Monday, September 13, 2010
Session 1: Introduction and Overview (9:00am - 10:30am)
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome Address & Overview of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Robert DiPaola, M.D.
Director, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
9:15 - 9:30 Overview of DIMACS & its programs on Computer Science and Mathematics in Medicine
Fred Roberts, Ph.D.
Director of DIMACS, Rutgers University
9:30 - 10:30 Keynote Address: Overview of the New Jersey Health IT Deployment Plan
Kennedy Ganti, M.D.
Chair, New Jersey Health IT Commission
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Session 2: Addressing Challenges & Opportunities in the use of EMRs (11:00am - 1:00pm)
11:00 - 11:30 EMRs - Opportunities & Challenges in Biomedical Research
Guna Rajagopal, Ph.D.
Executive Director of Bioinformatics, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
11:30 - 12:00 EMRs - Opportunities & Challenges in Pharmaceutical Research
Eric D Perakslis, Ph.D.
Vice President, R&D IT Johnson & Johnson
12:00 - 1:00 EMR - Patient Privacy, Security and Confidentiality Issues
Brad Malin, Ph.D.
Director, Health Information Privacy Lab, Vanderbilt University
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch Break
Session 3: - EMRs - Impact on the Patient, Provider and the Health Industry (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
2:00 - 2:45 EMRs - Data Mining Challenges and Opportunities
Hans Peter Graf, Ph.D.
Head, Machine Learning Laboratories, NEC Lab America
2:45 - 3:30 EMRs - Opportunities & Challenges in Using Natural Language
Processing to Analyze EMR Data for Improving Clinical Outcomes
Garreth Hippe, Director, Ariadne Genomics, Inc.
3:30 - 3:45 Tea Break
3:45 - 4:45 Healthcare Transformation: IBM's Initiative in Enabling
Evidence-Centric Healthcare Eco-System
Shahram Ebadollahi, Ph.D.
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
4:45 - 5:00 Closing Remarks
Guna Rajagopal, Ph.D., The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Rebecca Wright, Ph.D., Deputy Director of DIMACS, Rutgers University
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