DIMACS Workshop on Algorithmic Medical Decision Making: Bridging data sources for drug safety monitoring

May 5, 2011
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ)
195 Little Albany Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08903

Organizers:
Ching-Hua Chen-Ritzo, IBM, chenritzo at us.ibm.com
Jianying Hu, IBM Research, jyhu at us.ibm.com
David Madigan, Columbia University, davidbmadigan at gmail.com
Guna Rajagopal, Cancer Inst. of NJ, rajagogu at umdnj.edu
Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Algorithmic Decision Theory.


Workshop Program:

Tentative Agenda

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Morning Session
 
 8:30  - 9:00  Welcome and Opening Remarks
               
               Robert DiPaola
               Director, Cancer Institute of New Jersey

               Rebecca Wright
               DIMACS Deputy Director 
               Rutgers University

9:00 - 10:15   Perspectives on Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

               Multiple Data Streams: A Regulatory Perspective
               Gerald Dal Pan
               Director, Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology
               Food and Drug Administration

               Strategies to Counter Researcher Initiative 
               Stan Young
               Assistant Director for Bioinformatics 
               National Institute of Statistical Sciences

               How do we tell folks what we are up to? 
               Insights and lessons about risk, benefit, perceptions and the ultimate consumer              
               Paul Stang
               Senior Director of Epidemiology
               Johnson & Johnson

10:15 - 10:30  Break

10:30 - 11:45  The "Nuts & Bolts of Drug Safety Monitoring

               Detecting Potential Safety Issues in Large Clinical or Observational Trials by
               Bayesian Screening when Event Counts Arise from Poisson Distributions
               Larry Gould
               Senior Director, Inv. Research
               Merck

               The need for, and use of, multiple data streams in drug safetysurveillance
               Andrew Bate
               Senior Director, Analytics Team Lead, Epidemiology
               Pfizer

               TBA
               Patrick Ryan
               Research Investigator, Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership
               Associate Director of Analytical Epidemiology, Johnson & Johnson

11:45 -  1:00  Lunch

Afternoon Session

 1:00 - 2:45   Methodologies for Drug Safety Monitoring

               Confounding, Cohorts, and Computers: New Approaches to Propensity Score Matching
               Jeremy Rassen
               Assistant Professor of Medicine
               Harvard Medical School

               Automatically Constructing Risk Networks using Text-mining Techniques:
               Framework and Application to Drug Safety Monitoring
               Marcello Trovati
               Research Scientist
               IBM Research

               A holistic safety approach means getting the right answer faster: 
               What do we need to get there?
               Sheila Weiss
               Director of the Center for Drug Safety, University of Maryland
               Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research

               Watson, DeepQA, Wikipedia, Twitter (and Drug Safety)
               Rick Lawrence
               Manager, Machine Learning
               IBM Research

 2:45 -  3:00  Break

 3:00 -  4:30  Panel Discussion

               Facilitator: David Madigan

               Gerald Dal Pan
               Director, Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology
               Food & Drug Administration 

               Marianthi Markatou
               Research Scientist, IBM Research
               Adjunct Professor of Statistical Sciences, Cornell University

               Guna Rajagopal
               Executive Director, Bioinformatics
               Cancer Institute of New Jersey

               Jeremy Rassen
               Assistant Professor of Medicine
               Harvard Medical School

               Paul Stang
               Senior Director of Epidemiology
               Johnson & Johnson

 4:30          Closing Remarks


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