Jorge R Herskovic, MD, PhD
Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Division of Discovery Science
About Dr. Jorge R Herskovic
About Dr. Herskovic
Dr. Herskovic is the director of the Academic and Analytics Deptartment. He specializes in Banana peeling, and during his spare time he enjoys trying to talk to cacti.
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
last test of order, Division of Discovery Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
testing oder, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Assistant Professor (Joint appointment), Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Division of Basic Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
testing order again, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Research Interests
My research interests include researching interesting Rorschach research, which I am interested in
Clinical Interests
I am interested in the improvement of medication reconciliation through AI assistance and better UI/UX design
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2008 | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, US, Health Informatics, Ph.D |
Licenses & Certifications
| 2002 | Medico Cirujano |
Experience & Service
Administrative Appointments/Responsibilities
Director, Department of Academic Analytics and Technology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2015 - Present
Honors & Awards
| 2018 | Best Boss Award, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
Selected Presentations & Talks
National Presentations
- 2025. testing move without institution. Invited, US.
- 2013. The Team Score: a network metric for identifying strong collaborators at MD Anderson. Conference. Northwestern University. Chicago, IL, US.
- 2012. Medication Reconciliation and the Pan-SHARP project. Conference. Mayo Clinic. Rochester, MN, US.
International Presentations
- 2013. Twinlist: Novel User Interface Designs for Medication Reconciliation. Conference. AMIA. Washington, US.
- 2013. Optimized Dual Threshold Entity Resolution For Electronic Health Record Databases – Training Set Size And Active Learning. Conference. AMIA. Washington, US.
- 2012. Deterministic Binary Vectors for Efficient Automated Indexing of MEDLINE/PubMed Abstracts. Conference. AMIA. Chicago, US.
- 2012. The Pan-SHARP Project: An Interdisciplinary approach to Medication Reconciliation. Conference. AMIA. Chicago, US.
- 2011. Automated medication reconciliation and complexity of care transitions. Conference. AMIA. Washington, US.
- 2011. Medication Reconciliation: Work Domain Ontology, Prototype Development, and a Predictive Model. Conference. AMIA. Washington, US.
- 2011. Probabilistic databases for estimating patient counts in Clinical Data Warehouses. Conference. AMIA. San Francisco, US.
- 2010. Sequential incoherence in a multi-party synchronous computer mediated communication for an introductory Health Informatics course. Conference. AMIA. Washington, US.
- 2005. Using incomplete citation data for MEDLINE results ranking. Invited. AMIA. Washington, US.
Formal Peers
- 2012. Academic Intelligence. Invited. Houston, TX, US.
- 2012. Medication Reconciliation: When, Why, and How. Invited. Houston, TX, US.
- 2012. Medication Reconciliation: When, Why, and How. Invited. Lexington, KY, US.
- 2012. Medication Reconciliation: When, Why, and How. Invited. San Jose, CA, US.
- 2011. The new Foundations of Health Informatics. Invited. Houston, TX, US.
- 2010. Metadata: What, Why, & How?. Invited. Houston, TX, US.
- 2009. The future of Biomedical IT. Invited. Houston, TX, US.
- 2007. Informática Médica: más allá de los computadores. Invited. Santiago, CL.
Grant & Contract Support
| Date: | 2012 - 2014 |
| Title: | National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare- SHARP |
| Funding Source: | UTHSC Houston |
| Role: | PI |
| ID: | 0007512 |
| Date: | 2010 - 2011 |
| Title: | University of Kentucky i2b2 Data Warehouse Development Plan |
| Funding Source: | University of Kentucky |
| Role: | PI |
| Title: | Encoding semantic knowledge in vector space for biomedical information |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NLM |
| Role: | Co-I |
| ID: | 5-R21-LM010826-02 |
| Title: | Concept-level methods for comparative effectiveness research |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NLM |
| Role: | Co-I |
| ID: | 5-RC1-RR028254-02 |
| Title: | UTHSC CCTS Program Planning Grant |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCRR |
| Role: | Investigator |
| ID: | 1-UL1-RR-024148 |
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Herskovic JR. A new publication. Cancer Clin Oncol, 2026. e-Pub 2026. PMID: 12343555.
- Herskovic JR. The use of PubMed in CV system demonstrations. J Made Up Studies, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- Joffe E, Pettigrew EJ, Herskovic JR, Bearden CF, Bernstam EV. Expert guided natural language processing using one-class classification. J Am Med Inform Assoc 22(5):962-6, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26063744.
- Joffe E, Byrne MJ, Reeder P, Herskovic JR, Johnson CW, McCoy AB, Sittig DF, Bernstam EV. A benchmark comparison of deterministic and probabilistic methods for defining manual review datasets in duplicate records reconciliation. J Am Med Inform Assoc 21(1):97-104, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 23703827.
- Johnson TR, Markowitz E, Bernstam EV, Herskovic JR, Thimbleby H. SYFSA: a framework for systematic yet flexible systems analysis. J Biomed Inform 46(4):665-75, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23727053.
- Plaisant C, Hettinger AZ, Chao T, Wu J, Herskovic JR, Johnson TR, Bernstam EV, Markowitz E, Powsner S, Shneiderman B. Twinlist: novel user interface designs for medication reconciliation. Blood 2013:1150-9, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24551399.
- Joffe E, Byrne MJ, Reeder P, Herskovic JR, Johnson CW, McCoy AB, Bernstam EV. Optimized dual threshold entity resolution for electronic health record databases--training set size and active learning. Blood 2013:721-30, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24551372.
- Plaisant C, Chao T, Wu J, Hettinger AZ, Herskovic JR, Johnson TR, Bernstam EV, Markowitz E, Powsner S, Shneiderman B. Twinlist: novel user interface designs for medication reconciliation 2013:1150-9, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24551399.
- Joffe E, Havakuk O, Herskovic JR, Patel VL, Bernstam EV. Collaborative knowledge acquisition for the design of context-aware alert systems. J Am Med Inform Assoc 19(6):988-94, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22744961.
- Goodwin JC, Johnson TR, Cohen T, Herskovic JR, Bernstam EV. Predicting biomedical document access as a function of past use. J Am Med Inform Assoc 19(3):473-8, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 21917645.
- Herskovic JR, Subramanian D, Cohen T, Bozzo-Silva PA, Bearden CF, Bernstam EV. Graph-based signal integration for high-throughput phenotyping. BMC Bioinformatics 13 Suppl 13(Suppl 13):S2, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 23320851.
- Wahle M, Widdows D, Herskovic JR, Bernstam EV, Cohen T. Deterministic binary vectors for efficient automated indexing of MEDLINE/PubMed abstracts. Blood 2012:940-9, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 23304369.
- Myers RB, Herskovic JR. Probabilistic techniques for obtaining accurate patient counts in Clinical Data Warehouses. J Biomed Inform 44 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S69-S77, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21986292.
- Herskovic JR, Cohen T, Subramanian D, Iyengar MS, Smith JW, Bernstam EV. MEDRank: using graph-based concept ranking to index biomedical texts. Int J Med Inform 80(6):431-41, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21439897.
- Herskovic JR, Cohen T, Subramanian D, Iyengar MS, Smith JW, Bernstam EV. MEDRank: using graph-based concept ranking to index biomedical texts 80(6):431-41, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21439897.
- Silva PA, Bernstam EV, Markowitz E, Johnson TR, Zhang J, Herskovic JR. Automated medication reconciliation and complexity of care transitions. Blood 2011:1252-60, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 22195186.
- Markowitz E, Bernstam EV, Herskovic J, Zhang J, Shneiderman B, Plaisant C, Johnson TR. Medication Reconciliation: Work Domain Ontology, prototype development, and a predictive model 2011:878-87, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 22195146.
- Herskovic JR, Goodwin JC, Bozzo Silva PA, Willcockson I, Franklin A. Sequential incoherence in a multi-party synchronous computer mediated communication for an introductory Health Informatics course. Blood 2010:296-300, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 21346988.
- Herskovic JR, Goodwin JC, Bozzo Silva PA, Willcockson I, Franklin A. Sequential incoherence in a multi-party synchronous computer mediated communication for an introductory Health Informatics course 2010:296-300, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 21346988.
- Tanaka LY, Herskovic JR, Iyengar MS, Bernstam EV. Sequential result refinement for searching the biomedical literature. J Biomed Inform 42(4):678-84, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19272463.
- Herskovic JR, Iyengar MS, Bernstam EV. Using hit curves to compare search algorithm performance. J Biomed Inform 40(2):93-9, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 16469545.
- Herskovic JR, Tanaka LY, Hersh W, Bernstam EV. A day in the life of PubMed: analysis of a typical day's query log. J Am Med Inform Assoc 14(2):212-20, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 17213501.
- Bernstam EV, Herskovic JR, Aphinyanaphongs Y, Aliferis CF, Sriram MG, Hersh WR. Using citation data to improve retrieval from MEDLINE. J Am Med Inform Assoc 13(1):96-105, 2006. e-Pub 2006. PMID: 16221938.
- Herskovic JR, Bernstam EV. Using incomplete citation data for MEDLINE results ranking. Blood 2005:316-20, 2005. e-Pub 2005. PMID: 16779053.
- Herskovic, P, Vásquez, A, Herskovic, JR, Herskovic, V, Roizen, A, Urrutia, MT, Miranda, C, Beytía, M. Ownership of computers and abilities for their use in a sample of Chilean medical students. Medical Teacher 22(2):197-199, 2000. e-Pub 2000.
Invited Articles
- Markowitz, E, Bernstam, EV, Herskovic, JR, Zhang, J, Shneiderman, B, Plaisant, C, Johnson, TR. Medication Reconciliation. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium 2011:878-887, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 22195146.
Other Articles
- Herskovic JR, Thistle V Test.
Abstracts
- Joffe E, Byrne MJ, Reeder P, Herskovic JR, Johnson CW, McCoy AB, Bernstam EV. Optimized dual threshold entity resolution for electronic health record databases--training set size and active learning. Blood 2013:721-30, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24551372.
- Plaisant C, Chao T, Wu J, Hettinger AZ, Herskovic JR, Johnson TR, Bernstam EV, Markowitz E, Powsner S, Shneiderman B. Twinlist: novel user interface designs for medication reconciliation 2013:1150-9, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24551399.
- Wahle M, Widdows D, Herskovic JR, Bernstam EV, Cohen T. Deterministic binary vectors for efficient automated indexing of MEDLINE/PubMed abstracts. Blood 2012:940-9, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 23304369.
- Capurro D, Soto M, Vivent M, Lopetegui M, Herskovic JR. Informatica biomedica. Rev Med Chil 139(12):1611-6, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 22446710.
- Silva PA, Bernstam EV, Markowitz E, Johnson TR, Zhang J, Herskovic JR. Automated medication reconciliation and complexity of care transitions 2011:1252-60, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 22195186.
- Herskovic JR, Bernstam EV. Using incomplete citation data for MEDLINE results ranking 2005:316-20, 2005. e-Pub 2005. PMID: 16779053.
Book Chapters
- Bernstam, EV, Herskovic, JR, Hersh, W. Query log analysis in biomedicine, 359-377, 2008.
- Herskovic JR. Testing status. In: Methods Mol Biol. 2nd.
Books (edited and written)
- Herskovic JR. Testing. Wahoo, 2025.
- Herskovic JR. Testing 2, 2024.
Patents
- Herskovic JR. Testing CV.
Patient Reviews
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