Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (C-SHALS) 

John Reynders, Keynote Speaker

Vice-President and Chief Information Officer Life Sciences Division, Johnson & Johnson Presentation Title: Integrative Informatics: Discovery, Translational Sciences, and Epidemiology (.pdf) Abstract: The challenges of data management, information fusion, and knowledge mining pose a significant challenge across all phases of the pharmaceutical pipeline. As greater understanding of the composite biomarkers to delineate patient populations are elucidated, the informatics challenge involved in identifying these populations for optimal treatment has escalated. Drawing parallels with other industries, this talk will outline the scientific and technical challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry in developing the integrative informatics solutions necessary to discover and develop a next generation of personalized medicine. Biography: John Reynders, PhD, is the CIO for Johnson & Johnson's Pharmaceutical R&D division. He was previously the Information Officer for Lilly Research Laboratories - discovery and development informatics. Reynders joined Lilly from Celera, where he was VP for Informatics and Information Systems and was responsible for all supercomputing capabilities, discovery software engineering, and enterprise system infrastructure. Reynders joined the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1992, where he served as the Director of the Advanced Computing Laboratory. Reynders received his PhD in applied and computational mathematics from Princeton University.

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