Monday, September 13, 2010
Session 1: Introduction and Overview (9:00am - 10:30am) 9:00 - 9:15 Welcome Address & Overview of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey Robert DiPaola, M.D. Director, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey 9:15 - 9:30 Overview of DIMACS & its programs on Computer Science and Mathematics in Medicine Fred Roberts, Ph.D. Director of DIMACS, Rutgers University 9:30 - 10:30 Keynote Address: Overview of the New Jersey Health IT Deployment Plan Kennedy Ganti, M.D. Chair, New Jersey Health IT Commission 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break Session 2: Addressing Challenges & Opportunities in the use of EMRs (11:00am - 1:00pm) 11:00 - 11:30 EMRs - Opportunities & Challenges in Biomedical Research Guna Rajagopal, Ph.D. Executive Director of Bioinformatics, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey 11:30 - 12:00 EMRs - Opportunities & Challenges in Pharmaceutical Research Eric D Perakslis, Ph.D. Vice President, R&D IT Johnson & Johnson 12:00 - 1:00 EMR - Patient Privacy, Security and Confidentiality Issues Brad Malin, Ph.D. Director, Health Information Privacy Lab, Vanderbilt University 1:00 - 2:00 Lunch Break Session 3: - EMRs - Impact on the Patient, Provider and the Health Industry (2:00pm - 5:00pm) 2:00 - 2:45 EMRs - Data Mining Challenges and Opportunities Hans Peter Graf, Ph.D. Head, Machine Learning Laboratories, NEC Lab America 2:45 - 3:30 EMRs - Opportunities & Challenges in Using Natural Language Processing to Analyze EMR Data for Improving Clinical Outcomes Garreth Hippe, Director, Ariadne Genomics, Inc. 3:30 - 3:45 Tea Break 3:45 - 4:45 Healthcare Transformation: IBM's Initiative in Enabling Evidence-Centric Healthcare Eco-System Shahram Ebadollahi, Ph.D. IBM T. J. Watson Research Center 4:45 - 5:00 Closing Remarks Guna Rajagopal, Ph.D., The Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rebecca Wright, Ph.D., Deputy Director of DIMACS, Rutgers University