Jorge R Herskovic, MD, PhD
Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Division of Discovery Science
About Dr. Jorge R Herskovic
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Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Director, Department of Academic Analytics and Technology, Division of Office of the Chief Academic Officer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Assistant Professor (Joint appointment), Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Division of Basic Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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.
Experience & Service
Administrative Appointments/Responsibilities
Director, Department of Academic Analytics and Technology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2015 - Present
Institutional Committee Activities
Voting member, Research and Education IT Steering committee, 2019 - Present
Honors & Awards
| 1999 | Top Sweet Potato Pie Eater, Sweet Potato Institute of America |
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Herskovic JR, Castro LA. Test, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- 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.
- Herskovic J. Testing duplicates. Seattle Hipster. e-Pub 2000.
Other Articles
- Herskovic JR Adding new publication.
Selected Presentations & Talks
Regional Presentations
- 2025. New CV Demo. Poster. International Society of Testing Patience, US.
National Presentations
- 2013. Twinlist: Novel User Interface Designs for Medication Reconciliation. Conference. AMIA. Washington, DC, US.
- 2013. Optimized Dual Threshold Entity Resolution For Electronic Health Record Databases – Training Set Size And Active Learning. Conference. AMIA. Washington, DC, US.
- 2013. The Team Score: a network metric for identifying strong collaborators at MD Anderson. Conference. Northwestern University. Chicago, IL, US.
- 2012. Deterministic Binary Vectors for Efficient Automated Indexing of MEDLINE/PubMed Abstracts. Conference. AMIA. Chicago, IL, US.
- 2012. The Pan-SHARP Project: An Interdisciplinary approach to Medication Reconciliation. Conference. AMIA. Chicago, IL, US.
- 2012. Medication Reconciliation and the Pan-SHARP project. Conference. Mayo Clinic. Rochester, MN, US.
- 2011. Medication Reconciliation: Work Domain Ontology, Prototype Development, and a Predictive Model. Conference. AMIA. Washington, DC, US.
- 2011. Automated medication reconciliation and complexity of care transitions. Conference. AMIA. Washington, DC, US.
- 2011. Probabilistic databases for estimating patient counts in Clinical Data Warehouses. Conference. AMIA. San Francisco, CA, US.
- 2010. Sequential incoherence in a multi-party synchronous computer mediated communication for an introductory Health Informatics course. Conference. AMIA. Washington, DC, US.
- 2007. 8888. Conference. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Health Information Sciences. Houston, TX, US.
International Presentations
- 2005. Using incomplete citation data for MEDLINE results ranking. Invited. AMIA. Washington, US.
Formal Peers
- 2012. Academic Intelligence. Invited. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Biomedical Informatics. Houston, TX, US.
- 2012. Medication Reconciliation: When, Why, and How. Invited. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Biomedical Informatics. Houston, TX, US.
- 2012. Medication Reconciliation: When, Why, and How. Invited. University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY, US.
- 2012. Medication Reconciliation: When, Why, and How. Invited. Accenture Technology Labs. San Jose, CA, US.
- 2011. The new Foundations of Health Informatics. Invited. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Biomedical Informatics. Houston, TX, US.
- 2010. Metadata: What, Why, & How?. Invited. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Health Information Sciences. Houston, TX, US.
- 2009. The future of Biomedical IT. Invited. Houston Community College. Houston, TX, US.
- 2007. Informática Médica: más allá de los computadores. Invited. Hospital Luis Calvo Mackenna. Santiago, CL.
Patient Reviews
CV information above last modified March 24, 2025