The Informatics Research Seminar Series is sponsored by Duke University in collaboration with the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), North Carolina Central University (NCCU, Durham, NC,), University of North Carolina-Charlotte (UNC-C), East Carolina University (ECU, Greenville, NC), and Wake Forest University (WFU, Winston-Salem, NC). This series explores key areas in Health Informatics and includes industry perspective, research results, overview of programs of research, basic, applied, and evaluative projects, as well as research from varied epistemological stances.
The seminars are held Wednesday's at 4 PM EST, please see schedule below.
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| Week | Site | Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 1 | Duke | 1/15 | Jessie Tenenbaum, PhD | NC DHHS: A Learning Department of Health and Human Services |
| 2 | UNC-CH | 1/22 | Ashlyn Zebrowski, PhD Candidate | Exploring the Effects of Prescribing and Implementation Techniques on the Adoption of Virtual Reality Therapeutics |
| 3 | UNC-C | 1/29 | Sunil Erevelles, PhD | Superspecies: Artificial Intelligence and the Birth of Inorganic Hyperintelligence |
| 4 | NCCU | 2/5 | Dr. Erezi Ogbo-Gebhardt | |
| 5 | ECU | 2/12 | Jong Youl Lee, PhD | Hospital System Affiliation and Patient Experience |
| 6 | WFU | 2/19 | Dr. Byron Jaeger |
Oblique Random Forests: Making Leo Breiman’s Masterpiece Accessible and Interpretable |
| 7 | Duke | 2/26 | Anika Gardenhire, RN, CHCIO, BSN, MMCi | |
| 8 | UNC-CH | 3/5 | ||
| BREAK | 3/12 | |||
| 9 | UNC-CH | 3/19 | Javed Mostafa, PhD | Health Data Exchange (HDX): A Global Open Data, Software, and Learning Community Resource for R & D Acceleration and Dissemination |
| 10 | UNC-C | 3/26 | Rajib Paul, PhD | |
| 11 | NCCU | 4/2 | Dr. Tirupapuliyur Damodaran | |
| 12 | ECU | 4/9 | Christina Eldredge, MD, PhD, FAMIA | |
| 13 | WFU | 4/16 | ||
| 14 | Duke | 4/23 | Patrick B. Thomas, MD, MMCi, FACS |
Upcoming Seminars & Events
Fall 2024 Schedule: Informatics Research Seminars
| Week | Site | Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Duke | 8/28 | Kathleen McGrow, DNP, MS, RN, PMP, FAAN Chief Nursing Information Officer, Microsoft |
Leveraging Crisis as a Catalyst |
| 2 | UNC-CH | 9/4 |
Mohammad Golam Kibria, PhD Candidate |
A Novel Framework for Assessing AI Explainability in Healthcare |
| 3 | UNC-C | 9/11 | Daniel Janies, PhD Professor, UNC Charlotte |
Medical Intelligence For Infectious Diseases Through Phylogenetics and AI-Driven Structural Biology |
| 4 | Duke | 9/18 |
Anita Walden, MS |
Novel Approaches to Real World Data Research |
| 5 | UNC-CH | 9/25 | Hung-Jui (Ray) Tan, MD, MSHPM Director of Urologic Oncology, UNC Chapel Hill |
Surgeon Decision-Making and Implications for Clinical Decision Support |
| 6 | WFU | 10/2 |
Ibrahim Karabayir, PhD |
Leveraging ECG for Generalizable Deep Learning Models for Heart Failure and Its Subtypes with Implications for Wearable ECG Deployment |
| 7 | Duke | 10/9 | Amy Cramer, MMCi, BSN, CPHQ Janssen, Johnson & Johnson |
Research Community Collaboration to improve Clinical Research Data |
| 8 | ECU | 10/16 | Prerna Dua, PhD Professor and HIAC Council Member, Louisiana Tech University |
Tobacco Use and COVID-19: Forecasting Health Impacts Through Machine Learning Models |
| 9 | UNC-C | 10/23 | Shaoyu Li, PhD Associate Professor, UNC Charlotte |
A Reference Panel Assisted Geometric Structure Non-Negative Matrix Factorization For The Deconvolution of Bulk Tissue RNA-Sequenced Data |
| 10 | NCCU | 10/30 | Dana G. Jones, JD, LL.M Attorney at Law, NCCU School of Law |
“Artificial Intelligence Can Kill You”: Black Box Denials and the Death of Medicare Advantage Members” |
| 11 | ECU | 11/6 |
David Marc, PhD, CHDA |
Predicting Health Informatics Workforce Trends in a Rapidly Evolving Landscape |
| 12 | WFU | 11/13 |
Mohammad J. Moghimi, PhD Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering |
Noninvasive Wearable Microsystems For Medical Applications |
| 13 | Duke | 11/20 | Chuck Jaffe, MD PhD Chief Executive Officer, HL7 |
HL7 FHIR is the Future of Interoperability |
Spring 2024 Schedule: Informatics Research Seminars