UW Medical Data Science Symposium Agenda

Thursday, Feb 6, 2025

Updated 10/25/24

8:00 a.m.

Check-in

Coffee service available (no breakfast provided). Poster presenters bring/display posters

8:45 a.m.

Welcome and intro remarks

Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI, Chair and Professor, Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education (BIME), University of Washington

9:00 a.m.

Keynote 

Presentation Title Coming Soon

Eric Horvitz, MD, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft

10:00  a.m.

Break

10:15 a.m.

IMDS Pilot Award updates

Moderator: Trevor Cohen, MBChB, PhD, FACMI, Professor Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education (BIME)

  • Interpretable and Multimodal Deep Learning to Enhance Clinical Breast Cancer Risk Prediction

  • Synthesizing composite tau-PET images from 3D MRI through a novel, diffusion-inspired machine learning framework

    • Mehmet Kurt, PhD, UW Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Associate Professor of Radiology 
    • Swati Rane Levendovszky, PhD, UW Associate Professor of Radiology

  • Towards Automatic Identification of Patients in Need of Long COVID Care with Natural Language Processing Method

    • Meliha Yetisgen, UW Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Adjunct Professor Department of Linguistics

    • Kari Stephens, PhD, licensed clinical psychologist with UW Medicine, UW assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and adjunct assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education 

  • Integration of digital pathology and multiparametric MRI features for improved prediction of patient outcome in triple negative breast cancer

    • Savannah Partridge, PhD, Professor of Radiology 

    • Shachi Mittal, PhD, UW Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, School of Medicine

    • Anum Kazerouni, PhD, postdoctoral researcher, UW Quantitative Breast Imaging Lab 

  • Using machine learning to optimize prediction of extubation failure and clinical action

    • Mark Wurfel, M.D., PhD, board certified physician at the Chest Clinic at Harborview, UW David J. Pierson, M.D., Endowed Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, and UW professor of Medicine and Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine 

    • Lucy Wang, PhD, UW Assistant Professor at Information School. Adjunct Assistant Professor, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering, UW Biomedical Informatics & Medical Education, and UW Computer Science & Engineering 

11:30 a.m.

Lunch and and introduction to breakout sessions

Break to pick up lunches and beverages (self-serve)

12:00 p.m.

 

Break out sessions /working lunch

Breakout session topics TBD

1:00 p.m.

Panel discussion: Ethical AI

Facilitator: Ali Shojaie, PhD, Professor and Associate Chair for Strategic Research Affairs , Biostatistics; Professor of Statistics

Panelists TBD

2:00 p.m.

Poster short talks

Presenters TBD

3:10 p.m.

Closing remarks

3:15 p.m.

Reception and poster session

Event concludes at 5 p.m.