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Samir Courdy: Samir Courdy is the Chief Research Information Officer (CRIO), and Director of Research Informatics at the Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI). Mr. Samir Courdy joined the Institute in 1999.

Samir is Mr. Courdy is responsible for all aspects of software design and development for clinical, basic science, and population research at HCI. He coordinates the efforts of the Research Informatics Shared Resource to meet the needs and requirements of the Cancer Center, provides guidance and planning effort for each project, runs coordination meetings, manages staff, and provides strategic direction for architecture, projects, and technology.

He has Mr. Courdy has been at HCI for 15 years during which his team was responsible for the design and implementation of several systems, including an enhanced Research Subject Registry. A Biospecimen Tracking System (itBioPath), a translational research application for the Biorepository and Molecular Pathology Core BMP, and a Comprehensive Clinical Cancer Research System (CCR) with a robust and extensible meta-model enabling all cancer groups to co-exist in the same database, managed by a very complex security model which is compliant with IRB, and HIPPA regulations. The team released GNomEx a High Throughput Next Gen Sequencing LIMS system for use by the HCI and University of Utah community.

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Dr. Niland has over 30 years of experience collaborating in translational research. She has published more than 140 biomedical research papers, numerous book chapters, and a text on informatics tools for clinical trials. For 15 years she She directed the National Comprehensive Cancer Center Network Outcomes Research Data Coordinating Center (DCC) for 15 years, and currently directs national DCCs for the integrated Integrated Islet Distribution Program for Type 1 diabetes research, the Intestinal Stem Cell research consortium, and the Human Islet Research Network. Dr. Niland is on advisory boards for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), the Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (CSDA) journal, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) CancerLinq system. She is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) , and has served as Vice President of ASA and Scientific Secretary of the International association Association of Statistical Computing. In 2004 she received the City of Hope Medical and Scientific Achievement award for her contributions to biomedical research.

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Topic: A Systematic Approach to Building NLP Processes for Automated Extraction of Data from Clinical Reports

Speakers:  Samir Courdy, Chief Research Information Officer , and Director of Research Informatics, Huntsman Cancer Institute, and Joyce Niland, Ph.D., Researcher, City of Hope (COH)

Date: Wednesday, Dec December 5, 2018

Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. ET

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