Re: Yosemite Project WEBINAR Thu Sep 15: Parsa Mirhaji - Semantic Data Lake in Healthcare - TODAY - UPDATED URL

UPDATED WEBINAR URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zKNflO6Aso

Sorry, Google changed Hangouts On Air this week.

David Booth

On 09/13/2016 09:06 PM, David Booth wrote:
> Date: Thursday September 15, 2016
> Time: 2:00pm Eastern US timezone
> Duration: 1 hour
> Download calendar invite:
>   http://yosemiteproject.org/2016/webinars/mirhaji/calendar-invite.ics
> Attend on Google Hangout On Air: https://goo.gl/1nM3yV
>
> Submit questions by email in advance or during the webinar:
> david@dbooth.org
>
> TITLE: Semantic Data Lake in Healthcare
>
> SPEAKER: Parsa Mirhaji, MD, PhD
> Director, Clinical Research Informatics, Montefiore Health Systems
> Chief Technology Officer, NYC-Clinical Data Research Network
> Research Associate Professor, Department of Systems and Computational
> Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
>
> ABSTRACT: Dr. Parsa Mirhaji will give a description of a Semantic Data
> Lake based on W3C standards, best practices & knowledge representation
> in healthcare.
>
> ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
> Parsa Mirhaji Dr. Parsa Mirhaji is an Associate Professor of Systems and
> Computational Biology and the Director of Clinical Research Informatics
> at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical
> Center-Institute for Clinical Translational Research. Formerly, he was
> the director of the Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Informatics
> Research at the University of Texas at Houston where he developed
> clinical text understanding, semantic information integration
> technologies, and EMR interoperability solutions, for public health and
> disaster preparedness.  Dr. Mirhaji has been a member of W3C working
> groups for application of Semantic Technologies in Healthcare and Life
> Sciences, and organizer and committee member for several national and
> international conferences on Bio-Ontologies and Semantic Technologies,
> an acting committee member on the Texas Hospital Preparedness Program at
> the Texas State Department of Health Services and the Texas Institute
> for Health Policy Research, and a member of the Health Information
> Technology Advisory Commission for the Texas State Department of Health
> Services.  Dr. Mirhaji is an inventor with several patents and public
> disclosures covering applications of semantic technologies, information
> integration, biomedical vocabularies and taxonomy services, clinical
> text understanding and natural language processing, electronic data
> capture, and knowledge-based information retrieval from biomedical and
> clinical repositories.
>
> Dr. Mirhaji and his fellow researchers were awarded “The Best Practice
> in Public Health Award-2002” by the U.S. Department of Health and Human
> Services for establishing the Defense of Houston web-portal for
> community awareness and public readiness in the aftermath of September
> 11 attacks.
>

Received on Thursday, 15 September 2016 17:52:12 UTC