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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. Courdy joined the Institute in 1999.

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.

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.

The team completed work on an analysis suite built upon the Integrated Genome Browser (IGB) and the Distributed Annotation System (DAS/2) along with an internally developed publishing suite GenoPub. GNomEx and GenoPub were both released as an open source project and are available for download on SourceForge. GNomEx was recently integrated with our BioSpecimen System (itBioPath) to provide linkages between genomic and clinical data. The development of a Chemical Screens Annotation and Management System (CSAM) was also completed within the last six months. Mr. Courdy is developing a natural language processing workflow for identifying and extracting clinical and diagnostic information from surgical pathology reports, physicians’ notes and radiology documents. This project is utilizing a third party software package from Linguamatics.

Prior to his service at HCI, he worked in the private sector in several roles including software engineering and development, in the areas of real-time visual flight simulation for the U.S. and foreign militaries, led teams responsible for developing large workflow software systems at Fidelity Investments. Part of the design and development team responsible for creating the Pathways Laboratory Information System at McKesson, known now as the Horizon Lab product line.BIO:

Joyce Niland: Dr. Joyce Niland is the first holder of the Edward & Estelle Alexander Endowed Chair in Information Sciences at City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center. She received her Bachelor's degree in Human Biology from Stanford University, a Master's degree in Physical Therapy from the University of Southern California (USC) and Master's and Doctoral degrees in Biometry from USC. She is an Associate Director of City of Hope Cancer Center, Full Professor in the Beckman Research Institute, and adjunct professor in the USC Keck School of Medicine. Dr. Niland chairs the Department of Information Sciences, including the Divisions of Biostatistics, Clinical Research Information Management, and Research Informatics and Systems. In 2013 she was promoted to Chief Research Information Officer for City of Hope.

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Topic:  A Systematic Approach to Building Natural Language Processing (NLP) 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 Speaker:  Joyce Niland, Ph.D., Researcher, City of Hope chair and professor in the Department of Diabetes & Cancer Discovery Science within City of Hope’s Diabetes & Metabolism Research Institute

Date: March 27, 2019

Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Event Password: $Peakerseries19

You are invited to listen to Dr. Niland and Mr. Courdy's presentation 's presentation in the NCI Shady Grove Building on Medical Center Drive or via WebEx. Dr. Niland and Mr. Courdy will will present remotely via WebEx.

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