AMIA: For Your Informatics

Host: Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, Psychiatric Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Guest Interview: Tiffani J. Bright, PhD, Biomedical Informatician Evaluation Research Team Lead at IBM Watson. Dr. Bright supports the Watson Health Evaluation Research Center by providing technical, informatics, and evaluative leadership in the design, development, and execution of evaluation research for Watson Health products.

Topics: Finding your larger vision Translating research to practice Making the circle larger through outreach

Host: Jessica S. Ancker, MPH, PhD, FACMI, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Healthcare Policy & Research at Weill Cornell Medical College, NYC. Guest Interview: Omolola I. Ogunyemi, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Preventive and Social Medicine at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) and Director of CDU's Center for Biomedical Informatics. She currently leads an NLM-funded study that applies machine learning to clinical records to identify diabetic patients who have latent/undiagnosed diabetic retinopathy. Her short stories are published in various literary magazines.

Topics: Career Trajectory Research Projects Publishing Fiction

Host: Randa Perkins, MD, FAMIA, is the Chief Medical Information Officer at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. Guest Interview: Wendy W. Chapman, PhD, University of Utah, is the founding chair of the Women in AMIA Committee and talks about her outlook on confidence and the role mentors and sponsors play in that.

Topics: Confidence and Competence Mentorship vs Sponsorship

Host: Merida Johns PhD, Founder and Director, The Monarch Center for Women's Leadership Development Co-Host: Catherine K. Craven, PhD, MA, MLS, Senior Clinical Research Informaticist, Clinical Informatics Group, IT Department, Mount Sinai Health System, and Institute for Health Care Delivery Science, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, NY

Guest Interviews: Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD, is a Professor at the Information School and Discovery Fellow attached to the Virtual Environments Group at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was an NLM Medical Informatics Trainee at the Center (now Department) of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, from which she received her MSIS and PhD.

Wanda Pratt, PhD, is a Professor in the Information School with an adjunct appointment in the Division of Biomedical & Health Informatics in the Medical School at the University of Washington.

Topics: Mentoring

Host: Randa Perkins, MD, FAMIA, is the Chief Medical Information Officer at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. Guest Interview: Carol Friedman, PhD, FACMI, is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. She is also the 2017 AMIA Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence winner, which is only awarded to the most distinguished informaticians. Dr. Friedman is recognized within the biomedical domain as a pioneer in Natural Language Processing (NLP). She was the first researcher to demonstrate the value of NLP for a broad range of clinical and biomedical applications, and was also one of the first to demonstrate that a general NLP system could be used to improve patient care. She has more than 125 publications and has been elected to the American College of Medical Informatics, the National Academy of Medicine, and the New York Academy of Medicine. She has also been honored with the AMIA Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Biomedical Informatics.

Topics: Natural language processing Juggling career and family Perseverance