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Eneida Mendonca, MD, PhD, FAAP, FACMI, FIAHSI


  • Director, Division of Biomedical Informatics
  • Rieveschl Chair of Biomedical Informatics
  • Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

About

MD: School of Medicine, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, RS, Brazil, 1987,

MS: Medicine (Major: Cardiology), University Foundation of Cardiology, Heart Institute of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, 1996,

PhD: Biomedical Informatics, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2002,

Residency: Pediatrics, São Lucas Hospital, Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, 1988,

Residency: Pediatrics (Focus: Pediatric Intensive Care), São Lucas Hospital, Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, 1990,

Publications

Metagenomic next-generation sequencing in pediatric infectious disease diagnosis: A comprehensive systematic literature review and meta-analysis. Gutfreund, MC; Callado, GY; Pardo, I; Hsieh, MK; Celeghini, PD; Lopes, GOV; Marra, PS; Cheng, YR; Kobayashi, T; Pinho, JRR; Amgarten, DE; Malta, FDM; Edmond, MB; Marra, AR. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 2026; 114(4):117248.

Examining the Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Pediatric Central Nervous System Tumor Outcomes Through Medical Record Linkage. Park, S; Coven, SL; Tran, YH; Mendonca, EA. American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials. 2026; 49(2):82-88.

Derivation and validation of an algorithm for maternal-child linkage in electronic health records. Rogerson, CM; Bartlett, CW; Price, J; Li, L; Mendonca, EA; Grannis, S. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2026; 33(2):451-456.

Why do intensive care units in countries without board-certified clinical informatics specialists risk falling behind in the Artificial Intelligence era? Deliberato, RO; Tachinardi, U; Mendonça, EA. Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva. 2026; 38.

Continuous Glucose Monitors Among Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in the Primary Care Setting: Qualitative Study Informed by Technology Acceptance Model and Health Belief Model. Knopp, MI; Castleman, AM; Schwarz, A; Belger-Wallace, J; Falciglia, M; Zuzek, A; Mendonca, E. JMIR Diabetes. 2025; 10:e73446.

Multi-site analysis of COVID-19 and new-onset diabetes reveals need for improved sensitivity of EHR-based COVID-19 phenotypes-a DiCAYA network analysis. Conderino, S; Kirchner, HL; Thorpe, LE; Divers, J; Hirsch, AG; Nordberg, CM; Schwartz, BS; Zhang, L; Cai, B; Rudisill, C; Zaganjor, I; Pavkov, ME; Rosenman, M; Titus, AR. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2025.

Effectiveness of Low-cost, Technology-enhanced Simulation Training for Healthcare Training in Low-and Middle-income Countries (LMICs): A Systematic Literature Review. Ferreira, JMG; Generoso, JR; Marra, AR; Deliberato, RO; Dewan, M; Loeb, D; Real, F; Collins, K; Ely, K; Zackoff, M; Lopes, GDOV; Pardo, I; Gutfreund, MC; Callado, GY; Mendonça, EA. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2025; 40(16):4040-4050.

A natural language processing pipeline for identifying pediatric long COVID symptoms and functional impacts in freeform clinical notes: a RECOVER study. Bunnell, HT; Reedy, C; Lorman, V; Jhaveri, R; Rivera-Sepulveda, A; Salamon, KS; Patel, PB; Morse, KE; Davenport, MA; Cowell, LG; Martinez, AT; Letts, R; Bailey, LC; Forrest, CB. JAMIA Open. 2025; 8(5):ooaf089.

Child Opportunity Index at birth and asthma with recurrent exacerbations in the US ECHO program. Miller, RL; Schuh, H; Chandran, A; Habre, R; Angal, J; Aris, IM; Aschner, JL; Bendixsen, CG; Blossom, J; Bosquet-Enlow, M; Wright, RJ; Zanobetti, A; Zoratti, EM; Johnson, CC. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2025; 156(3):627-639.

Looped Audiovisual Health Education Talk Reduces Vaccine Clinic Wait Time in Nigeria. Oluwafemi, RO; Ajayi, B; Mendonca, EA; Biondich, P; Ekhaguere, OA. Child: Care, Health and Development. 2025; 51(5):e70152.