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Researcher

Eneida A. Mendonça

Eneida Mendonça is a biomedical informatics researcher whose work applies natural language processing to patient records and clinical decision support. She earned an MD in Brazil and a Columbia doctorate in biomedical informatics in 2002, then coauthored an ACL workshop paper on ranking literature with patient data. She served as principal investigator on a 2009 University of Chicago NLP project, joined the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics in 2020, and became director of Regenstrief’s Clem McDonald Center in 2021. She joined the American Pediatric Society in 2025 and coauthored a 2026 paper on clinical evaluation and integration of biomedical multimodal large language models. She directs Cincinnati Children’s Division of Biomedical Informatics, holds the Rieveschl Chair, and is a professor in the University of Cincinnati’s Department of Pediatrics.

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Timeline

  1. 1987–2002

    Medical and informatics training

    She earns an MD from the Federal University of Pelotas in 1987, an MS in medicine (cardiology) from the University Foundation of Cardiology in 1996, and a PhD in biomedical informatics from Columbia University in 2002. She completes pediatrics residencies at São Lucas Hospital in 1988 and 1990.

  2. 2002

    NLP for literature retrieval

    She coauthors “Analyzing the Semantics of patient data to rank records of literature retrieval” for the ACL-02 Workshop on Natural Language Processing in the Biomedical Domain in 2002 with Stephen Johnson, Yoon-ho Seol, and James Cimino.

  3. 2009

    Answering information needs in workflow

    In 2009, she is an associate professor in pediatrics at the University of Chicago’s Computation Institute and principal investigator for an NIH-funded project, “Answering Information Needs in Workflow.” Its planned search system uses natural language processing to identify context, goals, and preferences in clinicians’ questions and build search strategies around them.

  4. March 2019–October 2021

    Directing the Clem McDonald Center

    In March 2019, she joins Regenstrief as vice president for Research Development, after serving as an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics and Department of Pediatrics. She serves as interim director of the Clem McDonald Center for Biomedical Informatics from October 2019 and becomes its director in October 2021. Her research applies language-driven methods and automated learning to support decisions and extract biomedical data from patient records.

  5. 2020

    A 2020 IAHSI fellowship

    She becomes a Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics as part of its 2020 class. The Academy recognizes expertise in biomedical and health informatics internationally.

  6. 2025

    American Pediatric Society membership

    She joins the American Pediatric Society as a new member in 2025.

  7. 2026

    Biomedical multimodal LLMs

    She coauthors a 2026 Journal of Biomedical Informatics paper on “Biomedical multimodal large language models: From model-centric development to clinically grounded evaluation and integration.”

  8. As of October 2026

    Director of biomedical informatics

    She directs Cincinnati Children’s Division of Biomedical Informatics, holds the Rieveschl Chair of Biomedical Informatics, and is a professor in UC’s Department of Pediatrics.

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  1. Eneida Mendonca, MD, PhD, FAAP, FACMI, FIAHSI cincinnatichildrens.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. Analyzing the Semantics of patient data to rank records of literature retrieval - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. Eneida Mendonca | Recovery Act Funding | The University of Chicago arrafunding.uchicago.edu. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. Regenstrief VP announced as director of Center for Biomedical Informatics regenstrief.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. IAHSI Announces the 2020 Class of Fellows - IMIA imia-medinfo.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  6. 2025 New Members – American Pediatric Society aps1888.org. Checked 19 October 2026.