Eneida A. Mendonça, is a Brazilian-born physician-scientist and biomedical informatician. She pioneered the use of

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in both the biomedical literature and in

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narratives in order to identify knowledge relevant to medical

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in the context of the patient care. In addition, she has devoted many years to develop innovative clinical information systems that have been integrated in the

NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (abbreviated as NYP) is a nonprofit academic medical center in New York City. It is the primary teaching hospital for Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. The hospi ...

, the

Columbia University Medical Center Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) is the academic medical center of Columbia University and the largest campus of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. The center's academic wing consists of Columbia's colleges and schools of Physicia ...

, and the

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. She holds a medical degree from the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil and a Ph.D. in biomedical informatics from

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

, New York. Currently, Mendonça is the Inaugural VP for Research Development of the Regenstrief Institute at the

Indiana University School of Medicine The Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) is a major, multi-campus medical school located throughout the US state, U.S. state of Indiana and is both the Medical school, undergraduate and Graduate medical education, graduate medical school o ...

. Mendonça has contributed over 100 publications to the fields of biomedical informatics and medicine.

Publications

Medline Publications

Google Scholar Citations

References

External links

Eneida A. Mendonça’s former homepage as Faculty at Columbia University

Eneida A. Mendonça’s at The University of Chicago
Living people Brazilian scientists Federal University of Pelotas alumni University of Chicago faculty Health informaticians Year of birth missing (living people) Natural language processing researchers Data miners {{Brazil-scientist-stub