Symposium on Data Science for Healthcare (DaSH)

Data Sharing: the Art, Science, and Ethics
Sponsor: Leir Charitable Foundations, Supporter: NJIT
Oct 5, noon – Oct 6, 1:30PM, 2016, The Leir Retreat Center, Ridgefield, CT

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Program (Symposium Report)



Wednesday, October 5th, The Leir Retreat Center

Time Session Speakers' Information
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch, Opening Remarks, and Introduction
  • Jack Fong, MD, CM, MSc, FAAP, FRCP, Director, Leir Retreat Center
  • Joel Bloom, EdD, President of NJIT
  • Yi Chen, PhD, Leir Chair in Healthcare, co-director of Big Data Analytics Center, Associate Professor of MT-SOM, NJIT slides
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm Panel: Big data and Cancer Moonshot
  • Reynold Panettieri, MD, Professor, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Vice Chancellor of Clinical & Translational Science, Rutgers.  slides
  • Ari Brooks, MD, Director of Integrated Breast Center, Pennsylvania Hospital, Director of Endocrine Surgery, Prof. of Clinical Surgery, UPenn  slides
  • Bradford Hesse, PhD, Chief, Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch at National Cancer Institute, NIH  slides
  • Jianying Hu, PhD, IEEE Fellow, IBM Distinguished Research Staff Member, Program Director of Center for Computational Health, TJ Watson Research Center  slides
  • Shridar Ganesan, MD, PhD, Associate Prof. of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School,The Cancer Institute of NJ, Associate Dir. of Translational Science  slides
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2:45 pm - 3:10 pm Coffee Break
3:10 pm - 3:45 pm


  • Preventive, Personalized and Precision Healthcare with Point-of-Care Technologies
  • Session Chair: Soon Ae Chun, Ph.D , Professor and co-Director, Information Systems & Informatics, City University of New York.
  • Atam P. Dhawan, PhD, Vice Provost for Research and Development, Distinguished Professor, ECE, NJIT
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI)
  • George M. Hripcsak, MD, Vivian Beaumont Allen Professor & Chair, Dept of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia Univ. slides
4:20 pm - 4:55 pm Privacy in Healthcare Data Sharing: Challenges and Opportunities
  • Nan Zhang, PhD, Program Director, National Science Foundation slides
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Reception, Dinner, and Welcome Remarks
  • Fadi Deek, PhD, Provost and Senior Executive Vice President, NJIT
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6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Breakout Discussions on Data Sharing: the Art, Science and Ethics.
  • James Geller, PhD, Professor, Associate Dean for Research of the Ying Wu College of Computing Sciences, NJIT
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  • Dantong Yu, PhD, Associate Professor, Martin Tuchman School of Management, NJIT
  • Julia Stoyanovich, PhD, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, College of Computing & Informatics, Drexel University


Thursday, October 6th, The Leir Retreat Center

Time Session Speakers' Information
8:00 am - 8:30 am Arriving at LRC and Breakfast
8:30 am - 8:45 am
  • Introduction
  • Reggie J. Caudill, PhD, Dean of MT-School of Management, Panasonic Chair of Sustainability, NJIT
8:45 am - 9:20 am

Linking data, Linking science
  • Session Chair: Vincent Oria, PhD ,Professor, Ying Wu College of Computing Sciences, NJIT
  • Zachary Ives, PhD, Professor, Computer & Information Science, UPenn  slides
9:20 am - 10:35 am Panel: Big Data and US Health Reform
  • Kathy L. Grise , Senior Program Director, Big Data Initiative, Future Directions, IEEE
  • Ashok Chennuru, Staff VP, Provider & Clinical Systems, Anthem, Inc.
  • Jack Fong, MD, CM, MSc, FAAP, FRCP©, Chairman (1985-2008), Dept. of Pediatrics, Danbury Hospital, Board of Directors, Leir Retreat Center
  • James Gomes, JD, Director, Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise, Clark University  slides
  • Ram Ramesh, PhD, Professor, School of Management, SUNY at Buffalo  slides
10:35 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break
    11:00 am - 11:15 am Introduction to NSF NE Big Data Hub
    • René Bastón, Executive Director, NSF Northeast Big Data Hub slides
    11:15 am - 12:30 pm Summary of Breakout Discussions
    12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch, Closing Remarks and Adjourn