Tanja's CV

 

Curriculum Vitae

TANJA BEKHUIS, PhD, MS, MLIS, AHIP (Distinguished)

TCB Research & Indexing LLC

EDDA Analytics Group


 www.tcbinfosci.com

Contact: tanja.bekhuis@tcbinfosci.com

  

Keywords: Library and information sciences; biomedical and dental informatics; systematic, scoping, and rapid literature review methods; knowledge representation; taxonomies and ontologies; information retrieval and extraction; complex search strategies; natural language processing; text mining; machine learning; mixed methods; qualitative research; quantitative research; digital scholarship; scholarly communication; writing, editing, and indexing; innovation.

  

EDUCATION and TRAINING


GRADUATE EDUCATION

Institution
Degree
Discipline
University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida, USA
MS
Educational Research

School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
MLIS

Library and Information  Sciences
Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory, University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
PhD
Quantitative Psychology

POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR (Funded by NLM and NIDCR)

Institution                 Discipline
Department of Biomedical Informatics
School of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Dental and Biomedical     Informatics




  

APPOINTMENTS and POSITIONS

  
 ACADEMIC

Years
Institution
Title
2008–2010
Center for Dental Informatics, School of Dental Medicine, and Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
NLM/NIDCR Postdoctoral Scholar
2009 Summer
Communications Engineering Branch, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, US National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA
NLM Rotation for Medical Informatics Scholar
2010–2012
Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Associate
2012–2016
Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Assistant Professor
2013–2016
Department of Dental Public Health, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Assistant Professor
(secondary appointment)
2014–2016
Center for Informatics in Oral Health Translational Research, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Co-Founder and Director of Translational Research Methods
2015–2016
School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Assistant Professor
(secondary appointment)
2016–present
Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Adjunct Faculty

  NON-ACADEMIC

Years
Organization
Title
2007–2010
Centre for Reviews & Dissemination, University of York, UK. Wrote structured abstracts with commentary on systematic reviews of healthcare interventions for the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), formerly part of the Cochrane Library.
Evaluator
2008
Form & Content Media, Ltd. Edited articles on biomedical applications in optics and photonics for SPIE, an international society for scientists and engineers.
Technical Editor
2012­–present
Evidence in Documents, Discovery and Analytics (EDDA) Group™, a division of TCB Research & Indexing LLC. Design and conduct studies of documents, such as scientific articles, abstracts, and e-mail messages. Use various language technologies, e.g., natural language processing and text mining.
Principal Scientist
2016–present
TCB Research & Indexing LLC. Write, edit, and index books, technical reports, scientific articles, and grant proposals. Consultant for research methods, text analytics, and terminology development.
CEO and Founder

HONORS 

National Institute of Mental Health, Predoctoral Fellow
Frank Porter Graham Innovative Research Award, University of North Carolina at 
Chapel Hill
Smith Graduate Research Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
L. L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory Award, University of North Carolina at 
Chapel Hill
AERA grant, Institute on Statistical Analysis for Education Policy, Atlanta, Georgia
NLM Rotation for Medical Informatics, Communications Engineering Branch, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, US National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, Postdoctoral Scholar
National Library of Medicine / National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics Training Program, Postdoctoral Scholar
NIH/NLM Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00)          
Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP), Distinguished member
NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) at Carnegie Mellon University.

CONTINUING EDUCATION (since 2007) 

Workshop on Web-based analysis, including analysis of DNA & protein sequences, MapViewer, Entrez Gene, & unmasking genes in human DNA, National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, MD.
On writing structured abstracts/reviews for the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), Centre for Reviews & Dissemination, University of York, UK (summer).
Workshop on completing a Cochrane systematic review, Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (3 days).
Authorship: Ethical Issues along the Path to Publication, Office of Academic Career Development, Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh.
Research Webinar Series: Knowledge Synthesis; Review Manager 5; Assessing and Interpreting Reported Meta-regression Analyses, Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre.
An Introduction to Clinical Natural Language Processing, Part 1, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) tutorial.
An Introduction to Clinical Natural Language Processing, Part 2: Interactive Demonstrations of Fundamental Concepts with Available Open Source Tools, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) tutorial.
An Introduction to Data Mining Principles and Practice, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) tutorial.
Introduction to Ontology Engineering and the Web Ontology Language (OWL), Stanford Protégé-OWL short course, Stanford University (several days).
Natural Language Processing: State of the Art, Future Directions and Applications for Enhancing Clinical Decision-Making, National Institutes of Health workshop, Bethesda, MD.
Responsible Conduct of Research, Symposium for Emerging Researchers: Becoming a More Effective Research Mentor, Office of Academic Career Development, Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh.
Developing Competitive Grant Applications, Office of Academic Career Development, Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh.
Ontology and Imaging Informatics: Third Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Workshop, National Center for Ontological Research, Buffalo, NY (several days).
Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation, a FutureLearn MOOC, Tony McEnery, PhD, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK (8 weeks).
Practices for Hiring and Mentoring Postdocs, Office of Academic Career Development, Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh.
NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) at Carnegie Mellon University (year-long).
Biomedical Named-Entity Recognition: An Overview of MetaMap. François-Michel Lang, Principal Scientific Systems Developer, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, US National Library of Medicine (webinar).
Grey Horizons: Grey Literature Searching for New and Emerging Health Technologies. CE400. Joint meeting of the Medical Library Association (MLA), Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA/ABSC), and International Clinical Librarian Conference (ICLC), Toronto, Canada (4 hours).
ABCs of Research Impact: Altmetrics, Bibliometrics, and Citations. CE704. Joint meeting of Medical Library Association (MLA), Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA/ABSC), and International Clinical Librarian Conference (ICLC), Toronto, Canada (4 hours).
Competitive Intelligence (CI): Sources, Strategies and Techniques. Special Libraries Association (SLA) 2016 Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA (4 hours).
Bringing Rigor and Reproducibility to Research: A Symposium for Health Sciences. University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System, Pittsburgh, PA (4 hours).
Linking Locally: A Technical Tour of the UNLV LOD [Linked Open Data] Project. ASIS&T Arts and Humanities SIG (webinar).

Introduction to Linked Data and the Semantic Web, a FutureLearn MOOC, Elena Simperl, PhD, Web and Internet Science Group, University of Southampton, UK (3 weeks).

Managing Mature Taxonomies. SLA Taxonomy Division [webinar].

Digital Humanities Approaches to Text Analysis, ULS / iSchool Digital Scholarship Workshop, University of Pittsburgh, PA (2 hours).

Multimedia Digital Narratives, ULS / iSchool Digital Scholarship Workshop, University of Pittsburgh, PA (2 hours).

Synonyms, Alternative Labels, and Non-preferred Terms. SLA Taxonomy Division [webinar].

PUBLICATIONS

Selected Academic Research Articles

Bekhuis T. Conceptual biology, hypothesis discovery, and text mining: Swanson's legacy [in top ten of most accessed articles]. Biomedical Digital Libraries, 2006, 3:2. PMCID: PMC1459187.
Bekhuis T, Thyvalikakath T, Oliver R. Interventions for treating ameloblastomas of the jaws [protocol]. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2009, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD003975.
doi: 1002/14651858.CD003975.pub2.
Bekhuis T. Music therapy may reduce pain and anxiety in children undergoing medical and dental procedures [invited evaluation of a systematic review]. Journal of Evidence-based Dental Practice, 2009, 9(4), 213-14. doi:10.1016/j.jebdp.2009.03.002. PMCID: PMC2778574.
Spallek H, Song M, Polk DE, Bekhuis T, Frantsve-Hawley J, Aravamudhan K. Barriers to implementing evidence-based clinical guidelines: a survey of early adopters. Journal of Evidence-based Dental Practice. 2010, (10)4, 195-206. PMCID: PMC3011934.
Bekhuis T, Demner-Fushman D. Towards automating the initial screening phase of a systematic review. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. 2010, 160(Pt 1):146-50. PMID: 20841667.
Bekhuis T. Chlorhexidine varnish may prevent dental caries in children and adolescents [invited evaluation of a systematic review]. Journal of Evidence-based Dental Practice, 2011, 11(2):84-6. PMID: 21605831.
Bekhuis T, Kreinacke M, Spallek H, Song M, O'Donnell AJ. Using natural language processing to enable in-depth analysis of clinical messages posted to an Internet mailing list: a feasibility study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2011, 13(4):e98. PMCID: PMC3236668.
Bekhuis T, Demner-Fushman D. Screening nonrandomized studies for medical systematic reviews: a comparative study of classifiers. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. 2012 Jul;55(3):197-207. Epub 2012 Jun 5. PMCID: PMC3393813. [Featured in the AHRQ Scientific Resource Center Methods Library, November 2012.]
Bekhuis T, Demner-Fushman D, Crowley RS. Comparative effectiveness research designs in MeSH and Emtree: an evaluation of coverage. JMLA: Journal of the Medical Library Association. 2013;101(2):92-100. PMCID: PMC3634392. [Featured in the AHRQ Scientific Resource Center Methods Library, May 2013.]
Song M, O'Donnell JA, Bekhuis T, Spallek H. Are dentists interested in the oral-systemic disease connection? A qualitative study of an online community of 450 practitioners. BMC Oral Health. 2013 Nov 21;13(1):65. [Epub ahead of print] PMCID: PMC3924341. [Highly accessed article; also featured in British Dental Journal. 2013; 215(11): 545, News section, online: 6 December 2013. doi:10.1038/sj.bdj.2013.1152].
Bekhuis T, Tseytlin E, Mitchell K, Demner-Fushman D. Feature engineering and a proposed decision-support system for systematic reviewers of medical evidence. PLoS One. Epub 2014 Jan 27; 9(1):e86277. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0086277. PMCID: PMC3903545. [Featured in the AHRQ Scientific Resource Center Methods Library, March 2014].
Bekhuis T. Mentors and tormentors on the road to informatics [invited essay]. JMLA: Journal of the Medical Library Association. 102(2), 2014 Apr;102(2):67-8. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.102.2.001. PMCID:  PMC3988775.
Bekhuis T, Kim K, Valappil B, Spallek H. Adapting the Scottish PRIME Fissure Sealant Questionnaire for implementation research in the United States: lessons learned. APA PsycEXTRA, American Psychological Association (APA). 2014. doi: 10.1037/e502572014-001.
Bramer WM, Holland L, Mollema J, Hannon T, Bekhuis T. Removing duplicates in retrieval sets from electronic databases: comparing the efficiency and accuracy of the Bramer method with other methods and software packages. Proceedings of the 14th European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) Conference, 57-9. Rome, Italy, June 11-13, 2014.
Frazier JJ, Stein CD, Tseytlin E, Bekhuis T. Building a gold standard to construct search filters: a case study with biomarkers for oral cancer. JMLA: Journal of the Medical Library Association. 2015 Jan;103(1):346-354. doi:10.3163/1536-5050.103.1.005. PMCID: PMC4279929.
Bekhuis T. Keywords, discoverability, and impact [invited commentary]. JMLA: Journal of the Medical Library Association. 2015 Jul;103(3):119-20. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.103.3.002. PMCID: PMC4511049.
Faith A, Bekhuis T. HTA Database Canadian Repository [electronic resource review]. JMLA: Journal of the Medical Library Association. 2015 Oct;103(4):239-40. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.103.4.021. PMCID: PMC4613395.
Bekhuis T, Tseytlin E, Mitchell KJ. A prototype for a hybrid system to support systematic review teams: a case study of organ transplantation. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) Proceedings. Nov 2015; 940-47. doi: 10.1109/BIBM.2015.7359810. PMCID: PMC4742277. [Featured in the AHRQ Scientific Resource Center Methods Library, February 2016].
Straub-Morarend C, Wankiiri-Hale C, Blanchette D, Lanning, SK, Bekhuis T, Smith B, Brodie, AJ, Oliveira D, Handysides RA, Dawson D, Spallek H. U.S. Dental students’ evidence-based practice knowledge, perceptions and behavior: a cross-sectional study. Journal of Dental Education. 2016; 80(4):430-38.
Bramer WM, Giustini D, de Jonge GB, Holland L, Bekhuis T. Deduplication of database search results for systematic reviews in EndNote. JMLA: Journal of the Medical Library Association. 2016 Jul;104(3):240-3. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.104.3.014. PMID: 27366130.
McIvor, WR, Banergee A, Boulet JR, Weinger MB, Bekhuis T, Tseytlin E, Torsher L, Simulation‑Based Assessment Research Group. A taxonomy of scenario delivery and documentation deviations during high-fidelity simulations. Simulation in Healthcare. 2017 Feb;12(1):1-8. PMID: 28146449.
Castro SM, Tseytlin E, Medvedeva O, Mitchell KJ, Visweswaran S, Bekhuis T, Jacobson RS. Automated annotation and classification of BI-RADS assessment from radiology reports. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2017 May;69:177-187. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2017.04.011. PMID: 28428140.

Selected Abstracts


Bekhuis T, Kreinacke M, Spallek H, Song M. Using the Natural Language Toolkit to reduce the number of messages for in-depth content analyses: a case study. AMIA 2010 Annu Symp Proc, 981. Washington DC: American Medical Informatics Association.
Bekhuis T, Stein CD. Feasibility scans could improve prioritization and selection of systematic review topics. 21st Cochrane Colloquium; 2013 Sep 19 - 23; Quebec, Canada. In Cochrane Database Syst Rev Suppl, 69 (2013). Wiley & Sons. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD201300.
Frazier JJ, Stein CD, Bekhuis T. Prognostic biomarkers of oral squamous cell carcinoma: towards development of a gold standard. DBMI Annual Training Program Retreat, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, Aug 22-23, 2013.
Balasubramani H, Reitmeyer KL, Sadeghian R, Bekhuis T, Ketchum AM, Foust JE, Handler SM. Scoping review of telemedicine in nursing homes [extended abstract appears in “Creating a pipeline of talent for informatics: STEM initiative for high school students in computer science, biology, and biomedical informatics”]. J Path Inform 2014 Mar;5(12). doi:10.4103/2153‑3539.129448. PMID:24860688.
Frazier J, Stein C, Tseytlin E, Mitchell KM, Bekhuis T. Finding and visualizing information about potential prognostic biomarkers of oral squamous cell carcinoma: a pathology informatics study. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol.118(6):e193-e4. doi: 10.1016/j.oooo.2014.05.097. [Presented at the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (AAOMP) Annual Meeting, St. Augustine, FL, April 25-30, 2014.]
Frazier JJ, Stein CD, Tseytlin E, Bekhuis T. A gold standard dataset with records of studies on potential prognostic biomarkers for oral squamous cell carcinoma. DBMI Annual Training Program Retreat, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, Aug 21-22, 2014.
Faith A, Tseytlin E, Bekhuis T. Development of the EDDA Study Design Terminology: enhancing retrieval of clinical and bibliographic records in dispersed repositories. DC-2014: International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, Austin, TX, Oct 8-11, 2014.
Schneider J, Bekhuis T. Tracking evidentiary claims in a systematic review: a proposed case study of oral pain relief. National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research Trainee conference, co‑located with the annual conference of the American Association for Dental Research, Los Angeles, CA, March 16‑19, 2016.
Hoang L, Bekhuis T, Schneider J. Towards automatic data extraction from clinical research reports: a case study of a systematic review of oral pain relief. Research Showcase, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, October 24, 2016. 

Selected Technical Reports

Bekhuis T. How to use EndNote 7 to create a library of references from Communications & Mass Media Index (CMMI). Social Sciences Library, Paterno Library, Penn State University, University Park, PA. 2004.
Bekhuis T. Sources for media comparisons by country [annotated telecommunications bibliography]. Social Sciences Library, Paterno Library, Penn State University, University Park, PA. 2004.
Kreinacke M, Bekhuis T, Spallek H, Song M, O'Donnell JA. Preprocessing messages posted by dentists to an Internet mailing list: a report of methods developed for a study of clinical content. Technical report no. 09262011. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA. 2011. Available at http://d‑scholarship.pitt.edu/14247/.
Bekhuis T, Dziabiak M. Google Translate: a useful tool for librarians and systematic reviewers [technology column]. MLA News. November/December 2011.
Bekhuis T, EDDA Analytics Group™. Library workshops in support of data-driven research in top NIH‑ and NSF-funded universities [no. 00170205]. Pittsburgh, PA, USA: TCB Research & Indexing LLC. February 2017. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.10522.85445.

Selected Book Reviews

Appeared in PsycCRITIQUES [formerly Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books].
Bekhuis T. The View from Mount Olympus [review of A Telescope on Society: Survey Research and Social Science at the University of Michigan and Beyond]. 2004, 49(11), 4 pp.
Bekhuis T. Building Better Measures [review of Constructing Measures: An Item Response Modeling Approach]. 2005, 50(18), 4 pp.
Bekhuis T. Mapping Invisible Structure [review of Modern Multidimensional Scaling: Theory and Applications, Second Edition], 2006, 51(22), 4 pp.
Bekhuis T. Misery and the Digital Divide [review of From Rural Village to Global Village: Telecommunications for Development in the Information Age]. 2007, 3 pp.
Bekhuis T, Wade TJ. Inside Out [review of Mental Health and Social Space: Towards Inclusionary Geographies?], 2008, 53(38), 3 pp.

Appeared in CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.
Bekhuis T. Review of Psychologists' Desk Reference, Second Edition, May 2005.
Bekhuis T. Review of Making Sense: A Student's Guide to Research and Writing / Social Sciences, Updated Second Edition, October 2005. 
Bekhuis T. Review of Handbook of International Disaster Psychology [4 vols.], September 2006. 
Bekhuis T. Review of Injury and Violence Prevention, June 2007.
Bekhuis T. Review of Dictionary of Psychological Testing, Assessment and Treatment, Second Edition, July 2008.

Selected Essays in Reference Books


Bekhuis T. "SuÅ›ruta, Indian Physician, Writes Medical Compendium.” In Great Events from History: The Ancient World. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2004, pp. 351-53.
Bekhuis T. “Collective Guilt.” In Ethics, Revised Edition. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2005, pp. 269-70.
Bekhuis T. “Land Mines.” In Ethics, Revised Edition. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2005, pp. 822-823.
Bekhuis T. "Universal Human Rights." In Encyclopedia of Gender and Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2008. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412964517.n435
Bekhuis T. "Embolization." In Salem Encyclopedia of Health and Medicine: CANCER. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2009. pp. 402-03.

Appeared in Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2002

Bekhuis T. "Fatigue," pp. 399-403.
Bekhuis T. "Pain Disorder," pp. 713-16.
Bekhuis T, Ford-Martin P. "Self-Help Groups" [update of essay by Paula Ford-Martin], pp. 876-880.

Appeared in Magill's Encyclopedia of Social Science: Psychology [an ALA/RUSA Outstanding Reference Source, 2004]. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2003
Bekhuis T. "Coping: Terminal Illness," pp. 446-51.
Henderson JT, Bekhuis T. "Madness: Historical Concepts" [update of essay by J. T. Henderson].
Ito TA, Miller N, Bekhuis T. "Helping: Theoretical Perspectives" [update of essay by TA Ito & N. Miller].

Appeared in Magill’s Medical Guide, Third Revised Edition. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2004
Bekhuis T. “Artificial Skin” [sidebar for “Burns and Scalds” by Maria Pacheco], p. 384.
Bekhuis T. “In the News: Link between Strep Throat and PANDAS” [sidebar for “Strep Throat” by Connie Rizzo], p. 2463.
Bekhuis T. “Prostheses,” pp. 2129–33.
Bekhuis T. “Tremors,” pp. 2616–17.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS and INVITED LECTURES

Bekhuis T. Exploring genetic and protein databases of interest to evolutionary psychologists: Using Alzheimer's disease as a case study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior & Evolution Society, Williamsburg, Virginia, June 2007.
Bekhuis T, Demner-Fushman D. Towards automating the initial screening phase of a systematic review. Presenter, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, NLM, Bethesda, MD, July 2009.
Bekhuis T. Towards automating the initial screening phase of a systematic review. Invited speaker, Department of Biomedical Informatics Lecture Series, University of Pittsburgh, PA, September 2009.
Bekhuis T, Kreinacke M, Spallek H, Song M. Discovery of dentists’ information needs expressed in electronic peer communications: Plan for a study. Poster presented at the NIDCR Trainee Day, NIH, Bethesda, MD, March 2010. 
Bekhuis T, Demner-Fushman, D. Towards automating the initial screening phase of a systematic review. Speaker, NLM Informatics Training Conference, Denver, Colorado, June 2010.
Bekhuis T, Demner-Fushman D. Towards automating the initial screening phase of a systematic review. Speaker, MEDINFO 2010: 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2010.
Bekhuis T, Demner-Fushman D, Crowley RS. Research designs in Mesh and Emtree: a comparative study of coverage. Podium presentation, AMIA Annual Symposium 2012, Chicago, IL, November 3‑7, 2012.
Bekhuis T. An overview of a translational research program. Invited speaker, DBMI Colloquium Series, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, October 25, 2013.
Ketchum A, Bekhuis T. Review methods for exploring research topics: systematic research workflow. DBMI presentation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, January 24, 2014.
Bekhuis T. An overview of a translational research program. Visiting Scholar, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, March 3, 2014.
Bekhuis T, Tseytlin E, Mitchell K, Stein CD, Frazier JJ. Content views for a retrieval set of citations: an interactive Web-based prototype for librarians and researchers. Speaker, MLA 2014 Annual Conference, 147-8. Chicago, IL, May 16-21, 2014.
Bekhuis T. A proposed decision-support system for systematic reviewers of medical evidence [University Showcase]. Speaker, NLM Informatics Training Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June 17-18, 2014.
Bekhuis T. Speeding Translation of Research for Better Patient Care [about the EDDA System]. Speaker, UPMC Enterprises, Pittsburgh, PA, July 23, 2015.
Schneider J, Bekhuis T, Tokede O, Kalenderian E, and Spallek H. Promoting Interoperable Dental Terminologies. Poster presentation. Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics Training Program Retreat, Pittsburgh, PA, August 20, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1514987.
Bekhuis T, Tseytlin E, Faith A, Linkov F. A biomedical taxonomy of study designs: a resource for information professionals who support systematic review teams. Speaker, joint meeting of the Medical Library Association (MLA), Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA/ABSC), and International Clinical Librarian Conference (ICLC), Toronto, Canada, May 13-18, 2016. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3531.4803. http://tinyurl.com/hcy83xq. [A top contributed paper.]
Bekhuis T. Training in support of data-driven research: a qualitative study of library classes in top NIH- and NSF-funded universities. Medical Library Association (MLA) 2017 Annual Conference. Seattle, WA, May 26-31, 2017.
  

SOFTWARE, QUESTIONNAIRE & TAXONOMIES


Bekhuis T, Mitchell KM, Tseytlin E. Evidence in Documents, Discovery, and Analytics (EDDA) Group. EDDA Extensions for Binominal Text Classification (Topic Models and Regex), released 16 May 2013. Freely available at https://marketplace.rapid-i.com/edda.
Bekhuis T, Kim K, Valappil B, Spallek H. PRIME Fissure Sealant Questionnaire—US Version [questionnaire  in APA PsycTESTS database, by subscription]. American Psychological Association (APA). 2014.
doi: 10.1037/t27847-000.
Bekhuis T, Tseytlin E. EDDA Study Designs Taxonomy, version 2.0
Machine-readable files released July 16, 2016. Freely available for noncommercial use at http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/EDDA. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
PDF [111 pages] released July 12, 2016. Freely available for noncommercial use via ResearchGate at http://tinyurl.com/j6a73pd. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3769.2406/1.
Bekhuis T, Tseytlin E. EDDA Publication Types Taxonomy, version 2.0. Machine-readable files released July 18, 2016. Freely available for noncommercial use at https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/EDDA_PT. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

INVENTIONS


NobleCoder Concept Recognition Software. Office of Technology Management, University of Pittsburgh, Invention Disclosure No. 03597
EDDA System for Systematic Review Teams. Office of Technology Management, University of Pittsburgh, Invention Disclosure No. 03608
EDDA Study Designs and Publications Taxonomy. Office of Technology Management, University of Pittsburgh, Invention Disclosure No. 03953

SELECTED INDEXES


Bekhuis T, EDDA Analytics Group™. Library workshops in support of data-driven research in top NIH and NSF-funded universities. [Includes Resource Index and Subject Index for workshop content. no. 00170205]. Pittsburgh, PA, USA: TCB Research & Indexing LLC. February 2017. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.10522.85445.

Bekhuis T. Subject Index for “Understanding Altmetrics (Chapter Five)” in Meaningful Metrics by Robin Chin Roemer and Rachel Borchardt. Pittsburgh, PA, USA: TCB Research & Indexing LLC. April 2017. https://doi.org/ 10.13140/RG.2.2.28229.45284.

Bekhuis T. Subject Index for "The Rowling Case: A Proposed Standard Analytic Protocol for Authorship Questions" by Patrick Juola. Pittsburgh, PA, USA: TCB Research & Indexing LLC. May 2017. https://doi.org/ 10.13140/RG.2.2.24387.40486

Bekhuis T. Subject Index for The Children of the Poor: A Classic Book on Child Welfare by Jacob A. Riis. Pittsburgh, PA, USA: TCB Research & Indexing LLC. July 2017. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.28900.68481  

FUNDED RESEARCH

ACTIVE

Funding Agency:              NIH/NIDCR
Grant/Contract No.:         1U01DE026135 (Clinical Trial Implementation Agreement)
Title of Project:                 Decision Support System for Tobacco Cessation
Principal Investigators:    Heiko Spallek and Brad Rindal
Bekhuis Role in Gran       Co-Investigator
Entire Project Period:      August 2016–July 2020

COMPLETED   

Funding Agency:              NSF
Program:                           Innovation Corps (I-Corps) at Carnegie Mellon University
Team:                                EDDA Analytics Group     
Bekhuis Role:                   Lead
Period:                              September 2015–2016


Funding Agency:              NIH/NLM
Grant/Contract No.:         5R00LM010943
Title of Project:                 Screening Nonrandomized Studies for Inclusion in               Systematic Reviews of Evidence     
Principal Investigator:     Tanja Bekhuis
Bekhuis Role in Grant:     Principal Investigator
Entire Project Period:       July 2012–December 2015

Funding Agency:              NIH/NIDCR                                                 
Grant/Contract No.:         1R21DE021494
Title of Project:                 Implementing Research Findings and Evidence-Based    Interventions into Real-World Dental Practice Settings
Principal Investigator:      Heiko Spallek
Bekhuis Role in Grant:     Co-Investigator
Entire Project Period:       February 2011–January 2013

Funding Agency:              NIH/NLM Pathway to Independence Award
Grant/Contract No.:         1K99LM010943
Title of Project:                 Screening Nonrandomized Studies for Inclusion in Systematic Reviews of Evidence
Principal Investigator:      Tanja Bekhuis
Bekhuis Role in Grant:     Principal Investigator
Entire Project Period:       July 2011–June 2012



OTHER ACTIVITIES


Journal Editorial Board Member
JMLA: Journal of the Medical Library Association (past appointment)

Journal or Conference Referee
American Educational Research Association
Personality & Individual Differences
Health Education Research
AMIA 2013 Summit on Translational Bioinformatics
Health Information Science and Systems
The Journal of the American Dental Association
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
2015 International Workshop on Biomedical and Health Informatics in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine

Extramural Grant Reviewer
National Research Council, National Academies Graduate Fellowship Selection Committee


MEMBERSHIPS


Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP), Distinguished Member
Beta Phi Mu, International Library and Information Studies Honor Society
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
National Association of Science Writers
American Medical Writers Association
Medical Library Association
Special Libraries Association
Cochrane Oral Health Group
Cochrane Information Retrieval Methods Group
American Society for Indexing


This is an abridged version of an academic CV. 
If you would like an extended version, please contact:

tanja.bekhuis@tcbinfosci.com


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