Welcome to the CBIIT Speaker Series Wiki
The NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) Speaker Series is a bi-weekly knowledge-sharing forum featuring both internal and external speakers on topics of interest to the biomedical informatics and research communities. General topics to be discussed include but are not limited to novel experimental approaches in basic research that require innovative informatics solutions; general informatics methodologies for specific tasks such as natural language processing and data exchange/integration; novel software applications (proprietary or open source); standards; ontologies; open-source development projects; human/computer interactions; future trends in biomedical informatics research and development; and CBIIT/NCIP partnerships inside and outside NCI/NIH.
Speaker Series Guidelines for Speakers: Download Word document
Please refer to the Speaker Calendar below for upcoming speakers.
Presentations: Please visit our Speaker Series Videos page or our YouTube playlist 
to view past speakers' presentations on video.
Location: 9609 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850
Questions? Please email Eve Shalley at eve.shalley@nih.gov.
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An invitation: If you are interested in presenting your work to our diverse audience of informaticists; basic, translational, and clinical researchers; software developers; and others interested in exploring the uses of informatics in cancer research, contact Eve Shalley at eve.shalley@nih.gov or 240-276-5194.
Upcoming Speakers:
September 3: James J. Cimino, M.D., NIH
September 17: Jianxin Shi, Ph.D., NCI
October 1: Ashley Wilder Smith, Ph.D., M.P.H., NCI
October 15: Kaitlin Thaney, Mozilla Science Lab
October 29: Thornton Staples, Smithsonian Institution
November 12: Heather Bowles and James McClain, NIH
December 10: Kara Hall, NCI
Over the past 15 years, our group at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) has built an evolving oncology clinical trials imaging informatics platform, Precision Imaging Metrics. This platform was built by and for the DF/HCC Tumor Imaging Metrics Core to manage the workflow, image assessments, communication, reporting, billing, and compliance needs of our cancer center and is currently used as a CCSG shared resource to manage over 1,000 active DF/HCC clinical trials and over 15,000 time point assessments per year, with turnaround time as fast as one hour after the scan. This software has been implemented at seven NCI-designated Cancer Centers around the country to improve clinical trials imaging assessment quality, compliance, and efficiency. NCI funding has been critical in the development and evolution of this software platform: a variety of grant mechanisms (CCSG, ITCR U24, SBIR, AIP) have supported our efforts in various ways as the project has grown and matured. This presentation will summarize the phases of the project and the ways NCI funding has supported us throughout the product life cycle.
Natural language processing (NLP) applied to unstructured text of patient records can assist in codifying data elements. We will describe the portability and reusability of NLP queries across institutions, introducing a technique called "Iterative Interactive Enrichment" to optimize identification of discrete data points within pathology reports for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) patients.
A major barrier to the conduct of biomedical research is how difficult it is to share biomedical research data, both within and between institutions. Data located in different data repositories are almost always organized, categorized, and represented in different ways. This problem has been referred to as “the Chasm of Semantic Despair.” In an attempt to address this problem, the Cancer Informatics group at the NCI, in collaboration with their colleagues at the FDA, ISO, HL7, and CDISC, developed a new international standard data model for biomedical research called the Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group (BRIDG) model. The purpose of the BRIDG model is to “bridge” the large number of Chasms of Semantic despair that exist both within and between academic medical centers, pharmaceutical companies, and government regulators. The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, has successfully designed and implemented a cancer research information system based on the NCI-BRIDG model. In this talk. Dr. Klumpp will describe how the BRIDG model has been implemented in the cancer research information system at Thomas Jefferson and the benefits of such an integrated system.
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