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Dr. John P. Glaser
Vice President and CIO
Partners HealthCare System
Boston, MA
Presentation Title: Leveraging Electronic Health Record Data: Opportunities and Challenges
Abstract: While still in the minority, the number of healthcare providers that have completed the implementation of the electronic health record is increasing. As these organizations contemplate leveraging their information technology investment, their strategies will center on several areas including increasing the level of intelligence in the EHR and leveraging the clinical data in the EHR.
This presentation will discuss efforts at Partners HealthCare to advance the use of EHR-based clinical decision support and knowledge management. The presentation will review initiatives that are exploring the use of clinical data for clinical research and post-market drug surveillance.
Biography: John Glaser is Vice-President and Chief Information Officer, Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Previously, he was
Vice-President, Information Systems at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Prior to Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dr. Glaser managed the Healthcare Information Systems consulting practice at Arthur D. Little.
Dr. Glaser was the founding Chairman of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and is past President of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He has been a member of the Board of the American Medical Informatics Association. He is currently the President of the Foundation for eHealth Initiative Board.
He is a fellow of HIMSS, CHIME and the American College of Medical Informatics. He has been awarded the John Gall award for healthcare CIO of the year. CHIME has established a scholarship in Dr. Glaser’s name. He was a recipient of CIO Magazine’s 20/20 Vision Award. Partners HealthCare has received several industry awards for its effective and innovative use of information technology.
Dr. Glaser is on the editorial boards of CIO Magazine, Healthcare Informatics, Biotechnology Healthcare, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, and Journal of Healthcare Information Management. He has published over ninety articles and two books on the strategic application of information technology in healthcare.
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Dr. Enoch Huang
Executive Director
Head of Computational Sciences Center of Emphasis
Pfizer Global Research and Development
Cambridge, MA
Presentation Title: Why Drug Discovery Is Difficult
(and How You Can Help)
Abstract: Dr. Huang will provide an overview of the drug discovery process and the scientific challenges associated with bringing novel therapies to the patient. The steep odds and punishing attrition rates characteristic of traditional drug discovery have increased the demand for computational approaches for improved target selection and compound design. Dr. Huang will suggest areas where the efforts of computer scientists working with biological knowledge can play a key role in generating mechanistic insights for toxicity, physiology, and disease.
Biography: Enoch S. Huang received an AB in Molecular Biology from Princeton University and a PhD in Structural Biology from Stanford University, where he was a National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellow. He was appointed a Jane Coffin Childs Fellow at Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis), where he developed methods for protein structure prediction. In 1999, Enoch joined Cereon Genomics as a Computational Biologist. The following year, he accepted a position at Pfizer Global Research and Development (PGRD) in Cambridge as a Senior Research Scientist. In 2001, he assumed leadership of the newly formed Molecular Informatics group and joined the site management team. Also that year, Enoch was appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics at Boston University. In 2007 he accepted a global role as Head of the Computational Sciences Center of Emphasis within Pfizer Research.
External to Pfizer, Enoch is the project manager for the Open Source software package PFAAT and currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for Drug Discovery Today and the Steering Group for the Life Sciences Informatics Committee of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council. He has also served on the external advisory board of the Bioinformatics Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology, the program committee of the Systems Biology discussion group at the New York Academy of Sciences, and on Special Emphasis Panels of study sections for the National Institutes of Health.
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Dr. Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, MA
Presentation Title: Patching Semantics in Healthcare for Discovery
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Biography: Isaac Kohane received his MD from Boston University School of Medicine. He completed an internship, residency, and fellowship at Children's Hospital Boston.
Dr. Kohane is a founder of the Center for Outcomes and Policy Research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, founder and Associate Director for the Center for Genetic Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School. He is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and of the Society for Pediatric Research.
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Dr. David R. Karger
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Presentation Title: Why Everyone Should be Their Own Database Administrator, UI Designer, Application Developer, and Web 2.0 Site Builder, and How They Can |
