AAHSL/GIR Nina Matheson LectureDo you have a suggestion for a future Matheson Lecturer? AAHSL wants to hear from you! Submit A Suggestion for a Future Matheson LecturerMatheson Lecture Recordings - Member Login Required2024Melissa Boneta Davis, PhD Melissa Boneta Davis, PhD is the newly appointed Director of the Institute of Translational Genomic Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine, and Distinguished Investigator with the Georgia Research Alliance. She also serves as Scientific Director of the International Center for the Study of Breast Cancer Subtypes (ICSBCS), (Interim) Director of Health Equity for the Englander Institute of Precision Medicine and Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in the Department of Surgery and at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, NY. She is also a Cancer Ethnicity Scholar, co leading the PolyEthnic-1000 project at New York Genome Center. Dr. Davis received her Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics at the University of Georgia (Athens, GA, USA) where she completed groundbreaking work on developmental functions of steroid signaling in model organisms. She completed postdoctoral training in Functional Genomics and Systems Biology at Yale School of Medicine (Human Genetics) and the University of Chicago (Human Genetics and Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology). Here work involved key elements of the ModENCODE project, showing the genome-wide and tissue-specific dynamics of hormone receptor binding, establishing the dynamics of these functions on a cellular level. Her postdoctoral training in Cancer Health Disparities at University of Chicago at the Interdisciplinary Center for Health Disparities, led the current trajectory of her work to uncover the biological determinants of cancer health disparities and how they intersect with marginalization of minoritized population. Dr. Davis’s has published groundbreaking findings that established a new lens to study associations of biological factors in cancer outcomes as related to genetic ancestry. Specifically, she has discovered links between African ancestry and tumor burdens that have a disproportionate burden in people across the African diaspora. Dr. Davis is a pioneer in the field of “disparities genomics,” with specific focus in breast cancer expanding into prostate and gynecological cancers in recent years. Her current findings involve utilizing quantified ancestry to unravel genetic vs environmental influences in tumor biology among race/ethnic groups, including epigenetic cell signaling and immunological responses in the tumor microenvironment and systemic immune regulation. These novel opportunities to develop precision medicine applications in minority populations, are part of a concerted effort to increase knowledge of genomic profiles of underrepresented minoritized and under-represented cancer patients. Her work is a prime example of how inclusion of diverse ethnic groups can empower research designs for discovery of novel or unique tumor biology. 2023Chirag Shah, PhD Chirag Shah is Professor of Information and Computer Science at University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. He is the Founding Director for InfoSeeking Lab and Founding Co-Director of Center for Responsibility in AI Systems & Experiences (RAISE). He works in the area of intelligent information access systems, focusing on task-oriented search, proactive recommendations, and conversational systems. He is also engaged in work with generative AI, specifically in information access using large language models (LLMs). In addition to creating AI-driven information access systems that provide more personalized reactive and proactive recommendations, he is also focusing on making such systems transparent, fair, and free of biases. Shah is a Distinguished Member of Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) as well as Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). He has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed articles and authored seven books, including text books on data science and machine learning. He also works closely with industrial research labs on cutting-edge problems, typically as a visiting researcher. The most recent engagements included Amazon, Getty Images, Microsoft Research, and Spotify. AI Hopes, Hypes, and Horrors: How Do We Do this Right? 2022Dexter Hadley, MD, PhD Dexter Hadley, MD/PhD translates big data into precision medicine and digital health. His research generates, annotates, and ultimately reasons over large multi-modal data stores to develop predictive models of clinical intelligence. He earned his PhD in genomics and computational biology while at medical school at University of Pennsylvania, and he trained in clinical pathology while at residency at Stanford. He first became faculty at University of California San Francisco where he won various grant funding for developing deep learning methods in medicine including over $5M from NIH. His contributions have yielded well over 60 peer-reviewed publications in precision medicine to develop novel interventions, identify novel biomarkers and potential therapeutics for disease. He has been giving invited lectures around the globe on leveraging AI/ML in clinical applications. Dr. Hadley is the Founding Chief of Artificial Intelligence at University of Central Florida, College of Medicine where he is building a community of patients, clinicians, and data scientists to turn his vision for Community Driven AI into reality. How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Face of Medicine: From Education to Practice 2021Kevin B. Johnson, MD, MS, FAAP, FAMIA, FACMI, FIAHSI Kevin B. Johnson, MD, MS is a Professor and Chair of Biomedical Informatics, with a joint appointment in the Department of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He received his MD from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and his MS in Medical Informatics from Stanford University. In 1992 he returned to Johns Hopkins where he served as a Pediatric Chief Resident. He was a member of the faculty in both Pediatrics and Biomedical Information Sciences at Johns Hopkins until 2002, when he was recruited to Vanderbilt University. He also is a board certified Pediatrician. Dr. Johnson is an internationally-respected developer and evaluator of clinical information technology. His research interests have been related to developing and encouraging the adoption of clinical information systems to improve patient safety and compliance with practice guidelines. He is widely known for his work with e-prescribing and computer-based documentation, as well as his recent creative endeavors to communicate science to lay audiences, including a feature length documentary about health information exchange. He is the author of over 150 publications and books or book chapters, and has won dozens of awards over his career. Notably, he was elected into the American College of Medical Informatics in 2004, The Academic Pediatric Society in 2010, and the National Academy of Medicine (Institute of Medicine) in 2010. Findings, Truth and Trust: What do Information Specialists Need to Do to Meaningfully Communicate Science? 2020Cassidy R. Sugimoto, MSLS, PhD Cassidy Sugimoto is Professor of Informatics at the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington. She is also currently serving a rotation with the National Science Foundation as the Program Director for the Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program. Sugimoto's research expertise is broadly situated in the domains of science policy, scholarly communication, and scientometrics. Simply speaking, she investigates the ways in which knowledge is produced, disseminated, and rewarded, with a particular interest in issues of diversity and inclusion. She is interested in broad dissemination and accessibility of her own research. To this end, she has edited and authored several books, the most recent of which--Measuring Research: What everyone needs to know--is a primer for those new to scientometrics. Her publication record is extensive and varied--including publication venues such as Nature, The Lancet, PLOS ONE, Social Studies of Science, JASIST, and Scientometrics. She regularly presents across the globe and her work is regularly covered by major press outlets, such as Nature, Science, The Economist, The New York Times, and The Guardian. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and the Sloan Foundation. Sugimoto is actively involved in teaching and service and has been recognized in these areas with an Indiana University Trustees Teaching award and a national service award from the Association for Information Science and Technology. She is currently serving as President of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics. Sugimoto has an undergraduate degree in music performance, an MS in library science, and a PhD in information and library science, all from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Towards A More Equitable Opening of Science 2019Carla Pugh, MD, PhD Dr. Pugh is Professor of Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and the Director of the Technology Enabled Clinical Improvement (T.E.C.I.) Center. Dr. Pugh obtained her undergraduate degree at U.C. Berkeley in Neurobiology and her medical degree at Howard University School of Medicine. She is the first surgeon in the United States to obtain a PhD in Education. Her research involves the use of simulation and advanced engineering technologies to develop new approaches for assessing and defining competency in clinical procedural skills. Dr. Pugh holds three patents on the use of sensor and data acquisition technology to measure and characterize hands-on clinical skills. The Quantified MD Project: Precision Learning Through Wearable Technology 2018Atul Butte, MD, PhD Dr. Butte is the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor and inaugural Director of the Institute for Computational Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He is also the Chief Data Scientist for the entire University of California Health System. Translating a Trillion Points of Data into Therapies, Diagnostics, and New Insights into Disease 2017John Wilbanks, Chief Commons Officer at Sage Bionetworks John Wilbanks has spent his career working to advance open content, open data, and open innovation systems. The key focus of his talk will be on data curation in the context of the rapid development of both extensive algorithms, data systems, and knowledge without the accompanying preservation infrastructure. 2016Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD Dr. Brennan began her service as director of the National Library of Medicine on August 15, 2016. She is the first woman and the first nurse to serve in that role. 2015Philip E. Bourne, PhD Dr. Bourne is the Associate Director for Data Science, National Institutes of Health. A Successful Academic Medical Center Must be a Truly Digital Enterprise 2014Richard Platt, MD, MSc Dr. Platt is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Population Medicine, and Executive Director of the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. He is an internist trained in infectious diseases and epidemiology. Clinical Research Data Networks - On a Clear Day You Can See the Learning Health System. 2012Molly Cooke, MD, FACP William G. Irwin Endowed Chair Director of Education for Global Health Sciences Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Data and the Human Touch: Implications of the Information Explosion for Medical Education
2011Thomas R. Cech, PhD. Director, University of Colorado Biofrontiers Institute, Nobel Laureate (1989), and Former President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Drinking from a Fire Hose: the new Challenges of Biomedical Data 2010David Davis, M.D. Senior Director, Continuing Education and Performance Improvement, AAMC Washington, D.C. Scaling the Knowledge Pyramid: The Shared Role of the Clinician, Educator, and Librarian 2009Charles P. Friedman, Ph.D., Deputy National Coordinator /Chief Scientific Officer, Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology Electronic Health Records: How to get there from here 2008Nancy Lorenzi, Ph.D., M.A., Assistant Vice Chancellor, Vanderbilt University Roles for the Library in Information Management: The Next Twenty-five Years 2007Peter Morville, president, Semantic Studios, Ann Arbor, MI Ambient Findability: Challenges for Health Sciences 2006William Hersh, Chair, Dept. of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University Informatics Competencies for an Informed Healthcare Workforce 2005Elias Zerhouni, MD, Director of NIH NIH: Advancing Science in the 21st Century 2004John Halamka, CIO, Harvard Medical School A Pragmatic Shift in Clinical Information Systems: Clinical Infrastructure for the 21st Century 2003Drummond Rennie, MD. Deputy Editor of JAMA The Integrity of the Biomedical Literature 2002Mark Kirschner, PhD, Chair, Dept. of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School Entrusting Publication to ‘For Profit’ Journals: The Benefits and Hidden Costs 2001Kenneth Shine, MD., President, Institute of Medicine The Quality Gap: Achieving High Quality Care for All Americans 2000Richard Katz, VP, EDUCAUSE Dancing with the Devil: Information Technology and the New Competition in Higher Education 1999Sir John Daniel, Vice President, Open University Distance Learning and Medical Education 1998David Warner, M.D. Director, Institute for Interventional Informatics Communication Age Medical Education systems: New Ways of Thinking, New Tools of Working, New Methods of Healing 1997George Lundberg, Editor, JAMA The Impact of Electronic Publishing 1996Lawrence Weed, MD, Founder, PKC Corp., Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont New Premises and New Tools for Medical Education and Practice 1995Scott Bennett, Yale University Librarian Reengineering Scholarly Communication 1994Daniel Atkins, Dean & Professor, School of Information & Library Studies, University of Michigan Frameworks for the Future: Digital Libraries, Collaboratories, and Knowledge Management Models |