DBMI Retreats
2023
Alumni Panel “AMIA Edward H. Shortliffe Doctoral Dissertation Award”
• Amelia Averitt (Adler Perotte Lab, 2021 Honorable Mention)
• Tiffany Callahan (University of Colorado 2022 Finalist)
• Elliot Mitchell (Mamykina Lab, 2022 Honorable Mention)
• Anna Ostropolets (Hripcsak Lab, 2023 Honorable Mention)
• Rimma Perotte, née Pivovarov (Elhadad Lab, 2017 First Prize Inaugural Winner)
• Prof. Ted Shortliffe – Award Founder, Chair Emeritus & Former AMIA CEO & President
• Prof. Chunhua Weng – Moderator & AMIA Dissertation Award Selection Committee Chair
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Rimma Perotte
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Amelia Averitt
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Tiffany Callahan
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Elliot Mitchell
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Anna Ostropolets
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Ted Shortliffe
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Chunhua Weng
2022
Alumni Panel “Life After DBMI”
• Olivia Vélez, PhD, Postdoc ’13 (Chief Digital Health Officer, IntraHealth International)
• Jamie Hirsch, MD, Postdoc MA ’15 (Associate Professor of Medicine (Nephrology), Donald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra University/Northwell, Assistant Professor, Institute of Health System Science, Feinstein Institutes, AVP of Clinical Digital Solutions (Data Science) at Northwell Health)
• Nicole Weiskopf, PhD ’15 (Associate Professor of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University)
• Alexander Lachmann, PhD ’16 (Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacological Sciences and the Mt. Sinai Center for Bioinformatics)
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Olivia Vélez
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Jamie Hirsch
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Nicole Weiskopf
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Alexander Lachmann
2021
Alumni Panel “Life After DBMI”
• Rachel Melamed, PhD ’15 (Assistant Professor, University of MA-Lowell)
• Hojjat Salmasian, MD, PhD ’15 (Vice President, Operational Data Science Mass General Brigham, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, Data Science, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School)
• Shaodian Zhang, PhD ’16 (Founder & CEO, Synyi.com)
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Rachel Melamed
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Hojjat Salmasian
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Shaodian Zhang
2020
Alumni Panel “Life After DBMI”
• Mary Boland, PhD, MA (Assistant Professor of Informatics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania)
• William Brown III, PhD, DrPH, MA (Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF)
• Jen-Hsiang Chuang, PhD (Deputy Director-General, Centers for Disease Control in Taiwan)
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Mary Boland
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William Brown III
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Jen-Hsiang Chuang
2019
Alumni Panel “Life After DBMI”
• Heather Cole-Lewis, PhD, MA (Director of Behavior Science, Johnson & Johnson)
• Colin Walsh, MD, MA (Assistant Professor, Departments of Biomedical Informatics, Medicine and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University)
• Xinxin “Katie” Zhu, MD, PhD (Executive Director, Center for Biomedical Data Science, Yale School of Medicine)
Faculty Talks
• Chunhua Weng, PhD – Professor of Biomedical Informatics: “Big Data to Knowledge for Clinical Trials”
• Adler Perotte, MD, MA – Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics: “A Data Driven Informatics Stack for Biomedical Measurement and Inference”
Department Poster Session
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2018
Alumni Panel “Life After DBMI”
• Justin Starren, MD, PhD — Professor of Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics) and Medical Social Sciences, Director, Center for Data Science and Informatics, Northwestern University)
• Samantha Kleinberg, PhD – Assistant Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology
Faculty Talks
• Raul Rabadan, PhD – Professor of Systems Biology and of Biomedical Informatics (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics); Director of Mathematical Genomics:“Evolution of Brain Tumors”
• Rita Kukafka, DrPH – Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Sociomedical Sciences: “Applying Precision Medicine to Breast Cancer Prevention & Medical Decision Making”
Department Poster Session
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2018 Data Science Retreat
Keynote Talks
• David Blei, professor of Statistics and Computer Science: “The Blessings of Multiple Causes”
• Jeannette Wing: “Data for Good”
• Matthew Jones, Chris Wiggins: “Data: Past, Present, and Future”
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2017
Alumni Panel “Life After DBMI”
• Yves Lussier, MD – Professor of Medicine, The University of Arizona Health Sciences
• Chintan Patel, PhD – Chief Technology Officer, TrialX
• Li Zhou, MD, PhD – Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University Medical School
Faculty Talks
• Kai Wang, PhD
• Patrick Ryan, PhD
Department Poster Session
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2016
Alumni Panel “Life After DBMI”
• Adam Margolin, PhD – Associate Professor & Director of Computational Biology, Oregon Health & Sciences University School of Medicine
• Casey Overby, PhD – Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
• Peter Stetson, MD, MA – Chief Health Informatics Officer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Faculty Talks
• Nicholas Tatonetti, PhD: “Estimate of Disease Heritability Using 4.7 Million Familial Relationships Inferred from EHRs”
• Soumitra Sengupta, PhD: “Clinical Data Availability”
Department Poster Session
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2015
Alumni Panel “Life After DBMI”
• Jessica Ancker, PhD, MPH – Associate Professor, Healthcare Policy & Research, Weill Cornell Medical College
• Hui Cao, PhD – Executive Director, Global Affairs, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
• Jason Shapiro, MD, MA – Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, Mt. Sinai Hospital
Faculty Talks
• Lena Mamykina, PhD: “Data Driven Approach to Management of Health & Wellness: Towards Behavioral Precision Medicine”
• Yufeng Shen, PhD: “Deep Genetic Connection between Cancer and Developmental Disorders”
Department Poster Session
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