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Tirado-Ramos will serve as director of biomedical informatics at Synergy Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and of the Biomedical Data Science Research Software Laboratory. In addition, he will be an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Geisel and scientific director of biomedical informatics for Dartmouth-Hitchcock.
“We are delighted to have Alfredo aboard — being able to secure someone of his experience and expertise is a major coup for Dartmouth,” Alan I. Green, MD, chair and professor of psychiatry at Geisel and director of Synergy, said in a news release. “Informatics is a key part of modern clinical and translational research and an essential component of linking data from electronic health records with research questions. Alfredo’s impact will be dramatic in helping us use ‘big data’ in sophisticated ways to advance our efforts in research and patient care throughout our system and beyond.”
Tirado-Ramos was formerly the chief and founder of the Clinical Informatics Division of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He also co-directed the informatics core at the San Antonio Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center — as part of a National Institute on Aging award — where he developed state-of-the-art informatics tools to investigate treatments for age-related diseases, with a major focus on pharmacological interventions.
Prior to joining the University of Texas, Tirado-Ramos served as associate director for the Biomedical Informatics Core at the Center for AIDS Research at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. After earning his bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Universidad Autonóma de Nuevo León, Mexico, Tirado-Ramos received a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona. He completed his doctorate in computational science at the Universiteit van Amsterdam in The Netherlands.
“I am excited to join the Dartmouth community; I feel very welcomed and strongly supported,”
Tirado-Ramos said. “I was drawn to Dartmouth by the opportunity to work with Dr. Alan Green, who through the Synergy program has been working to advance translational science and clinical care, and also by the challenge of bridging the discoveries made by Dartmouth’s world-class researchers and the clinical domain of its health system.”