Georgia CTSA Lunch and Learn Series with Informatics Expert
Audio Diaries - Product development story of a platform to conduct daily diary research
WED, November 29, 2023 from 12:00-1:00pm (virtual)
SPEAKER: Arconada Alvarez, Santiago
Research Informatics Analyst, Georgia CTSA -
Santiago co-directs an NIH-funded web and mobile app design and development group focused on developing digital health tools to support clinical translational research and health equity projects. He has produced over seven publicly available software programs and co-authored five peer-reviewed papers, including one clinical trial on digital patient and provider education tools. Santiago received the Emory School of Medicine Staff Spotlight in 2023 and has won several software development product competitions.
In addition to his academic work, Santiago is passionate about bridging the gap between industry-level design and academic research. He runs a summer internship program for design students and exposes them to challenges in the healthcare space. In his free time, Santiago is a performative artist who participates in civic play events in Atlanta.
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Informatics, AI, and Patient-Oriented Research
WED, July 26, 2023 from 12:00-1:00pm (virtual)
SPEAKER: Dr. Alexander Quarshie, MD, MS
Co-Director, Georgia CTSA Informatics Core
Professor and Director, Biomedical Informatics Program
Director, Master of Science in Clinical Research program
Morehouse School of Medicine
Alexander Quarshie, MD, MS is a trained medical scientist, medical statistician and biomedical informatician, and currently serves as Professor and Director of Biomedical Informatics at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), Director of the Master of Science in Clinical Research program at MSM, Co-Director of the Informatics Program of the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance (Georgia CTSA), a collaboration between MSM, Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and University of Georgia, and Co-Director of the Research Education in Clinical and Translational Science KL2 program of the Georgia CTSA. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Data Science Initiative of the Atlanta University Council Consortium (AUCC), that involves 4 Historically Black Universities -MSM, Morehouse College, Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College. Over the past 20 years, he’s provided leadership to educational programs in United States and internationally that address disparities in the clinical and translational research and public health workforce, focusing on health disparities. He serves on international scientific advisory boards and review panels promoting quality research and education and is well published in research focusing on cardiovascular disorders, data science, quantitative methods, and public health.
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Advancing Clinical Registries through AI, NLP, and FHIR
WED, June 21, 2023 from 12:00-1:00pm (virtual)
Speaker:
Dr. Jon Duke, MD, MS
Co-Director, Georgia CTSA Informatcis Core
Director, Center for Health Analytics & Informatics, GTRI
Principal Research Scientists, Georgia Tech
Dr. Jon Duke is Director of the Center for Health Analytics and Informatics at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and Principal Research Scientist in the Georgia Tech College of Computing. Dr. Duke has led over $24 million in funded research for industry, government, and foundation partners. His research focuses on advancing techniques for integrating, analyzing, and communicating complex health data with applications spanning research, quality, public health, and clinical domains. Dr. Duke was a founding member of the OHDSI consortium, an open-source international health data analytics collaborative now in over 20 countries.
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Georgia CTSA Machine Learning Operations and Application Development Services
WED, May 31, 2023 from 1:00-2:00pm (virtual).
Speakers:
- Dr. Nita Deshpande (Sr. Bioinformatics Scientist)
- Dileep Gunda, Venky Javvaji, Sreekar Anugu (Sr. Software/App Developers)
- Matt Pagel (Research Informatics Analyst)
Georgia CTSA has standardized the requirements for deploying custom models developed by Emory Faculty and Research community. We currently support deployment of models developed in Python and R. The Lunch and Learn session will elaborate on the requirements for the deployment process. We will give you details on how the model will be prepared, the data elements that will be extracted from Epic and the steps we will take to push the model into production. We will also briefly touch upon filing the results of the model back into the Epic ecosystem and enable result visualization and tracking through Hyperspace.
Georgia CTSA technical team also has expertise in the development of custom web applications, microservices and database applications in the cloud and on-prem. Requests for web based applications can be made and requirements for backend data loading and curation can be specified. We will present the various backend data storage options in this session and the various front end and middle tier technologies that we can employ to build the applications.
Georgia CTSA team can also create ETL pipelines to extract data from legacy CDW (currently in AWS) and Epic Clarity for cohorts based on custom inclusion/exclusion criteria. The ETLs can be automated and data extracted on periodic basis. In addition, data transformation into various CDMs such as OMOP and PCORNET will also be discussed.
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For questions, please contact Michael Proctor. michael.proctor@emory.edu
Matching Large Numbers of Patients to Census Track GEOIDS Simultaneously
April 26 (Wednesday), 2023 at 1:00-2:00 PM
Speaker: Chad Robichaux, MPH (Lead Research Informatics Analyst - BMI, GaCTSA, MIIAI Core)
Medical informatics research is grounded in understanding the medical content area and the informatics techniques. The Lunch and Learn speaker series is designed to allow informatics experts to engage with the community about the exciting new work they are completing in informatics. The medical informatics experts can explain in detail the understanding of the medical content area and the informatics techniques.
Please click on the "Register Now" link to register for this event.For questions, please contact Michael Proctor at michael.proctor@emory.edu
National Data Warehousing Infrastructure & Data Sharing (NCATS N3C Clinical)
March 22, 2023 at 1:00-2:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Richard Moffitt (Associate Professor, Hematology and Medical Oncology/Biomedical Informatics at Emory University)
Medical informatics research is grounded in understanding the medical content area and the informatics techniques. The Lunch and Learn speaker series is designed to allow informatics experts to engage with the community about the exciting new work they are completing in informatics. The medical informatics experts can explain in detail the understanding of the medical content area and the informatics techniques.
Please click on the “Register Now” link to register for this event.