Biomedical Data Science Day

Join us for the First Annual Biomedical Data Science Day! Our objective is to provide an opportunity for research collaboration and networking by bringing together faculty, staff, and students from Northwestern University, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and affiliated institutions with an interest in the application of data science and “big data” methods to clinical and biomedical domains. This event will highlight domain experts and computational methodologists from the Northwestern University family, as well as focusing on breakout sessions for special interest research topics.

Keynote Speaker:

Jason Moore, Edward Rose Professor of Informatics and Director of the Institute for Biomedical Informatics and the Division of Informatics at The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Other talks include:

Elizabeth McNally, Director, Center for Genetic Medicine, Elizabeth J. Ward Professor of Genetic Medicine, Professor in Medicine-Cardiology and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, “Rare Genetic Variation in Human Genome Analysis”

Ali Shilatifard, Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Robert Francis Furchgott Professor, Professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, “Enhancer Malfunction in Cancer”

Karl Bilimoria, John Benjamin Murphy Professor of Surgery, Associate Professor in Surgery-Surgical Oncology and Medical Social Sciences, “Are We Penalizing the Wrong Hospitals? Evaluation of the Venous Thromboembolism Quality Measure”

Sanjiv Shah, Associate Professor in Medicine-Cardiology, “Machine Learning to Optimize Diagnosis and Treatment of Clinical Syndromes”

Ramana Davuluri, Professor of Healthand Biomedical Informatics and Director of Cancer Informatics, “Big Data Applications in Genomics”

William Thompson, Research Assistant Professor in Medicine-General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics and Preventive Medicine-Health and Biomedical Informatics, “Clinical Natural Language Processing: Techniques and Uses”

Paul Thomas, Associate Director of Computational Proteomics at the Proteomics Center of Excellence, “Informatics Challenges and Solutions in Top Down Proteomics”

Plus, breakout sessions for Genomics, Proteomics, NLP/text mining, NM Enterprise Data Warehouse, Statistical Analysis of Big Data, NU Quest high-performance computing cluster, Teradata Aster, Social data, Networks and Health, and others.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided, along with a reception at the end of the day.

Sponsored by:

The Center for Data Science and Informatics (CDSI)

The Medical Faculty Council

FAQs

Are there limitations on who can register for the event?

Please register with your university email address.

What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?

Here are a few options:

1) The NU Intercampus Shuttle stops just down the block on Superior and Fairbanks (Ward Building).

2) Street parking is available on Chicago Avenue and Huron Street. Public parking garages are located at Erie Ontario Parking 321 E Erie Street (Fairbanks and Ontario) and Huron Superior Parking 222 E Huron (Superior and Huron).

3) Buses #3, #66, and #157 stop near the Lurie Medical Research Center building (the corner of Huron and Fairbanks).

How can I contact the organizer if I have questions?

Please contact Angela Scott:

email: angela-scott@northwestern.edu.

phone: (312) 503-1997