• Arthur S. Hoffman, President, The Leir Charitable Foundations
• Jack Fong, MD, CM, MSc, FAAP, FRCP(C), Member of the Board of Directors, Leir Retreat Center
• Joel Bloom, President, NJIT

• Yi Chen, Henry J. Leir Chair in Healthcare, Associate Professor, School of Management, College of Computing Sciences, NJIT

• Jack Fong, MD, CM, MSc, FAAP, FRCP(C), Member of the Board of Directors, Leir Retreat Center
• Fadi Deek, Provost and Senior Executive Vice President, NJIT
• Reggie J. Caudill, Dean, Professor , School of Management, NJIT

• Susan Davidson, Founding Co-Director of the Center for Bioinformatics, Weiss Professor, Computer & Information Science, University of Pennsylvania. Chair of the Computing Research Association (CRA) Board of Directors
• Session Chair: Yi Chen

• Bradford Hesse, Chief, Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch at National Cancer Institute, NIH
• Wendy Nilsen, Program Director, Smart and Connected Health Program, NSF
• Moderator: Yi Chen

• Andrew Francis Laine, Professor, Chair of Department of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Radiology (Physics), Columbia University. President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)
• Christopher Joyce, VP Analytic Platforms, Information Technology, Anthem
• Georgia Papathomas, Pharmaceuticals CIO, Johnson & Johnson
• Steven Horng, Associate Director of Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Instructor, Medical School, Harvard University
• Moderator: Soon Ae Chun, Professor, School of Business, City University of New York

• Atam P. Dhawan, Vice Provost for Research and Development, Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, NJIT

• Eric Perakslis, Executive Director Center for Biomedical Informatics, Medical School, Harvard University
• Session Chair: Cheickna Sylla, Professor, School of Management, NJIT

Empowering Patients in the Big Data Era

Blast Induced Brain Injury: Causes, Effects, and Data Analysis

EPIDMS: Understanding the Evolution of Epidemics and Supporting Real-Time Decision Making and Hypothesis Testing Through Large Scale Simulations

Christopher C. Yang, Associate Professor, Computing & Informatics, Drexel University

Namas Chandra, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, NJIT

Selguk Candan, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University

Session Chair: Cheickna Sylla

• Guodong (Gordon) Gao, Associate Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business, Co-Director of Center for Health Information and Decision Systems, University of Maryland
• James Geller, Professor, Associate Dean, College of Computing Sciences, NJIT
• Kathy L. Grise, Senior Program Director, Future Directions, IEEE
• Moderator: Yi Chen