Jorge R Herskovic, MD, PhD
Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Division of Discovery Science
About Dr. Jorge R Herskovic
Dr. Herskovic is the Director of Academic Analytics and Technology at MD Anderson and an Assistant Professor with the Department of Bioinformatics.
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Assistant Professor (Joint appointment), Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Division of Basic Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2008 | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, US, Health Informatics, Ph.D |
| 2005 | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, US, Health Informatics, M.S |
| 2002 | Universidad De Chile, Santiago, CL, MD |
Licenses & Certifications
| 2002 | Medico Cirujano |
Experience & Service
Faculty Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor, Department of School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 2008 - 2012
Administrative Appointments/Responsibilities
Director, Department of Academic Analytics and Technology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2015 - Present
Director ad interim, Department of Academic Technology Services, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2015 - 2015
Director, Department of Institutional Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2014 - 2015
Lead, Joint Faculty-Administration Salary Working Group, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2013 - 2015
Academic Intelligence Analyst, Department of Academic Affairs, Sr VP Office, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2012 - 2015
Other Professional Positions
Software Engineering Intern, Google Inc, Mountain View, CA, 2006 - 2006
Extramural Institutional Committee Activities
Voting member, Research and Education IT Steering committee, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2019 - Present
Editorial Activities
Editorial Committee member, 8th Annual Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium, 2011
Honors & Awards
| 2018 | Best Boss Award, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
Professional Memberships
Selected Presentations & Talks
National Presentations
- 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
- 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, 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. 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.
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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