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ReSourcing Big Data Symposium
Monday, March 23, 2015
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center
Harvard Medical School
Confirmed Speakers
Speaker
Paul Avillach, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,
Center of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard
Medical School,
Boston Children's Hospital
Talk Title
“Toward Precision Medicine: Building a
Patient -centric Information Commons on
Common and Rare Diseases with
i2b2/tranSMART”
Application to Autism and Phelan McDermid
Syndrome
Stephen Friend, MD, PhD
President, Co-Founder and Director of Sage
Bionetworks
Steven E. Hyman, MD
Harvard University Distinguished Service
Professor
Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative
Biology
Director, Stanley Center for Psychiatric
Research, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Steven McCarrol, PhD
Assistant Professor of Genetics, Harvard
Medical School
Director of Genetics for the Broad Institute’s
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research
Sally Okun, RN, MMHS
Vice President for Advocacy, Policy and
Patient Safety at PatientsLikeMe
Marsha A. Wilcox, EdD, ScD
Scientific Director and Fellow - Epidemiology,
Janssen Pharmaceutical R&D
“Alternate Approaches to Explore MultiDimensional Clinical Spaces”
“Global Collaborations and Large Data Sets
Pull Psychiatry into Modernity”
“Discovery of a Common Pre-Malignant State
of the Blood from Mining Large Exome
Sequence Data Sets and Electronic Medical
Records”
“Bedside to Bench: From My Data to Our
Data to Big Data”
“Research Data Transparency: Fostering the
Use of Clinical Trial Data with Open
Collaborations”
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