BRB Gaulton Auditorium, 421 Curie Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Preliminary Outline of the Day 9 AM: Welcome, followed by DBEI Distinguished Faculty talks…Vincent Lo Re III, MD, MSCE (Epidemiology Division): "Risk of Arterial and Venous Thrombotic Events in Patients with COVID-19 Compared to Influenza: A Large-Scale Cohort Study Within the US FDA's Sentinel System"Graciela Gonzalez Hernandez, MS, PhD (Informatics Division): "Text Mining for Digital Epidemiology: Overcoming the Challenges of Dealing with Real World Data."10 AM: Ten flash talks illustrate the work behind our highest-ranked research gallery presentations. Presenters vie for prizes!11:15 AM: Three featured faculty talks, followed by a panel discussion…Yong Chen, PhD (Biostatistics Division): "PDA: A New Framework of Privacy-preserving Distributed Algorithms and Inference"Meghan B. Lane-Fall, MD, MSHP, FCCM (Epidemiology Division): "The Morass of Mixed Methodology in Implementation Science: Lessons from Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trials"Joost Wagenaar, PhD (Informatics Division): "Integration and Meaningful Sharing of Scientific Data: How Can We Get There?"12:30 PM: Lunch break. Browse research posters and video; interact in person or via our virtual poster session.1:30 PM: We announce flash talk winners and culminate with the keynote "Creating Space for AI in Healthcare: Learning from Recent History." Dr. Kevin Johnson looks at the effort to introduce AI in medicine — the advances we can achieve and the challenges we face. He proposes a potential strategy based on the path that led to the present-day personal health record. A pioneer of medical information technologies to improve patient safety, Dr. Johnson is a new Penn Integrates Knowledge professor. He holds joint appointments: in the DBEI, and in the Department of Computer and Information Science within the School of Engineering and Applied Science. An expert in science communication, he also holds a secondary appointment in Penn's Annenberg School.Questions? Contact Jennifer Forbes-Nicotera (mailto:jforbes@pennmedicine.upenn.edu?subject=Research%20Day%20question).