Informatics Needs and Challenges in Cancer Research Workshop Summary (2012) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Speaker, Moderator, and Panelist Biographies
Appendix B: Speaker, Moderator, and Panelist Biographies
Pages 109-130
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She directs the Duke Cancer Care Research Program, which conducts patient-centered clinical trials, analyses, and policy studies. The Duke Cancer Care Research Program maintains a large portfolio of NIH, National Cancer Institute (NCI)
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of the NIH-funded Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group and co-PI of an NCI-funded faculty development (K01) program in comparative effectiveness research to develop the research workforce of the future.
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. He has authored more than 110 publications, delivered more than 120 invited presentations, and received a number of awards, including the Society for Pediatric Research Young Investigator Award, induction into the American College of Medical Informatics, the American Medical Information Association (AMIA)
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Cimino was with the Center for Medical Informatics (now the Department of Biomedical Informatics) at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he conducted informatics research, built clinical information systems, taught informatics and medicine, and practiced general internal medicine.
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Dr. Comis is a champion of patient access to cancer clinical trials, spearheading multiple initiatives to raise awareness about the pivotal role of cancer clinical trials in cancer prevention, detection, and treatment.
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He served as a staff associate at NCI and completed a medical oncology fellowship at the Sidney Farber Cancer Center at Harvard Medical School. He has held clinical practice and research leadership positions at Thomas J efferson University Hospital, Temple University School of Medicine, Fox Chase Cancer Center, and Allegheny Cancer Center.
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of the Center for Patient Partnerships at the University of Wisconsin. She has served on the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Health, Genetics, and Society and the faculties of the AACR-ASCO Methods in Clinical Cancer Research Workshop, the Accelerating Anti-cancer Agent Development and Validation Workshop, and the advisory board of the Health Advocacy Program at Sarah Lawrence College.
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Brandon Hayes-Lattin, M.D., is senior medical adviser for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) , and the director of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute's Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA)
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He was recruited to NCI in 2003 and has since been focusing on bringing the power of evidence-based health communication technologies to bear on the problem of eliminating death and suffering from cancer. He continues to direct the Health Information National Trends Survey, a biennial general population survey aimed at monitoring the public's use of health information during a period of enhanced capacity at the crest of the information revolution; he also serves as program director for the Centers of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research, a cutting-edge research initiative aimed at expanding the knowledge base underlying effective cancer communication strategies.
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He oversees a broad product portfolio that covers analytics, health information exchange, care management, and "convergence" solutions for personalized medicine and translational research that serve both health care and life sciences customers.
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of HHS. She chairs the Advisory Committee of Turning the Tide Against Cancer Through Sustained Medical Innovation, a national conference on science and policy co-hosted by the Personalized Medicine Coalition, American Association for Cancer Research, and Feinstein Kean Healthcare.
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Mia A Levy, M.D., Ph.D., is director of cancer clinical informatics for the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and assistant professor of biomedical informatics and medicine.
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An honors graduate of Princeton University and the Ohio State University College of Medicine, he completed postgraduate training in internal medicine, hematology, and medical oncology at the University of California, San Diego, and the Naval Regional Medical Center, San Diego. His more than 30-year career in biomedical informatics prior to joining UW included leadership positions at NCI and NLM and faculty appointments at the University of California, San Diego, and the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where he was emeritus professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics.
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Ms. McGraw is active in efforts to advance the adoption and implementation of health information technology and electronic health information exchange to improve health care.
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Previously, he served at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as assistant commissioner for the Primary Care Information Project, where he facilitated the adoption of preventionoriented health information technology by more than 1,500 providers in underserved communities.
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His scientific background and expertise include developing platform genomic and computational technologies and he recently has focused on strategically integrating multiple technologies and scientific resources to engineer innovative solutions that can support drug discovery, translational research, clinical drug development, and personalized medicine. Toward the goal of integrating technologies across sectors into unifying solutions, Dr.
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Prior to joining Cedars-Sinai in December 2007, Dr. Piantadosi was professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of biostatistics at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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. He has been responsible for the biostatistical management of Phase I through Phase III cancer clinical trials, correlative biology studies, interventional trials, and numerous observational studies.
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in 2008, after having served as its deputy chair from 1999 through 2007. ACRIN is an NCI-sponsored cancer cooperative group that designs, conducts, and reports on multicenter clinical trials of imaging in cancer and conducts similar research in neurology and cardiovascular studies through non-NCI funding.
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Julio Frenk, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, of the Global Task Force on Expanding Access to Cancer Care and Control in the Developing World, a Harvard-based, international task force committed to the improvement of cancer care worldwide.
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He had served as a physician and administrator with Kaiser for more than 20 years. Prior to his work at Kaiser, he taught clinical and basic sciences and investigated bone marrow function as a faculty member at the Oregon Health Sciences University.
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