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Robbie GoldsteinCommissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public HealthRobbie Goldstein, MD, PhD, was appointed Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) by Governor Maura Healey in April 2023. A physician specializing in infectious diseases, Dr. Goldstein oversees a workforce of more than 3,200 individuals committed to health equity and dedicated to promoting the health and well-being of people across the state, preventing illness and injury, and maintaining strong and vibrant communities. This work is carried out through a network of bureaus and offices responsible for priorities that include maternal and child health, nutrition, infectious diseases, injury prevention, climate and environmental health, substance use disorders, emergency preparedness and response, and problem gambling. In addition, DPH licenses health professionals and health care facilities, and operates the state public health laboratory and four public health hospitals.
Dr. Goldstein previously served as Senior Policy Advisor at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he focused on public health emergency response, infectious diseases, and strategic policy initiatives. Prior to his work at CDC, he founded and was Medical Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Transgender Health Program, a clinical resource offering a safe and affirming environment for the transgender and nonbinary community. His clinical interest involved caring for those living with and at risk for HIV, an experience that continues to drive his passion to identify and eliminate barriers to equitable access to care. Dr. Goldstein is a graduate of Tufts University, where he also earned his MD and PhD.
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Isacc KohaneHMS isaac_kohane@hms.harvard.eduIsaac (Zak) Kohane, MD, PhD is the inaugural Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Marion V. Nelson Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He served as co-author of the Institute of Medicine Report on Precision Medicine that has been the template for national effort. He recently has taken the title of Editor-In-Chief of a new journal from the New England Journal of Medicine entitled NEJM AI

Over the last 30 years, Zak’s research agenda has been driven by the vision of what biomedical researchers could do to find new cures, provide new diagnoses and deliver the best care available if data could be converted more rapidly to knowledge and knowledge to practice. In so doing, Kohane has designed and led multiple internationally adopted efforts to “instrument” the healthcare enterprise for discovery and to enable innovative decision-making tools to be applied to the point of care. At the same time, the new insights afforded by ’omic-scale molecular analyses have inspired him and his collaborators to work on re-characterizing and reclassifying diseases such as autism, rheumatoid arthritis and cancers. In many of these studies, the developmental trajectories of thousands of genes have been a powerful tool in unraveling complex diseases.

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Chris WhiteMicrosoftchwh@microsoft.comChris White, PhD is the Partner and Managing Director of Special Projects. He leads research teams with world-class specialists solving highly uncertain, complex problems. His group builds technologies to benefit society, including tools for digital safety, plurality, and evidence-based policy.

Prior to Microsoft, Chris was a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where he created and managed DARPA’s leading programs XDATA, Memex, and invested hundreds of millions of dollars into open-source software. His work has been applied to countering human trafficking, financial fraud, and terrorism. In recognition of this work, Chris received the 2016 Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons, the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service, the Department of Defense Joint Meritorious Unit Award, and a Department of Treasury Intelligence and Analysis Medallion for combatting terrorism financing.
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Marinka Zitnick
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Arjun Manrai
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Shawn MurphyMGH, HMSmurphy.shawn@mgh.harvard.eduDr Murphy is also Professor of Neurology and Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He has developed the initial Research Patient Data Registry (RPDR) for Partners HealthCare, a large data warehouse with 7 million patients and 3 billion rows. Dr. Murphy is the chief architect of the NIH Sponsored Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2).
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Griffin WeberBIDMC, HMSgriffin_weber@hms.harvard.eduAssociate Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), and the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School (HMS). He is also the Director of the Biomedical Research Informatics Core (BRIC) at BIDMC.. Dr Weber was the original author of the i2b2 WebClient.
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Jeff KlannMGBjklann@partners.orgDr. Klann has worked with i2b2 for ten years, developing a research agenda that uses i2b2 as a substrate for data analytics, multi-site research networks, software architecture, data standards, and interoperability. His recent appointment as the Director of i2b2 Core Platform Development will allow him to apply his personal experience in large-scale i2b2 projects to improve the core product. In this position, he hopes to engage the vibrant user community, increase the openness and visibility of the software, and to continue to make the core platform relevant to evolving users’ needs.

Dr. Klann is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and in the Massachusetts General Hospital Laboratory of Computer Science. He holds a BS and MEng in Computer Science from MIT and a PhD from Indiana University in Health Informatics. He completed an NLM Research Training Fellowship concurrently with his PhD.
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Abu MosaUniveristy of Missourimosaa@health.missouri.eduScalable Deployment of i2b2 for Supporting Self-Service Query Capabilities Across Multi-Institutional Clinical Research NetworkAbu Mosa, PhD - Dr. Mosa, a visionary in the domain of biomedical informatics, is at the forefront of integrating data-driven artificial intelligence with groundbreaking healthcare innovations. With over a decade of experience, he has pioneered efforts in advancing the use of real-world observational data and enhancing informatics infrastructure for research at a national scale. His expertise is backed by a BS and MS in Computer Science and a PhD in Biomedical Informatics. As the Senior Director and an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Dr. Mosa bridges his expertise across computational and health sciences. Recognized for his contributions, he was inducted as a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association. A principal investigator on numerous research grants, Dr. Mosa also leads MU's involvement in national healthcare data projects. Outside academia, he enjoys gardening, travel, and sports, reflecting his diverse passions and dynamic approach to life and work.
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Shyam Visweswaran University of Pittsburghshv3@pitt.eduNext Generation ENACT NetworkDr. Visweswaran trained as a physician in India, completed a residency in neurology at the Boston University Medical Center, and obtained a PhD in Intelligent Systems in 2007 at the University of Pittsburgh. Upon graduation, he joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh’s newly formed Department of Biomedical Informatics, where he contributed to the development of the graduate curriculum for informatics students. Dr. Visweswaran’s research focuses on application of machine learning to biomedicine with a specific focus on developing machine learning-based clinical decision support, precision medicine and personalized modeling, data mining and causal discovery from biomedical data, and research data warehousing. He initiated a NLM-funded research program on developing a learning electronic medical records (EMR) system that uses machine learning to provide decision support using the right data, at the right time. In the Department of Biomedical Informatics, I serve as the Director of the Machine Learning in Medicine Center (MLMC) and as the Director of the Center of Clinical Research Informatics (CCRI). He serves as the Director of the Biomedical Informatics Core for the University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science Institute, as a PD/PI for the All of Us Pennsylvania research project, as the Data Harmonization lead for the Accrual of patients to Clinical Trials (ACT) network, and directs the development of an EMR data warehouse called Neptune.
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MassCPR Moderator and Panelists
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Nadine Fornelos Martins, PhDExecutive Director of Research Initiatives for MassCPR, Harvard Medical School
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Shoban NairDirector of Epidemiology at the Boston Public Health Commission
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Kris CyrData Strategy Director, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
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Jonathan LiAssociate Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
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William AdamsProfessor of Pediatrics, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
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Raphael W. MajeedAachen University, GermanyDr. Raphael W. Majeed holds a dual affiliation with RWTH Aachen University and the German Center for Lung Research. Since 2019, he has led the & Research Infrastructure group together with Jonas Bienzeisler at the Institute of Medical Informatics at RWTH Aachen University Hospital. His research focuses on research infrastructure and semantic interoperability. Additionally, as the IT Director of the German Center for Lung Research, Dr. Majeed coordinates the national centralization and utilization of lung research data across Germany.
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Jonas BienzeislerAachen University, GermanyJonas Bienzeisler works for the Institute of Medical Informatics at the RWTH Aachen University. His research focuses on the meaningful re-use of electronic health records in acute- and emergency care. He leads the research infrastructure group alongside Raphael Majeed and coordinates software development for the AKTIN Emergency Department Data Registry since 2021.
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Santosh Dixit, PhDPersistent SystemsGenerative AI Applications in Precision MedicineDr Santosh Dixit is the Chief Domain Expert ( Healthcare and LifeSciences) at the Innovation Labs , Persistent Systems. In this capacity , Dr Dixit works with multi-disciplinary teams of clinicians , healthcare professionals, data scientists and technologists for developing technology innovations for biomedical ecosystems with special focus on Oncology. He has 20+ years of experience in Preclinical and Clinical Pharmacology, Translational research , Drugs/Diagnostics/Medical device development, Regulatory Affairs, Public health and Policy initiatives. Dr Dixit has a received his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from University of Cincinnati , USA and post-doctoral fellowships from Vanderbilt University , USA and University of Western Ontario , Canada.
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Kavishwar Wagholikar, PhDMGBKavishwar Wagholikar, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research is focussed on knowledge representation and information extraction for phenotyping applications, which includes clinical decision support (CDS), and quality analysis. Dr. Wagholikar completed clinical training (MBBS) and PhD in Scientific Computing from India, and was post-doctoral fellow at Mayo Clinic (2011-14).

Dr. Wagholikar is recipient of K99/R00 career development award from NLM (2014-19). The objective of his research is to develop a framework for natural language processing (NLP) enabled CDS. The framework consists of methodologies and tools that will facilitate rapid development of apps for secondary use. Dr. Wagholikar’s research is in close collaboration with clinical practice.

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Nich WattanasinMGBNich Wattanasin is Assistant Director of research development in the Research Information Sciences & Computing core at Mass General Brigham. He currently serves as the lead technical architect of the Data Resource Core for the RECOVER project, a large NIH research initiative that aims to understand the long-term health effects of COVID. He has worked on i2b2 development and i2b2-related informatics projects for more than 15 years and is currently completing his Ph.D. in Biomedical Health Informatics at Rutgers University. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nichw/
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Hossein Estiri, PhDMGHhestiri@mgh.harvard.eduAssistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a member of the research staff at the MGH Laboratory of Computer Science. He is a computational demographer, data scientist, and clinical research informaticist who applies a variety of data science methodologies—including geo-spatial and statistical learning techniques—to develop computational models that explain complex demographic, ecological, and health outcomes. His current work focuses on architecting visual analytics applications to explore data quality in electronic health records data and characterize patients using statistical learning techniques and data science methodologies.
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Victor CastroMGHVictor Castro is a Principal Research Data Scientist at Mass General Brigham and a Ph.D. student in Population Health at Northeastern University. His current research interests include Long COVID phenotyping, developing methods for characterizing neuropsychiatric symptoms in large real-world datasets and understanding the impact of health disparities on population health research. He has built i2b2 tools and workflows to integrate multi-modal datasets for observational research. https://www.linkedin.com/in/victormcastro/
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Nicholai MitchkoMGH
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Qi Li, MDInterSystems
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Diane KeoghExecutive Director i2b2diane.keogh@transmartfoundation.orgDiane was the Executive Director of the i2b2 Foundation prior to being named the Executive Director of the combine i2b2 tranSMART Foundation. Diane has extensive Healthcare IT experience including academic medical centers, community and specialty hospitals, provider networks, industry, and biomedical research with a major focus on developing scalable enterprise strategies and solutions.
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