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Research Seminars
Spring 2008 Schedule

Thursdays, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Conference Room A, 5th Floor
Vanderbilt Clinic Building, 622 West 168th Street (directions)

[ Fall 2007 ]
Jan 16, 2008 Dissertation Defense. Primary Research Advisor: Andrew F. Laine, DSc
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Asymmetry Analysis and its Significance in Neuro-Imaging Applications
  Sheena Xin Liu, Ph.D. Candidate
TBD
Columbia University
 
Jan 17, 2008 Thesis Defense
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
ICRC Building, 8th Floor C2B2 Common Room 816
Computational inference of genetic regulatory networks in human cancer cells
  Adam Margolin
Ph.D. Candidate
Columbia University
 
  Current Care of Chronic Wounds
  Dr. Brem
Associate Professor of Surgery/Director of the Wound Healing Program
Columbia University
 
Jan 22, 2008 Thesis Proposal Defense
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Using Automated Methods to Detect and Disambiguate Biomedical Abbreviations
  Hua Xu, Ph.D. Candidate; Research Advisor: Carol Friedman
TBD
Columbia University
 
Jan 24, 2008 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION NEEDS RELATED TO INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT
  Suzanne Bakken
RN, DNSc, FAAN
Columbia University
 
  Dissertation Defense
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
ICRC Building , 8th Floor C2B2 Common Room 816
Studying human disease with molecular network models derived from scientific literature
  Ivan Iossifov
Ph.D. Candidate
Columbia University
 
Jan 25, 2008 Oral Exam II
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
TBD
  Jesse Wrenn
Ph.D. Candidate
 
Jan 28, 2008 Thesis Proposal Defense
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Semantic and Machine Learning Approaches for Mining Connections across Biomedical Terminologies
  Chintan Patel
Ph.D. Candidate
Columbia University
 
Jan 31, 2008 Guest Speaker
Introduction to the i2b2 Bioinformatics Workbench
  Mr. Aaron Abend
Managing Director
Recombinant Data Corporation
 
Feb 07, 2008 Guest Speaker
Collaboration Technology in Dynamic Environments
  Dr. Jonathan Grudin
Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research
 
Feb 14, 2008 Introducing the Cochrane Behavioral Medicine Field, and the Center for Behavioral & Cardiovascular Health
  Karina Davidson
PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Intervention Research Behavioral Cardiovascular Health & Hypertension Program, Columbia University
 
Feb 21, 2008 Seminar
Patient-Centric Electronic Health Record
  Connie Chan
Ph.D Candidate
Columbia University
 
Feb 26, 2008 Thesis Defense
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
1130 St. Nicholas, Room 816
Removing Inconsistencies from literature derived molecular interaction networks
  Chani Weinreb
Ph.D Student
Columbia University
 
Feb 28, 2008 Dissertation Proposal Defense
Interactive graphics for communicating health risks
  Jessica S. Ancker
Ph.D. Candidate
Columbia University
 
Mar 03, 2008 Guest Speaker
Halting smallpox epidemics in urban populations: strategies drawn from large-scale social network data
  Hasan Guclu Ph.D
Director's Fellow
Los Alamos National Laboratory
 
Mar 06, 2008 Increasing Inner-City Access to Health Information: A Community-Based Organizations Approach
  Maxine L. Rockoff, Ph.D. and David Kaufman, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scientist
DBMI, Columbia University
 
Mar 13, 2008 Guest Speaker
Using Operations Research to Improve Timely Access to Healthcare
  Linda Green
Armand G. Erpf Professor of Business
Business School @ Columbia University
 
Mar 17, 2008 Guest Speaker
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Developing a Family History Ontology
  Jane Peace
RN, FNP, Doctoral Candidate
University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing
 
Mar 20, 2008 Guest Speaker
Reciprocal Understanding across Contexts: Health Informatics and Design
  Judith Gregory
Assistant Professor
Institute of Design, IIT
 
Mar 27, 2008 Guest Speakers
Exploiting Semantic Predications for Managing the Biomedical Research Literature
  Thomas Rindflesch, PhD, and Marcelo Fiszman, MD, PhD
NLM, NIH
 
Apr 03, 2008 Guest Speaker
Simulation in Healthcare, a tutorial
  Pat Molholt
Associate Vice President and Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources, Director, CUMC Office of Education; Senior Lecturer in Bio
Columbia University
 
Apr 07, 2008 Oral II Exam
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
ICRC Building, 8th Floor Common Room 816
Non-parametric analysis of master regulators of malignant transformations using molecular interaction networks
  Wei Keat Lim
Ph.D. Candidate
Columbia University
 
Apr 09, 2008 Thesis Defense 3pm-4pm open session, 4pm-5pm closed session
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Irvng Cancer Center (C2B2), 8th floor,Conference room 816
Network approaches to studying human genetic disease
  Igor Feldman
Ph.D. Candidate
Columbia University
 
Apr 10, 2008 Embedding Informatics: The Role of Informatics in the Enterprise
  Joseph Kannry, MD
Assistant Professor, Director Center for Medical Informatics, Medicine; Clinical Informaticist Sinai-NYU IT Senior Management
The Mount Sinai Hospital
 
Apr 17, 2008 Guest Speaker
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM
Challenges in Learning from Real-World Data: A Sampling of Research from CCLS
  David Waltz
Director, Center for Computational Learning Systems (CCLS)
Columbia University
 
Apr 24, 2008 Guest Speaker
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Oracle: A dialectical approach
  Richard Friedman
Associate Research Scientist
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center Biomedical Informatics
 
May 01, 2008 TBA
 
May 06, 2008 Oral II Exam; 2pm-3pm open session and 3pm-4pm closed session
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
PH 17 Room 307
Can pharmacovigilance still borrow strength from informatics?
  Xiaoyan Wang
Ph.D. Candidate
Columbia University
 
May 08, 2008 Guest Speaker
Implementing clinical alerts at NYPH: Opportunities, challenges and research issues
  Gilad Kuperman
Associate Professor
Columbia University
 
May 15, 2008 TBD
  Delano McFarlane
PhD Student
Columbia University
 
May 22, 2008 TBD
  J. David Liss
VP-Gov Relat-Strat Initiative, New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYP)
 
Jun 02, 2008 Proposal Defense
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ICRC Building, 8th Floor C2B2 Common Room 816
TBD
  Lixia Yao
Ph.D. Candidate
Columbia University
 
Jun 05, 2008 Guest Speaker
TBD
  Esteban Tabak
 
Jun 26, 2008 Guest Speaker
Use of Genetic and Genomic Information to Individualized Medical Care.
  Wendy Chung, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics in Medicine/ Director of Clinical Genetics
Columbia University