cuny.edu/)

1998 – 1999                    College assistants OICIT, Hunter College             

1994 – 1997                    Dental Assistant/ Office Manager, New York, NY          

1991 – 1994                    Orthodontist, Frankfurt/M., Germany

1989 – 1991                    Assistant professor, State Medical Institute of Kazan, USSR

1985 – 1989          Doctoral research, Semashko Moscow Medical and Stomatological Institute

1982 – 1985          Instructor, Kazan School of Nursing

1981 – 1985                    Orthodontist, Tatarstan State Dental Clinic, Kazan

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

2001                      seminar "Web Based Structural Bioinformatic Modules: Applications for Teaching and Research", with Dr. Robert Dottin, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico

1989 – 1991          Advanced courses in prosthetic dentistry and orthodontics

1982 – 1985          Basics of dental patient care for nurses

 

Peer-Reviewed Publications

·        Ahlers CB, Fiszman M, Demner-Fushman D, Lang FM, Rindflesch TC. Extracting Semantic Predications from MEDLINE Citations on Pharmacogenomics. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB 2007). To appear

·        Demner-Fushman D, Hauser SE, Humphrey SM, Ford GM, Jacobs JL, Thoma GR. MEDLINE as a Source of Just-in-Time Answers to Clinical Questions. Proceeding of the 2006 Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2006). To appear.

·        Hauser SE, Demner-Fushman D, Ford GM, Jacobs JL, Thoma G. Preliminary Comparison of Three Search Engines for Point of Care Access to MEDLINE Citations. (poster) Proceeding of the 2006 Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2006). To appear.

·        Sneiderman C, Demner-Fushman D, Fiszman M, Rosemblat G, Lang FM, Norwood D, Rindflesch TC. Semantic Processing to Enhance Retrieval of Diagnosis Citations from MEDLINE (poster) Proceeding of the 2006 Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2006). To appear.

·        Huang X, Lin J, Demner-Fushman D. Evaluation of PICO as a Knowledge Representation for Clinical Questions. Proceeding of the 2006 Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2006). To appear.

·        Demner-Fushman D, Lin J. Answering Clinical Questions with Knowledge-Based and Statistical Techniques. Computational Linguistics. 2006, in press.

·        Lin J, Demner-Fushman D. Methods for Automatically Evaluating Answers to Complex Questions. Information Retrieval. 2006, in press.

·        Lin J, Demner-Fushman D. The Role of Knowledge in Conceptual Retrieval: A Study in the Domain of Clinical Medicine. Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), August 2006, Seattle, Washington.

·        Lin J, Wu P, Demner-Fushman D, Abels E. Exploring the Limits of Single-Iteration Clarification Dialogs. Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), August 2006, Seattle, Washington.

·        Demner-Fushman D, Lin J. Answer Extraction, Semantic Clustering, and Extractive Summarization for Clinical Question Answering. Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING/ACL 2006), July 2006, Sydney, Australia.

·        Demner-Fushman D, Lin J. Situated Question Answering in the Clinical Domain: Selecting the Best Drug Treatment for Diseases. Proceedings of COLING/ACL 2006 Workshop on Task-Focused Summarization and Question Answering, July 2006, Sydney, Australia.

·        Lin J, Karakos D, Demner-Fushman D, Khudanpur S. Generative Content Models for Structural Analysis of Medical Abstracts. Proceedings of the 2006 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP\'06), June 2006, New York City, New York.

·        Lin J, Demner-Fushman D. Will Pyramids Built of Nuggets Topple Over? Proceedings of the 2006 Human Language Technology Conference and the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting (HLT/NAACL 2006), June 2006, New York City, New York.

·        Demner-Fushman D, Few B, Hauser SE, Thoma G. Automatically identifying health outcome information in MEDLINE records. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006 Jan-Feb;13(1):52-60.

·        Humphrey SM, Rogers WJ, Kilicoglu H, Demner-Fushman D, Rindflesch TC. Word Sense Disambiguation by Selecting the Best Semantic Type Based on Journal Descriptor Indexing: Preliminary Experiment. JASIST, 2005:56(13)

·        Demner-Fushman D, Hauser SE, Thoma GR. The Role of Title, Metadata and Abstract in Identifying Clinically Relevant Journal Articles. Proceeding of the 2005 Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2005), October 2005, Washington, D.C.

·        Lin J, Demner-Fushman D. Automatically Evaluating Answers to Definition Questions. Proceedings of the 2005 Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP 2005), October 2005, Vancouver, Canada.

·        Lin J, Demner-Fushman D. "Bag of Words" is not enough for Strength of Evidence Classification. AMIA 2005 (poster)

·        Sneiderman C, Demner-Fushman D, Fiszman M, Rindflesch TC. Semantic characteristics of MEDLINE citations useful for therapeutic decision-making. AMIA 2005 (poster)

·        Lin J, Demner-Fushman D. Representation of Information Needs and the Elements of Context: A Case Study in the Domain of Clinical Medicine. Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR 2005 Workshop on Information Retrieval in Context (IRiX 2005), August 2005, Salvador, Brazil.

·        Demner-Fushman D, Lin J. Knowledge Extraction for Clinical Question Answering: Preliminary Results. Proceedings of the AAAI-05 Workshop on Question Answering in Restricted Domains, July 2005, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

·        Lin J, Demner-Fushman D. Evaluating Summaries and Answers: Two Sides of the Same Coin? Proceedings of the ACL 2005 Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures for MT and/or Summarization, June 2005, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

·        Demner-Fushman D, Hauser SE, Ford G, Thoma GR. Organizing Literature Information for Clinical Decision Support. Medinfo.2004;11(Pt 1):602-6.

·        Hauser SE, Demner-Fushman D, Ford G, Thoma G. PubMed on Tap: Discovering Design Principles for Online Information Delivery to Handheld Computers.  Medinfo.2004;11(Pt 2):1430-3.

·        Hauser SE, Demner-Fushman D, Ford G, Thoma GR. A Testbed System for Mobile Point-of-Care Information Delivery.  Proceeding of the 17th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2004), June 2004.

·        Alexander G, Hauser S, Steely K, Ford G, Demner-Fushman D. A usability study of the PubMed on Tap user interface for PDAs. Medinfo. 2004;11(Pt 2):1411-5

·        He D, Oard DW, Wang J, Luo J, Demner-Fushman D, Darwish K, Resnik P, Khudanpur S, Nossal M, Leuski A. Making MIRACLEs: Interactive Translingual Search for Cebuano and Hindi. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, 2(3-4), 2003

·        Demner-Fushman D, Oard DW. The Effect of Bilingual Term List Size on Dictionary-Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval. HICSS, 2003:108

·        Hauser SE, Schlaifer J, Sabir TF, Demner-Fushman D, Thoma GR. Correcting OCR text by association with historic datasets.  Proc. SPIE Electronic Imaging, January 2003. SPIE Vol. 5010: 84-93.

·        Oard D, Demner-Fushman D, Hajic J, Ramabhadran B, Gustman S, Byrne W, Soergel D, Dorr BJ,  Resnik P, Picheny M. Cross-Language Access to Recorded Speech in the MALACH Project.  TSD, 2002: 57-64

·        Ceaparu I, Demner-Fushman D. Hung E, Zhao H, Shneiderman B. In Web We Trust: Establishing strategic trust among online customers.  in Rust, R. and Kannan, P. K. (Editors), E-Service, M. E. Sharpe Publishers, Armonk, NY, 2002.

·        Sakas WG, Demner-Fushman D. Modeling Parameter Setting Performance in Domains with a Large Number of Parameters: A Hybrid Approach.  CUNY/SUNY/NYU Linguistics Mini-Conference, SUNY Stonybrook, 2001