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SYNOPSIS:
The NCI clinical and translational informatics program allows for targeted bioinformatics capabilities facilitating interoperability, collaboration, and integration across applications, as well as easing reporting burdens through harmonization of implementable data standards. NCI data collection standards made possible through the eCRF Harmonization Project provide the semantic tools needed to integrate and interoperate data across multiple systems and entities both at the NCI and the extramural and pharmacologic communities. This talk will review the challenges and benefits of developing, implementing and governing standards use across the NCI cooperative groups. The speakers will also discuss intramural adoption and provide updates on two new initiatives to facilitate standard adoption among NCI-supported cancer research institutes.
SPEAKERS:
David Patton is the Associate Director for Clinical Research Programs in CBIIT.
Dianne M. Reeves is the Associate Director for CBIIT Biomedical Standards.
Ginger Riley is a Senior Study Director and clinical data manager for Westat.
SUMMARY:
Topic: NCI Data Collection Standards: Development, Implementation, and Policy
Speakers: David Patton (NCI), Diane Reeves (NCI), Ginger Riley (Westat)
Date: Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM
Location: Two presenters will be at NCI; one will present remotely. Our offices are at 2115 East Jefferson Street, Room 6033, Rockville MD.
Presentation: A screencast of the presentation will be available for viewing after the event here on our Speaker Series Videos page and on the NCI Events YouTube Channel 
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (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. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
SYNOPSIS:
Genome-directed cancer therapy holds great promise for the future of cancer treatment; however, many challenges remain. This talk will review the informatics challenges and solutions related to the Vanderbilt Personalized Cancer Medicine Initiative. Dr. Mia Levy will present Vanderbilt’s initial solution including how tumor gene-mutation testing results were integrated into the electronic health record with a link to a decision-support knowledge service to assist providers in understanding actionable gene-directed therapies including local and national clinical trials. The resource, called “My Cancer Genome,” is now publicly available at MyCancerGenome.org 
. Dr. Levy will describe the development and maintenance of this application including the annotation of the National Cancer Institute PDQ clinical trial registry with gene associations. Session details ...
BIO:
Dr. Levy is the Ingram Assistant Professor of Cancer Research, an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, and the Director of Cancer Clinical Informatics for the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. She is the informatics lead for both the Vanderbilt Personalized Cancer Medicine Initiative (PCMI) and the Vanderbilt Oncology Information System (VOIS). She is also the faculty lead for the Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center Research Informatics Core (RIC).
Dr. Levy’s research interests include biomedical informatics methods to support the continuum of cancer care and cancer research. Current research projects include informatics methods for 1) image-based cancer treatment response assessment using quantitative imaging; 2) clinical decision support for treatment prioritization of molecular subtypes of cancer; 3) protocol-based plan management; and 4) learning cancer systems. Dr. Levy is also a practicing oncologist specializing in the treatment of breast cancer. She received her M.D. from Rush University and her Ph.D. in biomedical informatics from Stanford University.
SUMMARY:
Topic: Informatics to Support Genome-Directed Cancer Medicine
Speaker: Mia A. Levy, M.D., Ph.D.
Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM
Presentation: A screencast of the presentation will be available for viewing after the event on the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series YouTube playlist.
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (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. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
SYNOPSIS: Imagine an app store for scientists, engineers, and educators filled with simulation and modeling tools — not simple Java applets, but real research codes that tackle difficult problems and may require substantial computing power drawn from the Cloud. Imagine a new way of publishing scientific work that involves not just articles about those tools, but the tools themselves, online and accessible to the world through an ordinary Web browser. Imagine an array of databases at your fingertips, with information that is easy to search, sort, and filter.
That dream has become a reality for a wide variety of topics, including nanotechnology, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, earthquake engineering, volcanic activity, and environmental modeling. Each of these fields have used an open source software package called the HUBzero Platform for Scientific Collaboration to create an online collaboratory — a "hub" for their community. Each hub contains an electronic library of simulation tools, along with data sets, seminars, tutorials, and teaching materials contributed by the community. The past year has seen 40 such hubs in operation, serving more than 800,000 visitors from 172 countries. This seminar will demonstrate examples of hubs and how they’re being used to support both education and research. Session details ...
BIO: Michael McLennan is a senior research scientist at Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, where he is director of the HUBzero Platform for Scientific Collaboration.
McLennan received a Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1990, supported as an SRC Graduate Fellow, for his dissertation on dissipative quantum mechanical electron transport in semiconductor heterostructure devices. He spent 14 years working in industry at Bell Labs and Cadence Design Systems, developing software for computer-aided design of integrated circuits. He created “[incr Tcl],” an object-oriented extension of the Tcl scripting language, which has been used by thousands of developers worldwide on projects ranging from the TiVo digital video recorder to the Mars Pathfinder.
SUMMARY:
Topic: HUBzero: A Web-based Platform for Research, Education, and Scientific Collaboration
Speaker: Michael McLennan, Ph.D.
Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM
Presentation: A screencast of the presentation will be available for viewing after the event here on our Speaker Series Videos page and on the NCI Events YouTube Channel
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (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. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
Synopsis:
The development of evidence-based clinical guidelines is a rigorous process involving collaborative screening, identification, and systematic review of relevant literature, and the synthesis of evidence in support of guideline recommendations. In cooperation with NHLBI, SAIC has developed an infrastructure that combines Web 2.0 collaboration technologies with advanced knowledge mining facilities to standardize the workflow of several clinical guidelines development efforts in support of cardiovascular risk reduction. This presentation will provide an overview of the application of collaboration and knowledge-mining technologies in clinical guidelines development enabling the translation of evidence-based research supporting cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention, detection, and treatment into clinical practice, as well as to provide foundation for the future integrated approach to CVD guidelines. Session details ...
Bios:
Janusz Wnek, Ph.D. has more than 20 years of experience in developing and applying machine learning methods to document processing, data mining, and information retrieval and classification. He has developed and patented several methods and systems for automating enterprise search and knowledge management and has expertise in machine vision, machine translation, bioinformatics, and scientific programming. Dr. Wnek led the implementation of state-of-the art solutions supporting evidence-based guideline development at NHLBI, including the development and execution of literature search strategies. His leadership resulted in the deployment of the guideline infrastructure, including a Web 2.0 collaborative workspace that emulates the guideline development workflow; a central repository of annotated medical literature; a multimodal, sophisticated literature search and data mining engine; and several custom modules for conducting systematic reviews, evidence aggregation, and analysis. Dr. Wnek has a Ph.D. in Information Technology and Engineering from George Mason University, an M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland.
Sharon Gaheen, an SAIC-Frederick Technical Program Manager, provided management support for the NHLBI clinical guidelines effort. Ms. Gaheen has provided management support on a variety of health informatics projects supporting nanotechnology, translational research, genomics/proteomics, biomedical imaging, clinical protocol analysis, and clinical guidelines development. She has an M.B.A. from the University of Maryland and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
SUMMARY:
Topic: Collaboration Environment Supporting the Translation of Evidence-Based Research into Clinical Practice through Guidelines Development
Speaker: Janusz Wnek, Ph.D. and Sharon Gaheen
Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM
Presentation: A screencast of the presentation will be available for viewing after the event here on our Speaker Series Videos page and on the NCI Events YouTube Channel
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (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. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
SYNOPSIS: The presentation will cover two major resources containing phenotype data and will discuss issues involving the integration of human and model-organism phenotype data. The generation of an interactive map of human phenotype data associated with GWAS data will first be explored, followed by the presentation of data resources that form part of the Knockout Mouse Project 2, which is funded by the NIH, the European Union, the Wellcome Trust, Canada, and the Texas Enterprise Fund. Session details ...
BIO:
Helen Parkinson’s Ph.D. work was devoted to studying Circadian rhythms in Drosophila. She then worked on a positional cloning project for primary pulmonary hypertension and diagnostic-test development for hypophosphatasia. Dr. Parkinson moved to the European Bioinformatics Institute in 2000 where she leads the Functional Genomics Production Team. Her group of 15 scientists provides content for the ArrayExpress, Gene Expression Atlas, and Biosamples databases; develops open-source management and integration software; supports users of these resources; and develops and applies ontologies, primarily the Experimental Factor Ontology, to these data. Her research interests include the development of ontologies, data integration using RDF and meta-analyses of gene-expression data, and the development of automated data-curation processes.
Dr. Parkinson works collaboratively with 10 NIH and EC consortia to manage, integrate and analyse functional genomics datasets, including
- Knockout Mouse Project 2
- NHGRI GWAS catalog
- EBI’s National Center for BioOntology Driving Biological Project
A list of recent publications and presentations is available from Dr. Parkinson’s group pages.
The Parkinson team 2011 Annual Report provides more information.
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SUMMARY:
Topic: The Integration of Human and Mouse Phenotype Data
Speaker: Dr. Helen Parkinson
Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM
Presentation: A screencast of the presentation will be available for viewing after the event on our Speaker Series Videos page and on the NCI Events YouTube Channel .
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (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. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
SYNOPSIS:The Brazilian Telehealth initiative enables videoconferencing, diagnosis, second opinion, continuous and permanent education, and web conferencing by linking university and teaching hospitals via the Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP) , Brazil’s national research and education network. Three national projects operate under the Brazilian Telehealth Initiative: the Telemedicine University Network, RUTE (Rede Universitaria de Telemedicina) ; the Brazilian Health Open University ; and the National Telehealth Primary Care Program, Brazil Telehealth RUTE is an initiative from the Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry (MCTI), and the other two are Ministry of Health initiatives. Today, there are eHealth Centers in 61 university and teaching hospitals, including one at the Brazilian National Cancer Institute (INCA). Session details ...
BIO:
Luiz Ary Messina, Ph.D. has more than 40 years' experience in Computer Sciences, teaching, researching, developing, and commercializing software. He has successfully secured funding for innovative Telehealth projects from the European Union together with state and municipal agencies, university hospitals, international research organizations, enterprises ,and city halls. He graduated as an electronic engineer from the University of Brasilia, and holds a doctoral degree from the Technological University of Darmstadt, Germany, where he was assistant professor from 1982 to 1988. Dr. Messina began developing and coordinating RUTE in 2005. He often speaks to international audiences on the importance of the model adopted in Brazil, which is based on connecting universities, research institutions, and university and teaching hospitals to the National Research and Education Network.
SUMMARY:
Topic: Brazilian Telemedicine University
Speaker: Luiz Ary Messina, Ph.D.
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM
Presentation: A screencast of the presentation will be available for viewing after the event on our Speaker Series Videos page and on the NCI Events YouTube Channel.
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (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. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
SYNOPSIS:The Translational Medicine Mart (tranSMART) is a new, open-source platform for translational research originally based on the NIH-funded Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) initiative. Key use cases that tranSMART focuses upon include knowledge management for the combination of clinical and molecular data sets for use in ad-hoc analyses; identification of novel biomarkers associated with stratifications of disease or treatment response; and selection of potential indications for novel and known treatments targeting common molecular pathways. The presentation will include a live demonstration of the current release of the software to highlight key capabilities. Session details ...
BIO:
Dan Housman is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Recombinant Data Corporation. He has worked as a consultant and builds technology to bridge complex gaps and establish new solutions in such areas as collaborating on clinical and genomic data sets across organizational boundaries in academic medical centers, pharmaceutical organizations, government, and private research initiatives. Mr. Housman earned a B.S. in chemistry and biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He is a member of the Healthcare Data Warehousing Association and the American Medical Informatics Association. Mr. Housman has developed informatics solutions for Partners Healthcare, the University of Minnesota, and UCLA as well as a number of cancer centers including the Kimmel Cancer Center, Dana Farber, the University of Michigan Cancer Center, and City of Hope.
SUMMARY:
Topic: The Translational Medicine Mart (tranSMART)
Speaker: Dan Housman
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM
Presentation: A screencast of the presentation will be available for viewing after the event on our Speaker Series Videos page and on the NCI Events YouTube Channel
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (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. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
SYNOPSIS:The CRIS effort at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) began five years ago and has been highly influenced by the caBIG® program. The CRIS Suite includes 20+ open-source tools, which are deployed within a single portal environment, and it is evolving constantly towards the big-data paradigm. Our main success factor has been having a clear communications channel with and the support of the Cancer Institute and UAMS leadership. The investment has started to result in the campus-wide usage of CRIS and an increased informatics awareness throughout our research community. Moreover, the CRIS Initiative is taking part in the National Children’s Study, which involves collaborations with a number of other institutions (and more). Session details ...
BIO:
Dr. Umit Topaloglu is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Director of Research in the Information Technology Department at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). He also serves as the Associate Directors for the Informatics Core of the Translational Research Institute and the Cancer Institute Informatics Core. He leads a team that successfully integrated/implemented several caBIG® and other clinical systems to create an open-source clinical and translational research infrastructure that encompasses clinical trials management, biobanking, -omics, and community engagement informatics. Dr. Topaloglu’s work involves semantic-concept discovery, UMLS terminologies, and open-source clinical research informatics tool development. He also participates in the Arkansas CyberInfrastructure Initiative through which state institutions and researchers are collaborating to enhance/implement a statewide cyberinfrastructure.
SUMMARY:
Topic: The Clinical Research Informatics Suite (CRIS)
Speaker: Dr. Umit Topaloglu
Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM
Presentation: The presentation will be available for viewing after the event on our Speaker Series Videos page and on the NCI Events YouTube Channel
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (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. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
SYNOPSIS:The use of genome-wide profiling technologies in basic and translational research is on the rise in the clinical setting. However, several potent informatics barriers must be overcome before clinical sequencing can become routine. Good Laboratory Practice-based quality-assurance metrics must be established to guarantee the accuracy required to make medical decisions. Genetic variants identified by sequencing must be systematically annotated and interpreted so that a clinical genomicist can decide which are medically actionable. Software applications and technologies are required to facilitate reporting of genomic results and to transmit these data to electronic health records. To address these issues, we have developed the Clinical Genomicist Workstation, which provides a “soup-to-nuts” solution for processing clinical sequencing orders. Session details ...
BIO:
Dr. Rakesh Nagarajan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Director of the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences, and Director of the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center for Biomedical Informatics. As Director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics, he and his group have developed and support broad biomedical informatics infrastructure to facilitate clinical and translational research as well as collaborate on clinical and genomic projects by providing in silico analyses and expertise. Trained as a physician-scientist, Dr. Nagarajan received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002.
SUMMARY:
Topic: Clinical Genomicist Workstation
Speaker: Dr. Rakesh Nagarajan, M.D., Ph.D.
Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM
Presentation: The presentation will be available for viewing after the event on our Speaker Series Videos page and on the NCI Events YouTube Channel
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (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. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
SYNOPSIS:At Windber Research Institute, Dr. Hu and his colleagues have developed a biomedical informatics infrastructure to support multiple translational research programs, including the Clinical Breast Care Project and the Gynecological Disease Program. The system is composed of a data tracking system, a set of QA programs, and a data warehouse system. The data tracking system, named the Clinical Laboratory Workflow System, is used for managing daily activities including subject enrollment, clinicopathologic data collection, and tissue banking. The QA programs focus on clinical data, including a QA issue tracking system and a QAMetrics. In addition, a Data Warehouse for Translational Research was developed to integrate the clinicopathologic data and molecular data.
BIO:
Dr. Hai Hu is Senior Director of Biomedical Informatics and Deputy Chief Scientific Officer for the Windber Research Institute in Pennsylvania. He also serves as Adjunct Professor for the Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology in Shanghai, and for the Department of Surgery at the USUHS School of Medicine in Bethesda, MD. Dr Hu received his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
SUMMARY:
Topic: Biomedical Informatics Infrastructure to Support Translational Research
Speaker: Dr. Hai Hu
Date: Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM
Presentation: The presentation will be available for viewing after the event on our Speaker Series Videos page and on the NCI Events YouTube Channel
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (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. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
SYNOPSIS:
Pathology, as a diagnostic specialty, is well along in its adoption and use of digital images for routine clinical workflow, research and education. However, with an anticipated deluge of image-based data, combined with the reality that many scientists within the collective domains of pathology and its affiliated life sciences specialties are largely unprepared to manage such large digital repositories, there emerges a challenge to make best use of this data. This presentation will highlight several promising areas of digital image algorithm development that can help to span the divide between life scientist and imaging informaticist, with a focus on actual workflow models. Session details ...
BIO:
Dr. Ulysses G. J. Balis is Associate Professor of Pathology and Director of the Division of Pathology Informatics in the Department of Pathology at the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Balis is a member of numerous professional societies including the Association for Pathology Informatics of which he was a founding member, served as Vice-President and is currently President-Elect. While at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), he developed and implemented a barcode tracking system for Anatomic Pathology Workflow. Dr. Balis has numerous publications in peer reviewed journals and has served as an invited speaker nationally and internationally in the area of informatics.
SUMMARY:
Topic: The Promises and Challenges of Digital Imaging As Applied to Pathology
Speaker: Dr. Ulysses G.J. Balis
Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM
Presentation: The presentation will be available for viewing after the event on our Speaker Series Videos page and on the NCI Events YouTube Channel
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (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. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
SYNOPSIS:
The Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) is a national clinical cooperative group that has been funded by the National Cancer Institute since 1968. Its aim is to improve survival and quality of life for patients diagnosed with cancer. The scope of RTOG encompasses all major cancer disease sites. Conducting research in the cooperative group setting requires a set of minimum standards and consistency; this is particularly relevant in the realm of technological assessment and innovation. In the re-organization of the cooperative groups as well as in the quality-assurance support groups, there are unique challenges regarding data acquisition and database infrastructure, as well as access to data. Data mining and analytical research remain crucial to achieving RTOG goals. Session details ...
BIO:
Dr. Ying Xiao is professor of radiation oncology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. She is also a medical physicist certified by the American Board of Radiology and was recently elected a fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. Dr. Xiao is now the core laboratory physicist of RTOG and chairs the RTOG bioinformatics group.
SUMMARY:
Topic: Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) BioInformatics
Speaker: Dr. Ying Xiao
Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM
Presentation: The presentation will be available for viewing after the event on our Speaker Series Videos page and on the NCI Events YouTube Channel
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series
The National Cancer Institute (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. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
SYNOPSIS:
The Georgetown Database of Cancer (G-DOC) is designed to serve as a cutting-edge data integration platform and integrative knowledge discovery system for the oncology and translational research communities. By aggregating public and proprietary clinical and -omics data from across the Medical Center, G-DOC is expected to help bring about significant advances in personalized medicine for patients and to promote identification of new drug targets and therapeutic modalities. Dr. Madhavan's talk is titled, "G-DOC: A Novel Data Integration Platform to Enable Systems Medicine" Session details ...
BIO:
Dr. Madhavan is the Director of Clinical Research Informatics at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University. Previously, she served as the Associate Director of Product and Program Management at NCI CBIIT, where she led the development of several bioinformatics programs, including The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project and the platform supporting the REpository of Molecular BRain Neoplasia DaTa (REMBRANDT) project. Dr. Madhavan holds a doctorate in molecular biology from the Uniformed Services University for Health Sciences.
SUMMARY:
Topic: G-DOC - The Georgetown Database of Cancer
Speaker: Dr. Subha Madhavan
Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM
Presentation: The presentation will be available for viewing after the event on our Speaker Series Videos page and on YouTube
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series
The National Cancer Institute (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. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
BIO:
Dr. Stephen Chanock is a leading expert in the discovery and characterization of cancer susceptibility regions in the human genome. He has received a number of awards for his scientific contributions to our understanding of common inherited genetic variants associated with cancer risk and outcomes.
Dr. Chanock received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1983 and completed clinical training in pediatrics, pediatric infectious diseases, and pediatric hematology/oncology and research training in molecular genetics at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston. From 2001-2007, he served as a tenured investigator in the Genomic Variation Section of the Pediatric Oncology Branch in the NCI Center for Cancer Research. Previously, he served as co-chair of NCI's Genetics, Genomics and Proteomics Faculty for five years. In 2001, he was appointed as the Director of the Core Genotyping Facility, and in 2007 as Chief of the newly formed Laboratory of Translational Genomics, both within the intramural Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics program. He has co-led the Cancer Genetic Markers of Susceptibility (CGEMS) project. Session details ...
SUMMARY:
Topic: Genome-wide Association Studies in Cancer
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Chanock
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM
Presentation: The presentation will be available for viewing after the event on our Speaker Series Videos page and on YouTube
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series
The National Cancer Institute (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. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
SYNOPSIS: The cBio Cancer Genomics Portal is an open-access resource for interactive exploration of multidimensional cancer genomics data sets. The portal currently provides integrated access to cancer genomic data on more than 5000 tumor samples from 20 cancer studies. This presentation will provide an introduction to the portal and describe how to mine data generated by The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project. This is a virtual presentation. Session details ...BIO: Ethan Cerami is the Director of Cancer Informatics Development at the Computational Biology Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
SUMMARY:
Topic: cBio Cancer Genomics Portal
Speaker: Ethan Cerami
Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM
Presentation: The presentation will be available for viewing after the event on our Speaker Series Videos page and on YouTube
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series
The National Cancer Institute (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. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
