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Fall 2025 Graduate Catalog

Biomedical Informatics

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Certificate Awarded:  Advanced Graduate Certificate in Biomedical Informatics
 
Chairperson: Joel H. Saltz, Health Sciences Center Level 3, Room 3-043, (631) 638-2590
Graduate Program Director: Ramana V Davuluri, Ramana.Davuluri@stonybrookmedicine.edu, (631) 638-2590

Department Office
Department of Biomedical Informatics
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and School of Medicine
Health Sciences Center Level 3, Room 3-043
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-8322
Main number: 631-638- 2590
BMIGradEd@stonybrookmedicine.edu

Department Website

The Department of Biomedical Informatics currently offers graduate work leading to the Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Science degree and Advanced Graduate Certificate in three areas of specialization, or Tracks:

  1. Clinical Informatics - enhancing the quality and efficiency of clinical workflows;
  2. Imaging Informatics - integrative analysis and management of biomedical images; and
  3. Translational Bioinformatics - application of informatics methods to advance patient related biomedical research, from Clinical Genomics to Population Health.

The new Stony Brook University Biomedical Informatics Program is a collaboration of the School of Medicine and in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. This interdisciplinary field studies and pursues the effective use of biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving and decision making, driven by efforts to improve human health.

We embed BMI Education in research and operations at the Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center, where quantitative sciences have emerged at the very core of efforts to understand, prevent and treat disease. Further, our program emphasizes the ability of trainees to produce software artifacts and conduct computational experiments, along the same lines as the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The resulting refactoring of Informatics equips BMI trainees to play a new role in a Systems Biomedicine enterprise that spans from patient-centric information systems to the distributed analytics needed to contextualize emerging biomolecular Big Data resources.

Students will be instructed via a combination of classroom teaching, seminars, and/or structured projects. Graduates can expect careers in academia, research, healthcare, industry, or government.

Admission Requirements

Application Website

 

1. A bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Informatics, or a related field such as computer science, another engineering discipline, physical science, chemistry, mathematics

  • OR a bachelor’s degree in biology, biochemistry, pharmacology, social science
  • OR post baccalaureate training equivalent to the above
  • OR a bachelor’s degree in humanities with coursework and projects in digital arts and media
  • OR an MD Degree.

2. Acceptance by both the Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program and the Graduate School.

3. In addition, students must meet all admissions requirements, fees, and deadlines of the Stony Brook University Graduate School.

Requests for exceptions to the stated admissions requirements must be submitted in writing and approved by the BMI Graduate Program Director and The Graduate School.

Certificate Requirements

The Advanced Graduate Certificate program has been designed to provide students with the basic grounding in Biomedical Informatics and the flexibility to design a curriculum that best augments their current training. A minimum of 15 credits is required for the Advanced Graduate Certificate.

Required Courses:

15 approved graduate credits including

Notes:

All courses taken outside the Program for application to the graduate degree requirements are subject to prior approval of the student’s advisor and the BMI Graduate Program Director.

Students must complete all the required courses from at least one of the Biomedical Informatics program tracks (see AGC Course Table, below).

Transfer Credits:

A maximum of 6 graduate credits may be transferred from other programs toward the Advanced Graduate Certificate. These may include up to 3 credits from other institutions. The maximum also includes any credits received from taking Biomedical Informatics courses while having non-degree status at Stony Brook as an SPD or GSP student. Credits used to obtain any prior degrees are not eligible for transfer. All requests for transfer of credits require the prior approval of the BMI Graduate Program Director.

Time Limit:

Full-time students must complete all Advanced Graduate Certificate requirements within two years. Part-time students must complete all Advanced Graduate Certificate requirements within four years.

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